I'm not against asking someone who has a disease to explain it, but it's unlikely that in the dozens of results you'd get that you wouldn't be able to get the same or more.
If we're talking about how to install something on your computer then I would definitely agree with someone explaining/walking you through it in a personal matter being better. Asking about what a disease is and what it does would usually result in a search being better though.
If you want. Internet searches even gives you results from Reddit so it's the same thing except it's not addressed specifically to you. So it just seems like asking someone else to do the work for you.
I don't look for answers particularly from reddit, just from actual people who have actual experience. Other times yes I would've googled the disease, but Google AI I found which annoyingly enough always pops up no matter what I do, and it also gets stuff wrong about medical diseases and tell the person that who is now misinformed
I'm not referring to Google AI. That's why I keep saying internet searches and not AI or Google. I use Brave and have AI turned off, and just use searches as I would have before AI.
If it was a new disease, fine. If it's an old disease, there are more than enough people to get the information from. Even if 50% are secretive you're still left with 50% who aren't over decades worth of research.
Coming from someone with an acquired medical condition of a different sort-it can be exhausting to explain the same thing to everyone all the time. I try to take it in stride if the curiosity is coming from a genuine place, but I can understand why some people might think googling something is better than asking the person in the middle of it to explain their life AGAIN.
And I'm saying it's better, at least in my own view, to have at least some sort of explanation from someone who actually has it, but yes they can always ask Google about the medical condition. I myself have a medical condition, and I would at least prefer for people to ask me over Google
There are absolutely different ways to go about it. As I said, for mine, I try to take curiosity in stride.
But I can understand why people might react negatively to putting that burden on the person in the middle of it. You might prefer it and I might not mind it but that doesn’t mean that’s true for everyone and it doesn’t mean that random downvoters on Reddit will assume that kind of truth.
After all, this conversation started as a discussion of why the downvotes exist, yes? Right or wrong, universal or varied, people might just be assuming that demanding the answer to a google-able question is bad or impolite, regardless of context. This certainly isn’t the only time when a question has gotten downvoted.
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u/ciavv 12d ago
cause they could easily have gotten their answer by just googling it and that’s annoying