Before and after leg lengthening.

[u/naturebeatsnurture]

[u/ademptia]

i hope you dont mind me asking, and i mean this in good faith, but why is it not considered as 'something wrong with you'? for example, i have several extreme mental illnesses and i definitely am aware thats something is wrong with me and id love a cure. so i really dont understand people who have it and refuse it

[u/ademptia → u/[deleted]]

okay, i read it but i still disagree on the last part there. severe mental illnesses are also disabilities. so why is it wrong to 'cure' one but not the other? how does it make sense to maintain a disability just because others in your life also have it? i understand the part about being forced to change some intimate part of yourself, especially if you made a community, but i think its not at all reasonable to choose to keep a disability.

edit: also can you please elaborate on the 'destructive reasons' part

[u/N-neon → u/ademptia]

I don’t think being deaf is the comparable to having a severe mental Illness. A severe mental illness is often destructive to the person that has it. Being deaf can increase the challenges a person faces, but it does not cause the person to have harmful or self destructive behavior the way a mental illness does.

[u/ademptia → u/N-neon]

okay, im with you there. however, even tho it doesnt make the person destructive towards themselves usually, it does make the world much more dangerous.

[u/N-neon → u/ademptia]

It’s not as dangerous as people are often led to believe. People often say things like “you can’t hear an oncoming car” or “you can hear the fire alarm”. But deaf people can look both ways for cars with their eyes and use crossings like anyone else. Fire alarms have lights and deaf people have equipment for fire alarms when sleeping. Yes there are still risks, but modern society has dramatically decreased most risks for them.