wtf?

Um. Yeah, no, I don't think I'm going to be tolerant and supportive of this particular thing.

I assume this is a mental illness. I guess they should get treatment. It is so damn fraudulent and as someone who is disabled, I kind of feel like fuck them in the heart with a stake.

I have been encouraged to get a wheel chair or a scooter because the pain in my legs when I walk is excruciating, but that feels like ceding ground, giving up. While I can still walk - no matter how painful

I will walk. That's it. So what if it takes me 10 minutes to take out the garbage. I can still do it.

They can fuck right off.

I can see - barely - how they want to compare this to being transgender, but the latter gives voice to a healthier identity, and this does not in any way.

....

Yes, I think this is likely an illness. I would want them to get treatment and compassion when I am purely rational, but that does not mitigate my feeling that their fraud harms me by reinforcing the idea that

people who are disabled are shirkers.

I know I am holding two contrary viewpoints at the same time, but don't we all from time to time?

The Joni Mitchell and "Morgellons" thing is similar to me

this stinks of a story planted as a delegitimizing attack on transgender identity. Especially after reading this in the Times: The Agency - NYTimes.com