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[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 9 points 10 months ago

I'd find it hard to believe people paralyzed from the neck down would share similar views.

[-] flicker@lemmy.world 9 points 10 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!

[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Why is that? I think it's a really exciting technology.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 10 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 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 3 points 10 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.

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