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Uli Send message Joined: 6 Feb 00 Posts: 10923 Credit: 5,996,015 RAC: 1 |
Do 2 young kids count? Pluto will always be a planet to me. Seti Ambassador Not to late to order an Anni Shirt |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
I'm with Uli on this. LOL Carlos! You have my deepest, most heartfelt sympathy!!! |
jason_gee Send message Joined: 24 Nov 06 Posts: 7489 Credit: 91,093,184 RAC: 0 |
Paraplegic since age 3, occasional mild depression, asthma and chronic OCD (OverClocker's Disorder.)... [I guess, being both an engineer(electronic) & a scientist(computer) may count as a form of syndrome of some sort... probably far more debilitating than the physical ones...] "Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions. |
Monday Send message Joined: 24 Sep 05 Posts: 9676 Credit: 20,067,888 RAC: 12 |
I have median nerve damage in my left hand and some brain damage from dropping out of trees on my head. :) |
Blurf Send message Joined: 2 Sep 06 Posts: 8962 Credit: 12,678,685 RAC: 0 |
This thread has gone fat beyond the "Disabled: Yes or No" original premise so I thought I'd post more. Someone said they thought it was because of their disability that they were here-that idea has stuck with me for some reason. Yes if you're limited to the home because of your disability, forums are a huge outlet but I just don't see the disability as a primary reason for being here (or on any forum). |
perryjay Send message Joined: 20 Aug 02 Posts: 3377 Credit: 20,676,751 RAC: 0 |
(And, perry, wouldn't that be "...too much time NOT wearing earplugs..."?) Nope, wore the earplugs to protect my hearing but because of them and the noises I had to sort of read lips to tell what someone was saying. Now I still do it even without the noise. Most Arty or Airwing types will tell you the same anyone that's worked in very loud areas. PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
Do 2 young kids count? It doesn't count until at least one of them is a teenager. Reality Internet Personality |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
I think the people who bring up children are confusing disability and liability. I still have one liability living at home, never considered either of them a disability. But seriously, thanks to everyone for opening up in this thread. It all reminds me of how blessed I am, and how truly minor all my problems are. |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
I think the people who bring up children are confusing disability and liability. I agree with you on that Bill, I know I have very little to complain about compared to so many others. My friend and neighbour has two children, her oldest was born with a severe chromosomal disability and has the mental age of a 3 month old baby. He is 11 years old and will never walk or talk. He can hardly see and is deaf. Yet his mother loves him and he brings joy to her life. Her youngest has ADHD and oppositional defiance disorder and I also think he has Aspergers tendencies. He simply doesn't have an off switch. I am reminded everyday how lucky I am. Reality Internet Personality |
Jim_S Send message Joined: 23 Feb 00 Posts: 4705 Credit: 64,560,357 RAC: 31 |
I really don't see having children as a disability. Although I can see where they could be annoying at times. If They were/are disabled that would count. I know that in the past here we had quite a number of disabled posters. Some of them sadly have passed on and I Know we have more Handicapable folks here who haven't posted. So I will wait a while yet to see who else posts before closing this thread. Thanks to those who have posted as it gives me an idea of the demographics of our current posters. Jim Scott |
Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0 |
. . . as you know my friend [Jim] - won Fully Favorable Case w/ Federal Courts recently [front-end collision in 1999 & rear-ended in 2000 @ 58 MPH while sitting @ a stoplight] < end results w/ severe Disintegrative Disc Disease in upper cervical & lumbar regions - workin' on my person w/ sEMG Clinical equipment awarded to me via the courts - will 'arrest' the disintegration and then work on getting baCk to my usual top-notch shape - though with the realization that i can never be that which i was previously . . [and i shall be seeing the Supreme Court in Washington DC in the not-too-distant future - recallin' the faCt that i have a 'Fully Favorable' Decision that that case is standin' on - i've already won there as well . . . ;)] BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . |
wheelieslug Send message Joined: 8 Jul 03 Posts: 38 Credit: 3,688,407 RAC: 0 |
As I mentioned elsewhere - Stroke Survivor. To be more accurate, Multiple Stroke survivor. had my first at 39, and I'm a tad over 50 now. Oddly proud of it :) Tho' quite what, I'm not sure of. Not having strokes as such, though I'm pleased to hear it wasn't anything I've done. I think it's because I've been a bit "Jack and Jill". I've fallen down that hill so many times, and scrambled back up again, losing a bit, but learning so much, much more every time. :) That's enabled me to advise others a great deal less fortunate than myself. Quite humbling. |
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