• Shellbeach@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Honest question: what is there to learn? You’ve got a thread, a needle, you put the thread in the needle and then you stab the things that need to fit together with it. The only thing that i was told during such stabbing to a button once was that i should wrap the thread around the button when done, but it hasn’t prevented me to attached them so far?

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      12 hours ago

      You would be surprised how many people are unable to do that, who are physically capable of doing it.

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        11 hours ago

        At least where I live there’s a cultural learned helplessness around sewing. “Nobody does it anymore so how am I supposed to have learned?” or “doesn’t sewing something cost more than just buying a new garment?” (both I’ve personally heard people say)

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          11 hours ago

          For sure it’s likely either a learned helplessness or a passive indifference. People like to give up before they even try.