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Just thought this could be an interesting topic to discuss.
Do you have any disabilities that affects you in your life? If so, what are they and how do they affect you? If you don't have any disabilities, have you ever wondered how people deals with them or what was it like? Were they affected? Do you/they ever get bullied by being different from others? I'd like to hear your experience a bit, and then I could tell mine. You don't need to have a disability to discuss this, you can have experience with some people who have problems. I heard some people have a weird fear that they're scared and uncomfortable around disabled people and I was surprised.
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Hmmm...
I don't have any exact disabilities that I know of other than needing glasses to see words that are further away, and right now I'm supposed to have my ankle which has been bugging me for a while get checked out. Nothing too serious, though.
But this kind of subject (Mental disabilities especially) certainly interest me, and for a while I've thought of what it'd be like to be schizophrenic or blind for example. We can't really know unless we actually had them obviously, but still. I wouldn't want to be in these kinds of states either to be honest, but the whole mystery fascinates me.
I know someone on dA who has schizophrenia, for example, and even talked to him a little bit - He seemed very nice, and /extremely/ hyper considering how many journals I've seen from him that were purposely for that reason. xD Although when someone said they hated him, he took it literally. That I can easily imagine but he's rather sensitive, even compared to me.
Also, I have a couple few close family members who have ADD... With me having a slow brain, it's rather hard to imagine their minds working so fast, yet the concentration difficulties are somewhat understandable. Take in mind I don't know much about ADD. They seem like just about anyone, though. ^^
Just spewing out what I think at like... What? Three o'clock to six o'clock in American timezones? (Of which I'm in. |D) But yee, curious to see how this discussion rolls out if I somehow go active on here once more.
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I've never met anyone with schizophrenia, though that interests me. I myself have some problems too. My brother has aspergers and he's really smart. I'm really proud of him, even though he doesn't act very normal and his behavior can be sometimes strange. <3 He has problems with socializing, but that's just part of the disorder. He has other disorders, where he couldn't balance. I forgot what it's called. He can walk and balance well for that disorder.
I wonder what it's like being blind. I wear glasses though. It's not very blurry when I take them off, but I can't see things at far distances. That would be too scar being blind, even more scary than being deaf in my opinion. I have ADHD. I can't concentrate and focus well in school unless I take my medication. I can be very hyper. My friend's ADHD is so strong, she could stay up until 2 AM or later even with medication.
I'm also deaf, profoundly hearing loss. Meaning that I can't hear all the way. I was born deaf, and it seems perfectly normal when the doctors checked my ears after they found out I was deaf. It wasn't genetics, either. I have two cochlear implants, so now I can hear. I can't make out words well on TV, so I need some captions. ^^
I know a bit of ASL (American Sign language). I take my cochlear implants off while I sleep, shower and go swimming. Whenever I wake up in the morning and my mom wants to tell me to come here, she flickers the light off and on. She says simple words in ASL such as 'wait'. I get confused sometimes when I tell people I'm deaf and they feel pity for me because it's not that bad for me honestly. ;^;
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No, I don't have any disabilities, but i have always wondered what they are thinking or what they would say if they could tell us.
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I myself am well interested in these topics.
As for myself, I don't have disabilities, per say, but I do have a few impairments.
For example, in terms of physical, I have stigmatic eyes (causes slight double vision) and a hypoactive thyroid. Nothing big, but I still wear glasses and go for frequent bloodwork and take hormonal balances.
As for mental, I don't have disabilities, but I do have a few minor conditions (ADD, OCD, SPD [the sensory one, not the pelvic one]). Of course, this combination made me kinda quirky as a kid, and I never really had any "real" friends until middle school, but otherwise, it was just being in crowded areas for too long that really got me.
But different conditions such as these certainly interest me. Especially lately I've been doing some studying on psychology and the like.
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I don't have disabilities but I do have a few things I cat really do as before. Since I have a bad knee, I can't really run but skip run. I have jump long distance, but just up and down
Uh, I can't stay on the laptop too long because my eyes are cross eye and acts weird when it sees small words. This is why I can't stay in the game too long. Not only that, I'm just cross eye.
Also, I can't stand up long. I got serious back pain.
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I don't have disabilities but I do have a few things I cat really do as before. Since I have a bad knee, I can't really run but skip run. I have jump long distance, but just up and down
Uh, I can't stay on the laptop too long because my eyes are cross eye and acts weird when it sees small words. This is why I can't stay in the game too long. Not only that, I'm just cross eye.
Also, I can't stand up long. I got serious back pain.
I have knee issues as well, and nor am I able to run/skip/jog, or do some of the previous hobbies I loved. Other than that, I don't believe I have any sort of real disability.
Some of the things people have posted have really made be feel for them.
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Well my diagnosed mental disorders would include
depression; anxiety; extreme paranoia; possible add; and psychosis/possible paranoid schizophrenia.
(Psychosis is the worst and most scariest thing I have ever experienced in my life. It is not fun...)
I also have thyroid issues - yeah
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I mostly just have ADHD and Asperger's Syndrome. It makes things really difficult...
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Adding on (from previous post), I think I'm beginning to have sensitive eyes. Like, whenever I put any light on, or if any lights are already on, they start burning! I don't know if I'm becoming a vampire or something, that's really strange.
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Adding on (from previous post), I think I'm beginning to have sensitive eyes. Like, whenever I put any light on, or if any lights are already on, they start burning! I don't know if I'm becoming a vampire or something, that's really strange.
Have you gone to the doctor yet for a check up? I've done research on this and it's possible you have Photophobia. Those are symptoms to Photophobia, but I'm not sure yet. My eyes are sensitive to light if my eyes adjust to the dark very well for long periods of time, but I'm just assuming that's normal. For me, it really depends on how much light and the dark. For example, I wake up at 2 AM or stay in the dark until 2 AM my eyes start hurting from the light if I turn the light on.
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Adding on (from previous post), I think I'm beginning to have sensitive eyes. Like, whenever I put any light on, or if any lights are already on, they start burning! I don't know if I'm becoming a vampire or something, that's really strange.
Have you gone to the doctor yet for a check up? I've done research on this and it's possible you have Photophobia. Those are symptoms to Photophobia, but I'm not sure yet. My eyes are sensitive to light if my eyes adjust to the dark very well for long periods of time, but I'm just assuming that's normal. For me, it really depends on how much light and the dark. For example, I wake up at 2 AM or stay in the dark until 2 AM my eyes start hurting from the light if I turn the light on.
Nah, I havent. I told my mom about it, but she said it would go away eventually and it did! ;P
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I have Autism. a medium level of it too. so basically, i need help with school and all of that. and i am angered very, VERY easily.
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I need help at school, too. I will get an itinerant when school starts again. An itinerant is a person that helps people with special needs at school. My itinerant is a teacher for the deaf and hard of hearing so I will require some help.
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Does anxiety count as a disability or no?
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While mine isn't some life-altering thing, I have TMJ (Lockjaw).
Got it after faceplanting like a boss on the cement almost 10 years ago.
Basically, my jaw is all jacked up. I can't open it all the way and it causes me to get chronic headaches.
I can't eat anything even remotely chewy or my jaw will tense up and eventually lock completely to where I can't open it.
So. Gum. Steak. Chewy candy. Large burgers. Nope. Can't do it. The struggle.
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While mine isn't some life-altering thing, I have TMJ (Lockjaw).
Got it after faceplanting like a boss on the cement almost 10 years ago.
Basically, my jaw is all jacked up. I can't open it all the way and it causes me to get chronic headaches.
I can't eat anything even remotely chewy or my jaw will tense up and eventually lock completely to where I can't open it.
So. Gum. Steak. Chewy candy. Large burgers. Nope. Can't do it. The struggle.
Jeez, that must be painful. :( For how long does it lock?
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While mine isn't some life-altering thing, I have TMJ (Lockjaw).
Got it after faceplanting like a boss on the cement almost 10 years ago.
Basically, my jaw is all jacked up. I can't open it all the way and it causes me to get chronic headaches.
I can't eat anything even remotely chewy or my jaw will tense up and eventually lock completely to where I can't open it.
So. Gum. Steak. Chewy candy. Large burgers. Nope. Can't do it. The struggle.
Jeez, that must be painful. :( For how long does it lock?
It doesn't hurt all the time, but it's not terrible. And it'll only lock for a couple minutes.
I have to do little excersises I got from physical therapy. X3
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So. Gum. Steak. Chewy candy. Large burgers. Nope. Can't do it. The struggle.
What? That's the worst. I feel so sorry for you D:
As for me I don't have any disabilities besides mild dyslexia. Well I guess I had to use crutches for a short while after my accident because of the bruising and cuts on my legs making it too painful to walk, but that wasn't permanent so meh.
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While mine isn't some life-altering thing, I have TMJ (Lockjaw).
Got it after faceplanting like a boss on the cement almost 10 years ago.
Basically, my jaw is all jacked up. I can't open it all the way and it causes me to get chronic headaches.
I can't eat anything even remotely chewy or my jaw will tense up and eventually lock completely to where I can't open it.
So. Gum. Steak. Chewy candy. Large burgers. Nope. Can't do it. The struggle.
Jeez, that must be painful. :( For how long does it lock?
It doesn't hurt all the time, but it's not terrible. And it'll only lock for a couple minutes.
I have to do little excersises I got from physical therapy. X3
Ah, I see what you mean. Still...I don't know what I'd do if my tongue got caught between my teeth, and then my jaw locked.
I hope the therapy exercises are helping.
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I having learning disability. I mean, it's no bad...it takes time for me understand the material of the lesson and I would need someone to break it down; not right away would i have an answer to give but...I need extra help and teachers who can break it down. This is why I cry as center times because it either a teacher who would pick at me and embarrass me, or me just feeling left out.
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I wouldn't say these are disabilities in my opinion but I suffer from Anxiety, PTSD, and Genophobia.
Not a lot of people know I have them and some people find it hard to understand them. I have never been "bullied" about them, but I have had people make jokes about my Genophobia, though it doesn't bother me.
If you don't know, Genophobia is the fear of sexual contact and sexual intercourse and I have been asked a lot how I could fear stuff like that. Honestly, it doesn't really effect my normal life but these are things I have to live with. I don't necessarily enjoy being asked questions that I can't fully answer.
As for disabled people in general, I think instead of people making fun of people who have them or asking insane questions that might make a person uncomfortable, they should just accept those people. I mean, we're all human, no matter what we're born with. I like this topic, it was a great one to bring up and kudos to you for thinking of it.
For anyone with disabilities, don't ever let anyone put you down for not being "normal". The word normal as always confused me because what is classified as "normal" anyway? We're all different so how can normal even be relevant to human beings? It can't because we are all different and no two humans are exactly alike.
Accept everyone as they are and don't bully people for being different, we're all different. <3
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I'm not sure what the name for this is or if it counts as a disability, however I think it's called 'ankle pronation' where my ankles lean inwards.
As a young child I managed to sprain both my ankles a number of times and I believe that has affected my ankles. It might not seem like a big issue but because my ankles lean in it will affect my knees and hips badly in the long run. Now, I love running, I can run fast. However, my ankles cause me pain if I just decide: "Hey I think I'll ditch walking and decide to run to that spot over there!" If I try to run all of a sudden, sometimes my ankles will just give way and I'll fall to the ground.
Also because of my 'ankle pronation' I have bad circulation in my feet, and so I'm prone to chilblains in the winter which is both irritating and sometimes painful.
While mine isn't some life-altering thing, I have TMJ (Lockjaw).
Got it after faceplanting like a boss on the cement almost 10 years ago.
Basically, my jaw is all jacked up. I can't open it all the way and it causes me to get chronic headaches.
I can't eat anything even remotely chewy or my jaw will tense up and eventually lock completely to where I can't open it.
So. Gum. Steak. Chewy candy. Large burgers. Nope. Can't do it. The struggle.
I had TMJ/TMD at some point.
Before it happened I experienced a "cracking" and popping noise every time I opened my mouth. Later on down the road my jaw would lock temporarily and I would have to unlock it by; I don't know how to describe it but I kinda just pretend to bite or chew... yeah? Then one morning I woke up and my jaw was locked, I couldn't open it any more than 1 cm -which made eating a challenge. It was a VERY slow process but over time I was able to open my mouth a little wider over weeks and months. I too avoided chewy foods, which sucked -.-
It went away around 9 months later. No idea how or why it happened but it did.
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Well I am deaf and I use glasses...
Eh, my deafness can be corrected with hearing aids. Although it's kinda expensive >_>
Eh, they seem to affect me a lil bit. I really don't like being deaf, but it has one advantage: I can just shut off the hearing aids if I don't want someone annoying me :P
Some "friends" just don't talk with me or tell news to me just because I am deaf and I still can't understand when people talk too fast. For example I can't watch a film in my native language (Portuguese) because it will be nonsense to me since I really can't understand anything. I always need subtitles.
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To add to what I had said in my previous post, I've been recently diagnosed with Misophonia.
So pretty much, certain trigger noises (for me it's loud eating or gum chewing) can cause extreme aggression or panic. Also known as why I can't have nice things.
The only way it really affects me (other than those emotional bums) is I have to carry earbuds/earphones wherever I go incase someone's eating or gum chewing around me. It also means I can't go to restaurants or just crowded public places in general as much as I'd like (I still get out enough though).
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Now, I don't really have any disabilities, other than strange hormone issues, so I will have to get blood draws regularly (and to go along with that, I have an extreme fear of needles. I break down in tears, and when they poke me, I feel like throwing up, and I almost passed out once. My mom has to get the doctors to give me a medicine that puts me in almost a relaxed drunken state when I go to the hospital next. I hate going to the doctors now. The sight of a hospital makes me nauseous.) I also have very mild ADHD, so my attention span isn't the greatest, and to cope with this, I draw. It's one of the only things I can keep my attention on.
Now, for family members, my brother and cousin have ADHD and Aspergers (my cousin outgrew his a little), and my sister does as well. My step-grandparents are deaf, but my mom wont teach me ASL, so I can't talk to them. It's really sad.
My mom works as a school psychologist, so I hear tales of kids with disabilities all the time. She even dealt with a student who was hallucinogenic (I forgot what she had). She would see and hear people who weren't there, and it was driving her crazy.
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Hoo, boy. Genetics were not kind to me, and as such I have quite a few disabilities. For physical disabilities, I've only got Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (i'm not exactly sure if i have it or not, but my doctor believes so and it seems very likely) and cataracts as far as I remember. I've got dyspraxia, a learning disability, too. I'm also mentally ill- not the same thing, but they're sort of related. I've got autism, ADD, depression, anxiety, gender dysphoria, and borderline personality disorder. This all makes social interaction pretty weird to me, and also carries the bonus of making me dissociate pretty frequently. To cope with everything I've got, I roleplay and draw. Blogging also helps.
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Physically, I don't have any problems :/ But I have a hereditary serotonin imbalance (chemical depression and anxiety), which I am properly medicated for. Since being on the medication, I can live my life normally. When I was off them, the smallest things (like my bf at the time not seeing me before class one day) can send me into a spiral of scenarios in my head, bring me to the most terrible conclusions and make me fall into pieces. Tiny little things. But now, I am fine, and I happen to be one of the happiest and most optimistic people I know ^_^
That wasn't the worst of my problems. I also have Asperger's, and it affected me terribly throughout elementary school and high school. I didn't understand the necessary social concepts, like when it is okay or not okay to wear a certain outfit, or do a certain thing. I wore very unusual clothing and was very particular about it. I couldn't understand the social cues of people that I was interacting with, so I would talk about the same subject for a very long time, not see that the others are getting super bored and trying to politely end the conversation. Well, since they weren't coming straight out and telling me that they wanted to move on, I thought it was fine and would keep going. I had to actually learn what different facial expressions and body postures meant in a social setting, that they were important too. Even still, many things that people do don't make sense to me, and sometimes minor social cues still fly over my head.
Honestly, I have come such a long way. I was diagnosed with Asperger's when I was about 12, and since then, my family and a few family friends have helped me work through it. Now, many people would think that I am completely normal, until they really get to know me. I can pull off normal pretty well now, but there are some little things that I do occasionally that, after getting to know me, people might see and think are unusual.
The bullying was the hardest thing to deal with. I knew that I was such an awesome person, and only tried my best to be good and kind, yet people would be so mean to me, and I couldn't understand. Eventually I felt like I was a freak, a mistake in nature, flawed beyond repair, an alien in a sea of people, and I felt so alone and hurt. It didn't feel fair. All I wanted was to be accepted for being the great person I was, but a lot of people didn't see past my strange ways. And I hated myself for being different. I wanted to be normal, and it tore me apart because there was nothing I could do.
Eventually, I learned that my strange looks was part of the problem. The way I dressed. So I secretly observed what the other girls were wearing and tried to conform a little more. An alien can hide better if it dresses like a person, right? After changing that a little, I made friends a little easier, and through them, I was about to begin figuring myself out. Learning how to like myself again, and live in my own skin.
Today, I am perfectly happy to be who I am, and, even though I still struggle with interactions sometimes, and need lots of hermit-time after conforming around people for a while (socializing is exhausting -.-), I am so much better ^_^ I still have my loving family, my best friend in the world, and a wonderful boyfriend who loves me even though I'm a little strange. I've become his little alien now <3 The little alien that belongs. Plus! My condition usually involves a special, intense interest in something, and then we become experts on the subject. My special interest is animals, and I have a near encyclopedic memory of the things that I have learned about animals. And it got me into University, taking zoology, doing what I love.
YAY HAPPY ENDINGS!!! :3 The end <3
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I suppose I do, though I never though of having a Social Anxiety Disorder, Cynophobia ( Fear of dogs), or an Attention Deficit Disorder as being disabilities. I never allowed them to unable me from doing what I love.
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I've always had ADD, but the others derived from traumatic experiences I've lived though.
When I was young I was attacked by a dog, it lashed out because it had a terrible ear infection that I was aware of, I got away with a minor injury to my hand. However the next week my younger sister went over to pay with the same dog, worried I got mom to come with me to take her away only to arrive to see her on the ground with the dog's jaw around her next and blood everywhere. She was raced to the hospital and underwent surgery, lucky the dog's fangs missed any vital veins. Thus my fear of dogs, my sister developed a fear of doctors.
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The social anxiety came from a bad experience at school that caused me to become insecure about myself and who I was.
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All of these I had the power to conquer and so I did, it took a long time and a lot of work but I am no longer anxious about how other people see me, or that the neighbor's dog, who is nine pounds, is going to brutally slay me. <3
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I have a few.
Social Anxiety, PTSD, Fear of mistakes, and a speaking problem (Where as My voice gets slushy sounding)
I've had social anxiety from being bullied a lot. So I am insecure when I meet new people & when I see a huge group of people.
PTSD, again from bullying. I can't stop thinking about old friends or places. I even have angry outbursts sometimes. But it's rare for me.
Fear of Mistakes, I guess I always want to do something right but I always tend to mess up and that's why I am quiet and anti-social.
Now I have clue about my speaking problem o.o like that was a thing that i got when I was little and never seemed to get over it sooner than others and here I am. I am 16 and still have it, I wonder if it will go away.
~Echo
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I have social anxiety and what I believe to be slight speech dyslexia.
I got social anxiety from getting bullied from 5th through 8th grade, and it got to the point where I couldn't even look at someone in the eyes without getting nervous. I get really nervous and quiet and insecure when I meet new people or walk through large crowds.
This isn't exactly 100% but I ended up diagnosing myself with slight speech dyslexia, sometimes mixing up words and letters. For example, instead of "broken jaw" i'll say "joken braw" and stuff like that. It's really annoying.
But other than that I don't believe I have anything else.
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While I don't have any PHYSICAL disabilites or something, I have MENTAL ones.
Mental
- Social Anxiety (as above)
- Selective Mutism (The Internet is the only place I can speak freely but even here, I keep myself from saying harmless things and/or keep things personal. Including the ones that I should speak to someone about.)
Things I Just Really Hate That Make Me Seem Weird
- Sharks (Screw swimming...)
- Spiders (fml no please)
- Creepy Crawlies (In person, images, videos, etc. Screwwww theeeemmmm!)
Phobias That Effect/Affect My Life
- Aichmophobia (The fear of sharp objects such as: Needles, Knives/Razors, Saws. Sometimes even pencils, corners of objects/walls or the end of an umbrella)
- Achluophobia (Fear of darkness. I always have to sleep with some sort of light on. I have two in my room that I turn on every night.)
- Altophobia (Fear of heights. Bridges? Hahhaa, nope!)
- Arachnephobia (Fear of spiders. One reason why I hate Claude Faustus.)
- Atelophobia (Fear of imperfection. I fear my teachers will give me something bad or put me down because my work isn't good enough.)- Contreltophobia (Fear of sexual abuse. Explains itself.)
- Glossophobia (The fear of public speaking. I just always feel like someone's going to laugh at me or judge me for something I've accidentally said wrong or if I outsmarted them.)
- Hagiophobia (Fear of saints or holy things. This is one reason why I'm not religious. It'll take EVERYTHING in me to walk into a church and trying not to run off screaming.)
- Laliophobia or Lalophobia (Fear of speaking. Goes well with my Selective Mutism.)
- Tropophobia? (Fear of holes. Beehives and holes in your skin, NO. STOP PLEASE.)
- Tocophobia (Fear of pregnancy or childbirth. ...Some women die during this, please no!)