What's the most ridiculous thing anyone has said to you?

[chimamandafan]

I occasionally volunteer at a local community centre. It's managed by a woman who tells anyone who cares to listen that she has a medical condition that means she can't eat. She looks well-nourished but I've always been too polite to ask her questions about her condition.

I volunteered at an afternoon event today. I get the seniors to their seats and make pots of tea. Cake was served. The woman who never eats was standing there eating cake.

'Look at you, eating cake! Are you better?' I said. 'Oh,' she said, 'you know me, you know I can't eat because of my medical condition.' 'But you're eating...' She walked off and is apparently really pissed off with me. Apparently I'm rude.

There are some real weirdos around, aren't there?

My ds was diagnosed aged 3 & I had similar comments, along with
"he'll grow out of it"
"You must have eaten too many sweets when you were pregnant"
"Don't let him have insulin or he'll never get better "

Sadly all of these were from family members.
So many more from others.

I've had this over and over with my DS. Also diagnosed autistic. Mind boggling.

Oh, that's a weird coincidence - I've just been reading that women with high fertility have a high Alzheimer's risk! The story was because researchers think they've identified the genes responsible.

ONE post in, and someone mentioned Brexit! Unbelievable. 😆

Surely this one wins 🤣
But Sorry to hear about your leg @Eastofe

Some of them do

Not really. Brexit has fucked us all over.

Twenty years or so ago, I went to the tanning salon. The woman behind the counter was trying to sell me the latest cream and proudly proclaimed that 'It changes your DNA so you don't burn'!

That's unbelievably sad. I'm so sorry.

My daughters councillor said she couldn't have adhd because she said she "likes people".

My 18 year old said to me "what's more, eleven hundred or one thousand one hundred?"

The consultant in hospital told my mum they didn't advise her getting pregnant whilst on a certain medication she was being prescribed. She'd just had a hysterectomy and was 63.

This is hilarious! Good on your friend, that’s very funny.

@Bananajuice im so sorry for your loss and for your neighbour’s awful insensitivity.

Not unless your names Claire Bennet

I once went to the out of hours doctor as I had a chest infection and needed antibiotics. She asked which medications I was taking, I told her what I was taking, a drug prescribed by my consultant. She gasped and said ‘well who put you on that, then?’ with outrage in her voice. As if I’d unilaterally decided to put myself on it.

@LaMaG
I have boy / girl twins. When they were little I was asked almost every time I went out if they were identical.

Same. All the time. One of the people who asked me that was actually a nurse. When I said um, one’s a boy and one’s a girl. She stuttered a bit and said well I meant are they alike. That didn’t make any sense either because she could see for herself how alike they were (not at all alike!)

I also had a man stop me in the street and ask whether they were boys or girls. I told him one of each. He said “Hm, but neither of them is dressed in pink”. Clearly I was not dressing my children correctly 🙄
I could probably fill a book with stupid twin-related things people said!

Triage nurse at a and e saying I'm telling you now that arm isn't broken . It was broken in three places as it turned out 😂

@Daisythecat15 i actually gasped

A Medical student triaging my accident injuries looking at my dislocated finger at 90 degrees across my hand asking if it was usually like that. He then said as I was walking albeit in pain I'd just bruised my back. Two days later at a different hospital diagnosed with broken back and put in a brace for 3 months. Bloody idiot.

Since everyone's politely avoiding this stupendously rich seam of batshittery ... Just a few of the ridiculous things people have said to me:

I'm more of a woman than you'll ever be (by a man).

Hormone treatment changes all the cells in the body to female, and makes female organs grow.

All babies are assigned a sex at birth.

There's nothing inherently male about a cock & balls.

The meanings of words are created by humans, therefore each word's meaning is assigned by the speaker at the time of speaking/writing. (He was strangely unable to explain how he knew I'd understand what he meant by the words in that sentence ... or how he knew what I meant by the words of my reply 🤔)

I said to MiL I didn't like Jim Davidson as he used to beat up his wife.

Her reply: 'She must have deserved it'. 😡

@neilyoungismyhero

They are not daft when they recognize the regular humans and they are waiting for food or when they hear packets rustling.

I don't have first hand experience, but from what I know they are Lovley creatures, and are quite intelligent apart from when your trying to feed them and they mob you, until they are distracted. And they are quirky in their own ways.

Someone asked me whether we have pop music in Wales

Said not to me but to my husband next to me by a woman we'd struck up a conversation with in a tour waiting room last month. My husband mentioned that he was Indian. The woman said "oh, like this" and proceeded to do the patting her hand over her mouth ululating war whoop thing, like a kid playing cowboys and Indians in the 1950s. Her husband and friends looked mortified. My jaw dropped. My husband just said very drily "wrong kind of Indian."

Because I have 6 dogs, some people assume that I'm an expert on absolutely everything canine related, basically just one step down from being an actual vet.

The two most recent were:

1. a woman who I've only ever said hello to in passing turned up at my door last week asking me to have a look at her new dog because she was worried about a lump on its tummy and she didn't want to "bother" (i.e pay for) the vet. I had a look, was happy to reassure her that's it was a belly button and therefore perfectly normal, and she got quite angry and totally refused to believe that dogs have belly buttons!

2. I was out for a walk with my brother. He saw someone picking up after their dog, and said to me "That reminds me. You never see white poos these days, not like when we were kids. Is that because there's hardly any poodles now?". Daft sod somehow thought that only poodles did white poos. He's 61.