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by Teever 598 days ago
There are objective differences in disabilities and the suffering of the people afflicted with them.

If someone does not recognize that the hardship of losing a pinky finger is not nearly the same as losing an arm, or as the experience of a quadriplegic, they are not making valid assessments of reality and they are not able to provide any help to those people.

I say this as a person who has ADHD and have worked with profoundly disabled people many times in my life.

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And? What’s the point of comparing? Is there a prize to being the most disabled?

There’s always someone who has it worse by some metric than you, there’s no benefit to setting up a disability podium and awarding prizes.

BTW, your “pinky vs quad” comparison is a huge straw man.

That’s all I’m going to say, you’ve obviously not going to benefit from any further conversation.