Which often frankly disturbs me because post-exercise fatigue is pleasant. It's not just one of the reasons why a lot of people regularly exercise, it's also encouraged based on this: you feel better after it, when you have a healthy body. Yes, for the long-term overall benefits, but to most people the fact that it's pleasant, satisfying, is good enough in itself. That feeling of good weariness, the endorphin comedown, it all feels great.
To conflate PEM with post-exercise fatigue is frankly as ridiculous as comparing a slap to the face to a kiss. I have a really hard time taking people who make those claims seriously about anything. Do they not have bodily experience of their own? Why are they arguing that something that feels good and healthy to most people must be the same thing as something horrible that is clearly pathological? They would make just as much sense arguing that being sick feels great: what the hell are you even talking about here with this nonsense?
Post-exercise fatigue is not unpleasant, there is nothing unpleasant to avoid for most people here. To take this excuse and extend it to a few minutes of pressing buttons is straight up insulting our intelligence. We can keep insisting to them that we know, we can tell the difference, that this is something else entirely, but they don't have to listen. Sure, not everyone agrees to this, lots of people hate exercise, but it's a normal physiological reaction that most people do enjoy and they are warping it completely to suit their ideology. They keep having to invent fake mental illnesses to make up for their own incompetence. What a rotten system they have built for people like us.
