Stuff like this should be banned from HN.
Reading this as a person with disability leave a bad taste in my mouth. I wonder what people like this would do if faced with a real lifelong challenge?
I "understand" your point, but you know, as a person who is dealing with depression my whole life i can tell you that depression can be a hard, real, lifelong challange too.
Disability is one of the hardest things to deal with in my opinion, but i learned that it is better to not assume anything about other people struggles. Something that looks small for you may seem unbearable and hard for others and vice versa.
I realize everyone has their own story, and things feel differently to different people. But I cant get rid of the feeling that we are breeding unhappy people because we promise them support an every level, no matter what their story might be. IOW, I am not convinced that this new type of social pampering is actually healthy to the individual.
Who are you to judge what a person's mind is feeling like? You have no way to know someone else's demons. So the bad taste in your mouth is no one else's doing.
In this case though, this is just Medium; there are various workarounds as others have indicated, (e.g.) a simple one on Chrome is just to view it in a private tab.
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wrt your comment on physical disability vs (the implied "trivial") things like mental illness I have seen very severe instances of both close up and don't think your comparison is realistic or helpful.
I’m bipolar. It’s rather severe and I’m non-functional without medication, hopelessly broke due to psychosis non-functional. If that isn’t a real lifelong challenge, well… life has a few different options to opt-out.
Agreed. Any sites with this kind of silly dark patterns need to be omitted or should be posted with a warning.
Anyways. Here is an archive link so you can finish reading this article.
There's always someone with a problem they feel is worse. How would you feel if someone invalidated your feelings in that same way?
Rethink this.