Living with a disability

[nexus]

I also have a lazy eye (it's called 'amblyopia') like many others in the thread. Looking through the affected is like trying to look through a gob of vaseline that's found it's way into your orbital socket.

That and I have anxiety disorder, and thus agoraphobia as well. Leads to panic attacks, headaches, etc. As I've matured, the pattern of anxiety seems to have shifted a bit. I'm now having more trouble sleeping than I am "being social". Nocturnal anxiety/panic attacks are the worst. You wake up feeling like your heart is failing you.

I get some disability compensation for the anxiety issue...

 

[Combustion Kevin]

got one blind eye.

not really a disability, more like a disadvantage if you will, but it sucks to not be able to percieve depth or watch 3D and the eye itself looks all weird (I'd blame my loneliness on it but I don't think every girl could be that shallow).

does give me a reason to wear an eyepatch though. ^^

 

[The Funslinger]

I have only one testicle does that count? It serverly hinders my self confidence , especially with women i want to sleep with .

Was that down to testicular tortion, or something?

Spoiler: In that line of things (possible TMI)

I have a red mark on the shaft of my dick from an injury ages ago. Not pinkish red, but proper red red. Shaped a bit like a tongue of flame. It doesn't hurt or hinder me in any way, I suppose it's just a visual anomaly. I'm always slightly apprehensive of the pants coming off with dates and shit, but more often than not, they either don't care or find it cool.

It was that . It was soon after my 13th birthday ( december 6th ) . Man that shit hurt so bad . I had to go to the hospital twice , the idiot doctor the first time had no idea what it could have been , and sent me home and told me to wait if off . Three days later i went back , saw another doctor , who had me take x-rays , found out my testicle twisted on itself and i had to have surgery . I couldn't walk straight for a whole month . Worst xmas vacation ( from school ever) . My dad bought me a dreamcast that x-mas , and i spent the entire time playing Fur fighters and slave zero .

Damn.

So it just happened? Nobody made a cheap shot at your nads?

 

[Lieju]

Well, I'm diagnosed with Aspergers and OCD, but I can't say I really think of them as disabilities, even if the latter causes me problems.

My panic attacks, though, can be bad enough at times that I have been unable to function normally (such as talk to people, or go to lectures), and they are definitely a problem, but hopefully something I can overcome.

Anyway, Aspergers affects people to varying degrees, in some cases it can be very slight. Additionally, it causes difficulties in relating to others, it doesn't make it impossible. With effort, such things can be learned...a person will never be as good at them as if they didn't have Aspergers, but that's not to say they are always going to have problems.

In my experience, it depends if you find people who you can deal with.
Generally speaking, I have problems with people, unless there's some established framework for the social interaction (like, they work in a store and I'm a customer), but there are people who I am perfectly comfortable with, because they will tell me straight what they think, and I know I can be myself and honest with them.

Then there are people I know from my hobbies and communities. While I wouldn't call them friends, I find discussions with them easy, because you know you can talk about this particular subject you like with them. (And in many cases they are scientifically oriented, so they can respond with a logical argument instead of getting illogically offended)

 

[Xan Krieger]

Aspergers. Doin' fine, really. I dunno how to tell you this, but to me it seems like disability in name only. That's largely due to overall level which I fall in. Others of my kind have it worse, but I'm somewhere lodged between them and your typical person.

Same, though I'm a little further in the "worse" category. Worse enough that I get disability for it. It bugs me, I want to work so I can move out, but finding jobs I can do are few and in-between.

I know the feeling, the only reason I have 2 jobs is because both of my bosses are friends of mine who know how to work with my aspergers. Thing is I only work a few days a week due to government rules, I would love to work a normal 5 day 8-5 job like a normal person. I'm good at what I do, I brought a scanner from the early 90s to life, but I don't think I'd do well in a job where my boss didn't know me or how to work with me.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

I'm a bit iffy on calling it a disability, but I'm another one in the Aspergers pile. I was diagnosed when I was about 3/4 but my parents didn't tell me about it until I was 17 and I haven't talked to anyone IRL about it outside of my immediate family/doctors/admin people since. And I guess that's the reason I don't really feel like I can call it a disability (at least in my case, it is a spectrum after all, so different people may be affected a fair deal worse); I spent the first 17 years of my life oblivious to the condition and under the impression that I was just a normal kid (well okay, not normal exactly, but at least I didn't have any reason to suspect there was something mentally wrong with me) like any other and wasn't treated any differently to the best of my knowledge (I'm not sure if any teachers may or may not have been informed.) That also leads into the reason why I never told anyone outside those who already knew; I don't want to be treated differently or talked down to and I don't want to use the condition as an excuse for my shortcomings. I don't know to what extent the condition affects my behaviour or to what extent I'm just a socially maladroit fucking moron who gets overly pissy when interrupted or having something something sprung upon me and I don't want to know because at the end of the day it doesn't matter, I'm still the one who has to deal with the consequences of my own actions irrespective of that.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

I have narcolepsy, not the good kind where you fall asleep a lot and your friends draw penises on your face and you all laugh about it later, I have the kind where you sleep about two hours a night every night and I lose muscle control every now and then.

Basically insomnia lite with a little bit of falling down now and then, to be honest after the first six months or so after it started I sort of just got used to it, and it's actually turned out to be a bit of a boon in college, I'm used to not sleeping so pulling all nighters to study or have fun isn't a big deal for me, plus laying in bed not sleeping is a great way to do some soul searching, much akin to looking out a bus window, learned a lot about my self on nights like those.

 

[krazykidd]

I have only one testicle does that count? It serverly hinders my self confidence , especially with women i want to sleep with .

Was that down to testicular tortion, or something?

Spoiler: In that line of things (possible TMI)

I have a red mark on the shaft of my dick from an injury ages ago. Not pinkish red, but proper red red. Shaped a bit like a tongue of flame. It doesn't hurt or hinder me in any way, I suppose it's just a visual anomaly. I'm always slightly apprehensive of the pants coming off with dates and shit, but more often than not, they either don't care or find it cool.

It was that . It was soon after my 13th birthday ( december 6th ) . Man that shit hurt so bad . I had to go to the hospital twice , the idiot doctor the first time had no idea what it could have been , and sent me home and told me to wait if off . Three days later i went back , saw another doctor , who had me take x-rays , found out my testicle twisted on itself and i had to have surgery . I couldn't walk straight for a whole month . Worst xmas vacation ( from school ever) . My dad bought me a dreamcast that x-mas , and i spent the entire time playing Fur fighters and slave zero .

Damn.

So it just happened? Nobody made a cheap shot at your nads?

Nope , it just happened .

But...

Spoiler

i was masterbating not too long before , but i don't think it had anything to do with it . But trust me it took me a few years before i did that again :/ . I was kinda traumatised i think

 

[The Funslinger]

I have only one testicle does that count? It serverly hinders my self confidence , especially with women i want to sleep with .

Was that down to testicular tortion, or something?

Spoiler: In that line of things (possible TMI)

I have a red mark on the shaft of my dick from an injury ages ago. Not pinkish red, but proper red red. Shaped a bit like a tongue of flame. It doesn't hurt or hinder me in any way, I suppose it's just a visual anomaly. I'm always slightly apprehensive of the pants coming off with dates and shit, but more often than not, they either don't care or find it cool.

It was that . It was soon after my 13th birthday ( december 6th ) . Man that shit hurt so bad . I had to go to the hospital twice , the idiot doctor the first time had no idea what it could have been , and sent me home and told me to wait if off . Three days later i went back , saw another doctor , who had me take x-rays , found out my testicle twisted on itself and i had to have surgery . I couldn't walk straight for a whole month . Worst xmas vacation ( from school ever) . My dad bought me a dreamcast that x-mas , and i spent the entire time playing Fur fighters and slave zero .

Damn.

So it just happened? Nobody made a cheap shot at your nads?

Nope , it just happened .

But...

Spoiler

i was masterbating not too long before , but i don't think it had anything to do with it . But trust me it took me a few years before i did that again :/ . I was kinda traumatised i think

Spoiler

There must have been quite the jiggling.

And I'm sorry I said that.

I still don't know what the hell my mark is supposed to be, but based off of various porn videos and the occasional accidental sight in changing rooms, I'm fairly certain it isn't standard. I guess I have Satanic junk or something.

 

[James Joseph Emerald]

Amputees seem to be able to run in the olympics. Better get rid of those parking places.

That is the finest straw man argument I've ever seen.
Truly, I am in the presence of a master debater and so must concede defeat immediately lest I be soundly trounced.

 

[Knight Captain Kerr]

Dyspraxia. My writing is crap and I'm terrible at organising myself. Doing work like an essay is difficult as are some physical things like sports. Overall it isn't that bad but still it is annoying.

 

[BlackStar42]

I'm not sure if it counts, but I have a minor case of dyspraxia. My hand-eye coordination is a pile of wank, and dextrous tasks are extremely difficult for me. This can be a problem in the chem labs, where precision is required. It also causes me to be sensitive to bright light (not a problem in grey, rainy Britain) and generally clumsy. Oh, and I'm terribly disorganised, which is apparently a symptom of it as well.

 

[Vkmies]

Clinical depression. Like some people with ADD and the like before me, I also often experience people just brushing it off. Going "Oh it's nothing, you're just a bit weird, or feeling under the weather". Then, after a few months after meeting me they go "Yeah, I can't really hang out with you, dude. You just... Well, you're weird". I might be, but if actually medicated problems would be taken into fair calculation, maybe your judgement wouldn't be so quick and drastic.

 

[Hjalmar Fryklund]

I ain't sure if it qualifies as disability, but I have coeliac disease which makes it very, very unpleasant for my stomach to break down gluten proteins. This means in practice that I cannot eat anything that contains wheat, barley, rye, and/or some other grain crops. And also, that I can't tithe at 3 out of 4 resturants (you'd likely be quite surprised at the amount of stuff that contains the above mentioned crops).

This might sound like a bit of a non-issue. And it is, when I am at home. But when I travel to another country, or go to a new unfamiliar town for that matter, it can be quite the pain to find places to eat at. Typical safe bets are steak houses, veggie bars, and certain kinds of fast food joints, but they aren't everywhere, especially in smaller towns.

CAPTCHA: global warming

Is captcha becoming compassionate, or trying to deceive us by earning our trust?

 

[Palademon]

Amputees seem to be able to run in the olympics. Better get rid of those parking places.

That is the finest straw man argument I've ever seen.
Truly, I am in the presence of a master debater and so must concede defeat immediately lest I be soundly trounced.

Supposed to be more tongue in cheek than a proper argument. I wasn't trying to incite bad feelings or "win" an argument.

 

[Spider RedNight]

I feel like there was a thread like this a few weeks ago, if that long. I guess telling the internet our issues is the next big thing.

OT: Scoliosis, if it counts for anything. I mean, it's not an OBVIOUS deformity, but people complain when I wanna sit down or stand up because being in that position too long hurt m'back. xD

I SUPPOSE I could unhelpfully chip in with depression, but nobody cares about other people's mental disability unless it's something "impressive" like Asperger's or ADD.

 

[Binkan]

I was diagnosed with ADD about 2 monthes ago and im 23, atleast now i understand why i had alot of problems in school:/ also i've done enough operations on my right leg to lose count and the four last operations went horribly wrong and made me lose most of sense of feeling or whatever it's called below my knee and the ability to run because if i do my leg will break:/

 

[Rule Britannia]

I'm colourblind, partially deaf in my right ear and have -5.00 vision. Not a major inconvenience it's just somethign that's always there.

I like to think my hearing isn't a problem anymore though, I've learnt to pay closer attention when listening to people to get every detail.