Full disrespect to the person going around the r/wheelchair sub reddit telling someone diagnosed with me/cfs that they shouldn't use that label, they should use long covid instead. Specifically, "I would encourage you to think of yourself having Long COVID instead of ME/CFS."
Absolutely full of hatred for this attitude where people are like, oh, plenty of people with long covid seem to have something identical to me/cfs? Well fuck everyone with me/cfs and fuck that diagnosis, you all can suffer and die, no one cares unless it's long covid, we're going to continue to totally ignore the (insufficient, yes, but not insignificant) existing body of research about this condition and continue to pretend it might be imaginary.
And if your legitimacy in the eyes of medical isntitutions as a person with chronic illness comes at the expense of others, if it's something you only have because you threw your fellow sick people under the bus, you are the problem. I know I should be glad for anyone for any bit of help and treatment they can get but if being taken seriously requires you to perpetuate the marginalization/deliegitimization/invisiblization of people who are dealing with the same and/or similar issues, please know that I may never forgive you.
