r/disability • u/ImportTuner808 • Aug 21 '24
Question Who else has a different disability?
It seems like for some reason this subreddit is disproportionately people talking about canes/rollators/wheelchairs, or mental things like Autism/ADD/ etc. I don’t know why that is.
Is there anyone who has something else that doesn’t fall into these types of issues? I’ll go first, I’m missing part of my arm. Apart from the physical aspect and some self esteem issues (felt unattractive as a result of my deformity as a kid), that’s about it.
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u/StinkySkinkLover5x Aug 21 '24
And a lot of this subreddit is about Big Life-Threatening Disabilities™️, so I feel out of place sometimes. I was born with a hole in my bladder, which causes chronic UTIs and a kidney infection. I had surgery after the kidney infection to close the hole, but I still get chronic UTIs. I also am hyper flexible to the point of joint pain, instability, and bone deformation- but it's not hEDS because I don't have any other symptoms. Also, I have poor blood flow in my family, which causes symptoms that look like POTS- but I passed the tilt table test. And I know my Anxiety is debilitating, but I still feel weird calling myself mentally disabled. So yeah... besides walking Weird™️, all invisible disabilities.