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by TylerE 558 days ago
Please don't trivialize peoples stuggles by offering pithy anecdotes.
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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...

> 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."