Disabilities

Ivalice

Ivalice

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Do any of you have disabilities? I myself have Aspergers Syndrome, Bi Polar, ADD, and OCD. I spend a majority of my time playing Final Fantasy because not only is it a time killer, but I used it as an alternative to a stress coping mechanism since I was young, and now it's become a huge part of my life.
 
:hmmm: I have mild Aspergers just like you :D i think that why I'm into final fantasy sooo much :) I also have something called TAR Sydrome (Thrombocytopenia with Absent radius) XD which means when i cut myself.. I keep bleeding :hmph:..... it also means I have no arms.. just hands :)

:tehe: now it all out guys :wacky:
 
I have a learning disability called dyscalculia. Basicly it's math dyslexia. Because of this math is so challenging for me, to the point where I just wan't to give up.
 
I personally have bipolar disorder [insert a "I hate having bipolar. I love it!" joke here] and have done for around eight years now, and I am only just settling into a routine with medication.

Though to be fair, a lot of the times my medication was either from simple teenage rebellion and refusal to take them, or I just simply forgot (which unfortunately does happen every now and again nowadays). Having to take medication twice a day and having a beyond terrible memory are not the greatest of combinations. ^^
 
@ Ghost

I take co respiridone as I have Bi polar as well. I only need to take it once in the morning, but sometimes I forget too and completely fly off the handle or I'm rude to people who are trying to help me, but I don't realize it. The one day I took it i noticed that when I was frustrated with a bank teller, at the end I apologized to her for the misunderstanding. Without taking it I would probably have forgot to apologize or forgot that the whole thing even happened.

@ Hirude
Oh man, that sucks. Maybe I have that too? I have trouble with the simplest math like long division, fractions, multiplication, algebra. I wanted to be something in finance at one point, then realized I needed math.
 
I have a stutter. It can be quite a pain especially in school when I had to give oral reports >.< But just something I have to deal with.

I am also a little dyslexic. Though it seems to be worse when I have to write or read outloud. The faster I write or read the more accurate I am. I always hated reading outloud in class because I would read the order of the word incorrectly or mix up words such as trial and trail.
 
The only thing I have is a stutter, and whether or not this condition can be branded a disability or just a form of developmental disorder is debatable. Despite what I had initially believed while I was growing up and moving through education, my stutters are not consistent. I am capable of speaking clearly most of the day and with few to none non-fluency features in my speech, whether to family, friends, close associates or even to myself. Put me in a more formal atmosphere, or generally somewhere involving vast numbers of people, and it's hard for me. It becomes easy for me as the speaker to tell what the outcome of my speech may sound like, and if I am subconsciously aware that I may be stuttering, then that could impede my performance in something like a presentation easily, as it does to many other stutterers. To bring back what I said in the first sentence, I don't believe it is a typical disability because it does not impede the functioning of any part of the human body. I suppose that, considering I've had this as far back as I can remember, this is just a mild developmental disorder that I've gained as a child while I was learning to speak.
 
I don't have any disabilities except that I bleed from my ovaries every month. AAAAAH! :gasp:

I think a lot of common disabilities have been around throughout history and that they have only been given fancy new nomenclatures in order to enhance the severity of the situation.

For instance...ADHD. People have been living with symptoms of ADHD for the last few generations at least. It's a new terminology used to expand upon a condition that won't hinder your ability to function in life.
Just think...how many fast-paced, hyperactive, or unattentive people is a doctor willing to diagnose with ADHD in order to assure a return visit and provide an excuse to write prescriptions?

No offense to anyone with ADHD, I only used it as an example. It's just one of those things that won't create roadblocks in life in the same way as, let's say...Down Syndrome.
 
I'm actually a mute ^_^ So I can't talk. The most annoying part about it is that people make jokes about how I should be a mime. I don't want to be a mime :mokken:
 
I have short term memory loss. I was told by doctors that it was something that would fix itself over time, probably by the time I reached 20. Sadly, I'm 20 now, and it still seems as bad as ever. It's especially a pain academically, since when I'm in a lecture and I'm trying to note things down, I often forget how a lecturer's sentence started, or the context of what they're arguing for. It also sucks for exams, though mainly for GCSEs and A levels since they were, in all honesty, glorified memory tests, whereas exams I've done at uni have had much more room for creativity, so I don't feel as disadvantaged in them. Although for writing, not being able to remember on the spot how my paragraphs are structured can slow me down a lot, and sometimes makes what I'm saying very inconsistent.

In addition to that, whilst not strictly disabilities, I'm abnormally shy, and come across nervous and occasionally prone to stuttering with people who I'm unfamiliar with. I also have had anxiety problems, especially with irrational concepts such as experiencing life and death that I struggle with.
 
I’ve not been diagnosed with any disability, and I hope that most of my shortcomings can be explained by poor social skills and irrational mindsets which had spiralled out of control.

At different stages of my life I’ve fallen into some very strange OCD-like habits, like turning lights on and off, closing doors and not letting go of the handle until it feels ‘right’ (and grabbing it again if it felt ‘wrong’), washing my hands every time I walk past an open toilet door – as examples. Most of these I no longer do, and I’d be seriously hindered if I still had them, as I was sometimes quite hindered at the time that I had them too. OCD is often just an expression of insecurity, so I can see how they developed. In the same vein I used to have nervous twitches which got quite bad too, but I got over them.

I’ve been told by some people that I might have some form of autism, and it would make a lot of sense for some things, but I’d rather not be labelled as such. I do feel and care for people and try to understand them, so it’s not really that I’m not capable of that (which some people think). Then again, autism is a very broad spectrum so I may well have something on there, but so do many other people who live perfectly normal lives.

I prefer to think that my only issue is shyness and social incompetence, but I don’t consider it a disorder, more a result of poor development and an irrational mindset which I hope will fix before I’m too old to enjoy youth. I’ve had a good one really in many non-social respects, but the nervousness I’ve always had did have a hand in preventing me from ‘being in the moment’ and fully enjoying myself when I should have been. The madness is ending (or it’s getting worse - I’m not entirely sure, though there probably isn’t any difference. :woot:).

The shyness can be mistaken for a lack of care at times, or it can also be mistaken as stupidity as my mind doesn’t always generate a response to people immediately after they say something. I tend to know what I want to say to people when they are gone, which isn’t a very comfortable thing to deal with. It also means that I tend to walk into walls and spill coffee on my feet when in the presence of women. :brooding: Like said though, it isn’t a disability, but it’s the main problem I have in life, or is at the root of other problems – and I’m improving, even if it means embarrassing myself, which I do with nearly every waking moment these days just pretending to be human when it’s clearly obvious that I’m a recovering madman. :woot:
 
I am anemic, my mom says it runs in the family; I get bruised for no reason, bad bruises, fatigued a lot, bad bone and joint pain and I usually get petechial rashes a lot too. Though I feel the effects less now...

That's pretty much all...>.>
 
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During the course of my life, I've been diagnosed with Bi-polar, Aspergers, and authority defiant disorder. (<- The latter is very insulting. I really don't do anything for power, although that's what everybody says because I can get so pissy at times. I don't think that's the exact one, but it's pretty damned closed.) I really don't care that I'm diagnosed anymore.

But the bi-polar has been written off, but the Aspergers has gotten thrown into my face in the past, so much that I hate when people bring it up, and tend to yell at them, that people just don't do anything about it anymore.

Honestly, the worst part of having mental issues, is not the issues themselves, but everybody knows your damned business. My new school knew I had Aspergers before I even went there. Yes, kill my chance at friends. Lovely.

I also went into Drivers Ed. I had a terrible morning (due to personal issues, I think I just exploded all of my feelings I had, although my mum being a jerk about everything really didn't help either) So, I was told before hand that I would have to do every day to pass.

I didn't do that day. But it turns out, they told the freakin' teacher that I 'get frustered'. Really? I would've rather just not gone in had I known that! If I want you to know I have issues, I'm going to tell you. And they didn't even tell me that he knew. Needless to say, I just quit going because I was just angry at that.

I'm really sick of everybody knowing my business and how I act before I met them. It really pisses me off more than having issues in the first place.

As for the actual symptoms, I really am not good with social things, although nobody, if they're not, really is aware when they meet me. They just think I'm shy. And I get attached way too easily/hard, which means, it's hard for me to find anybody I click with, but if I do, I love you way too much than is sane.

Things like hygiene/what to wear also used to be a big issue, but it's not anymore. Although I still occasionally go without showers for days. (This is only during summer though, when I don't have contact with any other humans.)

... I probably shouldn't have said that, but oh well.

I also, well used, to get so obsessed with fandoms. Sadly, due to personal issues, (mentioned in 3 paragraphs above), I'm really depressed, so it's not as obvious. But it's still quirk about it.

But in the end, they're not that bad anymore at all. I used to feel like a freak. Due to my depression, I've really learned so many things, including how to psychologically manipulate myself to make things better, and proper ̶f̶o̶r̶u̶m̶ social skills, thus leading me to believe I'm normal, and that I'll eventually cross them off as diagnosed things.
 
I don't have any disbalities as far as I know, but I've suspected for a while now that I may have ADHD possibly. :hmmm: I can only relate to one of the symptoms of it though, so I'm probably wrong.

It's just a guess. It could be that I'm just a terrible listener or get bored easily, but I find that I can't pay attention when people are talking to me face to face very well.

I'm fine if they text me, or write a letter, email etc. But I can't focus when someone is chatting away to me. I get distracted and lose interest quickly.

But no I haven't officially been diagnosed with any disabilities. :hmmm:

Should get it checked out though. >.< Even Steve notices that I just switch off after a while when he's talking. XD It's terrible. :sad3:
 
I don't have any disabilities.

As a child I had allergies to certain food colourings but I don't know if that counts as a disability... it prevented me from eating some foods I liked though which was annoying.
 
My mom claims that I have OCD. I don't think I have that (denial). She says that because, I always flip out over my wrestling DVDs being even slightly touched. I keep them all clean and perfect at all times. She also says this because of how I am with other things. If something is moved from it's original spot in my room, I'll have to put it back exactly where it was. Even if it's slightly going towards the left, it'll irritate me.
 
Does depression count?

Either way, I have ADHD. I've been trying to control it myself without the use of meds and I've been getting better and better at it and I'm proud of myself.

I DO however need meds for my depression. I feel like a sap a lot of times and it sometimes gets so bad that I can't function properly because I become SO depressed...
 
i dont perceive myself as having any disabilities though im sure by today's standards of disability i'll have some sort of disabling phobia or my eye will twitch in such a way that makes me disabled.

various members of my family have/had physical and/or mental impairments. the worst of which is probably my great aunt who suffers from huntington's disease.
 
Severe Scoliosis. The pain stays at bay for as long as I don't overdo it. I have ADD, and I have Depression currently.
 
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