what are somethings that disabled you from certain things
i cant walk much because my left knees tendons and legaments are worn bad which causes my knee cap to slide up and down

Weak right leg due to a skateboard injury back when I was 14. Have a artificial hip because of it. Don't know what caused this, but I have limited mobility in my right hand, can only move my thumb and next two fingers independantly. Also have a very weak grasp with that hand. Guess I have some nerve damage for one reason or another. Other than that I have ADHD. Was one of my doctor's worst cases when I was young, and now he claims I am a unbelievable turn around, requiring no medication at the age of 19. That's pretty much it for me. By the way. With my hand the way it is, learning my own way to type was a blast. Though annoying as it was, it amazes people seeing my hands flying all over the keyboard and me still knowing what I am dong.

fibromyalgia. It svcks.

Well I broke my legs on two separate occasions and since then I sometimes have pains in my legs that cripple me for a couple of secs, its like a surge of pain that passes through and disappears, I don't seem to recall anything else at the moment.

A car ran over me when I broke my leg for the first time and the second time I just fell in a really weird way...

Not permanent, But when I was disabled after a longboard accident and in a full leg cast, it was like hell, the cast would slide down and pull on my incisions, get really, really hot (couldnt sleep at night), crutches and wheelchair were a pain. That was only a couple months ago too. Its still a bit weak and tends to get stuck at a certain angle till I move it and it gives a pop. I have ADHD, though I have it pretty much under control. Thats about it.

I've had various injuries that have temporarily hampered me, but haven't prevented me from doing anything. The most serious of these was my torn ACL (and partial on just about every other knee ligament) - repaired now. Dislocated shoulder and numerous collarbone injuries are much more minor.

Though I am blind in my left eye, which I suppose is a quantifiable disability. Though all it means is I've got a special condition on my driver's license. Meh.

I have spine problems (mild scoliosis mainly) which prevent me from standing for longer than 30 minutes to an hour without experiencing a huge amount of pain that will only go away once I sit down for a number of minutes. If I try to fight it instead of sitting down I start getting confused and disoriented. This also means that carrying anything heavy wears me out a lot quicker than it normally would, so even carrying 20 pounds of school stuff is exhausting. While it doesn't exactly prevent me from doing most activities it does mean that varying degrees of pain will be involved.

I can't see you! Come closer!


Cue annoyance from people I know when I pass them on the street without seeing them, because I can't make out faces very well.

Another one with scolioliolioliolis here, which means my top and bottom halves don't line up, although not very noticeably. Apart from that it's not really problematic other than some shoulder twinges.

I also have chronic idiocy, though I'm not sure that counts as a physical condition unless my other half allows me to play with the scissors.

Not really, I...

...Wait. *removes glasses* Does not being able to see my keyboard from 5 inches away count?

Yowch. That does svck. I'm sorry to hear that. :hug:

As for me...well, it's a long story, but suffice to say that I made the poor life choice of hauling a http://compreviews.about.com/od/deskreplace/gr/CompaqX6000.htm slung over one shoulder, in a laptop bag, through Heathrow and a good chunk of London, including on the Tube. (Hauling the laptop was a poor life choice, I mean. Going to England definitely wasn't.) That shoulder's never really been the same since. :facepalm:

I didn't dislocate it or anything, but I think there was some muscle/nerve damage, or something got pinched that shouldn't have. Can't do much heavy lifting, and if I sit wrong at my desk or strain it the wrong way while exercising or whatever, I'm in for a world of hurt. It has gotten better with some strengthening and stretching exercises (it used to hurt almost all the time), but it's still not 100%.

Edit: Also I'm blind as a bat without my contacts/glasses. Unless you're four inches or so away from my face. Then I can see you fine!

Nothing. Despite being diabetic, and having thyroid disease and PCOS, I can pretty do what I set my mind to. IF that happens to be mowing the lawn, lifting heavy loads, moving furniture, biking ten miles round trip to the grocery and carrying the groceries back on the bicycle, to helping my handi-capable husband on the many home improvement projects he does. That man does not allow his disability (the most severe form of spina bifida there is) to define who he is. It is annoying, however, keeping up with him, and when of course, his physical limitations slow things down. He is not invincible. He inevitably gets his goal accomplished, though. Gotta admire that.


also at chronic idiocy, Vometia. I too have had that affliction on multiple occasions.

I don't want to be giving medical advice, because then this thread would get locked. But just an advice for you people with fibromyalgia and back pain problems, those are classical manifestations of Tension Myositis Syndrome, a psychossomatic "disorder" (it doesn't mean the pain is phony). Search for it on google, there are many books about this (Dr. Sarno is the physician who discovered TMS), forums and people's recovery stories. I myself had TMS too, that was manifestated by "repetitive strain injury", and I recovered 100%. This is not a placebo cure, it's only because of the ignorance of the medical community that this diagnosis isn't being done in a large scale.
I can assure you 99.9% of those problems have a psychossomatic cause, if you don't believe me just do a little search

I've got bad knees. My Achilles tendons are too short, and it puts strain on my whole leg and knee. It makes running painful and difficult, and I can't got for long before my legs start to seize up. This could potentially go away with time, though. Other than this and slightly bad eyes, not much. I consider myself quite lucky. :shrug:

I've dislocated my shoulder three times in the past. Shoulder is better now due to stretches and the like due to therapy class I had to attend. I try not to carry excess nor heavy weight with the arm. I sleep in a better way and pattern. While I don't see this as a disability, I do feel bad and sorry for the unfortunate people who do have it worse.

Well, I don't remember what it's called, but I have a thing that my blood can gush out for a good while. Ironically, I have enough blood to donate to five families.

Edit: I'm exaggerating, but I do have an unusually large amount of blood.

I periodically get chest pains, which can be quite debilitating.
My neck starts to ache randomly, which can make it painful to look down.
Does being near-sighted count?

This post is full of some of my favorite pet peeves, such as giving people armchair medical advice over the internet, disrespecting the experienced doctor(s) who diagnosed the people you're giving armchair medical advice to, and going on about what is essentially a conspiracy theory, substituting "they don't want you to find out" with "they're too ignorant to find out for themselves." So I'm sure you can understand why I'm kindly asking you to stop coming into a thread where people talk about the real pain they experience in their lives and belittling it with information you got from Google.

Indeed. You can't play WASD games, correct? :nope:


That's the spirit! I hope I can have the same attitude when I'm older, after living such a decadent and carefree life.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemophilia

Most likely.

Can't really think of anything, umm I have to wear glasses but I can still see.

Wow , really makes you count your blessings!

I don't think it's crazy. Believe me, I know how much of a kick conspiracy theorists and believers in fringe medicine get when you call their beliefs crazy. No, instead I'm purposely ignoring what you're pushing because you clearly don't know what you're talking about. You've called my scoliosis "back pain" twice, which is as horrendously disrespectful as looking at a guy in a wheelchair and saying he just has leg pain. You expect me to listen to your preaching when you do something like that? Where do you get off preaching fringe medicine to people in pain when you can't even take the time to research the afflictions you're so eager to belittle? I've never seen you on the forum before, but this, coupled with also belittling the pain Alaisiagae has to go through, has already made my respect for you absolutely plummet. Maybe the treatment you're pushing is as miraculous as you claim, but I don't care. I don't care because I no longer care about your opinion. There are ways to successfully preach to people, and your strategy is not one of them. You're not doing anyone favors by preaching in this thread, and I'll ask again, please stop doing it.

I have had to conspire with my brother-in-law and father-in-law to help accomplish home improvement projects because I am afraid my unstoppable and sometimes accident prone husband will injure himself. Which then has complications not only for his physical heatlh, but affects his self esteem. Which is a shame, because he's quite a good handyman.



One of my colleagues has fibromyalgia, my condolences Alaisagae. It's a very real, and very painful condition, and AFAIK, there is no cure.

To Antibody: You've made me see how having the broad musculature, and strenght that goes along with PCOS is a blessing. I couldn't imagine not being able to carry twenty pounds and it cause me so much pain that it affected me as profoundly as it does you. That sounds terrible.
When I want something heavy moved, I move it. My husband has spinal and nerve issues, and he can't always feel pain, which can be a bad thing, because he can severely injure himself, as he has done lifting heavy objects.

I have horrid eye vision.

That's about it.

Sorry I didn't read your first post well, I don't know about your condition so I'm not gonna tell you what it is and what it's not, shouldn't have done that. Fibromyalgia has a psychossomatic cause though. And I wouldn't call this "preaching", I'd call this telling the truth. So I'm not preaching to you now, you can just ignore