'Sickfluencers'? The truth about chronic illness on social media

The Telegraph recently published a comment piece which argued that chronic illness and neurodivergence have become a "lifestyle trend" among young women, especially on social media.

Poppy Coburn, the editor who wrote the piece, also said that those talking about disability on social media were just “sickfluencers”, adding to the "social contagion" of disability in young women.

Having just finished a series for en on chronic illness and the onset of disability, it seems right to respond to Coburn's thinking here.