Do you happen to have a summary of your story on the web somewhere? Not that you should feel obligated to share it, but if you have shared it before I would like to try to understand.
There isn't a summary because I get accused of having Munchausen Syndrome -- a sick need for attention -- rather than Cystic Fibrosis. It is quite dangerous to try to tell my story. It routinely results in public attacks, and moderators typically side with my attackers. You are welcome to email me if you wish to discuss it privately.
And it has occurred to you that you may have Munchausen Syndrome, yes?
> It is quite dangerous to try to tell my story.
Not if you tell the truth. "Truth never damages a cause that is just" -- Gandhi
> It routinely results in public attacks, and moderators typically side with my attackers.
But with no justification or reason at all. Right?
It's obvious that you're playing this out for all it is worth, without providing any real information, portraying yourself as the innocent victim of persecution, but in a way calculated to avoid providing any actual data, or anything that might lead to a resolution.
I wonder if you realize how transparent you are, to an objective observer?
What "real information" do you want? I linked to my website. You are the one focusing on dismissing me, personally, and have apparently not bothered to even check the website.
Here are the direct links if you need them again:
People with Munchausen fake medical difficulties. You're displaying all the classic symptoms. The distinction between suffering from an imaginary ailment, or slowly recovering from an imaginary ailment, makes no difference.
> You are the one focusing on dismissing me, personally, and have apparently not bothered to even check the website.
I read your comments there, and they're as uninformative as your comments here. Color me surprised.
> What "real information" do you want?
If you weren't a Munchausen sufferer, you would already know the answer to that question, and you would have already answered it -- either here or on the other forum at which you vent your dissatisfaction with reality.
What discussion is that? If you had any idea what a discussion consisted of, you would be well underway by now. And you would have avoided trying to connect CF with "germs", even among computer people, people you obviously chose in the forlorn hope of sympathy from ignoramuses.
If people continually dismiss your stories and call you a liar...why keep sharing them? Why do you feel the need to spread the bitter resentment to every thread you comment in?
This thread is a good example: why did you need to say "I also know it is nearly impossible to talk to people about that. My views and experiences are dismissed wholesale before I even open my mouth."? It added nothing to your argument, except for dragging your medical condition into the conversation (which has since taken over this thread).
However, at the end of the day, I don't know you at all and do not presume to judge your situation. This is the internet, so don't take anything other people say too seriously. I'd like to wish you well to you and your family =)
You have done no such thing. You haven't defended yourself, you have only complained about unfair treatment, just as though you were as mentally ill as we are beginning to suspect you are.
And your choice of forums can only add to the presumption: "Hello, computer nerds, here's my personal story about evil, uncaring doctors".
> All of which you are free to stop doing if it bothers you so much that I feel I have a right to defend myself when so treated.
And you have the right to stop posting, whenever you want.
To my point though: if your posts have become increasingly bitter as people stop listening to you...why keep posting at all? That was my point.
I'm a diehard Windows Phone 7 fan, but people on HN decidedly do not like WP7. I tried to defend it for a long time but simply stopped, because no one listened to me or cared. I don't go into iOS/Android threads and post bitter comments about WP7. It isn't productive.
So that's a silly analogy (obviously, phone operating systems != life threatening disease), but the substance of my point is the same.
Obviously false -- you've done exactly the opposite.
Your rant reminds me of the girl in "Five Easy Pieces" who, while riffing endlessly about something perpetual and tiresome, interrupts herself periodically to say, "But i don't want to talk about it."
> Being suffocated by having zero outlet is ...
Obviously false. You have any number of outlets for your rant, including this one.
> It has basically left me no outlet for discussing it at all ...
You're leaving out the option of writing a comprehensive scientific article that replaces emotion with reason and tries to change the world instead of complaining about it. An article like this:
http://arachnoid.com/trouble_with_psychology
> I wish it were not so.
It is not so. Get over yourself.
And depending on what your idea of success is, there are people making successful challenges. They just understand the framework they need to operate in.
But thank you for replying.