AIBU to feel shaken after being criticised for blacking out at the airport?

Yes but those people are just saying things or flapping about. They’re not literally unconscious on the floor or white as a sheet. I just find it unusual that someone wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between someone attention seeking and someone having a medical episode.

Anyway you wouldn’t say anything so I’m not having a go I just find it strange that when I’m passing out cold there could be people thinking I’m somehow putting on a show.

It’s important you remember that humans aren’t all the same and can’t all just shake things off. Agree - but also some people can be an absolute nightmare and make everythign about them too!

I have two family members who literally fake allergies to make themselves more interesting. No Pam eating lamb or a sandwich won't kill you!

I just have limited tolerance for bullshit and a few family members are massive drama llamas who make even other peoples genuine dramas all about them. So I get your point, but you also have to realise that there are people out there who are being dramatic for effect. I bet your life that this woman has someone like that in her life! No excuse though.
That said, I wouldn't have acted like this woman. I may have inwardly eyerolled (which isnt cool I grant you) but I would give a complete stranger the benefit of the doubt.

It’s called vasovagal syncope. It’s a nervous system reaction.

You’d think someone passed out unconscious on the floor was being a wet lettuce? Most of us really cannot help it - it’s a physiological reaction. My vision goes black, I collapse, my lips go blue and my eyes roll back in my head.

It’s important you remember that humans aren’t all the same and can’t all just shake things off. Also that unconscious people need assistance too.

Be thankful you don’t have to live with her - someone probably has to.

Honestly ignore her she’s the definition of ignorant.

I feel bad for my gut reaction to this and all the messages here. Im clearly a bit of a dick too. But initially I rolled my eyes and just thought she was probably thinking what I would have been, and stop being such a wet lettuce and making it about you. Bit of background though is that my DM is like this, and would make a situation like this entirely about her - crying, puking, fake fainting - and it annoys the crap out of me. Let alone stuff that actually generally happens to her. The exaggeration and drama around it is rife.

And she is always so nauseous about everythign, slightest thing, and makes a big show of it. Its v. annoying. Anyway, thats where my prejudice is coming from. I never, ever would have challenged you about it, but I would have secretly thought, 'oh for god sake focus on your godmother not yourself, grow a backbone'. But I can see from others experiences a blood phobia is a real thing.

So yeh maybe she is a dick - just like me!

What a bitch. It’s hardly your fault. I’m the exact same - I pass out and I cannot control it.

I work at the national blood service. We literally have bags of blood around us all day long. We’ve had several new staff members feint on their first day over the years. Blood is a known trigger of feints.

Don’t feel bad OP. You definitely could not help it. And the woman you encountered was just a b for saying what she did. I hope Karma finds her.

What a peculiar reaction to seeing someone faint, I’ve only passed out once in my life, in a bus station, and when I came around the onlookers were only concerned people who wanted to make sure I was ok.

The mouthy woman is a complete dickhead. Just ignore her.

Hope your Mum is okay OP. Don't give that woman another thought!

I have a weird reaction to blood/injury too. On the very rare occasion its been serious/child-related (DS2 whacking his head on a coffee table and needing stitches being one of em) then adrenaline kicks in and I can cope fine and jump into action.

Yet smaller thimgs,I genuinely get sick and dizzy.My Dad cut his finger on a wine glass a few weeks ago and I nearly fainted. It just looked so painful!

Completely concur with you, she most surely sounds horrible & unsympathetic 💚

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I'm so sorry you experienced this horrible attitude from some random female, who's got no right to impose her unrequested opinions on you🫂
God Bless You -
Why oh why do some just love to stick their awe in & make unkind comments, especially when it's none of their business - She doesn't know you & the very fact you fainted must've shown others how you, yourself were suffering too-I'm very queasy too&complete opposite of my Dear Mum who was a Nurse, very used to seeing blood 🙏
Please don't feel ashamed for being queasy, you can't help how you're made & it's nothing you should be made to feel embarrassed of - Also Sincere Soul, I'd be shaking following some random stranger being so wicked too😔 You most surely seem such a lovely gentle soul, please remember you don't deserve to be spoken to the way that interfering busy body spoke to you whatsoever 🫂
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She sounds like a horrible unsympathetic woman.Just forget about her.

I have a 6ft plus semi professional rugby playing son in law. Every time he has to have bloods taken he faints. No-one ever believes he will so he always ends up face planting the floor. My daughter was most put out when after giving birth, she suddenly realised all the medical staff in the room had abandoned her and were attending to him.

Passing out is horrible. I'm pretty sure that if you could have prevented it happening, you would. The person slagging you off needs to sod off and mind their own business. Hope everything is ok now

She was a weirdo and I would also be a bit shaken by a weirdo having a go at me in public toilets!

I have something similar with blood - it's not a phobia and I'm not scared of blood, but anything bleeding related makes me very light headed, I think it's just an automatic blood pressure drop.

I get it when having blood taken, doing first aid courses, even had to lie on the floor once after reading a newspaper article describing a significant bleed 😂
My dad and brother actually have the same response though my mum doesn't and she gives blood regularly.

Even writing this post is making my arms feel tingly 😳

Well I don’t suppose you did it deliberately. How nasty of that woman. She obviously has an axe to grind. She is probably one of the people who refused to let me sit down on a train when I had a broken leg because “I got here first” (well duh….. you have 2 working legs and I have 1). I imagine she also doesn’t believe in invisible disabilities either.

I’d have told her she was a nasty old cow and to piss off and mind her own! Get on with life op don’t even think of her she’s obviously a spiteful human we all come across them occasionally. Hope your mums legs ok now.

She might as well have said your dm was a disgrace for cutting herself and bleeding! Both are medical events!

I have fainted when faced with blood / medical situations, some quite serious, and one when I was supposed to be the first aider. It’s embarrassing, potentially dangerous and not something that anyone would do if they had any control over it. Luckily for me, bystanders have only ever been kind and understanding. What an absolutely horrible person that woman must have been. Please try not to dwell on it.

I'm a paramedic, so no issues with blood. But i do have a massive phobia of spiders which considering I'm born and raised in the UK and have never been to a country with dangerous spiders, my fear is far more ridiculous. At least you're scared of something that can actually have negative consequences.

Ignore her. She hasnt learnt the important life lesson of, to not be a dick!

My DF was a very good dental surgeon but if anyone cut a finger, including his own he would go green then pass out. We all learnt to not offer up a damaged finger for attention. He knew it was ridiculous but couldn't help it.
Horrible woman

Silly judgy mare - like you can help it! The midwife fainted while stitching me up after giving birth to one of my children. I did think 'oh no, what have you SEEN???' It was actually because the hospital was hotter than the surface of the sun, but even if the cause had been a glimpse of the tragic state of my nether regions, I wouldn't have held it against her.