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Not too keen on the stock image of a model in bed: https://www.istockphoto.com/de/foto/foto-einer-frau-die-aufwacht-gm1257805561-368739078 Although I must grudgingly admit I liked her video on toxic positivity: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ch2b5GRJ0ST/embed/?autoplay=1

Didn't you read the tweet? Honestly, what more do you want?

Maybe she'd like to drop into an ME meeting and have a sniff around?

That shows how utterly clueless Turdie Chalder is about ME. That is literally the difference between ME and other illnesses, that building back up again slowly once you start to feel better doesn't work and that you run into a brick wall. We all tried that at the beginning of our illness, we all...

Not putting out shit about type A personality would be just splendid.

So what's the correct terminology for those who support trans rights?

If we are to tackle this matter at all, it would probably be best to do so when it is out of the limelight. A simple FOI request shouldn't be labelled as harrassment. The history of ME is littered with examples of how expressions of legitimate concern have been portrayed in ways they shouldn't...

Translating "Pacing" as "körperliches Training" (bodily/physical training) is ridiculous and sinister.

If that's the case it may be better not to make a fuss. "Chronic illness was left out of the TV series after discussions with the BBC" is a non-story, but if she can vamp it up to "Chronic illness had to be left out of the TV series due to threats by online militant activists cancelling my...

Are any of the characters trans-rights activists, or has JKR decided to chicken out of her fight with them and go for an easier target?

Indeed, I can just imagine the headlines - "Woke online activists are now trying to silence national treasure JK Rowling" etc. We can be sure she'd make a meal of it. We don't have to accept the role that she's assigned to us. Maybe she'll have self-destructed in the manner of Laurence Fox...

Just spoke to her, as far as I can make out she had genetic testing and it took 3 months for the results to arrive. Nothing to worry about and not familial she says. She had a tumour on her adrenal gland. We've just heard that my brother has a tumour on his kidney, results of tests awaited...

I'm afraid I don't know, she lives in France and we only talk every month or two. She will have gone to the very best clinic and had the best possible treatment. I'll ask her for more details the next time I speak to her.

My sister had this last year, full recovery as far as I know. Must get myself checked.

I had the same problem the last time a doctor said they needed to draw my blood. I was looking around for the red crayon when suddenly someone stuck a needle in me.

Amen to that. I wonder if we'll be seeing the same happen to "brain fog" soon - people using the term to describe standing in front of the fridge not knowing what they went there for and otherwise borrowing it until it becomes meaningless. At least OCD and migraine are clearly defined proper...

I read that as

I have had to fill in the Chalder Fatigue Questionnaire twice. Both times just before a long-awaited appointment for something I wanted (diagnosis the first time, tilt-table test the second), so I felt it was a particularly dirty trick to have that snuck in at the last minute. Each time the cost...

Was this questionnaire written by a frustrated blues musician? A guaranteed "Yes" from anyone who's just had this questionnaire shoved under their nose and had to answer the previous 14 questions. Seriously? Only people who answer yes will be able to answer this one at all. Everyone else will...

Brilliant. Adler doesn't provide any answers herself, just prides herself on "good questioning". So she's done her job, and if the answers the patient comes up with don't work, guess who's to blame? And guess who's completely unaccountable?