When most people think of impairments they think of someone who cannot walk, or talk or something that is visual. Typically the impairments that are under the hood often go unrecognized till you get older and yet people still do not understand. So what is the list of impairments you have and how they affect your life and how people react?

Not to mention some impairments to might have heard about but do not think is a big deal?

1) Low Blood pressure

- Sadly with our current health nut fitness trends in the United States...Sugar and Salt are being attacked and highly reduced to help people with High Blood Pressure to stop consuming foods with high salt and sugar.

- One thing people do not understand or even know there are people with 'Low Blood pressure"

- If we do not eat enough Salt or Sugar we can easily pass out and be affected for months with high fatigue or worse.

- I remember passing out on a train going to Midway Airport and my doctor tells me I need to eat more bags of potato chips.

- With bans of sugar and salt being that they negatively affect those who over eat those with Low Blood Pressure find it harder to find food they can eat to function.

- Most people think we are lazy or just do not want to do anything problem is we get fatigued very easily especially when we do not get enough salt.

2) Far Sided Sight

- Most people are near sided so seeing things far is a problem so most people understand people who cannot see things far away but those who are Far sided cannot see things up close well nor can they notice objects that are literally right in their face.

- I've always been able to see farther than most people in fact my vision is 15/20.

- Someone asks me to look for something and that its right in front of me I cannot notice it. Though I have glasses to help see things closer to me it doesn't help much and I typically have to feel around.

3) Left Handed

- Most right-handed people feel all left-handed people should be able to use right-handed objects well enough I always point to Zelda on the Wii. Link was left-handed in the demo and GC version but so many right-handed people found it so hard to hold the wiimote with their left hand and it made them so uncomfortable they literally inverted the world to make it look like Link was right-handed.

- Teachers often do not have the training to teach a left-handed person how to write so they typically develop sores and calluces.

- We often develop poor handwritering due to inexperienced teachers who cannot teach us how to write and often chided us as children http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/school-survey-handwriting.html

- All scissors, certain knives are molded for the right hand so left-handed children often are chided as children for poor arts and crafts. Till this day if you give me the wrong scissors chances are I might break them or I cannot use them because I am left-handed. When they suggest I use my right hand I suggest you try to use your left hand and tell me how it feels? They do not understand.

4) Tongue Tied

- Before the 1940s two things very common in the United States to do at birth is to circumcise a child and cut his or her tongue tie.

- Problem is the generation that was to young to go into World War II and to old to be apart of the baby boomer generation stopped performing the act of cutting a childs tongue tie at birth believing it not natural which has led to people of the baby boomer generation and this current one to think being tongue tied is a funny joke or phrase or a myth.

- Fact is being Tongue Tied (Ankyloglossia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankyloglossia) is very real has causes many speech problems that occur throughout life when people do not fix a child who is tongue tied.

Tongue tie laser removal surgery on an older advlt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOJXqOAnHvQ

- Being tongued tied means the tip of your tongue is literally attached to the bottom of your mouth. So sticking your tongue out, saying certain words, or even kissing is an issue.

- People who are tongue tied sometimes cannot prononce certain words and we use our teeth sometimes to pronounce words.

- If an advlt has a tongue tie removed some of his speech habits most likely will not change even though his tongue is free.

- Being tongue tied can make a person become antisocial or ruin that person's self esteem because he or she might not be able to talk correctly or pronounce certain words.

- My 5th grade teacher used to call my stupid in front of the class because I could not say the word she presented me on a card. Problem is I did not know I was tongue-tied cause I thought it was normal that people's tongue were attached to the top of their tongue.

I have a Speech Impairement it can be.......hard to deal with people sometimes.

I know that people with diabetes if they dont get enough glucose for long enough can act JUST LIKE a drunk and even somtimes get violent. IN criminal justice class we watched videos about cops using tesers and such on these people because they thought they where uncooperative drunks. Now most cops have like a bag of candy in their cars in-case someone has a diabetic indecent. I dont have it myself but its something to throw in this thread.

I write my letters weird.. Only thing I could think of..

I'm not sure if it's considered an impairment, but since you mentioned it: I'm left handed.

I have really ugly handwriting (at least to me, I've seen worse though) and people have told me before "You have some pretty bad handwriting for a perfectionist." and other things along those lines. I suppose it may be because I am left handed, I don't know. :s

irl I wRite Like this By cAptiLizing ceRtAin letteRs. I'm cool like that, but really it's an old habit.

Im left handed too. One of my instructors I will take next semester requires hand wiriten work. Im am currently researching technology on a typed to hand written machine.

I have Psoriasis... I just wish it was someplace else.

Was going to mention this one, but you already did. Most people really just don't understand the difficulties of a world where everything is designed for the convenience of people with a dominant right hand. Love it when someone asks why I always sit on the far left side of the lecture hall during class . . . those are the only seats with desks I can comfortable use!

Being left-handed is not a disability or impairment

During medieval days, we would be the highly regarded warriors, as staircases would wind clockwise in castles, to impair the ability of right-handed sword-wielding soldiers.

We are the master race.

Helllll yeah!

Left handed people have shorter lifespans then right handed people...so i would put that up there as an impairment.Something about the stress of living in a right handed world.Even using a hand operated can opener leaves them feeling left out and powerless about their affliction.

When I was being treated for cancer and my immunities were low I got shingles on the optic nerve of my right eye. I ended up losing most of the vision in it My eyes look fine and everything it's just my depth perception is about 20%. That's not something other people notice or anything but side effects of a bone marrow transplant is that your eyes get very dry and light sensitive. Due to this I sometimes where my glasses in stores with industrial artificial lighting like Walmart or something.

I've gotten [censored] from random people commenting on me wearing my glasses indoors. I was with my brother whom just got home from a tour in Irag and one guy was such an [censored] mumbling things under his breath that my brother pushed him up against an aisle.

Ahh Lefties! To the RightMobile! *speeds away in giant right hand....with a certain finger pointing out *

I'm left handed as well but it has never been an impairment.

Whole lotta lefties up in here.

You got a passenger seat in that "Rightymobile"?

It's not about me but my dad. He claims that he was born left-handed but in school (He grew up in the 60s) they made him write with his right hand. While I know left-handedness was frowned upon I think he just made that up to explain his atrocious handwriting.

People who had educated teachers and family members who can properly train a left handed person early in life how to write it can be a blessing. My son for example his mother is a wonderful teacher and made sure all his tools were molded for those with a left hand and how to teach him how to write correctly.

Not like that lol.. Lets say I start letters/numbers at different positions then a normal person's position.. Looks normal in the end, just if I write something while people watch, they normally comment on the matter..

Didn't they execute left-handed people and accuse them of witchcraft in 1692 during the Salem witch-hunt trials?

Poor lefties have been getting the business since the 17th century.

My knees are damaged, due to many years of sports. I need to undergo surgery in order to fix them, so right now I'm prone to knee injuries, and have problems lifting heavy objects or do lots of running.

I also have OCD, although I wouldn't consider it a disability or impairment. It makes my days more stressful than some people can imagine.

I'm left-handed too, and I remember my dad telling me how we were considered weird back in the day.. I haven't had to use many left-handed specific items though, but at least they're out there.

Aspergers is the only disability that I have that doesn't seem to be understood (I suppose I'm an introvert because of it, as I said in one such thread), as I like to keep to myself but sometimes I can't because of small social situations I have to go through. It's not that I don't like spending time with some relatives, I'm just a little different from them is all.



I'm not really worried about that, being that I'm not one to go out much.

My impairment is a lack of [censored]s to give for the depressed.

My dad said the same things.They used to rap their hands with a ruler if they caught them writing left-handed..the Nuns were so horrible..I had my collarbone fractured,going to a public school,and couldn't use my right arm for 6 months and i had to learn to write with my left hand.The writing was crap,but at the same time i had to learn how to open milk left handed or do any other number of day to day stuff..and today,because of that,i'm semi-ambidextrious..Even though i'm right handed i drink with my left.It's not such a bad thing.

This isn't really a disability or impairment, but my parents can't seem to wrap their heads around the fact that I am a computer nerd. It's friggin terrible.