Anyone have a DISABILITY?
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Yeah that would be a good idea, but nobody's really interested in that stuff in rural Australia. I usually just get a family member to do it if it takes way too long.Dissolve said:
Well, I have Attention Deficit Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Dyscalculia.
Attention Deficit Disorder, or ADD for short, is perhaps one of the most well known and widely diagnosed developmental disorders across the United States and is largely a copout used to net schools money and for parents to have an excuse for why their child won't pay any goddamn attention. That said, I actually have a true case of it. I'll be in the middle of doing something, likely quite important, and then I'll notice something completely insignificant... say like a fly buzzing by, or a dirt stain on the counter. My attention will completely focus on that thing for a moment, and I'll completely forget what I was originally doing. This has had a very nasty impact on my studying habits, though I've learned how to reel myself in quite a bit. Martial Arts helps, meditation can help focus. Also, avoiding Wikipedia...
Generalized Anxiety Disorder is not a developmental disorder, as Dyscalculia and ADD are. Instead, due to some unknown trigger, my body will immediately go into a "Fight or Flight" response to stimuli I'm not even aware of. The adrenal glands began pumping adrenaline into my bloodstream. I become panicked for no good reason. My heart begins to race. I overract to everything. If it happens at work, I need to leave for the day.
Lastly, the little known Dyscalculia. Otherwise known as Dislexia for numbers. Now, I'm not nearly as bad as some of the sufferers of this disorder. However, that said, while I'm trying to do math quickly, I end up reversing numbers. Say I have to figure out 76.53 multiplied by 29.38 for some reason. Well, I'll end up multiplying 67.35 by 92.83, and never realize my mistake. I also have a hard time doing math quickly for whatever reason. The numbers just don't leap into my head like they do with other people. I actually have to count out 7 x 8.
Attention Deficit Disorder, or ADD for short, is perhaps one of the most well known and widely diagnosed developmental disorders across the United States and is largely a copout used to net schools money and for parents to have an excuse for why their child won't pay any goddamn attention. That said, I actually have a true case of it. I'll be in the middle of doing something, likely quite important, and then I'll notice something completely insignificant... say like a fly buzzing by, or a dirt stain on the counter. My attention will completely focus on that thing for a moment, and I'll completely forget what I was originally doing. This has had a very nasty impact on my studying habits, though I've learned how to reel myself in quite a bit. Martial Arts helps, meditation can help focus. Also, avoiding Wikipedia...
Generalized Anxiety Disorder is not a developmental disorder, as Dyscalculia and ADD are. Instead, due to some unknown trigger, my body will immediately go into a "Fight or Flight" response to stimuli I'm not even aware of. The adrenal glands began pumping adrenaline into my bloodstream. I become panicked for no good reason. My heart begins to race. I overract to everything. If it happens at work, I need to leave for the day.
Lastly, the little known Dyscalculia. Otherwise known as Dislexia for numbers. Now, I'm not nearly as bad as some of the sufferers of this disorder. However, that said, while I'm trying to do math quickly, I end up reversing numbers. Say I have to figure out 76.53 multiplied by 29.38 for some reason. Well, I'll end up multiplying 67.35 by 92.83, and never realize my mistake. I also have a hard time doing math quickly for whatever reason. The numbers just don't leap into my head like they do with other people. I actually have to count out 7 x 8.
Actually, I have a pretty rare form of scoliosis, in that the curvature is up in my chest, instead of lower, around the stomach. It gives my shoulders a really nice see-saw look -__-
Oh, and I also have an extra vertebra. Take that, regular-number-vertebrae folks!
Yeah, lame, I know.
Oh, and I also have an extra vertebra. Take that, regular-number-vertebrae folks!
Yeah, lame, I know.
not really, but i was once told that being a woman was a disability, and i do mean seriously. The guy was some chavunist asshat who said that me being female, made me incapable of understanding how a car works.
I am blind in my right eye the site left my eye when I was 4 due to constent sergerys on my head and the problams from my bith. I was born without a soft spot so had to have reconstructive sergerys my entire childhood til i stoped growing
thx to a birth defect that caused bow leg that basically used the edge of my lower leg bone to cut through my cartilage in my joint I now have no cartilage in my knees and on top of that since it has been bone on bone for years i ground through my growth plates before i finished growing at which point i was 6 feet and now im closer to 5 foot 8
btw bone on bone is really painful causing a serious lack of motivation to exercise so im fat as well
btw bone on bone is really painful causing a serious lack of motivation to exercise so im fat as well
I've got brain damage that affects balance, facial recognition, strength, pain and heat reception, causes facial and body twitches, and causes short and long term memory problems (As well as false memory generation).
I also have spinal arthritis and a herniated disk (that apparently can't be operated on without risking the use of my legs), that combine powers to pinch nerves in my spine to cause shoulder, back, leg, and groin pain, as well as give me the intense urge to use the bathroom all day (Even if I've got nothing to do in there in reality), and cause general weakness in my left leg from time to time. Oh, and I can't stay still now, or it hurts like hell.
I also have spinal arthritis and a herniated disk (that apparently can't be operated on without risking the use of my legs), that combine powers to pinch nerves in my spine to cause shoulder, back, leg, and groin pain, as well as give me the intense urge to use the bathroom all day (Even if I've got nothing to do in there in reality), and cause general weakness in my left leg from time to time. Oh, and I can't stay still now, or it hurts like hell.
kman123 said:
Depends where you live. In my homecountry diabetes counts as a disability if it is really bad.
OT: I don't have any disabilities. Propably some kind of mental disorder like depressions or something which gets worse and worse with time going on. I can't even stay in contact with friends anymore and am down every day. But hey, as long there is no diagnosis, it doesn't count.
My brother has a disability. He was born with Riley?Day syndrome/ Familial dysautonomia. He has a lot of handicaps like bad hearing, bad sight, he can't feel hot, cold, pain even though he is often in bad pain because of his knees. He can't walk. His speech is inarticulate (but you can understand him if you try). And there are some other things.
People who meet or see him the first time, often think is he is mentally handicaped, too, but he isn't. He is really quite clever. You can give him a map of a city he has never been before. And when you go there, he can tell you how to reach your destination (without the map). He is my living navigation system
No, it was funny. There's a huge difference between making a joke and being a troll.Dissolve said:
I have an insomnia issue. Not one of those I haven't slept for a few days or even a few months, I've had it since birth and kept my mother up almost every single night. It's fucking horrible in the sense that I find it hard to talk to people about it and I find it extremely difficult to dream because my body doesn't get enough sleep at once to enter a dream state.
It's manageable, frustrating but I've learned to cope ad I feel much worse for those with depression or physical disabilities. I wouldn't say mine is a disability though
It's manageable, frustrating but I've learned to cope ad I feel much worse for those with depression or physical disabilities. I wouldn't say mine is a disability though
I've got Asperger's Syndrome and I also have dyslexia, but I never really think of them as disabling me in some way.
If that counts as one, then I have that too.Dango said:
OP: Cerebral palsy. The right side of my body is affected. It sucks. Finding a job that I can actually do is tough. I can't do hardly any lifting, work in extreme conditions, jobs that require a lot of physical exertion...but according to the government, I am fit to work. But they gave me a list of things that I shouldn't do. That list ruled out most jobs. Clearly, they are fucking with me. >_>
