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Government Attitude and ME/cfs

Denise

Senior Member
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Attitudes towards this disease and towards advocates are often the subject of discussion.
OccupyME documents some attitudes we really don't deserve:

"Government/advocate interactions frequently happen on a public stage, where everyone is rightly careful about what they say. Sometimes, though, we can get access to behind the scenes communication. In emails that the authors probably believed would remain private, we can learn what those people really think about something – and it is not a pretty picture. ..."

Read the rest of the OccupyME post here.