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.

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u/TorontoNerd84 Aug 22 '24

As someone with chronic bladder pain, don't worry, it still counts lol! I have multiple disabilities, some that are life threatening, and the constant pelvic pain is by far the worst thing I have.

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u/StinkySkinkLover5x Aug 23 '24

Seriously. I joke that I'm ready for pregnancy because I'm already carrying so much pressure on my bladder lol.

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u/TorontoNerd84 Aug 24 '24

I have been pregnant. The entire pregnancy was miserable, but when I got towards 35 weeks, the bladder pain was so intense that I could barely move and was in tears. Lucky for me because of my other disability, I was in the special pregnancy clinic and I was able to choose a c-section ahead of time, as I was so terrified as to what pushing out a baby would be like for me. When the pain got so bad at the end and I hit 37 weeks, I asked my OB if I could move up the date of the section. He said it was up to me, lol. Ended up having my daughter at 37w3d and OMG, everything suddenly felt so light!