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Weird gatekeeping but ok; COVID causes chronic fatigue syndrome in some people. Because so many were affected (millions worldwide), it got its own nickname. ME/CFS developed after a covid infection.

Modern understanding of autism / ADHD sees the two as part of a spectrum of neurodiverse conditions (think of an audio mixer of many different traits, more than a side-to-side slider), but I don't see the connection with ME/CFS, whether or not it's caused by a covid infection.



>>COVID causes chronic fatigue syndrome in some people. Because so many were affected (millions worldwide), it got its own nickname.

It already had a name - post-viral fatigue syndrome. It's happened after other viruses before.


> Weird gatekeeping but ok; COVID causes chronic fatigue syndrome in some people. Because so many were affected (millions worldwide), it got its own nickname. ME/CFS developed after a covid infection.

ME/CFS has been around for way longer - prior to Covid, the Epstein-Barr virus was strongly suspected to be a trigger for it. Unfortunately ME/CFS was (and in many cases still isn't) widely known among doctors, so diagnoses were hard to come by and treatment even harder.

At least now that there is money flowing into ME/CFS research and knowledge about it gets more widespread, "old time" ME/CFS sufferers have a perspective now...




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