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Mallory Ortberg Quotes: Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions.
         

Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions.


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It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!



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If you don't like potlucks, the solution to your problem is "don't go to potlucks," not "insist other people don't have them."



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Reconciliation is not possible when one party asks the other to obliterate all signs of their relationship.



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Bad dental hygiene can lead to respiratory infections and an increased risk for heart disease and strokes.

Bad dental hygiene can lead to respiratory infections and an increased risk for heart disease and strokes.



So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.

So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.



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There has to be some kind of personal hygiene bar that a person needs to clear in order for a relationship to be successful.



You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.

You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.



Asexuality does not make our lives any worse or any better, we just face a different set of challenges than most sexual people.

Asexuality does not make our lives any worse or any better, we just face a different set of challenges than most sexual people.



It's one thing to be a high achiever; it's quite another to privately sneer at your girlfriend's friends after feigning friendliness because they have the "misfortune" to drive a bus for a living.

It's one thing to be a high achiever; it's quite another to privately sneer at your girlfriend's friends after feigning friendliness because they have the "misfortune" to drive a bus for a living.





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The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.



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This page presents the quote "Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions.". Author of this quote is Mallory Ortberg. This quote is about assumption, may, disability, distress, embarrassing,.