ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 22/11/20252) Some quotes from the paper: "The lack of medical recognition, as a legitimizing institution, makes ME/CFS highly stigmatized. Psychologizing the illness further intensifies this stigma by implicitly blaming patients for their condition." 1110
ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 22/11/20253) Exclusion of care: "This exclusion of people with ME/CFS reflects not only the ableist assumptions about what counts as 'real' disability, but also the structural inaccessibility of systems that are built around visible, consistent, and easily-classifiable impairments." 1110
ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 22/11/20254) Gender stereotypes: "The widely-held stereotypical view of women as weak, suggestible, emotionally unbalanced, irrational, manipulative, and unable to cope with even relatively minor stress have made them easy targets to be labeled as hysterical, unreliable" 1122
