[tivert]

> Good luck helping somebody paralyzed from the neck down live a fulfilling life.

Honestly, you seem to suffer from a lack of imagination. There are famous examples of people profoundly paralyzed who most likely lived fulfilling lives (e.g. Stephen Hawking), and I believe there's research the people's happiness tends to return to baseline after both very good and very bad events.

[wiseowise]

How many paralyzed with fulfilling life do you know personally?

[TylerE]

Please don't trivialize peoples stuggles by offering pithy anecdotes.

[karencarits]

I read his comment as an attempt to add nuance; people paralyzed from the neck down have various experiences. For example, in this study [1], only 12% of those with tetraplegy rated their quality of life as poor or very poor

[1] https://www.termedia.pl/Quality-of-life-in-patients-with-tet...

[tivert]

> Please don't trivialize peoples stuggles by offering pithy anecdotes.

I think you're mistaken, I didn't trivialize anything.

If anything's being trivialized, it was the value of quadriplegic people, who some internet rando blithely declared as all being incapable of having a "fulfilling life."