jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
Do you have any disabilities? How do you cope with them? I'll kick this off.
I have severe nerve damage due to spinal meningitis and diabetes and am partially paralyzed. I have had to cope with mental and physical disabilities all my life. I grew up with multiple personalities and it took me many years to overcome that.
I also have a hearing aphasia. If you know what dyslexia is, imagine dyslexia for the hearing. In my case, the third syllable, third word, third sound would come before the second. An example would be if someone said 1 2 3 4, I would hear 1 3 2 4. If you said 'automobile' I would hear aumotolebi. To get around this, I had to learn to lip read when I was 4 years old. Using that and what I heard, I had to learn to break the words down, reassemble them and recognize them in the new format. That wasn't all. If you hear words a certain way, you say them that way. I had to learn to say the words not as I heard them, but as others could understand them. It's like learning a new language and being able to translate it and speak it at the same time. I also had and still have problems with obsessive compulsive disorders. I was also mentally retarded as a child. I have severe learning disorders. I have trouble with dyslexia, ADHD, I have a degenerative bone disease as well as a degenerative nerve condition, I am sterile due to damage caused by blood poisoning and lead poisoning. Do I let all this stop me? No! Here was my day today. I actually had a pretty good day today. Even though I had some dizzy spells that ended up with me against a wall or on the floor wondering what the * happened, I got all my work done by 3 pm.
As for backing out and giving up and staying home feeling sorry for myself, I don't know how to give up, I wouldn't know how to go about it because I'm not that kind of person. All my life I've had to deal with my disabilities. I learned early on that I have to keep a positive attitude and tackle each new day as a new challenge. Through the years, many people have used me as a role model for their loved ones who have disabilities. If I could go out and do things for myself, there's no reason that someone who has fewer problems than I do can't do the same. Admittedly, there's not much that I can do as far as a job is concerned. But that doesn't stop me from setting goals and achieving them. Over time I have become an example of what a person in my position can do to help themselves to the options that are available. I'm not going to let my problems stop me from achieving the goals that I set for myself.
I could have decided to just sit at home and think that I can't get anything done, so why bother trying. But I want to do for myself, as however I can. If that means working for minimum or near minimum wage in a wood shop that employs the disabled, so be it. It's honest work and an honest days pay and I set a good example for my friends and neighbors. Many of the fire fighters in the volunteer dept I'm a member of think that I'm a very special and determined person to keep pushing on the way I do. And I'm going to keep pushing on, ever forward, for as long as I can.
If anyone is thinking about giving up simply because they find it harder to get around or they can't stand or walk without some kind of difficulty or they have severe learning problems and can't easily learn new things, these are problems that I've dealt with my entire life and I will not let them stop me. Don't let them stop you, either.
I have severe nerve damage due to spinal meningitis and diabetes and am partially paralyzed. I have had to cope with mental and physical disabilities all my life. I grew up with multiple personalities and it took me many years to overcome that.
I also have a hearing aphasia. If you know what dyslexia is, imagine dyslexia for the hearing. In my case, the third syllable, third word, third sound would come before the second. An example would be if someone said 1 2 3 4, I would hear 1 3 2 4. If you said 'automobile' I would hear aumotolebi. To get around this, I had to learn to lip read when I was 4 years old. Using that and what I heard, I had to learn to break the words down, reassemble them and recognize them in the new format. That wasn't all. If you hear words a certain way, you say them that way. I had to learn to say the words not as I heard them, but as others could understand them. It's like learning a new language and being able to translate it and speak it at the same time. I also had and still have problems with obsessive compulsive disorders. I was also mentally retarded as a child. I have severe learning disorders. I have trouble with dyslexia, ADHD, I have a degenerative bone disease as well as a degenerative nerve condition, I am sterile due to damage caused by blood poisoning and lead poisoning. Do I let all this stop me? No! Here was my day today. I actually had a pretty good day today. Even though I had some dizzy spells that ended up with me against a wall or on the floor wondering what the * happened, I got all my work done by 3 pm.
As for backing out and giving up and staying home feeling sorry for myself, I don't know how to give up, I wouldn't know how to go about it because I'm not that kind of person. All my life I've had to deal with my disabilities. I learned early on that I have to keep a positive attitude and tackle each new day as a new challenge. Through the years, many people have used me as a role model for their loved ones who have disabilities. If I could go out and do things for myself, there's no reason that someone who has fewer problems than I do can't do the same. Admittedly, there's not much that I can do as far as a job is concerned. But that doesn't stop me from setting goals and achieving them. Over time I have become an example of what a person in my position can do to help themselves to the options that are available. I'm not going to let my problems stop me from achieving the goals that I set for myself.
I could have decided to just sit at home and think that I can't get anything done, so why bother trying. But I want to do for myself, as however I can. If that means working for minimum or near minimum wage in a wood shop that employs the disabled, so be it. It's honest work and an honest days pay and I set a good example for my friends and neighbors. Many of the fire fighters in the volunteer dept I'm a member of think that I'm a very special and determined person to keep pushing on the way I do. And I'm going to keep pushing on, ever forward, for as long as I can.
If anyone is thinking about giving up simply because they find it harder to get around or they can't stand or walk without some kind of difficulty or they have severe learning problems and can't easily learn new things, these are problems that I've dealt with my entire life and I will not let them stop me. Don't let them stop you, either.