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Have you ever asked people without MS to describe it? If you don't know someone who has it, and weren't lucky enough to learn about it in school, chances are y
by DANmode 3y ago
Have you ever asked people without MS to describe it?
If you don't know someone who has it, and weren't lucky enough to learn about it in school, chances are you don't really know what it is, or how it can present in a patient.
Neuro is poorly understood in general by a large portion of the population.
- aksss 3y agoIME, most times when you mention "autoimmune disease", people think AIDS. Explaining that your autoimmune disease is kind of the opposite of AIDS, that it's not contagious, are annoyingly common experiences. And it still amazes me - personally I knew about autoimmune diseases before I ever had one. Probably because of Seal, frankly. The reality is that a large portion of any population doesn't care to learn about anything outside of their immediate lived experience. Easy to forget this when hanging out on HN and having a nerdy and wonky social circle.