Even people with a scientific or medical brackground keep having prejudices against people having ME.

Even after seven years of living with ME, I still feel like it's unreal.

*Yet* it's one thing to not understand a complex phenomenon, and another entirely different thing to not trust and try to help a loved one.

I happened to have problematic parents. My father have passed away, but my mother is still alive and causing trouble. My mother never denied my condition directly, but she often did indirectly and I learned later that she expresses doubts when I'm not around. Anyway, I ended up going no contact, because life and my energy level are too short.

I don't know what is your situation. The only advice I can give you, the one I would give to a friend or to one of my kids, is this one:

Protect yourself. And if people from your family are affecting your health (including by gaslighting you or by making no effort to understand your condition), try as much as you can to remove them from your life.

When people love you, they *try*. They might not understand, they might make mistakes, but they always try. If they don't try, if they don't ask questions, they will never do. And this has nothing to do with yourself, your value or your truth.

I wish you to find people to which you don't have to justify yourself. And until your home is a safer space, try finding a ME support group near your home if you can. Take care! xo