Girl took off her wheelchairs and started walking after over a year in a wheelchair.

My 15 year old cousin has been in a wheel chair for over a year. When she started using it, the family was told she had a “condition” that made her bones extremely weak and break easy. When she was 14 she had broken her leg while doing gymnastics and had to have surgery. After that she never really shook off the injury and went through extensive physical therapy and got to the point she could walk again, but with crutches. After 9 months she stopped using the crutches and would walk on her own, but this was short lived because she slipped on some water and broke her leg again. My aunt blamed the gymnastics for everything and said that was all behind them now. It was a long recovery and she got to the point she could walk again, but this time she was given crutches permanently. She used the crutches for a couple months and she fell again and broke her leg. She couldn’t put weight on her leg and had to use a wheelchair. It was around this time that they started to say it was a “condition” that was causing her bones to be weak. This was over a year ago.<br><br>I don’t see my cousin often over the past few years because I live several states away. I had heard she stopped walking and was using a wheelchair and had assumed that she was in a lot of pain and didn’t want to walk. Or that she was working on getting strong enough to walk again, or even something physical that I couldn’t see. I had no clue she would completely refuse to walk.<br><br>I went to visit a couple weeks ago for 4 days. My cousin was doing fine, and it was clear she was faking it because even after all these years, she was still perfectly fine walking. While I was there my aunt and uncle were being very mean to her and sort of bullying her, saying really nasty stuff like calling her lazy and useless. My aun’t went as far as saying “I hope you know you’re not getting any disability money, you’re not disabled you’re just lazy.” My cousin started crying, and she asked if I had ever thought she was disabled. I told her no, but I knew she needed some help. She said she might have been a little lazy when she broke her leg the second time but she admitted she “faked it a little bit” to get out of doing gymnastics because it hurt. <br><br>I told her she definitely is disabled because she was in a wheelchair and that I could tell she was hurt. I told her I was worried because she can’t walk anymore. That’s when she broke down crying. She said she’s not hurt at all, that she’s fine and that she has no “condition” that makes her bones weak. She said she’s always been over sensitive to pain, but she’s fine now. She said she just doesn’t want to walk, it’s so hard and tiring and she gets really sore. She said she knows she needs to walk, but she has been avoiding it for so long and the thought of being in pain again is so overwhelming to her. She said she took some medicine to help with the pain of walking, and that medicine helps her to walk. When she takes it, she said she isn’t in pain and walking seems so easy. She said medicine might make her a little stronger, or that it might just stop the pain, she doesn’t know and she doesn’t care.<br><br>I asked her what kind of medicine and she showed me. I took one just for the fuck of it and I can’t feel a thing. I don’t think she’s disabled, she just doesn’t want to walk. She’s been avoiding walking for so long and doesn’t know how to stop. She’s said that she knows she can’t live in a wheel chair and she needs help because she can’t stop. She knows she’s being lazy.<br><br>The thing that really pisses me off is that my aunt and uncle were being so fucking mean to her. I think they know she’s being lazy, but they’re still being like that. I confronted my aunt and uncle about it and they said “she’s not hurt, she’s just faking everything. She’s really lazy and we’ve been trying to get her to stop faking since she was hurt. We know she’s not disabled, she’s just faking for sympathy. She’s been milking this for years and we’re sick of it. "<br><br>They honestly seemed like they didn’t care she was faking it, that they were happy she was faking it. Maybe it’s just me but I thought they were acting really fucking strange. My uncle kept going on about how much sympathy and attention she was getting from everyone in the family, and from school. My aunt kept saying how she was using her disability to get her way. There’s something not right about it. I don’t understand.<br><br>I’m just so fucking pissed. She’s lazy and won’t admit and she won’t stop. They don’t care and are so fucking mean to her. They’re letting her live like this, this isn’t normal. I know there has to be some kind of underlying issue, but my aunt and uncle aren’t going to admit it.