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> One small slip-and-fall, one other careless driver on the road with you, one infection, etc is all it takes and suddenly you've got to struggle through life to make anything work.

Or just over time. Everyone gets there by their 80s or 90s, if they're lucky.

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Yeah but people are sympathetic to old folks. People understand that sometimes old people can walk a short ways and need a wheelchair for a long distance. It's when they see young people in a wheelchair that they make the "faking it" comments because they see the young person walk a few feet outside the wheelchair, and don't apply the same principle. Or the objectification, who is going to catcall an 80 year old woman?

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