Topic: Do you have any Disabilities?

I have had allergies since I was little, which has caused all of my hair to fall out. I don't mind being bald at all, its just I much prefer cloudy days to the sun. I also have severe eczema that is aggravated by stress. My mom has no cartilage between her hip and her leg and my brother is non-verbal autistic. So I do a lot of errands, and helping around the house, and it is almost always hectic in my house, so most of the time my skin is flared up pretty bad.

I forget why but a couple days ago it was hectic as usual and my eczema flared up, and I clawed the heck out of my neck (its still sore). This also makes it hard for me to sleep sometimes when its hot at night and I'm trying to sleep, I'll itch, and wind up clawing my skin real bad, and not realize I'm doing it because I'm half asleep or more.

Oh one time, I woke up in the middle of the night and my eye lid was sore, I had rubbed my eye so bad that it had bruised and for the next three days it looked like I had gotten a black eye. But other than that it's not too bad. When I have time to relax, I enjoy playing games, watching anime, and listening to black metal and doom metal.

@metakirbyknight......LOL I really hope your being sarcastic. Goverment healtcare is a joke. I have the best insurance money can buy to a average American and its great. One of the pills I take every morning (the one that lets me function normally) cost me $457 dollars a month without insurance. I pay $30. I could really get into this but Im not its not the place. BUT I will say this....both my doctors are getting out of medicine if the Health Care Reform does actually happen and me and my wife will prob be leaving the US.

I have ADHD and Autism. You can't tell that I have Autism really, but it makes it a lot harder for me to talk to people.

Autism is pretty popular huh?
We're awesome, we know. xD

I didn't realize how things work in US. Here in Finland we have free health care and medicines are for the most part really inexpensive. My mom and sister work in pharmacy and I had a summerjob there too last summer and I was shown how much medicines are really worth and what customers have to pay to get them and in some cases the first number was a three-digit-number and the one customer pays was only two-digit-number. I think one medicine's price was 300€ and for customer it was only something like 20€. And getting diagnosed isn't hard at all here. You just call and ask for time then when it's your turn you go there. Simple.

I have a heart condition but I dont notice it much.

I'm slightly Dyslexic, and have mild Asthma, never thought about going in and getting tested for anything else.

i just had my heart valve replaced now i have ticker on it all doc were shocked about it im so young they never had 33 year with bad valve...

I have really mild aspergers syndrom, I have problems showing emotions or empathy and also means I have no sense of smell and low T. As a result I'm also rather anti-social and tend to get along better with animals than people, being an introvert doesn't help. I'm actually sureprised at the number of people who have it as its not very common.

Other than that I'm nearsighted. Its pretty mild from what I can tell but its gettong to the point where anything small needs to be with in a foot of my face. Any studies on the relation between nearsightedness would be interesting but I'm think its just got something to do with staring at a screen for long periods of time. Most gamers don't seem too keen on taking breaks and it makes sense that prolonged eye strain would be a cause. Your eyes becomeing more and more adapted to seeing upclose also makes sense, most animals that are nearsighted rely on other senses due to environmental factors so their eyesight degraded. Only problem is you would need the percentage of people who game on small screens upclose vs. those that game on large screens from far away.

I've always wondered what it is that makes medicine so expensive in the first place. I mean with all the advancements in the field you would think it would help lower costs but I guess not.

I'm nearsighted, so I wear glasses (and I also have a sweet pair of prescription Ray-Bans). I also have general outdoor allergies, so I take Zyrtec everyday. Other than that, not much.

@Zombie_Barloth - As sad as it is to say this, part of the reason medication is expensive comes down to corporate greed. Because companies don't need to tell consumers how much it actually costs to produce certain prescriptions, often times the price turns from a game of "How low of a price can we offer to consumers?" to "How much can we charge consumers for a prescription, and they'll still buy it?"It's unfortunate that we live in a society (here in the U.S.) where people's health can be less important than making a profit, but that's the way it is sometimes.

I'm REALLY short sighted (need glasses to see laptop screen properly, can see without, just not as good but the good thing about that is that I can see thing REALLY clear up close (Can see retina display sized pixels clearly, they need to make even smaller pixels ). The problem is that I'm supposed to look in the distance frequently to see more clearly but it's just too boring for me, just looking at plain, still trees. I'm thinking that maybe is I sit a bit further from my laptop/TV (maybe 2x further) I can strengthen/exercise my eyes as well as enjoy playing games! Other that, there isn't really any other disability, maybe a mild case of ADHD though...

Agreed. No disrespect to people who actually have a diagnosis, but there seems to be something about the gaming/nerd community where people want to feel 'special' in some way, so they constantly come up with non-existent medical conditions to make themselves stand out somehow.

I've seen it many, many times and it annoys the crap out of me. There's always someone who is like "Well, I'VE got this thing where it it's a sunny day and the moon is also visible, coupled with a wind speed of over 10km/h and it's a Friday, my left eye twitches. How weird is THAT!"

I've been diagnosed with ADD, Aspergers, and depression. I also have a lot of anxiety, but apparently not to the point that it can be called a disorder. This makes it incredibly difficult for me to start tasks, and complete them on time. I also have a lot of trouble communicating verbally and visually (ie body language). I also tend to obsess, and have some nervous habits that crop up regularly (mostly playing with my hair).

The oddest thing, though, is that my obsessions come and go, seemingly in waves, and it's completely unpredictable what I may become obsessed with. Now that I'm older, these waves are shorter in duration and less frequent. As such, I no longer have, and perhaps never truly had, a focus like most others who have been diagnosed with Aspergers. In fact, I was pretty confident they'd say I didn't have aspergers when I went in for the diagnosis. I guess they focus more on the communication problems than the obsessive issues.

The only thing I've had a lasting obsession with (over 5 years in duration) is with robots, lately of the giant variety. Even then, it's not that bad, I just find myself daydreaming about them regularly.

Yeah, I have also become a little weary of people who claim to be 'slightly dyslexic', 'sightly autistic', or even 'slightly bi-polar' (how can you be slightly inclined to veer to extremes of mania and depression?)

I was diagnosed with being on the autistic spectrum when I was 4 years old. I didn't speak until I was 7, and spent 10 years in special needs schools. If you like, I've 'done my time'.

So yeah, it is annoying when someone says they're mildly autistic because they watch Battlestar Galactica a lot.

Well, my behaviour makes me believe I must have something, but meh I have never cared enough to visit a doctor about it.

I'm must also wear glasses, tha counts right?

I'm just weird.
By the way, there is no such thing as free health care. The money for government health care has to come from somewhere. That somewhere is YOUR pockets.

To be fair, the autism spectrum is pretty wide and varied.

OCD is another good one. I don't think most people actually understand what OCD is.

Just because you like to keep your games in alphabetical order doesn't mean you have OCD. It just means you like to be organised.

Do you mean if the new health care system is repealed by the Republican Party, or if Obama's bill is implemented fully?

I'm a bit nearsighted, I laugh at inappropriate times(Example, in the middle of church) for no real reason sometimes, and I'm not all that great at being social sometimes; I'll say/do something and then realize that it wasn't a good idea when I'm around other people, or even on a chatbox. A lot. Really, I think most people think I'm somewhat crazy. I have this weird way of thinking about everything that's hard to explain. It's not really too much of a disability, but sometimes it's hard for me to get along with other people, because they don't know what I'm talking about.