#ME Insults on Twitter

As some of you may know, today is MEawarenessDay and this week Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferers will be raising awareness. This is a post by a blogger with ME who lists some of the insults victims of the disorder are accustomed to hearing.

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ME Insults

In my post of 6th Oct I mentioned that the poor treatment of people with CFS or ME was a scandal. And I had mentioned the ME Insults timeline on Twitter. A bit more about this now.
Twitter is marvellous for connecting with people worldwide on endless topics of interest.
Recently someone posted (tweeted) a message suggesting that people share any insults they had received since having ME or CFS. This then quickly expanded to include any comments which were – ignorant, hurtful, nasty, silly or just plain stupid. It was suggested that any replies included #Meinsults in them – so they would be recorded in a separate timeline in Twitter.
And it just took off.
Hundreds of people posted messages – maybe even over a thousand in just a day or two. What started off as a way of sharing and venting frustrations about how folk had…

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