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Re: Am I Disabled?

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Post by quercusa »

redis_mlc wrote: post #216
quercusa wrote: post #198

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The military treats ADHD the same way and won't take anyone who's used meds for it in the past year. That's the official line, anyway. In reality, recruiters tell candidates to lie about the meds ("everybody does it") and to stay off them long enough to pass the urine test.

1) If you're normal-weighted and can do the pushups, the recruiter will do a lot of effort on your behalf. 2) Because military recruiters are under tremendous pressure to get enlistments. They can be court-martialled if they miss quota.

My son was very turned off by being told "It's OK to lie about this to get in; everybody knows it's how the game is played."

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Post by MyHypatia »

Thorrez wrote: post #24

I'm colorblind and I always wonder if I should answer yes because of that.

I learned about colorblindness in a scientific visualization seminar. Before that seminar I wasn't aware that my choice of color scheme meant that some people couldn't interpret my plots. Now that I know, it's really easy to just google a colorblind friendly color palette and use that instead. I wish I had known earlier, and I hope that by people talking about it and hosting seminars like the one I attended it becomes a more standard practice.

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Post by sandworm101 »

igetspam wrote: post #218
sandworm101 wrote: post #139

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Parking lot? A truely motivated employee who cares about his job will sleep on a bedroll stored neetly under their desk. Mobility is only an issue for those slackers who choose to spend time away from the office. (I say this as i, in all honesty, will be sleeping on a couch at work this christmas. Im in the military. There are some few jobs that require literally sleeping in your office and i was just volunteered/vol…

It's not legal. The buildings are not zoned for housing. Google interns learned this the hard way. You are not allowed to sleep at a Google office for more than three days in a row and you must have a permanent residence on file. Shipping packages to the office is OK but personal mail is not. Unless those packages are big knives or empty shell casings for reloading. (That was learned by an acquaintance.)

My "company" is not subject to the same rules. For instance, there is not a single disabled person in my division. They are specifically banned through medical standards. We are very much allowed to sleep at work. Very often we have no choice in the matter.

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Post by gumby »

auganov wrote: post #226
kolinko wrote: post #133

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Good idea, will do it from now on. Black? Yes. White, yes. Potatoe? Yes. But seriously - these race questions seem wildly out of place in countries like Poland where 99% people are white, and sure there is racism, but there are better determinants for disadvantaged groups - like the place someone was born in, or family income.

Well, personally, I wouldn't want to be thought of as disadvantaged. Nor the other way around, though I guess that's less bad. You could give the "right" answers to get the "result" you want. But lying isn't too great either. Hence, not answering or answering randomly seems like the best choice. You can just let people request help if they want it.

Well surveying the population can help drive decisions as to investing in accommodations that might be worth it even if not required.

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Post by indymike »

partyboat1586 wrote: post #228
indymike wrote: post #120

I grew up in a home where my Dad had multiple sclerosis and went from playing football with me at age 6 to full-time wheelchair 10 years later. Later in life, while serving in the US Navy, I ended up with a different disability that lasted about 14 years. This article really hit home for me. For my Dad, simple things we do every day were hard because little things like doors and steps were huge obstacles to him. For…

Out of interest, what was your disability that caused you to need mid day naps?

CFS.

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Post by JohnBooty »

Causality1 wrote: post #195
JohnBooty wrote: post #124

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The author mentions problems with speech processing, speaking, sensory overload, sleeping, getting out of bed, eating, smells, textures, and navigation. None of those problems were created by society Your understanding of the neurodiversity movement isn't correct. Neither the article nor the movement in general claims that society "created" her difficulty performing those things. The neurodiversity movement points ou…

What sort of mental gymnastics does it take to convince yourself not being able to walk isn't inherently bad? Not being able to walk is bad. Not being able to fly is bad. Not being immortal is bad. Inabilities are bad regardless of what the "normal" state is. Society and accommodation could make up for 90% of the downsides but being confined to a wheelchair will never be a neutral status.

    What sort of mental gymnastics does it take to 
    convince yourself not being able to walk isn't 
    inherently bad?
Of course it's inherently bad. But it is not necessarily deabilitating -- unless of course you're forced to navigate a world where you can't use your wheelchair, etc.

Re: Am I Disabled?

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Post by JohnBooty »

watwut wrote: post #134
JohnBooty wrote: post #124

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The author mentions problems with speech processing, speaking, sensory overload, sleeping, getting out of bed, eating, smells, textures, and navigation. None of those problems were created by society Your understanding of the neurodiversity movement isn't correct. Neither the article nor the movement in general claims that society "created" her difficulty performing those things. The neurodiversity movement points ou…

> It says that autism and other behavioral health issues are not necessarily inherently "bad" (just as being in a wheelchair is not inherently bad) but we fail as a society when fail to accommodate such folks. You know, when I put on ramp for someone with wheelchair, it is done. It takes some space, alright, but mostly does not affect healthy peoples days. When I am yelled at and get insulted by an autistic because I…

Again, the neurodiversity movement does not claim that every single behavioral health issue nor every manifestation of every behavioral health issue is a good thing.

I like how this is all about you. "Neurodiversity is b.s. because somebody with autism yelled at me!"

In case this is what you need to hear, I am sorry a person yelled at you. That's not fair to you and I am sure it was unpleasant.

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Post by ycombinete »

redis_mlc wrote: post #43
ycombinete wrote: post #37

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This doesn’t surprise me. I’m not epileptic, but one night under strobes at a club I had a full on tonic-clonic seizure. I hadn’t been drinking, or taken any hard drugs, but I had been consuming a lot of caffeine syrups to study at university that week. Caffeine is a hell of a drug!

I haven't heard of caffeine triggering epilepsy, but yup, here's a link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29414557/ Good to know. It wasn't reported that the Florida pilot had a seizure, but he too was too jacked up to concentrate on flying. Had it been a seizure, it would be tough get an aviation medical renewed because it can't be proved that LoC won't happen again. Fatigue Countermeasures in Aviation (Mountain Dew…

So, how I understand it is that our brains have something like a seizing threshold. Which is the amount of stress they can be put under before a seizure is induced. Certain things can lower that threshold. And I think caffeine (or stimulants in general?) and lack of sleep are both things that lower it.

So it was the loud music and bright strobe light that triggered the seizure. The caffeine and the lack of sleep lowered my brains resistance to seizing.

Re: Am I Disabled?

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Post by faeyanpiraat »

TheGoddessInari wrote: post #210
faeyanpiraat wrote: post #155

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Well, if you get a common cold, then sometimes you can feel whether it is manageable, or starts getting worse. Then you'll have a whole working day, where you are functioning at like 50% capacity, and at least you can pass on your work which might block others to a colleague. In my experience most of the time this is the case. Reporting in sick in the morning all the time can be quite distruptive in some jobs. If I w…

Or, you know, it can be much more disruptive to coworkers that may not handle illness as well, or have vulnerable family members or housemates. It's selfish to the extreme to expect others to expose others to disease because of a mild inconvenience. Saying that as someone with multiple disabilities and who gets severely ill from cold or flu, is grateful when people don't deliberately act as a totally irresponsible ad…

The only thing I've pointed out is that repeatedly missing workdays (it doesn't matter whether you work on-site, or remote) without others knowing it in advance can be disruptive in some situations.

This is similar to planning an activity with a friend, and them not showing up. If they do this to you multiple times; you waiting for them and they do not even answering their phones, will you plan your next thing with the original enthusiasm? Or will you think "oh god they wont even show up, whats the point of planning anything".

This has nothing to do with disease or disability, this is just a simple break of promises multiple times in a row.

This can be avoided though, simply make promises which can be kept; do work, which can tolerate unforeseen absences, or work in a different way than others which compensate the issue in some way that is fair for and agreed upon by the other teammates.

I have my own fair share of health issues, and managed to choose a workplace which accomodates my needs.

Some people are not that lucky to have the opportunity or even ability to do that, but this is not in the scope of responsibility of an average citizen to solve.

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