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Re:I feel hopeless, rejected, and a burden on society-one we... by dragonwriter on Sunday July 30, 2023 @02:18PM (#36934282)
> if it was just harmless “natural neurodiversity”, it wouldn’t translate to reduced life expectancy.

Without disagreeing that the space of neurodivergence includes some life affecting disabilities, this generalization would also prove that race is not just harmless “natural diversity” but that being of a non-dominant race is also a “life affecting disability”. There are other explanations for correlation with reduced life expectancy than individual disability.

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Re:I feel hopeless, rejected, and a burden on society-one we... by coldtea on Sunday July 30, 2023 @03:43PM (#36935152)
The mechanism doesn't have to be genetic/physiological. Social or behavioral disavantages caused or attenuated by the disability, still means the disability is not harmless.
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Re:I feel hopeless, rejected, and a burden on society-one we... by AndrewKemendo on Sunday July 30, 2023 @09:55PM (#36938019)
Which is unquestionably true

https://spia.princeton.edu/news/life-expectancy-gap-between-...

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Re:I feel hopeless, rejected, and a burden on society-one we... by concordDance on Monday July 31, 2023 @03:45AM (#36939784)
> that being of a non-dominant race is also a “life affecting disability”.

One thing worth noticing is that a society tends to be designed for the convenience of the dominant ethnicity, people of a different culture are going to have a somewhat harder time.

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Re:I feel hopeless, rejected, and a burden on society-one we... by red-iron-pine on Monday July 31, 2023 @02:01PM (#36946448)
cultures can be taught; no amount of learning is going to make a black person white, or make either japanese.
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