#processing disorder

[fuckedupfemmebot]

Where are all the "slow" kids, the challenged kids, the burnouts from birth, the burden to have in class? Where are the autists who can't mask, who self harm, who are loud and can't stop stimming? The NDs with processing disorders, brain damage, brain fog? The ones with down syndrome, FAS, and other conditions that people treat like curses or defects. I hardly ever see them past 18 and I know they don't just dissolve once they become adults.

[justplainsimon]

me: "Dammit! I forgot that person's name, like, right after they told me!!"

"Aw man, what was that place's address again??"

"Great, now I forgot what i was gonna do today, right after i spent all of yesterday talking about it!"

The Humble Padparadscha:

[yoztromo]

It is so upsetting being someone who has a processing disorder, loves to talk, and loves to write. It takes so long for me to be able to write things and catch up in conversations and I constantly miss understand tone. I also constantly forget words even though English is my only language.

[deadlydelicious]

maybe don't correct my use of the term 'learning disability' to 'learning difference' right in the middle of me talking about how my learning disability makes job hunting harder...

i'm actively telling you how my invisible disability creates an unconscious bias in written assignments (overly formal or pedantic language often gets flagged as being AI) and social situations, and you correct my term for my own disability?! to a weak ass term that is often used to minimize the stress and impact of said disability?! COULD YOU NOT BRO

like I ALSO hate the term learning disability (for the learning part though. I feel it's part of what perpetuates the whole 'learning disabilities only affect children' phenomena. I prefer the term processing disability/disorder) but that's my fucking term for my fucking disability, and redrawing the line as 'learning difference' is part of what perpetuates the belief that learning disabilities are not 'real' disabilities that need accommodations

[spellcasting-jester]

Coming to terms with the concept of being disabled has been a very difficult journey for me. I used to hate “special provisions” and everything that came along with my disabilities. I needed to prove myself, I needed to show everyone I was just as good without any help. But that’s such a dangerous concept, because it implies with my ability aids, with medication or with any help at all I am lesser than. And that ripples out into so many aspects of my life and other peoples lives, I didn’t take any pain killers when I had my period for YEARS as a teenager because I didn’t think I was allowed to.

And now, even when I don’t “feel disabled” I am. When I want to go out I have to go through my whole OCD routine bullshit, I have to see if my anxiety is manageable, if my depression is, if my constant headache is ignorable or debilitating, if my asthma is bad because of weather conditions ect.

This is my life. And I need help in order to live it, to even be on an even playing field. That’s not something to be ashamed of, or refuse help over.

[lyingwithyou]

Need to watch the barbie movie again. First watch is to just see the movie second watch is to feel the movie

[disability-can-be]

Does anyone use an AAC phone app? Specifically iOS but any recs are lovely

[alex2xander]

Kitty with audio soup

This is about my audio processing disorder <3