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I was going to downvote you because obviously this does happen to people and saying "this doesn't happen to me" is kind of annoying. I think you can understand
by owyn 3y ago
I was going to downvote you because obviously this does happen to people and saying "this doesn't happen to me" is kind of annoying. I think you can understand RSI. We don't all get to enjoy a positive outcome from the same seemingly neutral events.
I am also a 16 hour a day computer user and used to be a musician and I've had bouts of "ouch" from playing video games and also from lifting weights or riding a bike a long distance. Lifting weights is a good ouch generally, playing video games is a bad one. But my most downvoted comment is a response to someone being really dismissive about ear damage from loud music. I was in a band and it kind of messed up my ears. I don't have RSI and consider myself lucky, I can still work because my job is typing.
The comment that set me off was "how about simply not playing so fucking loud?"
I would like you to look at the parallels between your comment and the one that set me off, and look at my response and look at how a response from someone who IS suffering from it would see your response and realize how it's just... not helpful. "how about just don't get hurt like I didn't?" Easy! Just invent time travel and don't do that thing that hurt you. You can make choices and you can take precautions. But I did not wear ear plugs at shows because I wanted to hear everything and usually did but sometimes didn't wear ear plugs at band practice and that was very dumb. At the time, I thought it was important to hear it as it was in the room. Listening to the buzz in my ears now, mayyyybe I was wrong about that.
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- stavros 3y agoThat is very much not what I got from the parent comment. My takeaway was "very odd that I do the same things as you but didn't get RSI". For what it's worth, I've also been using computers all day for 25 years and didn't get a lick of RSI. I am also wondering what I'm doing differently. Maybe finding that out can help the people who did get it. In my case, I think it helps that my elbows are resting on the table always, and I take care that my hands/wrists don't need to be in a weird position for me to type. I did learn to type badly (basically typing at an angle), but maybe that means that my wrists were more comfortable that way.
- growingkittens 3y ago>I am also wondering what I'm doing differently. This is another way of saying "It didn't happen to me because I do something special." You don't see an issue with the parent comment because...you have the same viewpoint.
- stavros 3y agoAnd your viewpoint is what? That it's an act of God and it doesn't make sense to try to find any correlations, just pray every day instead?
- _joel 3y agoI've been using computers for 25+ years and no RSI, should we start a support group?
- growingkittens 3y agoThat it's probably physiological. If you are doing something special, great. Spread the word.
- stavros 3y agoI've been trying to: Make sure your elbows rest on your desk.
- growingkittens 3y agoWhat makes this advice special? It's based on a single experience. I assume you prayed over it, at least.
- stavros 3y agoAlright.
- busterarm 3y agoI wasn't making the comment trying to be helpful/unhelpful but didn't realize that I'd strike such a nerve. I consider myself enormously fortunate that I've been able to get away with this all without constant pain. All I was saying was that I've found it difficult at times to empathize even though I know that I should. I'm admitting my failure to be a good person here. And my "OTOH" comment was a recognition of being a hypocrite. I'm saying sorry without groveling about it.