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> “I used to think that disability travels with pain, and it’s only when the pain gets severe that people are impaired. That’s not only false, but we have treat
by rconti 2y ago
> “I used to think that disability travels with pain, and it’s only when the pain gets severe that people are impaired. That’s not only false, but we have treatments to do something about it,” says Richard Lipton, a neurologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City.
Am I the only one unable to grok this statement?
- orthecreedence 2y agoHe's saying that he used to just view the pain of migraines as a disability, but now realizes that there are other components to migraines besides pain that cause disability (such as brain fog, emotional instability, blindness, etc)
- rconti 2y agoThank you, that makes more sense now; with that explanation I can re-read the original quotes.
- orthecreedence 2y agoI think "travels with" is an odd phrasing that distracts from the meaning of the sentence. It took me a while to parse as well.
- rconti 2y agoRight- even though I was able to figure that bit out on second or third reading, it threw me enough that the second clause didn't truly make sense. Also, the subjects of "That's not only false" and "to do something about it" are _different_. So my train of thought kept derailing. And this is for a native english speaker!