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What did you buy that improved your life? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by linucs@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yet angry downvotes? Some people on Lemmy just plain suck.

[–] Iunnrais@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

I would bet on it being a little bit (well, a lot) of ablism mixed with people wanting only answers that they personally can use. Which circles back on the ableism… people don’t want to believe that they could suddenly join this minority group at any time.

I had to be in a wheelchair for a year. The internalized shame from pervasive background ableism is horrible.