EtherSpin
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Hey,
Incredibly disheartened to see them (the doctors) all making fun of us, thinking we're crazy, or faking it to get SSDI. Hoping others will chime in (I already did) to set them straight.
Anyway, here's the thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/975rvy/who_has_started_watching_afflicted_new/
Reddit has a certain tone on average (when you've been in many of the subforums) - there are the same kind of folks who inhabit youtube comments filling in time being rude and cynical then there are trolls of all sorts cause you can create almost any type of hate driven subreddit if takes time for others to prove you are inciting or engaging in illegal behaviour and there are a lot of geeky folks there ( I can be that way, its an observation not an insult ) but within the ranks of the geeky there is again, a tonne of cynicism and thats kind of what people get upvotes/approval from - the snarkiest takedowns of other users, the most sarcastic take on the kind of people described in an article that is linked there.
I think its extremely unlikely to find any great number of medical professions there with any respect for ME/CFS cause the serious doctors would want little to do with it despite its popularity and even the CFS subreddit is not safe because people come there to have a go, shill a get better quick scam or actually just look back through your post history when you are talking about something TOTALLY unrelated to CFS and they want to paint you as stupid/mentally ill.
I constantly get abuse for run on sentences and poor choices of word when my brain thesaurus won't work well and despite being centre/left on political spectrum I get people jumping down my throat for exactly that, if something I said is inelegant cause of an erroneous use of synonyms Ill get panned as a bigot or something so its that or 'retard' a lot
90% of the people saying anything medical are being snide it seems - i advise people to carefully select which sub forums they subscribe to over there and block people with little hesitation