• gabe [he/him]@literature.cafe
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    Your eyes have “immune privilege” meaning your immune system effectively does not know they exist as it would attack them and make you go blind if it did.

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      Additional unfun fact, in case the implication goes by anyone; some few folks have discovered exactly how much it sucks when your immune system discovers your eyes and have, indeed, gone blind because of it :(

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      Meaning, if you ever get a cut in your eye, go to the doctor, or else you’ll lose the eye.

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        My dog scratched his eye to the point of having an ulcer. Went to the emergency room ASAP 💸

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          Actual penetration. When the outside touches anything inside the eye. Something poking the outside really really hard isn’t going to introduce your antibodies to the inside of the eye.

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        If your immune system discovers your testicles you’ll go blind? Is that what happens if you masturbate too much?