In the early 17th century Galileo championed heliocentrism, the (now well-accepted) belief that the earth orbits the sun. He was persecuted by the church for heresy and spent the rest of his life under house arrest and forced to recant.
For the last 18 months, the church of medicine – the new religion – has been persecuting me.
Persecuting me for medicine’s abject failures over the last 100 years in understanding many illnesses from ME/CFS and other MUS to psychiatric illnesses.
Persecuting me for having the audacity to have ME/CFS an illness that does not fit, and therefore cannot be understood by, medicine’s flawed epistemology.
Persecuting me for being autistic and daring to think differently and in a way allistics struggle to understand.
Persecuting me because medicine has its head so far stuck up its own arse it cannot see the simplicity of the problem nor its solutions.
Medicine might think the sun shines out of its arse but being that far stuck inside Plato’s Cave (or up their own arses) they cannot see it. They cannot understand and will NEVER be able to solve these problems because of it.
I am an autodidact polymath, a Chartered Physicist, a psychologist and safety systems engineer yet because I am not a medical doctor and my ideas are novel (though only to medicine I might add), I have “bizarre beliefs” and “strange ideas”. I have been said about me, when I’m just being myself and talking about these ideas, that I have an “elevated mood”, I have “hypomania”, that I have “mania” and that I have “mood disturbances” (not said to my face I might add). Subsequently being misdiagnosed as having bipolar affective disorder. All because I have the audacity to be autistic, to be hyper-interested in neuropsychiatry and to question medical orthodoxy. If medicine had their way I’d be locked up, forcibly medicated and told to recant my “bizarre”, “unusual” and “strange” beliefs, truth be damned.
Science, culture and technology may change but there remains one enduring feature of society that of the powerful (medicine) trying to suppress the powerless to maintain their hegemony, to maintain their fragile egos. Even if it means harming everyone else in the process. First do no harm indeed.
You can see my theory below for yourself. A theory for which I received a scholarship I might add. Disagree or do not understand but do not refer to it as “bizarre” or “strange” because you’re embarrassed about not knowing how to think.
Glitter Resist 