Editing ME and CFS in popular culture

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==Common stereotypes==
Three common but incorrect stereotypes are express across many media:
# Patients are just tired, like everyone else gets, or lazy.
# Or conversely, that patients are ambitious overachievers, burnouts
# Patients are hypochondriacs and attention seekers.

The primary misconception behind these stereotypes is that patients are not simply tired, they are severely sick & disabled.

==Film==
*[[David Puttnam]] (British filmmaker)

==Television==
*[[Michael Crawford]] (British actor)
*[[The Golden Girls]]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Gervais Ricky Gervais] mocked ME patients in his comedy act.  [[Matthew Smith]] blogs at ''Indigo Jo Blogs'' about this and has a short clip of Gervais in a 3 minute Youtube video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOflARSgNnE#t=151 C.F.S/M.E - The Torturous Disease] embedded in the article "Ricky Gervais on ME, and other bad comedy".<ref>[http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2010/03/04/ricky_gervais_on_me_and_other_bad_comedy Ricky Gervais on ME, and other bad comedy - Indigo Jo Blogs]</ref> The [[ME Association]] wrote about his "apology".<ref>[http://www.meassociation.org.uk/2007/11/ricky-gervais-apologises-for-shows-me-wise-crack/ Ricky Gervais ‘apologises’ for show’s ME wise-crack - ME Association]</ref>  His 2016 album, (performed by his character from The Office, David Brent) includes a song called "Please don't make fun of the disableds" that refers to [[myalgic encephalomyelitis|ME]] urging people to be "please be kind" to the disabled, "...even the ones with ME, who feel tired... we all feel tired.... sometimes we all feel tired".<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brent:_Life_on_the_Road David Brent: Life on the Road]</ref>
*Transparent
*[[Vicky Beeching]] (UK TV broadcaster)
*[[Martine McCutcheon]] (British actress)
*[[Armando Iannucci]] wrote a comedy sketch where Jesus healed people with various ailments. When faced with a person with [[chronic fatigue syndrome]] Jesus replied "yeah, well we all get tired".<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDhoM_vhIeo Armando Iannucci - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome]</ref>
*[[House]]
*The Middle (ABC comedy), April 27, 2016
*Alex Trebek on Jeopardy, July 3, 2015

==Fiction==
*[[Love and Fatigue in America]]

==Comics & cartoons==
*[[Blondie comic]]
*[https://womenshealthconcerns.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/nbe0086l.jpg Chronic fatigue syndrome anonymous]
*[https://s3.amazonaws.com/lowres.cartoonstock.com/food-drink-chronic_fatigue_syndrome-me-illnesses-tiredness-tires-jfa3124_low.jpg I'm too tired to eat]
*[https://fineartamerica.com/featured/a-woman-lies-on-her-couch-and-speaks-to-a-man-bruce-eric-kaplan.html?product=canvas-print My stomach would hurt but I'm too tired]
*[http://www.naturalnews.com/cartoons/Doctors_thinking_600.jpg What doctors are really thinking]
*[https://s3.amazonaws.com/lowres.cartoonstock.com/animals-chronic_fatigue_syndrome-fatigue-dog_tired-tiredness-exhausted-aton6163_low.jpg You're just dog tired]

==Music==
*[[Cher]] (singer)
*[[Howard Bloom]] (publicist and writer)
*[[Stevie Nicks]]
*[[Stuart Murdoch]] (lead singer of [[Belle and Sebastian]]), "[[Nobody's Empire]]"
*[[Yuppie Flu]] (Italian music group)

==News and non-fiction==
*[[Yuppie Flu]]
*[[Laura Hillenbrand]]
*[[Lena Dunham]]
*[[Ken Wilbur]]

==Fashion==
*[[Laura Dundovic]] (model). Diagnosed with the disease when she was 16 years old.<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3398410/Laura-Dundovic-reveals-overcame-battle-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-teenage-years.html 'I got every possible sickness': Laura Dundovic reveals how she overcame battle with chronic fatigue syndrome during her teenage years]</ref>

== See also ==

== Learn more ==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_chronic_fatigue_syndrome Wikipedia - List of people with chronic fatigue syndrome]

== References ==
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