No. My epilepsy is NOT a disability. Why though? Because it doesn't prevent me from doing ANYTHING. It doesn't affect me all the time. Yeah, someone could say "B-but seizures are a disability!!!" Yeah, they could be. But, have you read the criteria to get disability with epilepsy? No? Okay, I'll list.
– Frequency of seizures. If they are too intense and happening too often (for example a few times per day.)
– Decrease in intelligence.
– Mental issues.
– Impaired ability to move.
– Developmental disorders.
So, that's why epilepsy doesn't make you automatically disabled, it just makes you ill. So, I prefer to use the term "sick, but able-bodied." Instead of disabled. Y'all should accept that disability is a status given by law. So, if you're getting money for your disability, and you have this status in your documents – you're disabled. Or at least if your disease is affecting you most of the time like POTS, fibromyalgia, arthritis etc. you're disabled.
But even if chronically ill means being disabled... I still prefer to be called able-bodied. I'm not disabled. So I don't deserve to be called disabled. Leave space for someone else, not me.
I'm waiting to be hated for my opinion. I don't mind anymore. I don't want to call myself disabled and bury myself in my illness. If I'd be hated for that, but I'd still be able bodied, I don't mind. You can call me like you want, and call yourself a disabled if you have epilepsy, because I'm talking about MY CASE not YOURS.
Thanks for reading. Stay healthy.
I feel like all my friends are tired from me, and praying for me committing suicide
Proud of you! Wishing you a fast recovery and a long remission! Hope, that everything will be okay!:)
I've had my surgery, so I'm recovering right now. I'm lurking around here. And I'm now cancer-free🥳
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Metro 2033: wow what a ride. Let's check what else is there. Metro 2034: Metro 2035: anyway.
I'm tired, I'm tired of everything. All my hobbies became a daily routine, and I don't feel anything towards them. My friends started to avoid me after my vents, and I completely understand this. I'm tired of school, and I haven't got any straight to just get up or change clothes after school. All I think about is s3lf-h@rm and how much I want to commit su!c!de. I feel like my life is trying to force me to do it. I feel like it'll happen. And I know that I will commit su!c!de.
I hate drinking meds! It makes me so sleepy...I mean... I just wanna read a book, not sleep!!.·´¯`(>▂<)´¯`·.
People are talking about how they understand you, how you are still you, even if you got sick. But when I get a combination of movement disorders, y'all are DAMNED.
People who have any physical issues, I've created a discord server for you all! Hope that you'll have fun!
https://discord.com/invite/MgU9nvnK
Kinda want to post my art here, but I got shadowbanned, so I don't really see the point in it.
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