[telestarjammer]

I was just wondering if there was anybody else here that has had to work around a mental disability to make it through school and work at a job. I have put off getting a diagnosis until the last few years when I began to notice that I was unable to move ahead in life as I had hoped. Having to accept my disability has been very humbling for me since I like to think I am like everybody else.

While I have a normal IQ, I have been diagnosed with aspergers syndrome which is a form of autism. Most of my difficulties lie in processing spoken information. This has been very isolating for me in social situations and makes some of the situations I face at college very difficult. Fighting depression has also been an uphill battle as I try to accept and deal with my disability.
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Again I was just wanting to know if there was anybody else on the board that has experienced or is experiencing what I am going through. Thanks and God bless.

[Kentl]

Originally Posted by telestarjammer

I was just wondering if there was anybody else here that has had to work around a mental disability to make it through school and work at a job. I have put off getting a diagnosis until the last few years when I began to notice that I was unable to move ahead in life as I had hoped. Having to accept my disability has been very humbling for me since I like to think I am like everybody else.

While I have a normal IQ, I have been diagnosed with aspergers syndrome which is a form of autism. Most of my difficulties lie in processing spoken information. This has been very isolating for me in social situations and makes some of the situations I face at college very difficult. Fighting depression has also been an uphill battle as I try to accept and deal with my disability.
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Again I was just wanting to know if there was anybody else on the board that has experienced or is experiencing what I am going through. Thanks and God bless.

I have many problems Mental and non mental (not all are Disabilities
I get my D's and B's backwords
i cant tell the difinve betwne dose and does

i think its call dilxaye or something i cant spell anyways
I'm also bi polar

my small borther has atusim full on

hes cool

[roscoestring]

I think that most everyone has some sort of disability. Maybe disabilities are more pronounced in some people than in others.

When typing I often confuse the keys that I type on my left hand with the right hand keys. F for J, A for :, t for y, etc. Like Kentl I often confuse D and B. Also b and p and d.

I can say pretty much what I want to say but I'm slow at it. I can't rattle it off the top of my head like some can. I have to really think about it. And words escape me. I can come to a part of a sentence and know in my own mind exactly what I want to say but can't think of the word that I want to use.

I'm very good at remembering numbers. Someone can tell me their phone number or social security number and I am more likely to remember that than their name. Same with song lyrics. I just have a hard time remembering lyrics.

Like you, I have put off having my problem diagnosed. When I was a teenager I asked a doctor about my problem and he suggested that I may have dyslexia. I have never been tested and mostly just tried to hide my problem and work around it on my own. Until just a few years ago I always felt ashamed of my problems. I just turned 49 last week and I guess that the hardest part to deal with is behind me now. But I do still get aggravated at times.

[MtlMom]

Originally Posted by telestarjammer

I was just wondering if there was anybody else here that has had to work around a mental disability to make it through school and work at a job. I have put off getting a diagnosis until the last few years when I began to notice that I was unable to move ahead in life as I had hoped. Having to accept my disability has been very humbling for me since I like to think I am like everybody else.

While I have a normal IQ, I have been diagnosed with aspergers syndrome which is a form of autism. Most of my difficulties lie in processing spoken information. This has been very isolating for me in social situations and makes some of the situations I face at college very difficult. Fighting depression has also been an uphill battle as I try to accept and deal with my disability.
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Again I was just wanting to know if there was anybody else on the board that has experienced or is experiencing what I am going through. Thanks and God bless.

Thank you for sharing this.

We have a lot of people here who have expressed varying degrees of psychosocial challenges - mostly dyslexia, depression, bipolar disorder, and borderline personality disorders. I don't think we have anyone who has expressed that they are challenged with Asperger's or Sensory Integration Dysfunction, but that doesn't mean that they aren't here.

One of the most interesting things about Asperger's is that we probably wouldn't pick up on it here at all, because we are not face-to-face. These individuals are often at their "best" when they are behind a computer.

I once had a certified nursing assistant who worked for me who struggled with this. He was socially awkward and couldn't express himself well at all. He scared people, because he would pause for so long before answering simple questions. But I would get these long, detailed emails from him expressing his concerns about a patient's condition or a situation at work. His thoughts were well organized, complete, his spelling and grammar was almost perfect, and he often picked up on details that everyone else had missed. He was brilliant - but he was in the wrong job.

I would like to talk with you more about this via PM if you are interested. I can't give you any medical advice, but I can share what I have observed. Send me a PM if you like.