Is anyone else LD or Learning Disabled?

[JohnKleeb]

I am. Just wondering who else is. To answer some stuff, no it doesn't bother me, and I conceal it well I think, I am widely known in my classes like Government for knowing shit and being really smart, and naturally we have other Learning Disabled people in there who I like as people but I really wanna shmack when they use their LD as an excuse, so I like to tell all the people who think and say oh you're so smart at so and so, well I am LD ya know, you shouldn't use it as an excuse.

[HEyHEY]

1. Here

ADD, and dyslexia, which isn't a problem anymore

[JohnKleeb]

2. You too eh?

Hey I think I am ADD too, plus have pseudo-dyslexia. Dude no offense but I had a suspicion :).

[HEyHEY]

3. Wanna go ride bikes!

[JohnKleeb]

4. I have a hangover!

so no. Oh and I am gonna be in a local paper, no not as a reporter but the interviewed, I got interviewed yesterday at the football game not about the game but about my politics and why I am involved, I'll come across dumb though lol.

[samwisefoxburr]

5. I have...

...ADD and Asperger's Syndrome.

[JohnKleeb]

6. I have Asperger's too!

[flyingfysh]

7. my stepson is bipolar and epileptic

He moved out of the house after threatening to kill his sister. We had the police remove a large collection of weapons from his room.

We managed to get him through high school, but had to sue the city to have him educated at a school at a nearby mental hospital.

He's off his medication, and we don't know what he is going to do about health insurance.

Bush would say that obviously disabled people like him are just "lazy".

[JohnKleeb]

9. Thats different actually sorry

Sorry about your stepson really. Bush I bet you're right would call people like me, him, and others "lazy" yet I wouldn't be surprised if he himself has some of these disablities, when I argue against Bush and for Kerry or Gore as I did in 2000 with fellow LD people, I mention that the republicans want to cut special ed and that they're against reducing class size if you did the opposite, classes would be less tedious for them, it sucks, I knew one in 2000 that supported Bush and he was LD, nice guy but so misguided and another this year both great people but who are supporting the guy who doesn't have their best interests.

[DebJ]

13. My son is bp. Why is your stepson off of his medication?

Is it euphoria/mania and he doesn't want to be on meds? Or lack of funds? This is extremely dangerous both for him and the community.

One major producer of drugs, Pfeizer, recently announced that they will get meds to people in such conditions.

My son is now 22, and in a blessing of a program that miraculously got him on SSDI in six months, and takes his SSDI check and pays his rent, utilities, and shared household supplies with his roommate in a townhouse....so he can blow any money he is able to earn, and still have a roof over his head. Medical assistance through the state provides his meds and psychiatric visits. When he DOES work, when he is able, they also take 50% of his gross pay...so he earns only about $3.50 per hour less social security and medicare tax. Since his knee is literally disintegrating, our interest in him maintaining a job is more for psychological balance/input with the outside world, rather than for financial reasons....he only ends up with about $40 a week when he is able to work.
He lives in Maryland.

[miss_kitty]

17. I think we can thank 'Saint' Ronald Reagan for a lot of the mess

your stepson is in. I am so sorry for the situation your family finds themselves in. Here's hoping a solution for your stepson and others suffering from the same afflictions can be implemented.

[DebJ]

8. Doesn't it depend upon what the LD actually is? For example,

one can have dsylexia, where reading is difficult, but to my understanding, outside of reading, comprehension is not affected.

Then you have those like many, many in my husband's classes over the past 19 years, whose parents are serious drug addicts, and abused drugs while the child was still in the womb. These children have some extreme issues. Last year, one child simply could not, after seven years of schooling, read the word 'if'. This year, one child is struggling with the word 'the'. Many can not do multiplication of even the tens' place as yet, and division is beyond them....and I know their math teacher from last year, and she is often at school from 7:30 am until 9:00 at night. Due to her excessive devotion, she is delighted with the progress of one student from last year, and others gained some ground...but there are others where, after years of trying, success still remains elusive. And it is not that they do not try.
LD is a very broad category.

[JohnKleeb]

11. LD is very broad yes

I don't have anything except Aspergers to my knowledge, but I do have a learning disablity. Actually, learning disabilities, the exact cause of them is unknown, though some do say it may stem from the mother's habits during the pregancy, I don't know if thats true or not because I experienced my mom being pregant as recent as 4 years ago and she didnt drink or smoke, and I dont think she did anything when I was in the womb, maybe drank but she unlike my dad never smoked really.

[miss_kitty]

18. It could have been an environmental factor

like mercury in fish, stuff in air pollution, that sort of thing.

[JohnKleeb]

19. hmmmm

I dont know really. I doubt it was air pollution, my mom wasn't spending a lot of time in industrial cities, nor were we near a water source, a small lake I think though maybe. Now, if this stuff is heredital then it may make sense, my Dad has never been diagnosed with ADD but he is for sure he has it, he went to Catholic school and they didn't pay attention to those kinds of things then so they never got him diagnosed.

[Spiffarino]

10. Two brothers are

On is dyslexic, the other has severe bipolar disorder and OCD. It's a difficult life. So much prejudice...

[JohnKleeb]

I know, thats why I try to do the best I can

I impress people with what I know yet then I hear them calling people stupid who have disablities.

[Spiffarino]

21. Unbelievable

...that people can be so stupid and narrow-minded toward people who have LDs. I watched the younger of my brothers go through hell all through school.

He was mainstreamed early and it made things worse for him socially. He took a lot of grief from the mean kids. Good thing he is strong as a bull and tough as shoe leather, or it would have been unbearable. He had to kick a lot of asses before they finally let up on him.

[JohnKleeb]

22. Thats good, he fought back

[Deja Q]

12. I've ADD, but I think there's more to it than just that

Memory, forgetfulness, concentration issues... I'm smart and can do the work, but any certification test kills me. I don't understand how people speak and come to the wrong conclusions... articulation can be a problem too, as is general thought process. (I can think 'inwards' but have trouble seeing 'the whole picture', so don't expect me to become a manager or supervisor anytime soon. :-) )

[proud patriot]

14. My son

He's doing great now that we have acknowledged
and accept his disability . He's excelling in his
studies and learning to adapt to his challenges .

I'm so proud of him , and myself for being able
help him achieve and be the best he can be .

:loveya:

[JohnKleeb]

15. Thats great

I wish I had realized what I was gonna have to deal with in HS though before I started, because I've both suceeded and failed in a lot.

[Gyre]

16. I'm in agreement.

You and others like you just have to work harder to succeed. But since you don't know any other way, it shouldn't be a problem. People have all kinds of disabilities. Some real and some imaginary. Some are organic and some are the result of bad-parenting or circumstances.

Excuses for failure, or not working hard are not helpful to anybody; particularly to people the labels are applied to. Labels; like LD, are not helpful. The conditions they describe are not new. People have had disabilities forever. What they do accomplish is to provide excuses with a half-assed aura of legitimacy.

People, regardless of their baggage, either decide they're going to succeed and do it, or they whine about their disabilities and take up space on the planet w/o contributing anything and taking up resources better spent on those who strive to make a life worth living for themselves. Let's face it; living as a grown-up is difficult unless you're a trust-funder, and THEN you've got problems stemming from never having earned anything.

Gyre

[ulysses]

20. that's enlightened.

But since you don't know any other way, it shouldn't be a problem.

Allow me to suggest that you don't know what you're talking about.

Learning disabilities shouldn't be used as excuses for failure, no, but to suggest that all it takes is a little more effort is ignorant.

[tblue37]

23. I tutor people of all ages with LDs,

in addition to teaching college English. I also have a website about ADD/ADHD that you might find interesting, especially one article entitled "Learning Disabilities, Learning Differences, and Giftedness." Here is the link to the site if you want to check it out:

"A Flea Hopping through the Pages of an Encyclopedia"
http://www.hyperfast.homestead.com/index.html

Oh, and by the way, I also have ADHD--and I wouldn't give it up for the world. I consider it the engine that drives my creativity.

On edit: Oops, sorry. I originally gave the title of my Deaf/Hard of Hearing website. (I am also severely hearing impaired.) That's fixed now--the mistaken title, not the hearing impairment.