worldbackwards
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This popped up on the ME Association website today. It's always nice to read a good piece that pins it down, however many times I may have done so before. Particularly splendid in how it nails lazy media tropes (although ironically committing one itself by appearing in the 'lifestyle' section, rather than the 'horrible diseases that will ruin your life' section, which is sadly neglected).
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/stephen-tudor/me-awareness_b_6532402.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-health...Yet as regards to the media's representation of M.E I regret to say that nothing has changed. Nothing whatsoever. It remains two-dimensional and stalled on the starting grid with either a worthy article that amounts to the same basic facts and stats cribbed from the M.E Association or features a girl called Rachel looking exaggeratedly sad in a darkened bedroom because she can't ride her horses anymore.
It may seem like I have something against Rachel. I don't of course. I've been there myself in a darkened bedroom, feeling like death warmed up, while elsewhere people with a quarter of your intelligence, verve, and drive whisper that you're lazy or cuckoo.
It's awful and almost Victorian in its ignorant callousness.