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It's called _testimony_ only iff you say it is you that are in that particular boat.

As such, I thank you for sharing your story: that requires courage for sure, and can certainly give support for any one point! If that use of qualifiers is what gives you that courage, take my apology for being so "aggressive".

I was simply suggesting to avoid generalizing, even (especially) when starting from your own experience. Your comment suggested that all the handicapped people might have the same reasons and same feelings, which I felt inappropriate.



I can't win for losing. If I state upfront that I'm x demographic -- poor, handicapped, formerly homeless, a woman -- someone will have a cow about me oversharing.* If I don't, someone will have some other issue with my observations or opinions.

Note to self:

Next life, be a rich white male or some shit.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35549294


Yeah, you are probably right: communication is sometimes (always?) hard, especially when only done in writing: my apologies for not seeing through your original message.

In retrospect, you didn't do anything wrong, and I read too much into it: my bad, so sorry!




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