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People Explain Which Things They Thought Everyone Was Exaggerating About Until They Experienced Them

"Reddit user rentinghappiness asked: 'What is something you used to think people were over-exaggerating about until you experienced it yourself?'"

Life lessons are forged in experience.

So many of us love to think we know what another person is feeling, and their reactions are just emotional.

Or what they're saying about what they're going through feels a bit over the top.

So many people are just dramatic, right?

Wrong.

Until we walk in those shoes, we'll never know.


Redditor rentinghappiness wanted to hear about the things everyone really didn't know anything about until it happened to them, so they asked:

"What is something you used to think people were over-exaggerating about until you experienced it yourself?"

We never really know anything about anything until we try it for ourselves.

Mouth Issues

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"Dentist chiming in… tooth pain. I knew academically how painful they could be until it happened to me."

juneburger

"You know the pain is serious when you start looking forward to the inevitable root canal."

HailMari248

Wonders of Nature

"Giant sequoia trees. When I finally saw them in person, they looked fake. I could not comprehend a tree of that size."

schaefer001

"And we may have lost 15-20% of the remaining trees during some big fires in 2020 and 2021. A 2011 estimate puts it that there were only 80,000 remainings. They truly are wondrous organisms that I feel like everyone should have the chance to experience if they can."

"I'm a big believer in doing everything we can to protect and preserve these silent giants. It's really sad that so many were cut down by loggers when the wood is such poor quality for human purposes, to begin with. Such an utter and sad waste."

this_is_poorly_done

Just Me

"Loneliness."

Fried__SoapI

"I'm with you. Put all my cards into a girl who went suddenly cold and dark on me. Now I'm alone at rock bottom figuring out my next moves. You know, the smartest people in the world and also the happiest people in the world can be the loneliest?"

"I was only recently informed it's okay to talk to myself and hype myself. Enjoy my own company. I'm absolutely going to learn to do that. I'm thinking of painting, walking, and weekend trips out on a bus. Would be nice if you could have joined me even if we sat in silence."

Roofdragon

The Years Gone By...

"The physical pain of getting older. Damn."

marklikeadawg

"The emotional pain too. I get so nostalgic and teary over the past and how much has changed. It's a weird grieving process over losing your youth and the way things were."

heethersmeether

"On my 35th birthday, my wife woke me up with a cupcake and a candle, sang me 'Happy Birthday' and then congratulated me on being '15 from 50'... that really hit me hard. The other day I turned 45 and she said '5 from 50' and that hit me so hard, I just wanted to stay in bed all day. I still feel like an irresponsible teen but I'm pushing 50. Insane."

Opa_Kalaka

It's Hazy

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"Brain fog. I had an alcohol withdrawal seizure in March. My short-term memory and sense of time are absolutely sh*t right now. On the plus side, I haven't had a drink in over 90 days and I don't want one."

Sideshow_Bob_Ross

Oh the wonders of the brain.

What a mess.

Scorched

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"Hot Flashes. I didn’t think they were this bad. I’m a 31-year-old man who took Wellbutrin for the past month and hot flashes are a side effect."

"I thought you just thought you were hot. No motherf**ker you are. You’re super hot legitimately, and you have to do something about it or you’ll go insane. It’s not in your head. It’s your brain raising your temps until you can’t focus on anything else."

_PswayZ_

Everlasting

"Chronic illness, there is absolutely no way you can truly understand the impact unless you experience it."

Disastrous-Phase-979

"Just that idea of always being sick and you will NEVER not be sick again."

"AND you're expected to participate in society just the same as everyone else. It's deeply f**ked up."

Farisr9k

"I like the part where I've been in pain for 25 years so I can kind of still function even when it's really bad."

"And then I try to get an ambulance guy or an admin assistant in a hospital to believe that I'm having an emergency and they're like 'You seem fine, take some Tylenol and go home' until I finally get a blood test, and then the doctor goes 'Holy crap, you're about to die, why didn't you come to the ER sooner.'"

"Like, listen up MF, I had to take a go**amn Uber to get here and then argue with reception for an hour."

BlahBlahILoveToast

Stoned

"How much a kidney stone hurts."

SpiritusSanctu

"Most people expect it to hurt the most when passing a stone through the urethra. Nothing prepared me for the pain as it passed through my kidney/ureter."

"One second I would be fine, carrying on conversations, prancing around nimbly-nimbly. The next second I would be keeled over, crying in agony, losing my lunch due to the sudden onset of crippling pain. 0/10 ... Would not recommend it."

King_of_Lunch223

Close Your Eyes

"Insomnia."

Successful_Fall7801

"Oh, what I would give to not have insomnia! I go through periods of sleeping more or less normal, and then for seemingly no reason, I’ll have weeks on end where a good night of sleep is IMPOSSIBLE. I’ll get 2-4 hours of sleep despite pills, tea, baths, white noise, meditation - everything."

"I’ll spend my days so deeply, utterly exhausted that I can barely think, and my whole body feels heavy, lifeless. It’s hard to feel any kind of emotion, let alone happiness or contentedness. Just existing as a human-shaped puddle until the time when I can go to bed and hope to god that tonight will be different for some unknown reason."

"Insomnia is a real bi*ch. It will tank your mental health and send you spiraling really fast."

thesmallshadows

Beep

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"Tinnitus. It’s torture."

DissidentBliss

"I don't mind it much 'cause I've had it since I was born. That means I don't know what proper silence is."

77x5ghost

"Me too, they thought I had hearing issues when I was young because I couldn’t really hear some of the beeps well because they matched the pitch of the ringing."

ehter13

Don't judge another until you lace up their shoes and walk a mile in them!

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