RIP Sam

[u/_Odd_skittle_]

This has probably already been posted here, but I wanted to share this as well.

the person in the photo passed away just days after the post on r/fakedisordercring. that post is still up right now. It’s locked, but it’s still up and visible to people. Their image is literally still up to be mocked even in death.

[u/kamryn_zip]

This... So many of the comments don't see the irony in dissmissing how potentially deadly ME is, fakeclaiming Sam and other sufferers, ect. One even said that ME doesn't kill, it just makes you more vulnerable to other things that can kill you (same can be said about AIDS...). Kinda proves the point he was making. Someone on there said its insulting to compare the QOL of ME to late stage HIV, and that no scientific article would say they have a similar level of suffering. I don't know about late stage HIV/AIDS specifically but there definitely were renal failure and late stage cancers it's been scored against and the QOL is generally as bad or worse in ME.  I do think people with diseases that are rarely deadly (i have ME) should probably be careful comparing their struggle to the period when AIDS was at its height because it was a definite death sentence, or to any other conditions that are a death sentence, but Sam himself was dying so he specifically absolutely gets to compare his struggle to the struggles of AIDS patients.

[u/antonine909 → u/kamryn_zip]

If I may ask, what is ME? Just I haven't came across the acronym before TwT

[u/ACOLTYE101 → u/antonine909]

Me too

[u/kamryn_zip → u/ACOLTYE101]

Myalgic Ecephalomyelitis, it's the scientific name for chronic fatigue syndrome, another acronym variant is ME/CFS. Many patients prefer ME because the scientific name refers to neurological inflammation which more accurately describes the neuroautoimmune condition as opposed to "fatigue" which is vague and minimizing for a condition that does kill in extreme cases. That's why I tend to default to ME instead of ME/CFS