• gabe [he/him]
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    791 year ago

    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.

    • Sunstream
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      371 year ago

      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 :(

      • m-p{3}
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        1 year ago

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

      • I was in the Army, and stabbed myself in the eye with so. Many. Branches. So much damage.

        That was decades ago, and I’m not blind yet… what’s the point at which it becomes a danger?

        • @[email protected]
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          71 year ago

          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.

      • Dandroid
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        271 year ago

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