If you *actually have* a physical disability, what is it?

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Choose the most severe physical disability that applies to you. Blank vote if none apply.

Hearing impairment (Moderate to severe in one or both ears)
79
8%
Deafness (Profound in one ear)
21
2%
Deafness (Profound in both ears)
24
3%
Muteness
35
4%
Low vision (Correctable to 20/70-20/200)
437
46%
Legal blindness (Not correctable to 20/200)
36
4%
Blindness (Total in one eye)
43
4%
Disabled/amputated arm or hand
20
2%
Disabled/amputated leg or foot
48
5%
Other (specify) (NOT including mental or milder physical disabilities)
215
22%
 
Total votes: 958

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Do you often bump your head on door thresholds?

Do people tend to immediately notice your height or do they only realize it when they get right up next to you and have to look up to see your chin?
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Caesius wrote:Do you often bump your head on door thresholds?

Do people tend to immediately notice your height or do they only realize it when they get right up next to you and have to look up to see your chin?
Yeah I often end up hitting my head when just walking around so I have to pay attention or "thud"

People almost always notice the height if I'm standing near other people. One funny thing that often happens is if I'm with my boyfriend and someone approaches us from behind. They'll often think he's a girl and I'm a man.
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Goddammit, I wanted to vote for low vision but firefox thinks I voted 'foot/leg amputated'
Must be because of all those add-onns I got running at the same time. LAG FTL
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Looks to me as if most people here voted for low vision, I wonder if this is going to become the norm in a few decades. With more and more people getting a computer, I wouldn't be surprised. I mean, I have this friend who is 16 years old. And he's legally blind. And I mean Kenji legally blind. He has really strong lenses though, so all is well for now.
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kobe wrote:Looks to me as if most people here voted for low vision, I wonder if this is going to become the norm in a few decades. With more and more people getting a computer, I wouldn't be surprised. I mean, I have this friend who is 16 years old. And he's legally blind. And I mean Kenji legally blind. He has really strong lenses though, so all is well for now.
I think it's more those people now surviving to propagate, increased exposure to certain things (both light and chemical) and more people being diagnosed than ever before.
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I'm autistic, which rather skews my senses. Sounds that no one else reacts to causes me pain, and my tactile abilities are so sensitive I can feel my pulse without using my fingers (fun parlor trick) and rub my throat raw from breathing (utterly sucky.) My balance and coordination also suffer, but the plus is that I'm very resistant to motion sickness. I also have disgraphia, which is arguably physical as it affects my ability to old a pen and write quickly, coherently and legibly. Plus I get seizures.
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Nearsightedness, but it seems to be fully correctable. Other than that, my left pointer finger is shorter than my other fingers and slightly deformed at the tip. It's never held me back (in fact, I play StepMania with it, hehu), so whatever.

Oh, and my doctor is still trying to find out exactly what it is, but my right eye doesn't work properly (apparently not a lazy eye) so my left eye is the eye I mainly look out of. I can switch my vision to my right eye (somewhat) without closing my left, but I can't force myself to see equally out of both. If I'm looking out of my left eye, I can VERY slightly see out of my right eye, but I can only get a general idea of what I'm seeing. I guess it's like a second peripheral vision.

Anyways, blank voted because my vision is fully correctable and none of this stuff has ever held me back. I just felt it was worth a mention.
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PiePersonOfDOOM wrote:Nearsightedness, but it seems to be fully correctable. Other than that, my left pointer finger is shorter than my other fingers and slightly deformed at the tip. It's never held me back (in fact, I play StepMania with it, hehu), so whatever.

Oh, and my doctor is still trying to find out exactly what it is, but my right eye doesn't work properly (apparently not a lazy eye) so my left eye is the eye I mainly look out of. I can switch my vision to my right eye (somewhat) without closing my left, but I can't force myself to see equally out of both. If I'm looking out of my left eye, I can VERY slightly see out of my right eye, but I can only get a general idea of what I'm seeing. I guess it's like a second peripheral vision.

Anyways, blank voted because my vision is fully correctable and none of this stuff has ever held me back. I just felt it was worth a mention.
I think my cousin has something like that. He can't focus his eyes very well. But in his case it's related to some kind of general muscle defect so... perhaps it isn't so similar.
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Minister of Gloom wrote:
PiePersonOfDOOM wrote:Nearsightedness, but it seems to be fully correctable. Other than that, my left pointer finger is shorter than my other fingers and slightly deformed at the tip. It's never held me back (in fact, I play StepMania with it, hehu), so whatever.

Oh, and my doctor is still trying to find out exactly what it is, but my right eye doesn't work properly (apparently not a lazy eye) so my left eye is the eye I mainly look out of. I can switch my vision to my right eye (somewhat) without closing my left, but I can't force myself to see equally out of both. If I'm looking out of my left eye, I can VERY slightly see out of my right eye, but I can only get a general idea of what I'm seeing. I guess it's like a second peripheral vision.

Anyways, blank voted because my vision is fully correctable and none of this stuff has ever held me back. I just felt it was worth a mention.
I think my cousin has something like that. He can't focus his eyes very well. But in his case it's related to some kind of general muscle defect so... perhaps it isn't so similar.
I had muscle surgery when I was five, but it didn't actually do anything. Maybe they thought it was what he had.
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Does lung cancer count? I was declared "treated" last week. Now I'm missing half of my left lung :/
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sonnysonny wrote:Does lung cancer count? I was declared "treated" last week. Now I'm missing half of my left lung :/
You... Had cancer? Holy fuck. I hope it didn't metastasise or anything :/

Oh wait, lung cancer? Are you a smoker?
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one does not necessarily have to be a smoker to get lung cancer.
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Smoku wrote:one does not necessarily have to be a smoker to get lung cancer.
But I want to know if he is a smoker, because smoking is a common cause of lung cancer.
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Esa94 wrote:Oh wait, lung cancer? Are you a smoker?
No. My parents and grandparents are though. I also do lots of spray painting without a mask, as well as sit around in gas masks with asbestos ridden filters in them.
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sonnysonny wrote:
Esa94 wrote:Oh wait, lung cancer? Are you a smoker?
No. My parents and grandparents are though. I also do lots of spray painting without a mask, as well as sit around in gas masks with asbestos ridden filters in them.
well there's your problem. if you got lung cancer than I think a new gas mask or two is a good idea.
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