Blondie comic

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Blondie is a long-running American comic strip.

ME/CFS & SEID comic strip[edit | edit source]

Blondie published a cartoon strip in February 2016 that implied the disease was simply tiredness, referring to the new name proposed by the Institute of Medicine report, Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease (SEID).[1]

Blondie February 25 2016.gif

Complaints[edit | edit source]

A letter to the Washington Post complained "I’m surprised that this uninformed and tasteless strip was published".[2]

Lucinda Bateman of the The Bateman Horne Center wrote a letter of complaint, criticizing them for risking perpetuating a "gross misunderstanding of the severity of ME/CFS".[3]

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See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "February 25, 2016". Blondie. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
  2. ↑ DesRoches, Greg. "No joke for chronic fatigue sufferers". Washington Post. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
  3. ↑ Bateman, Lucinda (March 14, 2016). "Cartoon Offers Education Opportunity - Bateman Horne Center". Bateman Horne Center. Retrieved October 12, 2018.

systemic exertion intolerance disease (SEID) - A term for ME/CFS that aims to avoid the stigma associated with the term "chronic fatigue syndrome", while emphasizing the defining characteristic of post-exertional malaise (PEM). SEID was defined as part of the diagnostic criteria put together by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report of 10 February 2015.

See systemic exertion intolerance disease.

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