Thanks for the info. I've updated the post summary with it.

Yeah, we've been training our family to call it just ME. I always know that a doctor knows jack shit about it when they starts saying things like "so then you felt sleepy..." It's even further removed from ME than calling it fatigue.

"Fatigue" is something healthy people experience too.

The amount of time I spend explaining that when someone has a symptom of ADHD, it isn't the same as what "everyone" has been dealing with, and it's extremely difficult to overcome.

It's a frequent occurrence in any ADHD space I occupy where outsiders will come in and accuse us of making a symptom out of "normal" behavior, or accuse us of "confusing" a symptom for the symptoms of something else.

I recently locked myself out of my house in the evening after my medicine had worn off. "Well, everyone does that sometimes!" Does everyone do it three times this year, incurring considerable embarrassment because you have to inconvenience someone with a spare key? Does everyone rack up considerable cost on the occasions when they couldn't wait for help to come and had to call a locksmith?

Sorry, I didn't mean to make this about me. I meant to call attention to the problem we seem to have as a society where random people diminish the severity of what someone is suffering for no real reason.

That’s because whoever wrote this has little clue what they are talking about.

What they are calling “long fatigue” is medically known as “post-acute infection syndrome” and contains hundreds of symptoms which don’t necessarily include fatigue.

It can be caused by both viral and bacterial infections, Lyme being one of the bacterial ones.

It is, but the article seems to conflate post-viral fatigue with long-term fatigue in the grouping:

Post-viral fatigue has long been poorly understood, and for many years was often dismissed as psychological. But this long-term fatigue with varying degrees of severity has been linked to infections ranging from Sars to Ebola, Epstein-Barr virus and influenza, as well as infections with tick-borne pathogens such as the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme disease.