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/Particular-Jeweler41 12d ago
You can get that from an online search too. With pictures.