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May 26th 2009, 07:29 PM
I personally don't have a disability but I have dealt with many disabilities both metal and physical through family and friends.
One thing I have learnt is it good to talk about it and share. This thread will also help people find others with similar or the same disability.
So go ahead
What's your disability?
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May 27th 2009, 01:18 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. (=
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May 27th 2009, 01:55 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.
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May 27th 2009, 03:35 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.
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May 27th 2009, 11:56 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
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May 27th 2009, 06:27 PM
I have mild CP
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May 27th 2009, 06:52 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 ...
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May 27th 2009, 08:25 PM
I have LD which is a learning disability. I can only learn if it's visual learning. And everything I do, I find a pattern in it.
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May 27th 2009, 10:45 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.
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May 27th 2009, 11:42 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.
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May 28th 2009, 01:41 AM
i have moderate dyslexia nd severe dyscalula and i also have hearing and sight loss on my right but thnkfully i is healing itself,
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May 29th 2009, 12:05 AM
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.
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May 29th 2009, 01:19 AM
Physical. I've been a paraplegic (paralyzed from the waist down) for 17 years and I use a wheelchair.
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May 29th 2009, 02:08 AM
I was diagnosed with Taretts syndrome at the age of 4, it is both physical, and mental.
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May 29th 2009, 05:06 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.
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May 30th 2009, 01:06 AM
I have ADD, idk if that counts.
I also have something that makes me only remember little tid-bits of info, andnot stuff I actually need to learn.
Like, I know that the ratio of the sides of the golden rectangle is .618, but it took me until 7th grade to learn multiplication.
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May 30th 2009, 06:01 AM
Not sure if Asthma is a disability but it prevents me from certain activitys.
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May 30th 2009, 10:23 PM
I have epilepsy, dyspraxia, and autistic spectrum disorder.
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May 31st 2009, 07:15 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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May 31st 2009, 09:35 PM
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May 31st 2009, 10:26 PM
I don't know which one to vote for these:
-ADHD
-Asthma
-Bipolar
-Myopia (Near sighted)
-Amblyopia (Lazy eye)
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May 31st 2009, 10:42 PM
I'm completely colour blind, I don't know if that counts? I put it under physical.
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June 1st 2009, 10:54 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.
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June 3rd 2009, 05:19 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
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June 4th 2009, 04:27 AM
Hard of hearing, and have a mood disorder, whee.
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June 5th 2009, 02:31 PM
I'm partially deaf in my right ear due to an ear infection when I was little, and I have undiagnosed depression.
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June 7th 2009, 09:07 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 
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June 7th 2009, 10:22 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.
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June 8th 2009, 09:56 AM
Autism spectrum disorder, severe depression, Anxiety disorder, Post traumatic stress disorder, mild epilepsy, and speech impediment
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June 9th 2009, 09:40 AM
depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, Anemic.... don't think those count. lol
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June 11th 2009, 04:55 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.
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June 12th 2009, 07:48 PM
I'm deaf in my left ear... going deaf in the right ear... =\
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June 13th 2009, 05:27 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.
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June 14th 2009, 04:29 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
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June 15th 2009, 12:13 AM
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...
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June 15th 2009, 06:12 AM
Nearsighted to the point that I am classified as legally blind.
Also, I exhibit ADHD like symptoms, but my therapist doesn't think they are from ADHD.
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June 17th 2009, 01:35 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.
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June 18th 2009, 04:56 AM
i hav aspergers....it sucks
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June 18th 2009, 06:49 AM
General anxiety disorder (untreated causes severe depression)
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Some sort of syndrome in the right knee (kinda like Runner's Knee)
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June 19th 2009, 10:36 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.
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