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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Man, it's almost as if different people were built differently and have different reactions to things.

People aren't built so differently that some people can fit oxygen molecules through their masks and others can't. People are built differently in terms of how they feel about having cloth over their face or the irritation of breathing warmer, moister air, but feeling that discomfort and interpreting it as difficulty breathing doesn't actually mean they're having trouble getting air in. If it did, you'd be able to find experimental evidence validating that.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

But no, we're going with the one-size fits all "If it's fine for me it's fine for you, stop whining and suck it up" mentality. Okay, gotcha. I'm on board now.

Nah, you don't have asthma. I can breathe fine, therefore no one else on Earth has breathing problems. They're a myth invented by pharmaceutical companies to sell you antihistamines. I'm sure if you just asserted yourself more, you'd be able to breathe just fine. You're really just being difficult about this whole lung thing in general.

I know you're smart enough to understand the difference between subjective self-assessment and a formal diagnosis based on objective, measurable criteria. To that end, I'm not actually going to correct you, just suggest that you should maybe spend some time in your room thinking about what you've done wrong.

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