When I first told my family about me being _____ they didn't believe me

In writing club today one of the assignment was to write the title but replace it with something... and that is what I did.

When I first told my family about me being pregnant they didn't believe me.

First they thought it was some one else... after all I'm a guy I'm not supposed to get pregnant.

How did this happen?

Somehow through some strange twist of fate I became the first person to be able to asexually reproduce.

A miracle.

Well it didn't feel like one to me... here I was a guy who had an exact duplicate of myself growing inside me.

I claimed loud and wide that this was true, and it seemed that the louder I yelled the truth the more I got strange looks.

I felt distanced, I would call my friends up and they were always "busy" or "had to go", or the phone just would not answer.

The more I was ignored I knew they would listen to me if I yelled louder.

So as I grew fatter I became louder. I told the newspapers, I called my friends and asked if they wanted to feel my something growing inside of me.

I put in a claim for maternity leave for work... surprise surprise the insurance carrier did not require me to be a woman for me to get medical coverage.

The "new age" doctors couldn't believe I was pregnant and kept on telling me otherwise. So I'd yell at them for not supporting me and go to another doctor for a second opinion.

Soon I had no friends.

then 9 months later after I got my "all you can eat at McDonald's winner" the all you can eat membership expired.

How was my baby going to grow if I didn't feed it... I called my ex-friends up and left long voice mail messages telling them if they didn't by me mcdonalds they were going to kill the baby growing inside of me.

Then the baby died... after I stopped eating at McDonald's it died inside of me and became smaller.

In the end... I lost my friends, I lost my credibility, I lost my job, I got disowned by my family, the medical community scoffed at me, I got hungry, and worst of all I lost my baby.

How was that...

Annie Smith, Sarah Cunningham, Ashleigh Arledge, Nils Gellhouse, Sherry and Amanda Gellhouse came to the writing club... read their stories too!

(I'll put links to theirs as I know about them)
Amanda's story:
Amanda Gellhouse's blog on the same subject:
When I first told my family about they did not believe me
Annie Smith's blog on the same subject:
Writing club Number 2


Sarah Cunningham's blog on the same subject:
http://sarahssideofthemoon.blogspot.com/2008/01/writing-club-january-10-2007-write.html