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lll-o-lll 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Vernor Vinge has died

Or ability to remember to feed, clean, or toilet themselves.

It’s that hyper-focus that I suspect many of us have experienced, but without agency and permanent. Worse than slavery.

db48x 8 months ago [–]

Lack of agency is right. No ability to request medical aid even when suffering crippling pain from a burst appendix.

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