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Disabilities Living with a disability, either physical or mental, can be both challenging and life changing. For support, questions and discussions relating to disabilities, post here.
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May 27th 2009, 12:18 AM
I'm hard of hearing. It's possible I'll completely lose my hearing and it's possible that I won't. As of now I can hear most things, if there's not a lot of background noise. I can't hear quiet rains on the roof, but a hard rain I can. I have to ask people to repeat themselves sometimes but, again, it depends on how much noise there is around me. I have a constant ringing in my right ear and frequent ringing in my left. Overall it could be worse. I've learned some sign language and kick butt at finger spelling in ASL, so that's cool. (=
Someday I will be strong enough to lift not one but both of us.
I told you to be patient
I told you to be fine
I told you to be balanced
I told you to be kind
Re: What is your disability? -
May 27th 2009, 12:55 AM
I have learning disabilities. Also, vision impairment. I can't see without my glasses, and I have trouble seeing with them. I've been told that I could completely lose my sight before I'm 25 or I could not.Right now, it could go either way.
She whispered to her own reflection "I will be strong."
"I am not what has happened to me.I am what I have chosen to become."- Carl Jung
Re: What is your disability? -
May 27th 2009, 02:35 AM
I have diabetes, which is considered a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act. I don't see it as a disability but it's considered one, legally.
"You've just been B-Wildered." -Brian Wilson <3
Trumpet love; Tenderlips.
"Where there is love there is life."- Mahatma Gandhi
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." - Jeremiah 29:11
Re: What is your disability? -
May 27th 2009, 10:56 AM
I don't know what to vote lol, i have sever dyspraxia and with that i get scotopic sensitivity sydnrome, low muscle tone, ligament laxity and chronic ankle instability
that being said i don't really see my self as having a disability as such, i just a have a few quirks
Re: What is your disability? -
May 27th 2009, 05:27 PM
I have mild CP
Darlin' don't leave me out here in the cold
I'm begging you baby don't leave me out here on my own I'll die, If you don't hold me tight Tonight, I couldn't make it outside If I tried, So please let me in lover,
Be kind ♥
Re: What is your disability? -
May 27th 2009, 05:52 PM
I was born blind in my left eye. I have AWFUL coordination and I bump into things a lot. I haven't really seen myself as having a disability, but schools etc always put me on their special needs register.
I also have a problem with fainting because of low blood pressure, which is far worse than the blindness anyday ...
Re: What is your disability? -
May 27th 2009, 09:45 PM
I have dyspraxia which seems to be getting worse as Im getting older. With that, it means I'm extreemley sensitive to light and sound, I have a tendency to be interested in things that would be considered for younger people and I have an extremely short attention span. My hand/eye co-ordination is not good at all, and well, my writing is pretty much illegible.
Re: What is your disability? -
May 27th 2009, 10:42 PM
I have mild Epilepsy. I don't know whether it counts as a disability or not but it does stop me from doing a lot of things that others do. e.g learn to drive. and it means I can't become a pilot that I wanted. I'm also short sighted.
You were the angel of my life, taught me to be free
Re: What is your disability? -
May 28th 2009, 11:05 PM
I don't know which one to vote, but I have a non-specific learning disability. I am also hearing impaired and I'm currently wearing glasses because I am slightly near-sighted.
Re: What is your disability? -
May 29th 2009, 04:06 AM
Although I don't personally consider it a disability (for myself) I have dyslexia. I think I just see things a little differently and I enjoy my ability to see things a little backwards ^^. When I was in 3rd grade my mom told me I had been diagnosed with it and I cried because I thought it meant I was stupid. I haven't cried over it since and I do not think dyslexia makes you stupid at all.
Re: What is your disability? -
May 30th 2009, 09:23 PM
I have epilepsy, dyspraxia, and autistic spectrum disorder.
For mental, depression and post traumatic stress disorder.
faith is a bluebird that you see from afar
it is real and as sure as the first evening star
can't touch it, or buy it, or lock it up tight
but its there just the same
making things turn out right
LE PENGUIN QUEEN
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Re: What is your disability? -
May 31st 2009, 06:15 AM
hi i am new here to would you like to chat ben
my name is ben i am new here i have epilepsy and being tested for aspergus i want to make friends that understand what i am oing through i find it hard to keep friends when they no i am disabled
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Re: What is your disability? -
June 1st 2009, 09:54 PM
Anxiety disorder. Sucks. When it first hit me hardest, I had to stay out of school for two weeks because I broke down with physical symptoms like nausea whenever I tried to make it through half the day.
Embrace your dorkdome.
"When you're in love you can't sleep, because reality is so much better than dreams."
Re: What is your disability? -
June 3rd 2009, 04:19 AM
i have a damaged lung and diabetes. and i also had surgery on my knee cuz i tore my ACL (which is a ligament in your knee) in football and it takes a full year to get better. in my knee theres a brand new ligament and two screws in my knee to help me walk and be back to normal again
Re: What is your disability? -
June 7th 2009, 08:07 AM
My disability is that i have brain damage from a stroke that affects my short term memory & also effects my emotions sometimes. I have a physical disability from a car accident in that i've had 3 spinal surgeries--a lumbar fusion in my lower back, a cervical fusion in my neck, & I have 2 artificial titaniam discs in my upper neck. I suffer from ADD & asthma too. I also suffer from transgenderism
To ease anothers heartache is to forget one's own
Abraham Lincoln
Re: What is your disability? -
June 7th 2009, 09:22 AM
I have Dyslexia and other LD's witched all made me fall in school and i did not get the help i need i did graduate in 06 but i had to do summer school just so i could. my grades where all D's i did get a fewe C i even got B's in math. but i also have Depression and with my Dyslexia i have trouble geting a job becouse i cant spell to well i also need to be tested for add but i am going to end on this note. with help from SCHOOL'S or other programs like the Dyslexia institute of amanica or silven lering center.
Re: What is your disability? -
June 11th 2009, 03:55 PM
Heard of hearing in my left ear, completely blind in my left eye(nervs are dead) have lost most of the vision in my right eye. I was told that I have a learning disorder, depression, anxity, and an Eating disorder.
I got the Eating disorder taken off my list from a doctor.
I didn't get a high school daploma, I got something called certificate of completion.
You are beautiful just the way you are.
Looking like a fallen star.
Don't listen to what people say.
They don't know the real you, anyways.
Re: What is your disability? -
June 13th 2009, 04:27 AM
I don't even know what you would call my disorder, but basically I'm incapable of hand writing more than about one page or words. My hand cramps up and the pain is so great that I can't do anything at all with it, so whenever I write a letter or do a paper for school, it must be typed.
Re: What is your disability? -
June 14th 2009, 03:29 AM
I have a physical disability.. I am a double amputee. I lost my legs when I was 2 but now I wear prostheses, and walk fine now..sometimes i still use my wheelchair
Re: What is your disability? -
June 14th 2009, 11:13 PM
I have a mental one in a way... I have aspbuger like tendencies, but haven't been fully diagnosed yet.. and I have asthma, and I am near sighted and have possibly, a little bit of hearing loss in one ear.
and I used to have a speech problem, and apraxia...
"Others say there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I just say Crud, there isn't... I'm stuck in this stupid revolving door..." -Me
PM me anytime you want to talk about anything.And I mean ANYTHING AT ALL!
Formerly achava_elah_18
Been in love since May 2008
Fellow SI,Autism-Spectrum,Depression,Anxiety,Musical,Trichotilloman ia Person. Basically, I'm ME!
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Re: What is your disability? -
June 17th 2009, 12:35 PM
I too have dispraxia. Plus I wear glasses and have trouble with anxiety. Plus I have a cyst on my pituitary gland. Thank God it is not cancerous. The Pituitary Gland & Endocrine System Disorders: An Overview Once that is removed my doctor says I can control my dispraxia and anxiety easier.
P.M me anytime you need or want to talk to me. God Bless.
Re: What is your disability? -
June 18th 2009, 05:49 AM
General anxiety disorder (untreated causes severe depression)
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Some sort of syndrome in the right knee (kinda like Runner's Knee)
Re: What is your disability? -
June 19th 2009, 09:36 PM
i have systemic onset ideopathic chronic juvinile rhematoid arthritis (apologies for spelling lol)
steroid induced diabetes
asthma
i have affected eyes from my arthritis
and i also have reduced hearing.
bit of a long list lol, sorry.
hope i can help if anyone needs it
Hannah
"He who does not weep, does not see" - Les Miserables.
keep reaching and living your lives. you are who you are.
PM me whenever and ill do my best to help!
Im here if you ever need anyone to talk to or to have someone to listen to you