This is a type of ablesplaining where doctors and other healthcare workers patronize, infantilize and disregard lived experience by minimizing self-reports of pain, often justifying it through medical hearsay, misogyny, transphobia, fatphobia, and racism even though they've never experienced any similar pain themselves, or they believe everyone's pain is the same as their own.
Doctor: "It's normal to experience some discomfort…" Patient: "Quit painsplaining; that was not just discomfort. That was a 9 out of 10 — almost the worst pain I've ever felt!"
by SharedMoon June 25, 2024
Get the painsplainingmug. Definition: someone who interrupts you to talk about your pain as if they've experienced it on a grander scale than you
"I get such bad migraines man, my head hasn't stopped throbbing for three da-"
"Oh yeah, I know all about migraines, they're so bad! Can you believe I had nausea, and like, I didn't wanna talk to anybody, and I even had to THROW UP to make it better. Anyway it's only happened to me once in my life, thank god! Have you tried to sleep it off?"
*internally screaming "Shut up you painsplainer"
"Oh yeah, I know all about migraines, they're so bad! Can you believe I had nausea, and like, I didn't wanna talk to anybody, and I even had to THROW UP to make it better. Anyway it's only happened to me once in my life, thank god! Have you tried to sleep it off?"
*internally screaming "Shut up you painsplainer"
by Czar231 May 2, 2021
Get the Painsplainermug.