I think words are less the problem so much as evidence. The symptoms of chronic conditions kind of are what they do.
Maybe you could say something like: I planned to complete five items on this list today and only completed one, because I was too fatigued to continue and could not complete another item despite telling myself to do so or attempting to engage in the activity. This creates a goal-outcome gap in language. This is useful but the real problem is it's still open to challenge in terms of intangibles like motivation, work ethic, whether you deliberately set yourself up to fail to make a point etc. even if you have diagnostics to back it up.
But I think this is telling of a deeper truth in those cases: others considering you a burden and looking for excuses to lighten themselves of that burden. At some point there's no convincing someone who selfish in that way to believe something which they perceive to have consequences against their own interests.
We live in these ideologically competitive western societies, and at some point the tension between organisations' perception of their own competitiveness overrides the societal pressure to support people with problems into work.
That being said if someone with a chronic disease has evidence like a diagnosis and that's linked to studies backing up their condition and others are listening to accusations on the basis of unfalsifiable intangibles then at some point you have to consider those without evidence are probably not acting in good faith. This is really relevant when it's an employer, for example, but it comes up in e.g. politics a lot as well where it comes to taxpayer spending etc.
Edit: maybe there is a potential term in there like "supportphobia" to describe actions/speech which is designed purely to free an individual or organisation from the burden of supporting those with legitimate conditions.
Nevertheless I think goal-outcome gaps like that are pretty useful to explain what's going on. Especially if the goal is something simple like "staying awake for a normal period of time" and yet you find yourself falling hard asleep in the middle of the day despite having slept well for well over a week beforehand.
Maybe you could say something like: I planned to complete five items on this list today and only completed one, because I was too fatigued to continue and could not complete another item despite telling myself to do so or attempting to engage in the activity. This creates a goal-outcome gap in language. This is useful but the real problem is it's still open to challenge in terms of intangibles like motivation, work ethic, whether you deliberately set yourself up to fail to make a point etc. even if you have diagnostics to back it up.
But I think this is telling of a deeper truth in those cases: others considering you a burden and looking for excuses to lighten themselves of that burden. At some point there's no convincing someone who selfish in that way to believe something which they perceive to have consequences against their own interests.
We live in these ideologically competitive western societies, and at some point the tension between organisations' perception of their own competitiveness overrides the societal pressure to support people with problems into work.
That being said if someone with a chronic disease has evidence like a diagnosis and that's linked to studies backing up their condition and others are listening to accusations on the basis of unfalsifiable intangibles then at some point you have to consider those without evidence are probably not acting in good faith. This is really relevant when it's an employer, for example, but it comes up in e.g. politics a lot as well where it comes to taxpayer spending etc.
Edit: maybe there is a potential term in there like "supportphobia" to describe actions/speech which is designed purely to free an individual or organisation from the burden of supporting those with legitimate conditions.
Nevertheless I think goal-outcome gaps like that are pretty useful to explain what's going on. Especially if the goal is something simple like "staying awake for a normal period of time" and yet you find yourself falling hard asleep in the middle of the day despite having slept well for well over a week beforehand.