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Eleanor Fielding
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‘We’re driving in the dark with our sunglasses on!”

Retired lecturer/therapist -CCCS Birmingham, Open University, feminism, politics, culture, disability, science, music, languages. Woke AF

#ME (1987) Maker of #FanningTheFlames
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#ME #LongCovid #Lyme #POTS #PEM #LivesWeCannotLive
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This is a cartoon/poster It says “Many doctors, psychotherapists, and psychiatrists are good people, just don't trust the ones who try to tell you that post-infectious illness is a mental health condition!” The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
December 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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It’s really disgraceful the way the British Medical Establishment has weaponised the biopsychosocial model worldwide. I apologise for my fellow citizens.

Here’s my cartoon for this week attacking the BMA on this issue.
#ME #LongCovid #Lyme #POTS #PEM #LivesWeCannotLive @meassociation.org.uk @longcovidsupport.bsky.social #Justice4ME
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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My cartoon this week is about just this issue with I’ll-informed doctors disabling and killing people. Grrrrr😡😡😡😡😡😤😤😤😤😤😤

#ME #LongCovid #Lyme #POTS #PEM #LivesWeCannotLive
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The cartoon is called ‘This week in disbelief….’ There are 3 boxes. In the first box is an image from the Guardian with the title ‘this week in The Guardian’. There is a photo of Wes Streeting Health secretary with the word “Wes Streeting calls the A ‘impossible’ and says they made ‘misleading’ claims In box 2 a woman is walking in the rain. She’s saying “Who’d have thought the BMA could be full of misguided careerists making misleading claims?” In Box 3 Wise Cat is saying sarcastically “Certainly not the 1.3m people with #ME being disabled and killed by shamefully misinformed doctors” The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
November 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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#ME #LongCovid #Lyme #POTS #PEM #LivesWeCannotLive
@meassociation.org.uk
@longcovidsupport.bsky.social
#Justice4ME
@ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social
@decodemestudy.bsky.social
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The cartoon is called ‘This week in disbelief….’ There are 3 boxes. In the first box is an image from the Guardian with the title ‘this week in The Guardian’. There is a photo of Wes Streeting Health secretary with the word “Wes Streeting calls the A ‘impossible’ and says they made ‘misleading’ claims In box 2 a woman is walking in the rain. She’s saying “Who’d have thought the BMA could be full of misguided careerists making misleading claims?” In Box 3 Wise Cat is saying sarcastically “Certainly not the 1.3m people with #ME being disabled and killed by shamefully misinformed doctors” The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
November 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Very bad behaviour by @brooklynmuseum.org to be using the male form of a name in an internationally renowned piece of feminist art. #JudyChicago Grrrr

Even Wiki has noticed -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trota_o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trota_of_Salerno
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Today’s cartoon is coincidentally apposite - if anyone in BacME feels slighted they would do well to to think about what is causing our rage. HINT - “if I don’t have enough energy to peel a carrot+do the washing up then physical therapy is not what I need” 🤦‍♀️
The cartoon title is ‘This Week in Disbelief’ The cartoon is a long column with three sections. Section One says - Word of the Day ‘Unasinous’ (Adjective: from Latin; unus = one + asinus = ass) Section two is headed ‘MEANING’ and provides the dictionary definition of unasinous as - "A foolish/ignorant belief that spreads to everyone in a group" Section three title is - ‘Use in a sentence’ In the bottom right Wise Cat is saying “Since the 2001 'Malingerers & Illness Fakers Conference' the field of #ME has been stuffed full of UNASINOUS MEDICS” The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
November 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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I was working on this cartoon over the weekend, and then ths BACME group doc popped into my feed today with their implied ‘Exercise is Medicine’ model. Dear oh dear.

#ME #POTS #PEM #MCAS #LongCovid

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The cartoon title is ‘This Week in Disbelief’ The cartoon is a long column with three sections. Section One says - Word of the Day ‘Unasinous’ (Adjective: from Latin; unus = one + asinus = ass) Section two is headed ‘MEANING’ and provides the dictionary definition of unasinous as - "A foolish/ignorant belief that spreads to everyone in a group" Section three title is - ‘Use in a sentence’ In the bottom right Wise Cat is saying “Since the 2001 'Malingerers & Illness Fakers Conference' the field of #ME has been stuffed full of UNASINOUS MEDICS” The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
November 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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For me it was because of this …

#ME #LongCovid #Lyme #POTS #PEM #MCAS
#LivesWeCannotLive
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#Justice4ME
This is a cartoon in the ‘This Week in Disbelief’ series. There is a single image. A woman patient sits with files on her lap. She has so many files that they’re falling out of the image and into the real world. The files are labelled #ME #LongCovid #Lyme+ Next to the woman an angry male doctor is throwing papers in the air. The caption says - “That moment when you realise your doctor has decided not to believe you...” The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
November 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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#ME #LongCovid #Lyme #POTS #PEM #MCAS
#LivesWeCannotLive
@meassociation.org.uk
@longcovidsupport.bsky.social
#Justice4ME
This is a cartoon in the ‘This Week in Disbelief’ series. There is a single image. A woman patient sits with files on her lap. She has so many files that they’re falling out of the image and into the real world. The files are labelled #ME #LongCovid #Lyme+ Next to the woman an angry male doctor is throwing papers in the air. The caption says - “That moment when you realise your doctor has decided not to believe you...” The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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#ME #PEM
@meassociation.org.uk
@longcovidsupport.bsky.social
#Justice4ME
@ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social
@decodemestudy.bsky.social
@thelancet.com
@nhsengland.bsky.social
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@davidjoffe64.bsky.social
This is a cartoon in the ‘This Week in Disbelief’ series. There is a single image. A woman patient sits with files on her lap. SShe has so many files that they’re falling out of the image and into the real world. The files are labelled #ME #LongCovid #Lyme+ Next to the woman an angry male doctor is throwing papers in the air. The caption says - “That moment when you realise your doctor has decided not to believe you...”
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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#ME #PEM #FanningTheFlames
@meassociation.org.uk
@longcovidsupport.bsky.social
#Justice4ME #Plan4ME
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@decodemestudy.bsky.social
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Title - This Week in Disbelief… There are four boxes. A woman and her friend are typing. Box one Tell me the BPS model of #ME and Long Covid is absolute rubbish, without calling it rubbish...a woman starts thinking Box Two She types “The Biopsychosocial Model (circa 1977- 2025) ‘Hailed as medicine's grand reconciliation of mind. body, and society, its architects promised a revolution. its politicians mistook vagueness for wisdom, and its custodians filed the death certificates without consequences’” Box Three - she asks her friend “What do you think Sue?” Box Four - Sue is unimpressed with the big words and replies dismissively “Just call it SH*T and move on!” The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Amazing but also more than a little worrying.
The carbon based units are infesting the planet
November 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Yup. My reading list is expanding at an #ME pace (sic 🤣). I haven’t forgotten I need to DM you I’m just busy on other stuff ATM. 💙
Book listing from Amazon
November 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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#Citroen have bowed to pressure and updated it’s location - my car is still in the sea but now floating above the mid-Atlantic ridge. What a speedy car! #CrapApp
Map showing EV car location as in the mid-Atlantic.
October 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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If you thought the perils of travelling whilst disabled was just staircases+ignorant gits, welcome to the #Citroen Berlingo EV experience - where they appear to have achieved light-speed travel and dumped my car in the sea. Just the latest in a l-o-n-g series of dire events caused by their #CrapApp
Map showing a location in the sea off the west coast of Africa. The caption says “Mypartner just parked my #Citroen EV at Heathrow T2. but according to their universally useless app it's currently in the sea off the west coast of Africa. Don't buy #CitroenEV #CitroenEv - #CrapApp #FanningTheFlames
October 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Abraham Lincoln is saying “The Epstein Ballroom is nothing more than a grubby attempt to distract from the Trump Files!” #FanningTheFlames
October 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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The only people who still believe this man are the government ministers who want his help to cut budgets.

#ME #LC #PEM #MCAS #POTS #BPSM
A picture of Simon Wessely - architect of The PACE Trial and so much more self-justifying mumbo-jumbo is saying staring out of the cartoon while its author is reciting a poem - “Mind/body dualism is his obsession but he never learned this basic lesson: 'IF YOUR MODEL MAIMS & KILLS IT'S NOT A CURE FOR SOCIAL ILLS You've simply made your shibboleth** a leading cause of early death!” The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames ** a shibboleth is a custom or meaning that is no longer relevant
October 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Wise Cat has learned the meaning of farting

#Justice4ME #Plan4ME
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The title says - PROF SIMEON WIFFLE-WAFFLE IS AT IT AGAIN! Then there are three boxes In box one Sir Simeon is riding a horse over some skulls and lifting his top hat. The caption says “He rides forth upon a government quest to destroy the worst a and save the best. Which is which he does not know but he's certain of the way to go!” In box two a man is lying dead on the floor and the caption says “Doctors over-diagnose. they must listen to his psycho bros: 'NO-ONE IS EVER TRULY SICK JUST FEMALE, EASILY LED OR THICK” In box three there is a black ghost floating. The caption says “Mind/body dualism is his obsession and yet he's failed this basic lesson: "If your model maims and kills it's not a cure for social ills. you've simply made your shibboleth a leading cause of early death" Outside of the main cartoon a cat with glasses has its bum in the air and is farting towards the cartoon. The cat is saying “I fart in his general direction” The cartoon maker is #FanningThe Flames
October 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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#ME #PEM #FanningTheFlames
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#Justice4ME #Plan4ME
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The poem’s title is - Can Sir Symon Wiffle-Waffle Save Camelot? He rides forth upon a nation's quest to destroy the worst and save the best Which is which he does not know but he's certain of the way to go! The sickest shall be made to run the saddest will be forced to fun Medics must not diagnose. they must listen to his psycho bros: 'no-one is ever truly sick, just misinformed. female. or thick. He'll ban benefits. food + eating no tv. cigarettes or heating. Illness is no bar to work if you die, you will not shirk. Obey his rules and maybe you can have wealth and government contracts too! (But probably not as he's got them all) The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
October 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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New study at Melbourne University is looking for #pwME to take part in research #ME #PEM #Fatiguability #LC sent out by @openmedf.bsky.social
• StudyME Dear OMF StudyME Participant, We are excited to present a research opportunity that might interest you. Below, you'll find details about the study, kindly provided by the research team. Should you have any inquiries regarding the study's specifics, your participation, or eligibility criteria, please feel free to contact the study team directly. MELBOURNE FARMS (FUNCAP 27, A Repeat Measure Survey) re has been a significant gap in the ability of clinicians to quantify (put a numbe eneray capacity and faticablity of peone with ME CFS and LC. This imbacts research and clinicians trying to check response to physical and medical therapies. The deve ooment of the FUNCAP 27 questionne re revo utionised now peode assess their own abilities and represents the best method of data collection. he FUNCAP 27, is a 27 item questionnaire that asks about your ability an onsequences of completing 27 different tasks. The FUNCAP 27 was developed in close onsultation with patient advocates and represents one of the best and most usefu vestionnaires to date. We believe that the FUNCAP 27 has the ability to assess enerd tates beyond the month time frame originally intended by the tool's creators. We plan to ise the FUNCAP 27 to measure a person's percention (awareness) of their eneral capacity at a single point in time and will measure how this changes at 2 separate time points over a period of 6 weeks. Participants will have 4 hours on each occasion to complete the survey. The first measurement will be completed when you are experiencing post exertional malaise (PEM), and the other when you are well, PEM is experienced when someone with ME/CFS or LC over-exerts themselves physically, cognitively or emotionally resulting in a delayed onset worsening of symptoms that is often out of proportion in severity and duration to the initial stressor. We are looking for people between the age o 1o and /U who nave been cagnosed with ME/CFS and/or Long Covid to assist us in research by parti… • StudyME Dear OMF StudyME Participant, We are excited to present a research opportunity that might interest you. Below, you'll find details about the study, kindly provided by the research team. Should you have any inquiries regarding the study's specifics, your participation, or eligibility criteria, please feel free to contact the study team directly. MELBOURNE FARMS (FUNCAP 27, A Repeat Measure Survey) re has been a significant gap in the ability of clinicians to quantify (put a numbe eneray capacity and faticablity of peone with ME CFS and LC. This imbacts research and clinicians trying to check response to physical and medical therapies. The deve ooment of the FUNCAP 27 questionne re revo utionised now peode assess their own abilities and represents the best method of data collection. he FUNCAP 27, is a 27 item questionnaire that asks about your ability an onsequences of completing 27 different tasks. The FUNCAP 27 was developed in close onsultation with patient advocates and represents one of the best and most usefu vestionnaires to date. We believe that the FUNCAP 27 has the ability to assess enerd tates beyond the month time frame originally intended by the tool's creators. We plan to ise the FUNCAP 27 to measure a person's percention (awareness) of their eneral capacity at a single point in time and will measure how this changes at 2 separate time points over a period of 6 weeks. Participants will have 4 hours on each occasion to complete the survey. The first measurement will be completed when you are experiencing post exertional malaise (PEM), and the other when you are well, PEM is experienced when someone with ME/CFS or LC over-exerts themselves physically, cognitively or emotionally resulting in a delayed onset worsening of symptoms that is often out of proportion in severity and duration to the initial stressor. We are looking for people between the age o 1o and /U who nave been cagnosed with ME/CFS and/or Long Covid to assist us in research by parti…
October 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Well, there’s always the option of accusing them of utter irrational prejudice for ‘unconscious’ reasons.

Though personally I think they’ve been overdetermined by ideas floating around in their subcultural soup but have yet to make a cartoon about thae Gordion knot.

#ME #IntergenerationalTrauma
Title - This Week in Disbelief.. This is a cartoon in 3 vertical sections - Section 1 title - "The Most Hated Doctor in Britain" has been appointed by a Labour government as vice-chair of an investigation into whether mental health problems and neurodivergence are being OVERDIAGNOSED. Section 2 title - Prof Simon Wessely, the careerist punitive psychiatrist whose views on #MEcfs have led to decades of underfunding, medical ignorance. unnecessary disability and definitely preventable deaths. seems wedded to these powerful persecutory roles. Section 3 title - How can we understand this commitment to coercion from a doctor? Does he perhaps: • Crave recognition from powerful groups? • Struggle with unresolved trauma? • Chase career and social gains? • Lack self-awareness & empathy? • Think the ends justify the means? In the bottom right hand corner is wise Cat who’s saying “Or perhaps he's just a dick?!” The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
October 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Handy cut-out-and-keep for annoying relatives/friends/drs
💙💙

#ME #Disability #PEM #FanningTheFlames
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There is an image of a cat wearing glasses and reading books. Round the cat’s neck is a pendant with the words “Wise Cat” The title says - “Do you suffer from outdated prejudices about #ME and #Long Covid?” Wise Cat is saying “Stuff those prejudices down and see if you can squeeze a thought into the gap - here’s a link”. The link is - https://meassociation.org.uk Round the outside of the cartoon is a dotted line with scissors on it and the words ‘cut out and keep for those annoying relatives/friends/doctors’ The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
October 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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How about adding some sarcasm into your response? Why shouldn’t we laugh at their appallingly ignorant behaviour?

#ME #MEcfs #PEM #MCAS #POTS #ChronicIllnessHumour
There is an image of a cat wearing glasses and reading books. Round the cat’s neck is a pendant with the words “Wise Cat” The title says - “Do you suffer from outdated prejudices about #ME and #Long Covid?” Wise Cat is saying “Stuff those prejudices down and see if you can squeeze a thought into the gap - here’s a link”. The link is - https://meassociation.org.uk Round the outside of the cartoon is a dotted line with scissors on it and the words ‘cut out and keep for those annoying relatives/friends/doctors’ The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
October 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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#ME #Disability #PEM #FanningTheFlames
@meassociation.org.uk
@longcovidsupport.bsky.social
#Justice4ME #Plan4ME
@ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social
@decodemestudy.bsky.social
@thelancet.com
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This is a cartoon pretending to be a shop coupon. There is an image of a cat wearing glasses and reading books. Round the cat’s neck is a pendant with the words “Wise Cat” The title says - “Do you suffer from outdated prejudices about #ME and #Long Covid?” Wise Cat is saying “Stuff those prejudices down and see if you can squeeze a thought into the gap - here’s a link”. The link is - https://meassociation.org.uk Round the outside of the cartoon is a dotted line with scissors on it and the words ‘cut out and keep for those annoying relatives/friends/doctors’ The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
October 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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#SevereME #ME #MEcfs #ChronicFatigue #PEM #MaeveInquest
Title - Sheesh! A cat wearing glasses is reading books and saying “OFFS, I read more than he does!’ The cartoon maker is. #FanningTheFlames
October 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM