Blog: Super Pooped: "Cause and Effect piece" [comic illustrating life with ME/CFS]

[Andy]

I've been sitting on this one for a while so it's amazing that I finally get to show it to you! My piece for Cause and Effect magazine.
Amnah, the editor, is also a sufferer of ME and contacted me about doing a comic to illustrate how it feels to have it.

Read more, and see the comic, at https://superpooped.blogspot.com/2018/12/cause-and-effect-piece.html

 

[ScottTriGuy]

Being scarred, I often read writing by ME patients through the lens of the public that mostly thinks ME is psychological.

I'm afraid this comic doesn't distinguish and could be read through the common psych lens, reinforcing their erroneous notions of ME / patients.

 

[Little Bluestem]

The resolution is so low on my computer that I cannot read the text.

 

[Andy]

The resolution is so low on my computer that I cannot read the text.

Did you click on the image, as it expands it?

I'm afraid this comic doesn't distinguish and could be read through the common psych lens, reinforcing their erroneous notions of ME / patients.

But is there any other way of depicting it, given the medium used?

 

[Invisible Woman]

But is there any other way of depicting it, given the medium used?

It's very difficult. I often think that our descriptions of how having ME/CFS feels can make the condition sound psychological. I guess that's true of any conditions where you talk about how it feels subjectively.

I agree with @ScottTriGuy too. We have an uphill battle in that not on!y are we simply trying to educate, we need to tear down misconceptions first.

I have no idea how that might be done in a cartoon strip like this.

 

[Little Bluestem]

Did you click on the image, as it expands it?

Yes. I also opened it in a new tab and copied it into my pictures folder so that I could open it in Window Photo Gallery. When I increase the size of the image, the text becomes blurred.

 

[Andy]

Yes. I also opened it in a new tab and copied it into my pictures folder so that I could open it in Window Photo Gallery. When I increase the size of the image, the text becomes blurred.

OK, I'm sorry then, I don't know why it's like that for you.

 

[ladycatlover]

Yes. I also opened it in a new tab and copied it into my pictures folder so that I could open it in Window Photo Gallery. When I increase the size of the image, the text becomes blurred.

Click on the image in the post, which brings the image up separately (kind of over the post). Then open it into a new tab (right click and choose "Open image in new tab"), and when hovered over it in the new tab you get the little magnifying glass + thing, when I went for that it showed it fully across my screen and I was able to scroll down to see the whole cartoon eventually. Not sure how clear my description is!

(edited to hopefully clarify)

 

[Little Bluestem]

Click on the image in the post, which brings the image up separately (kind of over the post).

I only had to do this tonight. Maybe my slow connection was running even slower and automatically reducing the resolution to decrease download time? Is the computer that 'smart'?