What do you consider 'Disabled'?

[Screamy]

A disability is....... The inability to learn and comprehend simple and everyday mundane tasks that most of us have endless hours of practice with like using a turn signal while driving.

 

[valeriedl]

All that time I knew I had to deal with my "less than together" brain. I just come out and admit to people when I've lost track of a conversation or can't remember the word I want or other things "normal" people handle easily.

This happens to me all the time! I have a ton of trouble remembering words. I'll try to describe whatever the word is and I usually get a good laugh about if from other people.

I called a customer support line for something one time and couldn't remember what it was that I called about needing help for when someone answered the phone. When I did remembered what it was I couldn't think of what the word was so I sat on the phone describing the problem. It was something really stupid that I needed help about too, I wasn't getting any signal for my tv. You would have thought that I would have been able to say that and be able to tell the man what I'd already done to try to fix the problem. The guy had to of thought I was crazy but we did laugh about how my brain was acting at the time.

Go on as long as you need to vent. I know I've wrote posts on here that were close to a novel long!

 

[Dolores]

Valerie, that's exactly how I feel - not remembering the words, forgetting what it was I wanted to talk about, going into long descriptions. A coworker asked me to email him some information when I got back to my desk. I had to write it down and he was amazed but I told him in a few seconds I will have completely forgotten that you asked me!

Talking with coworkers can be interesting. I feel like I'm playing charades "I'm thinking of a word, starts with a C, its like when someone does such and such". Then everyone starts trying to guess the word! Luckily I've been at my job for a long time and people are just used to it and join in the game.

Our brains can be oh-so-much fun!

 

[valeriedl]

I think we might be long lost twins Dolores!!!! :roflmao:

I'll call my husband when I'm out and ask him if he wants me to bring him home I always forgot what it is that he wanted and just sort of guess. If I get it wrong I tell him that they were 'out' of what ever it was he wanted so I got him that thing instead.

I was at a hot dog shop recently with my family and called home to see if he wanted anything. It was only about 2 minutes later when I got to the counter I forgot how many hot dogs he wanted and if he wanted fries too or not. I was with my brother and asked him to call my house and ask my husband what it was that he wanted because my brother was at the counter alone and forgot what it was. Subway is the worst for me! I can never remember what he wants there, even if it's 30 seconds after he told me.

My dad and I read the same books then talk about them. I'll say a name of someone in the book but it's not the right name. So then I have to describe who the person is and what they did. It's pretty funny now because we are reading a serious of books and call the characters by the names that I always said they were!

 

[Dolores]

Do you forget what you've read or that you've even read a particular book? I'll read a sentence, maybe even get through a paragraph but by the next paragraph I've forgotten what I had read just moments before. And when there are too many characters I can't keep track of who's who.

The upside to it is that I can read a book multiple times and enjoy it like it was the first. I do remember reading one book thinking that it seemed familiar. Then two thirds of the way through I started to remember bigger bits of the plot. But I kept on reading because I couldn't remember how it all turned out!

Good to know I have a "twin" in Pittsburgh! For some reason it makes me feel a little bit more normal to know you have "as much fun" handling your memory lapses as I do. :roflmao:

 

[Cint]

not remembering the words, forgetting what it was I wanted to talk about, going into long descriptions. A coworker asked me to email him some information when I got back to my desk. I had to write it down and he was amazed but I told him in a few seconds I will have completely forgotten that you asked me!

Talking with coworkers can be interesting. I feel like I'm playing charades "I'm thinking of a word, starts with a C, its like when someone does such and such". Then everyone starts trying to guess the word! Luckily I've been at my job for a long time and people are just used to it and join in the game.

Our brains can be oh-so-much fun!

Valerie and Dolores,

Memory loss and aphasia (forgetting words) are very common with epilepsy. I also have a terrible time remembering. I can be in the middle of a sentence and forget what I'm trying to say. I've seen movies and forget that I've seen them. One year at Christmas time, I sent my family two Christmas cards because I had forgotten that I sent the first one. I do things like that. It's very frustrating. Here is more info about it:

http://www.epilepsy.com/learn/impact/thinking-and-memory/diagnosing-and-treating-memory-problems

http://www.epilepsy.com/learn/impact/thinking-and-memory/types-memory-problems

 

[arnie]

Do you forget what you've read or that you've even read a particular book? I'll read a sentence, maybe even get through a paragraph but by the next paragraph I've forgotten what I had read just moments before. And when there are too many characters I can't keep track of who's who.

The upside to it is that I can read a book multiple times and enjoy it like it was the first. I do remember reading one book thinking that it seemed familiar. Then two thirds of the way through I started to remember bigger bits of the plot. But I kept on reading because I couldn't remember how it all turned out!

Although I can usually remember a book from paragraph to paragraph, the rest of that happens to me a lot. You're right, it can be nice in that you can enjoy the same book and movie many times. With movies I often get "echoes" of something when I see a certain scene, so I pretty much know I've seen it, but I can seldom if ever remember the outcome. Also, my bad memory combined with my face blindness can make it hard to keep track of the characters and plot in a show, because I won't know who is who or what they have done.

 

[Lafontaine_b]

I don't like to consider myself disabled. My health has definitely limited me, especially lately, but if I can try to go I
without the special treatments, I do. I would like to live an as normal life as I can.


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