I passed College and I'm disabled

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I was gonna say. what do you guys think? Colleges passing people with mental disabilities who can't even read. That's me. Can't even read or speak and i'm supposedly a college graduate. Doesn't really make sense.

And i'm not talking about Special ED program, i took the regular classes.
 
Well obviously you can read and form sentences or you wouldn't be able to do anything on this web site, right? Just because you have epilepsy doesn't mean your disabled, I don't consider myself disabled - Do any of you?

Don't make yourself sound so stupid!!!!! If someone were to read your posts about how you describe yourself they would think you are strapped to a wheel chair and need someone to feed and bathe you! I'm guessing you aren't like that are you?

Before I had epilepsy I went to a community college to take my first two semesters because I didn't know what I wanted major in. I know it wasn't easy and I just took the basic classes. I didn't graduate because I got a good job so I stopped going. At least you stuck around to graduate.

I know some of the classes I took weren't easy. So if you graduated then maybe you aren't as dumb as you think you are!
 
Congratulations on earning your degree! Take pride and wear it loudly :) Be an advocate for others with Epilepsy who have doubts about continuing their education by saying YOU DID IT! I have 3 college degrees so I know it's not easy and they don't just hand those out...you earned it. Good job!
 
You are a tough one to understand, niceguy. It is very obvious you have more intelligence and ability than what you are trying to convey on the forums, especially with regards to your claim that you cannot read or write and yet you post on the forums and reply to what others have written!
Until you're honest with yourself about who you really are and what you are truly capable of, life is going to be a tough road for you and you'll get yourself further and further into a hole you can't crawl out of. The more of your posts I read the more it seems like you really need to speak with a professional to help you through this issue you seem to have with needing to appear more helpless and needy and slower than you really are.
 
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Niceguy, you're not dumb. You may be "disabled" and you work slowly, but when you take your time and you put your energy towards something, I think you tend to get it done.

So, congratulations. You've done what many in our society have not been able to do.
 
niceguyVZ said:
valeried. i can't read or write and i have develpmental disablity. the college people say college is to create people who are intellectual and can articulate and whatever...and i can't. So why they give me a degree?
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If you don't mind me asking, how do you do anything on this web-site then? Do you have someone read the threads to you, make up the answers then type them in?

The threads that you start and replies to posts are good ones. Does someone make them up?

There are many other things that you've put in threads that are helpful to me and many other people. Do you have people do this for you too?

In other posts you've said that you want to live on your own. If you are as 'disabled' as you described yourself then how do you think you are going to do that?

I can keep going on and on with all of this.....

Don't keep thinking that you are dumb and disabled because you aren't. If you keep believing that you are dumb and disabled then you are actually going to become that!!!!!
 
My child is in special Ed and he has an IEP. When they gave him grade he usually maintained a2,75. Now he is High school and it seems to me they are watching him go by. I have epilepsy and I am smart. I was on Depakote when I was pregnant with him. I will never live it down. But I will love it down. Back then we were just finding out about Depakote. Alex my beautiful son. Who I will take care of until I am gone from this earth has mental disabilities. I don't. But Alex is 16 like a 10 year wide eyed child who thinks every thing is a fairy tale.
All I can do is be aware of the love he needs, clean,and ask him what he likes to do. With intermittent explosive disorder he keeps me on my toes. But make no mistake...he will get a degree. He is growing very compassionate. I love you all so much and be very good to yourselves. And #1 Be true to yourselves "be in the moment" smile at least one time a day. It spreads.
 
Sir , Congrats on getting a degree. That is something that some find impossible to achieve. What do I think ? Well from what I have expierianced and had the pleasure of knowing a lot of people that are disabled that all of them in one way or another went to regular classes and have gotten their degrees.
On another note, I do understand you, I see you = on the outside that others see you as different and that is very hard. you want the words to come out but for some reason they cannot, and that is very hard. but on the inside,ah the inside is much different and sooo wanting to get out but cannot ,and that is very very hard.
I see you using a special tool to help with writing which is super.
I have helped and have been around a lot of great people that others look at like freaks of the earth just because all they see is the outside and not understanding the inside.
We as the great human race have allways had a problem with different things that we do not understand...
And I can relate to the ordeals you face each and every day.
And remember this you do have a friend here !:blowup2:
 
Niceguy, I noticed that you post almost all of your threads saying either you are disabled or you are dumb. You're not dumb or you wouldn't have graduated from college.
 
Congrats on your degree! Be sure to pat yourself on the back because many "able-bodied" individuals don't receive degrees. Many more drop out of college in their first year.
I am a bit curious what you mean by "disabled." In academia we have multiple meanings for this term (actually I work in Disability Studies where we have reclaimed the term). But please don't call yourself dumb. Receiving any college degree is incredibly difficult, and as I mentioned so many students drop out their first year-- as an instructor I actually go to seminars where we discuss how to keep students in college.

Be proud of yourself! :)
 
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