• boaratio@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    I get yelled at by my wife and my therapist all the time for saying “I wish I was dumb, because then I’d be happy.”

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      8 hours ago

      The term is ‘ignorance is bliss’ is quite fitting. Ignorance is seen as a negative choice rather than a happy option.

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        11 hours ago

        Surely though, in the days when people didn’t have an explanation for muteness and “deaf and dumb” was said about people, they thought they really were dumb, rather than just mute? Or is that not the connection? I’m just guessing here.