It's not such a big deal because of one thread and like i said i really don't want to bother anyone. I also use the term ME/CFS, for the reasons people mentioned on this thread. But even if it seems like an irrelevant detail, i think there's an important difference between "ME/CFS" and "CFS/ME". Because it gives you a different impression, but also because it's a different group of people that's using each. And one of them are not our friends, in my opinion (that of course doesn't include members of our community who say "CFS/ME", don't misunderstand me). Im quoting from Cort's interview with Marj van Sande (
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/cont...-Criteria-for-ME-the-Marj-Van-Sande-Interview): I just think we should not play into the hands of these people (don't know if you say that in English). Sorry, Esther, like i said, nothing personal ;-) I personally prefer "CFS" over "CFS/ME", because CFS is just CFS, something defined by Fukuda, Holmes, etc. "CFS/ME" gives me the impression that there is a disease called CFS, but you can also call it ME and now you lump the ME cases together with the CFS population, but it's still CFS. It kind of soils the name "ME". Even though weasels don't have a very large brain, i don't think they introduced this term by chance... "ME/CFS" on the other hand puts the emphasis on ME. Now i will stop taking this thread off topic...