Recently I have ‘shared’ various posts on Facebook about ME or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, adding something about my own experience of this disease. Because having ME was so important to me and has had such profound long-term effects, I forget that not everyone knows I was ill: I was absent from my job at school for long periods of time (six months being the longest) but didn’t tell my students what was wrong with me; it is not the first, second or third thing I announce to peo