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What a weird take. We shouldn’t fix cataracts because it is part of someone’s identity to have blurry vision?
"Ableism"? I'd give nearly everything I have to not have been born with my disability.
A thousand curses be on whoever came up with this nonsense and the sort who promulgate it.
A thousand curses be on whoever came up with this nonsense and the sort who promulgate it.
Holy mother of bad takes. The same argument could also be extended to “old culture is real” or “poor culture is real” but that should not be reason to eliminate working to improve welfare. What are the psychological workings to make people say things like these?
> “the biggest problem with wanting to ‘cure’ blindness is that it reinforces a moral superiority of sorts by those without disabilities over those who are disabled.“
What is this drivel???
What is this drivel???
This article puts systematic stupidity on display.
I started developing cataracts in my eyes years ago but did not have any sight problems till last year. Since then vision in my right eye had deteriorated to the point that I could only make out vague blurs of lightness and darkness with a bit of colour. I lost the ability to drive and had my computer set to a high zoom level to compensate.
I had surgery on my right eye on Tuesday and now my vision is almost back to where it was before. I have another op due in a fortnight for the left eye.
I don't really see how cataract surgery is ableist. I do understand the authors frustration about society and the way it treats disabled people but that has nothing to do with this surgical procedure.