#processing disorders

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[nightinghoul]

I have visual processing issues and also am often very dissociated and disoriented, which makes me do things like answering on the wrong posts, and just missing big blocks of information that are right directly in my face, and it makes it seem to outsiders like I don't know how anything works. But I do. I do know how things work. I'm just not entirely here.

[lore-gore]

When we say make theatre more accessible, we don't just mean for physically disabled people but mentally disabled people as well.

Allowing actors to step aside and process a direction is just as important as putting in ramps.

I say this as someone who was made to feel guilty for asking for time to process a big change because "if a director tells you to do it, you do it." But I couldn't do it. I was freezing up. I was unable to perform. I'm not being stubborn or disrespectful. I. Am. Disabled. And I need to be accommodated.

[thegreatspacehobo]

I want to share something. In school, everyone just assumes you know what counterclockwise means once you knew what a clock was. From kindergarten, no one explained to me how to apply this practically. They assumed, why wouldn't you know?

Well as someone with ADHD, dyslexia, and just a general processing disorder.... I never did. So I felt stupid and frustrated, I had to develop a little cheat sheet that half the time just didn't work.

I always felt embarrassed and like I was stupid when someone casually thrown out the instruction oh just go counterclockwise.

Then my step dad was teaching me how to change a tire... and I got a bit confused when he told me to turn counterclockwise.

And I got upset, which just makes all this even harder. But he didn't get upset or make a thoughtless comment, or make me feel stupid that I am a grown ass adult and got confused at the basic direction of counterclockwise.

He told me, it's okay, take a breath. Look at the tire, picture a clock, you see how the hands tick away? Right, right, right. Now just take that imagine, and make it go in reverse. That's counterclockwise.

He turned counterclockwise from a word into a solid visualization.

Simple, obvious, why would you need to explain that?

But it changes my life. It gave me a tool to understand these things that seem a given for everyone else. But sometimes you need it explained in the way your brain works. That's what my step dad said to me anyway.

[rainbowbutterfly26]

I am so mad at my brain sometimes!

I just want to listen to a podcast or a book, but unless I have somthing visual to interact with as well, like a video of the people talking, or a printed copy of the book, my brain won't keep up with the dialog. And why not??? Other brains can do it! Why not mine?!

I'm pretty smart, and I'm good at a lot of things, but why does my brain have to make it harder to learn those things. I get so discouraged when it takes me an hour to read something my friends can read and respond to in 20 minutes.

I know I'm smart. I know I'm unique. I know I have a lot to offer. I just... I wish it was easier for me to do the things others do so simply.

It would be nice.

[tfw-adhd]

[800-dick-pics]

no to be that bitch

but as a dyslexic is so hard when yall be censoring words with these bitches ******

like if your post says a slur you reclaim, or a common trigger, fine

but stop censoring words that arent harmful/acronyms because youre making your post very unreadable/inaccessible

[nightinghoul]

Sometimes I just feel droopy, even though I took my meds. I'm not depressed. My body is just at rest without my consent.

There are times I feel angry that I was overlooked growing up. There are times I wish I had been diagnosed. That I wish I had been tutored. Times I wish I would have had accommodations.

I get angry, wondering what I could have become. I get angry with anyone who ever told me I didn’t want things enough. I get sad, sitting inside my body that won't move, wondering what I could have become in that one bright moment when I was able bodied.

I try to just let it go. I do what I can right now with what I have. I'm grateful for all the support I have. Grateful I still have my mind. Grateful that I am myself. I tell myself, what I could have been might have been amazing. But what I was was good enough. And what I am is changing.