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The Americans with
Disabilities Act
turns 20 today!
Thanks to the ADA,
Americans with
disabilities enjoy
better access to
buildings,
transportation,
telecommunication,
employment, and
education. It paved
the way for IDEA,
the Individuals with
Disabilities
Education Act, which
enabled me to
graduate from
college.
There’s still
a long way to go
before we as a
society achieve the
four goals of the
ADA –
equality of
opportunity, full
participation,
independent living,
and economic
self-sufficiency
— but
it’s clear
we’ve come a
long way.
I’d like to
point out
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I’ve been
reading blogging by
Scicurious (formerly
of Neurotopia at
Science Blogs, now
at called either
“Neurotic
Psychology” or
“Scicurious
221;, I’m not
sure which.
She’s a
post-doc in
neuroscience, and
she has posted in
the past about
various psychoactive
medications and how
they work. She
writes about the two
major classes of
ADHD drugs,
Amphetamine, and
Methylphenidate, as
well as
SSRI’s. If
you’re on any
of these meds you
should check out her
posts.
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A fellow dysgraphic
named Hannah
recently commented
on my post about
dysgraphia and
X-Acto knives.
She’s a
costume designer who
struggles with
drawing, but manages
hand-stitching and
cutting without too
much difficulty. It
got me thinking
about how important
it is to have the
right tools when
you’re trying
to work around
something like
dysgraphia.
For instance,
I’ve known for
years that I write
much MUCH better
with certain writing
implements. I need
to use a soft #2
pencil, made of wood
and graphite. I
can’t use
those plastic-y #2
pencils (someone
once told me they
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I don’t know
why, but I love math
jokes. I laughed at
all the math jokes
in Futurama, even
though they were
written by PhD math
geeks and even my
husband (who has
been known to do
math in his sleep.
For real)
didn’t get
most of them. Maybe
it’s that
whole thing where
humor makes a
profoundly
terrifying subject
— like death,
or war, or
arithmetic —
less frightening.
All I know is, I
LOL’d at this
xkcd comic, even
though long division
was the single most
horribly traumatic
“learning̶
1; experience of my
life:
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About six months
ago I wrote here and
at Well-Ordered
about a very nasty
shock I received at
the dentist: a
whopping SEVEN
$#%^&@ING
CAVITIES. Twice as
many cavities as
I’d had in my
adult life thus
far. All of them
between my teeth.
Getting those filled
was no picnic, I
assure you.
The culprit, it
turned out, was my
Vyvanse. ADHD
drugs, like many
anti-depressants,
and many allergy
meds, and many
athsma medications,
can dry out your
mouth something
serious. Without
saliva, your mouth
isn’t able to
defend itself from
teeth-eating
bacteria.
Teeth-eating
bacteria cause
cavities
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One of the lesser
known Dyscalculia
Happy Fun Features
is that we often
struggle with
sports. We
can’t remember
rules, or plays, or
what side of the
field we’re
supposed to be on.
While it’s
been years since my
last gym class,
THANK THE GODS, I
recently encountered
this again when
watching a World Cup
game.
I’m from that
generation of kids
who grew up playing
soccer (I was
terrible, thank
you). Thanks to us,
and to succeeding
generations, we are
finally able to get
the occasional World
Cup game on
broadcast TV in this
country. When I
watched the USA v.
England game last
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I haven’t been
posting a lot
lately. Partly this
is because of the
amount of time
I’ve had to
spend reading job
listings, filling
out applications,
tweaking resumes,
and trying to write
cover letters that
aren’t
don’t sound
like total BS.
Partly, it’s
because I’ve
just been too
depressed. I feel
like if I write
about what my life
has bee like lately,
I’d just be
whining, and I
should be trying to
be chipper and
cheerful and all
that crap.
But then I realized,
this is a blog about
adult learning
disabilities. Life
with adult LD sucks
sometimes. And
seldom
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The short version:
I’m still
looking.
The long version:
Well …
A few weeks back I
wrote a post about
taking a math test
for a job I applied
for. I guess
I’ve been so
busy tossing resumes
into a black hole
that I forgot to
post that I
apparently passed
it.
I’m not sure
how I managed it,
and a big part of me
feels like there
must be some
mistake. It
certainly helps that
it was multiple
choice and we were
allowed the use of
calculators. I
think it also helps
that my ADD is under
control, so I could
focus on carefully
matching each number
as I put them into
the calculator
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Last week, I wrote
about how I had
“virtuously
221; cut my fat
intake, with
disastrous results.
My trainer/personal
therapist told me to
eat more fat,
especially at
lunch. So I decided
to give it a try.
I immediately felt
better. On the
first day. I had
more energy, less
fatigued, and was
not tempted to gorge
on cookies in the
evening, a bad habit
which has bee
creeping up on me in
the last several
weeks. I’ve
lost about half of
the three or four
pounds I gained.
Even my seasonal
allergies are
better, in spite of
the evil trees
outside my house
continuing to bloom
shamelessly
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I have been
informed that my
diet does not
contain enough
fat.Seriously.
I’m an
American. Who
doesn’t eat
enough fat.
Obviously I am a
commie pinko traitor
who hates all that
we stand for in this
country.I learned
this after
complaining to my
physical
therapist/trainer
today that I’m
gaining weight. I
was frustrated,
because I had
recently added an
extra half-hour of
cardio onto my
workouts. The extra
cardio made me
exhausted later in
the day unless I ate
more, but it seemed
like no matter how
much I ate, I was
always ravenous.My
trainer asked me to
describe my diet.
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