So...what's your handicap?

[CanuckAmok]

Me? I'm nearsighted, wich is fairly new for me. I have a very slight limp, which is a result of a childhood bike accident.

Oh, and I have a fear of clowns. However, in my day-to-day life, that's not much of a handicap.

[Doctor_J]

1. Mine is

galloping middle-age.

[scarlet_owl]

2. I'm mentally ill.

No, seriously. I have bipolar disorder and PTSD. I also have psoriasis covering my entire body. It's a birth defect. I don't really know if that counts as a "disability", I'm just really dry and scaly. Oh, and I'm fellow a bozophobe too.

[Womblestuffer]

14. I have a HUGE

chip on my shoulder

[mdmc]

29. me too

anxiety and depression

[bubblesby2002]

3. My handicap is I'm kind of dyslexci

and now I need glasses to read.

[HEyHEY]

4. Tension and mood swings. Dyslexia and ADD.

I don't take them out on people but I can go from very composed to very nervous in a matter of seconds. For no reason. I've also got some abandonment issues (I think).

Actually most of this stuff, I have discovered as a result of talking about it with duers. Except for the nerves thing.......ANd the learning disabilites

[bicentennial_baby]

5. One leg 1 in. shorter than the other

born with one tonsil, and a "vulcan ear"

[Droopy]

6. Schizoaffective disorder

I have to take two medications for it. One to keep the voices and the paranoia away. Another to stabilize my mood. I've had it for the past 12 years, it's only been successfully treated for the last 8 months. Talk about a rough road and one wild ride.

[Wonco_the_Sane]

7. spelling...thank you spell checker

not smoking
paying bills ON TIME :)
public speaking
not smoking (not talkin' cigs)
oversleeping...a lot
not correcting repugs at work (disengagement) (whimper)
passing on the right (Columbus has some messed up roads in my defense)
Yawning in class...setting off a chain reaction
procrastination


thread killing lol

[camero]

8. hearing impaired, diabetic

Makes for some really sucky days.

[AlFrankenFan]

9. Bad hearing

And at the moment I have an injured knee that hasn't stopped hurting for months after running a half marathon.

[Endangered Specie]

10. Worsening eyesight (nearsighted)

A bone in my left foot that is supposed to be only 1 but mine is split in 2 pieces (born that way), prevents running on hard surfaces.

[slinkerwink]

11. hearing-impaired with a cochlear implant

[camero]

12. Do those things really work?

I've heard you have to be near deaf to get them.

[put out]

20. Please, correct me Slinkerwink,

If I'm wrong, but my understanding is you must be very deaf in the ear chosen for the implant. It destroys whatever hearing remains in that ear. The two people I know who have had the implant count the benefits well worth it.

They were both children. I would very much like to hear what you have to say about the experience.

[camero]

21. Thanks

I've only lost 40% but I also hear that they are worth having.

[slinkerwink]

25. I am profoundly deaf---I was before I got the implant

and it's totally helped me! I was 7 when I got it, and I'm 21 now.

[maveric]

13. Stuttering

It drives people crazy. It used to drive me crazy too but now I just say "Fuck It!"

[Interrobang]

15. Cerebral palsy (spastic quadriplegia) and friends

(ie. muscle spasms, hiatal hernia, reflux, dysmenhorrea), plus dyscalculia and a hypersensitive startle reflex. Oh, yeah, and I have a *really* high centre of gravity (5 feet 5.5 inches tall, 40 inch outseam), which is not a boon when one has bad balance. :)

[mykpart]

16. Nearsighted and PTSD.

Oh, yeah, and I'm female.

[Beaker]

17. ankylosing spondylitis

an incurable disease marked by a slow and painful progressive fusing of the spine. the tendons and ligaments that connect the vertabrae calcify and turn to bone. the ribs also become fused, to the point that they don't move enough to allow the lungs to fully expand, making it difficult to breathe.
My overall mobility is greatly affected, and I do have a placard for parking in handicapped spots legitimately.

I also have a congenitally deformed right hand- I only have 1/3 of my middle finger, and the other fingers are shorter than the ones on my 'normal' left hand. that hand kept me from getting in the navy...which i was trying to do at the time.

[ornotna]

18. About 12

I don't get out enough to improve it.



Sorry to hear about your Disabilities/afflictions guys. :grouphug:

[BrotherBuzz]

19. Lucky you!

I'm probably around thirty, but I could definitely drop it to the mid teens if I played more than twice a year. Wish I had kept up with the game because I had such a natural swing when I was a kid. Heck, at one time I could play scratch golf if I didn't have to putt. Yeah, that's it, putting is my handicap, putting and the short game. Well, putting, the short game, and the Tee shot. Oh, and a couple of shots in between the Tee and the green. I guess golf is my handicap, the whole damn game except for that one perfect shot. That is all I remember when I get home, that perfect shot hit over and over again in my dreams till the next time I hit the links.

[Awsi Dooger]

26. 9, but maddening because I used to play to a 3

WAAAY back in my junior golf heyday, when every putt inside 10 feet was a glorified gimme. At my high school reunion a few years ago, they put together a round on the senior tour course on Key Biscayne. At least a half dozen "kids" who I used to dust took extraordinary glee at kicking my ass, 20 years later.

About six years ago I hurt my elbow during pickup basketball, then practiced my golf swing indoors, with a low ceiling, during the recuperative period. Developed a ridiculous inside path on the downswing, and have never been able to expel it.

Otherwise:

* severe motion sickness, mandating front seat only during car trips. And I really wish these newfangled TV and movie producers would consider motion sickness prior to their fancy camera angles, and swaps from one view to another. I repeatedly have to close my eyes or look away

* slight but increasing nearsightedness

* numerous common allergies, resulting in clogged sinuses and the accompanying toss-and-turn sleepless nights

[REP]

22. Plenty

In addition to the one(s) that will kill me, I wear glasses.

[Kamika]

23. dyslexic, scared of dogs, nearsighted

I'm sure I forgot something

[Dogmudgeon]

24. I'm the Man Who Has Everything!

Had cancer of some sort when I was a teenager
Deaf in one ear, almost deaf in the other
Severe vertigo
Sleep paralysis with intense hallucinations
Cataplexy from laughing and sexual arousal
Possible multiple sclerosis (would be in remission)
Colitis/Gastritis/etc.
Depression, but unable to take either SSRIs or TCAs
Intense startle response

And I'm not pretty, either. But I know how to rock and roll!

--bkl
We all have our bears to cross.

[Crunchy Frog]

27. Severe clinical depression,

social isolation, and anxiety disorder.

[VOX]

28. Something for everyone...

Panic disorder/agoraphobia, hearing loss, early onset prostate cancer (treated and in remission), fibromyalgia, insomnia.

But I clean up nice!

[RebelOne]

30. I'm left-handed.

That's a huge handicap in a right-handed world.