• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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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.

      • Lmaydev@programming.dev
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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.

    • flicker@lemmy.world
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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.