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"Like, no, this hot yoga class isn't IBS friendly, and we apologize that these overhead lights are unsuited to your POTS Robert Downey Khrons disease or whatever."
"Seeing people live with severe chronic illnesses like CFS or POTS puts everything into perspective"
"Fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, ehlers-danlos syndrome (EDS), POTS, "chronic" Lyme disease just to name a few. These people typically post obsessively about their conditions, identify every suspected condition in their bios, and demand an insane level of overcare."
"They suffer from that cluster of suspiciously bisexual disabilities (autism, self-diagnosed long COVID, Ehlers-Danlos, POTS, a few others) and they told me about them at length."
"And why is it always the exact same type of person that refers to themself as a 'spoonie'? White, female, either visibly underweight or morbidly obese (no in between). And why do they always have either POTS, hEDS, MCAS, or occasionally fibromyalgia?"
"I'm talking about EDS, POTS, CFS, MCAS, long COVID, etc I get that they're vague and don't have one single test you can do that says yes or no, but aren't there other vague illnesses that can be faked in this vast world?"
"i dont want to be cynical. i dont want to believe all long term relationships trend downward towards contempt. help me."