@kdfrawg I think it’s more individual for me. If that state came on suddenly in a healthy person, I would think they’d become very ill. When the decline is more gradual, one adjusts ones expectations to the new “normal,” and only occasionally stops to realise how low that has sunk.
These things creep up on you when you’re not looking. When did it become possible to think that someone on oxygen, receiving their fluid intravenously & unable to eat, drink or move wasn’t doing too badly really?
@joanna Our town is small enough to walk to most central places. We use the car to visit my parents, and now we have Bembo, to go to dog-friendly pubs and to dog classes, but before we had him, and when my parents were healthier & came here more often, the car had very little use.
// @sumudu @kdfrawg
@kdfrawg I agree. It’s one of the reasons I have doubts about the current push to lower the voting age even though on some things it would make the outcome I’d prefer more likely.
// @sumudu
I know people who’ve learned to drive much younger on farmland, but you can’t go on public roads till you’re 17. My father’s cousin took her test on her 17th birthday, having driven tractors &c on her parents’ farm for years before that.
// @sumudu @kdfrawg
@sumudu Gosh, I didn’t realise that. It’s 17 here! Mind you, insurance costs a fortune at that age.
// @kdfrawg
@JeremyCherfas That was my initial thought, till I started reading about all the variations.
// @kdfrawg