One thing you hide to others even if they know about your disability

i do sometimes as i dont want dem to be in tension

Sometimes I hide my "episodes" or "blackouts" if no one can tell the difference. I have a not so severe form of epilepsy and migraines. It's been like 4 years since I had a big seizure, but I have little auras or blackouts sometimes. Once in awhile my husband/family member/friend will notice, but most the time I just deal with it myself. I don't talk about it either unless someone notices.

I hide my pain from others, especially my friends.

I know it's hard to deal with the thought that your loved one is hurting and you can't do anything about it.

I've lost friends because they couldn't handle it, which I fully understand and don't blame them for.

There are obviously days where I'll whine but unless they ask me how I'm doing, I try to keep shush.

I don't think of it as hiding, as most are invisible, but there are times where I simply don't mention my symptoms and just focus on whatever I'm doing with friends. I usually do tell my husband, but sometimes we'll be out doing something and he just assumes I'm feeling better if I seem to be doing better just because I'm focused on getting a tast done, enjoying an event, etc.

I hide my pain.

My parents raised me as a child who didn't have disabilites. I guess I hide allot cause they don't understand it and I'm pay for it 33 years later.

As far as I see it, I'm upset at losing "friends" that never really felt like friends and stopped contacting me over relaying my struggles or pain in my everyday life because they didn't want to hear it. But I seem to be caught also in a negative feedback loop where it really affects my life.

I hardly ever give specifics on the types of symptoms I get from sensitivity to light and how uncomfortable, depressed, and painful it is for me to be in the sunlight because everyone around me is laughing and smiling and glorifying the sun. I am bitter from my loss and their blissful privilege. I hide that I get dizzy sometimes or the symptoms are too much and have to close my eyes for a second or two at a time while walking, always wary of someone absorbed in their phone not paying attention and running into me or us almost walking into each other even when I walk a straight line. I don't talk about specifics to my teachers and I've stopped trying to tell most things to my parents, because there was a time that they didn't believe the seriousness of my symptoms, or they now just fall completely silent (or both), even though multiple psychologists have told them the nature of my disability.

I suffer from multiple health problems, but my arthritis and epilepsy is the worst. I'm 22 and I feel like every year, they find something new. I try to hide the pain from the arthritis and sometimes ill try to hide when I know a seizure is coming on. I don't want to burden people.

Even if people know I have a disability, I dont like to tell people how much it really affects me on a day to day basis. Also that even if I look normal and healthy on the outside I may be sick or tired on the inside.

I often say that I'm okay and the pain isn't that bad because I don't want people to be worried, especially when I can't do something to make the pain less anyway.