{"id":2347847,"date":"2025-11-19T09:17:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/log.undomiel.nu\/?p=2347847"},"modified":"2025-11-19T09:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:17:46","slug":"this-isnt-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/log.undomiel.nu\/?p=2347847","title":{"rendered":"This isn&#8217;t FAIR."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;M SICK OF BEING SICK.<\/p>\n<p>I just want to sit up and\u00a0<em>code<\/em>, for the love of god. I don&#8217;t want to run a marathon or attend a dance party or hit the city or anything, I just want to code a stupid webpage about stuff that literally probably NOBODY cares less about anymore. I&#8217;m not asking to do anything major, I&#8217;m asking for the strength to SIT UP and perform a SEDENTARY. HOBBY.<\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s rotten of me, but I also don&#8217;t care: I&#8217;m so sick of people whining about (supposed, newsflash: people online tell lies, especially about diseases completely lacking detectable biomarkers) ME\/CFS and then&#8230;just living a normal life?! Going to their jobs, dancing around their cities, hanging with their friends, etc. But remembering every now and then to remind everyone about how ME\/CFS sucks&#8230;without mentioning a single symptom that&#8217;s ruining or even mildly affecting their day, mind you&#8230;just how they&#8217;re ~*~sicker than <em>you~*~<\/em> because they definitely, absolutely, totally have it.<\/p>\n<p>Being sick with this horrible disease is not an identity. ME\/CFS is not a cute trendy accessory. Being sick with this is absolute life-destroying hell, and if you think otherwise, you aren&#8217;t sick. Eat me.<\/p>\n<p>I gatekeep because I care.<br>\n(About people suffering like me. I don&#8217;t give two damns about the accessorisers.)<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t. sit. up.<br>\nTrying to do so has me <em>passing out<\/em>.<br>\nBut <em>do<\/em> tell me again about how AWFUL your life with &#8220;CFS&#8221; is, please do, especially while you zap down the street to grab a coffee, something that would have me collapsed in bed for a week if I even tried it. I am all empathetic ears, by which I mean I hope you get hit by a train.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, no I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you end up like me.<\/p>\n<p>(&#8220;OMG, you&#8217;re such a monster, you&#8217;re so mean!&#8221;)<br>\nCry me a fucking river.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to go lay down for another three hours because I had the utter\u00a0<em>gall<\/em> to attempt to sit upright for five minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;M SICK OF BEING SICK. I just want to sit up and\u00a0code, for the love of god. I don&#8217;t want to run a marathon or&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.undomiel.nu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.undomiel.nu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.undomiel.nu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.undomiel.nu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.undomiel.nu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2347847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/log.undomiel.nu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347848,"href":"https:\/\/log.undomiel.nu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347847\/revisions\/2347848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.undomiel.nu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2347847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.undomiel.nu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2347847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.undomiel.nu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2347847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}