Highlights from Strike TV Series based on a book by JK Rowling. Two characters have #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis. Inigo an ambulatory wheelchair user who is seen walking later is described as being able to do without it when his family aren't looking.

Kea got ME and had to move home and live with her mum. Kea is asked why she approached a fellow patient for advice on a message board when she has seen specialist doctors, real ones.

So Inigo is depicted as a caricature of an angry villain, preoccupied with his illness. JK nuturing old tropes of pwME, at a time when the UK is feverishly targeting sick & disabled people.

And both treated with skepticism by the main disabled detective.

As I've noted before: all GCs hate disabled people.

The amount of damage this will do to already broken relationships within families. I’ve got used to it. But young women are dying because of the perpetuation of this kind of ignorance. I hope one day JK Rowling feels ashamed.

Pure Exploitation! Ableist Ableist, Prejudice Inciting. So the production company went ahead and exploited a stigmatised, neglected serious disabling disease while the actual patients are dying in hospital for lack of safe guidance, dying from medical prejudice and ignorance.

JKRs writing about characters with ME is just malicious. All the old nasty tropes about chronically sick people concentrated onto the ME characters. How twisted is that.

This is horrid. Why, oh, why. M.E. is soft tissue arthritis with severe mitochondrial failure! Many with M.E. can barely form words (throat is a muscle and is often majorly affected). People are dying from this condition, and still this?

Of course JK has a new target. Disgusting

God this is awful. I haven’t read Harry Potter but the Robert Galbraith stuff is dire. This seems gothic novel type characterisation of a sick demanding twisted “cripple”. Badly done by look of it.