Why do people think it's ok?

[butterfly_warrior]

The point of this thread is trying to make is not that all discussions of IVF are a no-go area.

I guess what many of us have been trying to say is that everyone is an individual. For some it's ok, for others it's not ok. Even for those where it is normally ok, there's going to be days where it's not.

It would just be nice if all people treated us with respect and courtesy - it's that lack of respect and courtesy from people that had me so enraged yesterday.

Bad enough that I find conversations difficult now as I have had so much of my life consumed by assisted conception, it would be nice if people I interact with on a day to day basis could at least help me out by bringing up other topics of conversation.

As I said before - sometimes you just want to have a boring, pointless chat about the weather and feel like a regular human being, rather than being treated almost like a leper and having to have everything in your life about your infertility. I guess it's like all health conditions. People do not like to be defined by what is wrong with them. They just want to be treated as a regular person. Take a person with cancer - would it seem odd for them to be upset if their cancer is all anyone ever wants to talk to them about? I'd be just as annoyed if it were my arthritis that were the only thing talked about rather than my infertility.

BW