I get really annoyed with this. Today I washed my car (inside and out! 
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and then cleaned the hamster out, both horrible jobs that involve alot of bending over which kills me, pain wise.
I came hobbling into the kitchen absolutely desperate for some codiene and paracetamol because I could feel my back "freezing up" as I like to describe it. Told my mum that my back was starting to go bad. To which she replied "yes mine used to be like that when I was working" I though hmmm and then said "yes well not really like mine though was it" (which it isnt, I have muscular pain due to an extreme curvature of the spine) She then said "well I think it was just as bad!"
Just as bad??
Yes mum, Your back pain from working is just like mine, which is requiring a 10 hour operation to try and relieve it. Mhm yes.
Why can't she just turn to me, just once and say I'm sorry you are feeling so bad and that it hurts so much.
Why does she have to say she has the same, sometime worse!
I understand it is probably just a clumsy way of empathising but I feel the only time she acknowledges this thing wrong with me is when she likes to exclaim how bad it is to her friends for shock value. (I could be being cruel for saying that)
AIBU?