Tom Kindlon
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
I thought I would set up a thread on this
Its good. Read it yrs ago when i could still read. Nasim was very big in the advocacy commnity, but i havent seen her for a while but thats likely because i dont have energy to go anywhere but here & the occasional look at MEA fb. She's a very cool person i liked her a lot will have to google what shes up to nowThe State of Me Paperback – January 1, 2008
by Nasim Marie Jafry
Amazon product ASIN 1906321051Semi-autobiographical.
Henry Woodhouse, the father in Emma, maybe? Grandfather Smallweed in Bleak House throws pillows at his relatives, lamenting that he lacks the strength to throw anything heavier. I think we’ve all been there.
They are all characters who are hypochondriacs as far as i can tell. Not people with ME. Although i dont remember Smallweed very well, but Emma's father for sure is a health anxiety sufferer.I suppose that for BPS researchers, the best example of an ME sufferer in fiction would be Colin Craven in The Secret Garden, cured of his illness beliefs by exercise, Yorkshire air, and horticultural social prescribing.
They are all characters who are hypochondriacs as far as i can tell. Not people with ME. Although i dont remember Smallweed very well, but Emma's father for sure is a health anxiety sufferer.
So these are not characters with ME but rather characters with difficulties that the ignorant like to think are called ME/CFS nowadays
quite likely they did/were. But i dont want to reinforce their ignorance.So I’m assuming that people who had ME in the nineteenth century had as much difficulty being believed as they do now, and were easy prey for ironic novelists.