The author and their dog in Austin, Texas.Courtesy of V. Jo HsuI don’t know what set her off, the white woman screaming at me from behind the wheel of her Texas-sized SUV. We were in the parking lot of a T-Mobile on an otherwise unremarkable Friday afternoon.Each punch of her car horn jostled me closer to a “crash,” the general term for symptom flares caused by exertion in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME/CFS.Advertisement The experience differs from patient to patient, but for me, physical and emotional stress provoke muscle weakness, lightheadedness, cognitive difficulty and days of full-body...