Quick Transmigration: When Can I Just Lay Down and Wait to Die?

Chapter 284 The Real World + The Deaf-Mute of That Era

This number is quite alarming, but it seems that we ordinary people rarely encounter people with disabilities in our daily lives.

The most common examples we encounter in our daily lives are probably the various disabled beggars we met on the street more than ten years ago.

However, many of these disabilities are caused by human intervention, while those who are born with disabilities face significant barriers to living a normal life.

These barriers exist from childhood. They may be blind, deaf, or mute, or they may be missing a part of their body. Many others are completely unable to take care of themselves.

They are unable to receive a normal education. If they want to learn, they have to go to special schools, but not every child can afford to go to a special school.

Although some schools are free, most special schools are boarding schools, and the government cannot provide them all free of charge.

Moreover, there are only so many free schools. Many private special schools charge fees, which are higher than the fees of regular schools. These fees are basically equivalent to the cost of other people's children going to university, or even higher, starting from the first grade.

In other words, excluding kindergarten, other children have a 6+3+3+4 year education, with only the last four years incurring higher expenses, while these children have high expenses for all 16 years, which many families cannot afford.

Because of traditional Chinese thinking, if a child is not healthy, either the parents will divorce and one parent will raise the child alone, while the other parent will remarry and have more children.

Either the parents will choose to have another healthy child, partly for their own retirement and to continue the bloodline, and partly so that someone can take care of their unhealthy siblings after they pass away. We will not discuss whether this kind of family is fair to the healthy child, but just consider that the expenses of such a family will only be more.

However, there are very few truly disabled only children.

People view people with disabilities differently; they may feel pity, disdain, or trepidation, but they are never treated with equality.

Therefore, most people with disabilities are somewhat psychologically unhealthy. They are mostly self-conscious, sensitive, and withdrawn from others, which is caused by society as a whole.

Fortunately, with the progress of civilization, people are becoming more tolerant and understand what "respect" means. In particular, the popularity of short videos has built a bridge between the two.

We often come across articles about people who have physical disabilities but have achieved extraordinary success, as well as many people who, despite their disabilities, are happy, optimistic, and actively embrace life.

Every time Liu Yuxi comes across a video like this, she leaves a little heart, but she doesn't dare to comment easily because many comments that seem normal to us are actually seen as blatant discrimination by them.

When Liu Yuxi comes across videos of extraordinary individuals achieving something remarkable, she sometimes imagines herself in their shoes. But she simply can't fathom the hardships that must have been endured to reach those heights. All she feels is awe,感动, and admiration!

She once lost her voice suddenly after having a fever. It didn't last long, only two and a half days. Her husband thought she was faking it, but he pinched her arm until it turned purple. Tears streamed down her face, but she just couldn't make a sound.

Later, the doctor examined her but couldn't find any lesions. He just said to wait a few days and then come back for another checkup. Fortunately, she recovered in just two and a half days.

At that time, she was in the third year of junior high school. Aside from the initial panic and fear, after the doctor said that no lesions were found, she, being carefree, only felt novelty.

But after only one day, she became listless and found it inconvenient to do anything. Whenever she needed to express her wishes, she had to write them down. Many simple social interactions, like the simplest one, such as calling out to a classmate who wasn't sitting next to her during break to go to the store to buy food together, used to be just a matter of shouting and saying a few words.

Now, she has to go over and tap that classmate first, and wait for that classmate to respond before she can write down her thoughts on the paper. As everyone knows, writing takes a lot of time, and there are only ten minutes between classes. By the time both sides reach an agreement, there is already not enough time.

So for the next day and a half, she didn't talk to her classmates much. It wasn't that she was afraid of causing trouble, but that she didn't want to cause trouble for others. The more time passed, the worse her mood became. She kept worrying that she might not recover, and she even cried in bed at night.

Fortunately, two and a half days later, she pricked her hand on a splinter on her classmate's desk and cried out. At that moment, she didn't even care about the pain. She just stood there talking non-stop, and then burst into tears. It was tears of joy at getting something back.

So, from then on, although she was very brave, she became very careful about her body. She always took great care to protect herself from injury and would never participate in any trips where she could not control her own safety.

For example, she never takes a bus in the rain. She can give her colleagues a ride on her electric scooter, but if she's riding in a colleague's car, she'll hold on tightly and keep repeating, "Slow down, slow down!" If her colleague doesn't listen, she'll get off.

When she goes rollerblading, she never goes into the center of the rink or participates in group skating. When she goes out to eat and encounters drunk men, she tries to go to another restaurant. If she wants to eat at a particular restaurant, she stays away from that group of people.

When you encounter a semi-trailer truck on the road, estimate the height of the cargo from a distance to determine how far away you need to be to safely pass it. If the road is not wide enough, stop and be ready to wait until you are completely past it.

(Some readers may feel that this is a bit of an overreaction, but once it has become an instinct, it actually has little impact on your life. Before 2021, the author had virtually no scars on his body.)

21 and 22 were a bit of a Mercury retrograde year. In 21, I had a few drinks at a colleague's gathering. When I was riding my bike home, I was a bit reckless and kicked the guardrail when I entered the auxiliary lane. As a result, the metal sheet on the guardrail popped up, and I got a crescent-shaped cut on the top of my left foot, which required 7 or 8 stitches.

I was devastated; that was the only scar on my entire body! During that time, every time I saw the scar, I would cry in anger, and I was so angry at myself for being so stubborn!

In 22, while showing a house to a client, I caught a cold and suffered facial paralysis. Then I had paronychia and had to have a nail removed. These were some of the most serious injuries I've ever had.

From childhood to adulthood, countless classmates and colleagues have suffered broken arms and legs, or needed stitches. Seriously, aside from unexpected accidents, being more careful will definitely make you much safer; at least you'll avoid suffering.

Liu Yuxi is now considering whether she should experience it in person. After all, she has a cheat code. With her "super strength", mental strength, and all the resources in her space, she should be able to survive, right?

At worst, she just can't communicate with others. She doesn't challenge herself with anything too difficult; she just wants to try not being able to speak, which she has at least a little experience with.

If she really can't adapt, she'll come back early. Although she can't accept getting off halfway in the real world, traveling through different worlds isn't unacceptable. Of course, she'll definitely try her best to adapt first.

After communicating with Xiao Liu, she continued watching her videos, waiting to travel through time after going to sleep that night.

But she never imagined that she would wake up on the mountain.