Actually I didn't say his roommates were right, I said there may be an explanation for why they are behaving as they do, which is a misunderstanding of his situ

Actually I didn't say his roommates were right, I said there may be an explanation for why they are behaving as they do, which is a misunderstanding of his situation based on the fact he possibly plays a lot of video games or surfs the web to blog, and yet says he doesn't have any energy to do anything. I never said he wasn't sick. But his roommates could misunderstand the nature of his illness, and hear him complaining about his condition, and then see him play video games while sitting in bed. This could easily explain why they don't believe him. He admitted himself that they are great people, and the fact they are behaving so strangely to him indicates to me that there is some other dynamic going on that we don't have an explanation for. The examples of the roommate taking an exercise bike into the room while he's sleeping is simply bizarre and toxic, if these people are as good as he says they are there must be some other explanation. There's always two sides to every story. Is he late with his rent because he doesn't have money, but always buys the latest video games? Is he playing games all night long because it doesn't take much energy, but does he not do his dishes because he's too physically tired? There's a lot of dynamics going on and we're getting a very 1 dimensional analysis of his roommates that he chalks up to them not believe he is sick.