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Please take this comment from a quadriplegic with spina bifida in a positive sense it was made.

No, you're not alone and that is a very very common opinion.

It's an opinion that very quickly evaporates in my experience when somebody becomes quadriplegic, is about to have a child with a potentially debilitating disease, or is otherwise confronted with the reality of severe disability. Not the intellectual realities of disability that I think anybody reading this on HN can imagine what the difficulties might be for a quadriplegic, no I mean the actual pain filled, shit covered, fear inducing, inconvenient and potentially crappy reality a severe disability. You have to be alive to realise how bad things are, which is kind of a wonderful thing I think.

To be honest, it's something I hope you never have to confront. I really do my Friend. Be well. :-)

Edited to Add: You lot should stop down voting him in my really not very humble opinion, that's a super common opinion that I don't feel has an ounce of malice behind. But rather curiosity.