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[[((Neither looked disabled from the outside, both walked better than I do most of the time. Maybe hidden PTSD or something that doesn’t show. Maybe....”]]

Yeah, we have to be careful- some disabling conditions can’t be seen- and folks look perfectly able bodied- but i n reality they aren’t- some diseases like MS, or bad Chronic fatigue, show no outward signs, and people can do activity short term, like rake a lawn, mow, shovel a drive way- but then they suffer for it out of view where nooen knows they are suffering-

I know people with Chronic Fatigue, and they explain it to me like having a battery that is only 1/4 charged in the morning- they get up- can do some light activity, but by noon, they are so weak they have to lie down to recharge again to 1/4 charge or so, just to make it through the rest of the day, because if they don’t=- and they keep trying to do activities, they end up in bed for a couple of days- weak, shaky, etc- they just don’t have the energy stores that normal people do i guess- They describe it as having the flu non stop- some days it’s better, other days it’s awful- but they always get wiped out doing normal stuff- just like someone with the flu gets wiped out- weak and shaky- People with conditions like this learn to pace themselves, and we only see them when they are at their best- which again- is only a 1/4 of what normal people are at their best-

of course there are degrees of Chronic fatigue- I’m talking about the debilitating severe cases- These folks can do short term stuff like mowing a small lawn- raking- or whatever- but can’t do it in a sustained effort-

I call conditions like that the invisible disabilities- because people look at them- see them working some light activity, and think there is nothing wrong with them-

Sadly These are the folks that can’t work long enough hours to sustain themselves financially because of the need to recharge during the day (some folks have to do this a couple times a day- if they don’t, and skip the recharging, after a couple of days, they are down for the count for a few day)- but they are the first ones to get kicked off disability so that dead beats who are simply out of work can get on disability thanks to obama and ilk-

They are perfectly capable of working- but like you say- they complain of ‘being tired, sore’ and somehow get disability- while people with truly disabling conditions like MS or Chronic fatigue, Parkinson’s, or Fibormyalgia or whatever - can’t get it-

Many of these folks end up getting kicked off- can’t work enough to sustain themselves, and end up homeless and sick- while deadbeats get welfare and sit around smoking pot all day or drinking- that’s what makes me mad-

Glad I covered myself—as President Trump might say it was a perfect post. Sort of.

I do feel sorry for the truly disabled, including people who have chronic fatigue as you said.

Before I diagnosed myself on my own and took two years to convince the MD she should treat me for hypothyroidism, I had bad fatigue, brain fog , hot flashes and muscle and joint pains. The MD is one who agrees to treat only if she is covered for malpractice by what I call a “sports score”-—a proven blood test result scoring at a number to show thyroid too low—as I already diagnosed for 2 years! The Rx took away some symptoms.

I struggled mightily to work to my age 71 retirement with that brain fog and fatigue. No disability, of course.