Maybe rethink that one and try again - eviltoast
  • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online
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    9 days ago

    What are the three wishes that would cause untold amounts of mental damage to marginalised people without death or permanent changes to their daily life?

    • smeenz@lemmy.nz
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      7 days ago

      30 days…just enough to get tests and start to change their life.

  • blackstampede@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    Jokes on you, I give all blind people 30 seconds of sight once in their life at the single most useful moment. Blind people worldwide regain their sight just in time to avoid accidents, to see their loved ones right before they die, or to save their children from danger.

    • Lightfire228@pawb.social
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      8 days ago

      If they’ve been blind since birth, then their brain might not be capable of processing this completely new stimulus fast enough

      It’d be the equivalent of us being able to “see” magnetic flux using our nipples, for 30 seconds

    • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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      8 days ago

      Except they might not understand what they see. As a kid I asked a legally blind buddy what he would do if he suddenly could see clearly and he said “probably freak out. Im used to my vision as it is now I don’t know how to do anything as a ‘normal person’”.

  • samus12345@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

    “Granted.”

    All blind people get eyesight for 30 seconds at different times while they’re asleep

  • Gastel@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

    This is actually very clever. If they lose their sight again after 30 seconds then that is on the Genie’s head. You didn’t say for “only” 30 seconds.