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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days agoYep.
And while > 4000% is hyperbolic, a whole lot of normies just refuse to entertain the notion that you’re being serious, not hysterical, that this kind of thing is actually fairly well studied.
Its like guys just telling gals ‘its just a period, how bad can it be?’ or gals telling guys ‘its just a flu, how bad can it be?’
Yeah, hard to quantify precisely, along some universal scale… but that is because there is no universal scale, different people experience different levels of measurable agony differently.
Strider@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I disagree (it necessarily being hyperbolic), by now it’s been proven we can have “real” physical pain (and thereby also damage). Maybe the number sounds exaggerated but we don’t know.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
By hyperbolic I mean that 4000% is likely not the actually correct specific number, but that it is a much higher number, just maybe not 4000%.
Maybe its more like 12 or 13 or 18, compared to 10.
Basically I am trying to agree with you and say that yes, it is substantially worse, but maybe not literally 4000% worse.
Strider@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Apologies, I’m not natively English so that might pose language and cultural understanding issues (additionally) 😁
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Ah, all good!
You speak English better than most Americans, if that’s any consolation, hahah!