• flicker@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Again it’s not a huge pool, but one. One paralyzed lady who thinks this an atrocious idea. But I bet its more than you’ve asked personally!

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        9 months ago

        I’ve healed various parts of myself that have been fucked up, mostly mentally and emotionally, and when I’ve found myself normally able, the first reaction I have is grief. For all the years before I even knew such things existed.

        I steer, on purpose, into gratitude, and I take what I can get. But there’s a little secondary voice that wants to be bitter and hold it against people who had the ability while young.

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          9 months ago

          As someone with physical disabilities I grieve the life I had before them and the things in life I won’t be able to do in the future. Like spend a full lifetime with my kids.

          Bitterness is not a reason to avoid a cure if one is available.

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        9 months ago

        I lack the eloquence to describe the look on her face when she found out about it. But her answer was, “Oh, great, so I can trade in the problems I have now for new ones we can’t even accommodate yet!”

        She’s very much an enemy you know type of person.