• Feyd@programming.dev
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    21 days ago

    Things like arthritis and other autoimmune diseases are life changing, probably more common than you think, and probably affecting younger people than you think.

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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      21 days ago

      Not really.

      Very little is really in our control, after all, despite what the medical world loves to shout at us.

      Not saying don’t work at it (do what you can) aging is a real bitch and causes changes we simply have no way to prevent - and not just disease, just aging.

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      21 days ago

      Wat? The first sentence was an acknowledgement of illness and injury. I’m not discounting those realities at all.

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        21 days ago

        In the context of the message you were replying to you were definitely downplaying the proportion of people’s physical problems that are not in their control. The fact you did a slippery slimy acknowledgment that uncontrollable problems exist at all doesn’t absolve you of that.