u/SubstantialUmpire890 — reddlx

I feel super bad and it's been a month but I swear this is haunting me.

I was in the Walmart pharmacy line and I was waiting on my seizure medicine and at this point I hadn't had my seizure medicine in a week because of a prescribing error and I should have been more frantic about getting it but of course I waited until I felt like I was going to have a seizure.

I was in this line that had maybe 5 people in front of me and I was freaking out on the inside because I swear I felt like I was 3 seconds from a seizure.

Anyways the lady in front of me had a toddler and the toddler kept smiling and waving and saying hi but when I tell you I was clenching my fists praying to God that I wouldn't fall out right then and there but the baby kept waving and saying hi and the mother was starting to get annoyed I wasn't responding. I had a 1000 yard stare.

I saw her say something to the person with her and she looked me up and down but I didn't listen or even hear what she said but they kept giving me dirty looks and the toddler was still trying to get my attention, reaching her arms out for me.

I feel horrible I should have said something or even smiled. Like I was probably giving the cutest kid ever a death stare and I feel horrifically bad and wish I could have apologized to the mother. I’m a hijabi and I feel like we’re stereotyped as cold shouldered and I hope I didn’t make her think we’re all like that.