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Re:How Antidepressants Work, at Last? by gwern on Saturday February 20, 2021 @10:57AM (#26205054)
You'd be surprised what people can put up with cheerfully. A relative of mine turned out, around high school or so, to be allergic to wheat (which is in half the stuff you eat). It gave him regular diarrhea. He had grown up with it and simply assumed it was normal. How would he know otherwise? (A version of the 'typical mind fallacy' https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/baTWMegR42PAsH9qJ/generalizi... one might say.)

It's not as if people go around saying, 'good morning! I had my usual poop today, a good #3 on the Bristol stool scale, placing me within 1SD of the human norm! And yourself?' 'Likewise, likewise; good checking in with you and discussing our morning defecation, as is very normal for us human beings, ha ha.'

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