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The original was posted on /r/cfs by /u/gytherin on 2023-11-06 08:34:23.

I’m in the country of my birth for a number of weeks. Trying to get people to come and see me for a change - in the past, because they’ve been working, I’ve sucked it up and travelled to see them.

This time I can’t; this time I’m too tired.

So, this old friend was too busy in October. At the start of November he emailed to say he could see me in the second half of each week in November. Guess what, busy. I emailed my schedule of people coming to see me back to him and said I’d be cactus - Aussie for exhausted - otherwise, but if he could see a chink in my schedule, I’d be glad to see him.

Cones the reply, he can’t do it unless I “decide not to be cactus.”

Thus my response. “In over thirty years of this illness, I have never been able to decide not to be cactus. Sorry.”

That’s a “friendship” I can do without. But it still stings that someone I’ve known for nearly half a century still doesn’t believe me.

:(