Spoonie Pyjama Party

“I just hated myself. I really hated myself. My body kept failing me. And so I couldn't do all the things that I so desperately wanted to do. I couldn't be a part of friendship groups. I couldn't go out. I couldn't do anything. This thing, my body, which is supposed to get me from point A, point B, it's supposed to be on my side. It just kept on failing.”That’s Natasha Misri, one of my oldest and dearest friends, and my guest for today’s episode. Natasha and I went to school together - we met when we were about 13 and became friends sitting at the back of the lab and grumbling our way through GCSE physics classes.Looking back, neither of us can quite remember how or why we clicked, we just did. We got each other, not because we went to the same school or because we didn’t particularly enjoy physics. Over time, it turned out that there was something deeper to our friendship. Natasha was diagnosed with ME when she was 12, and we’ve talked a lot over the years about