Hello my Zebras and Spoonies! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today I’m going to be talking about my experience with Elhers Danlos Syndrome Hypermobile type as part of the “My Diagnosis” series. Now that I’ve covered all my mental health topics, I feel like the physical topic that I should start with is hEDS. That’s because this is the big one for me. It really can be argued that all my other physical problems come back to this one problem.
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My Executive Dysfunction
Hello my Zebras and Spoonies! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today I am going to be talking about my experiences with executive dysfunction as another installment in the “My Diagnosis” Series.
Continue reading “My Executive Dysfunction”My Other Sensory Stuff
Hello my Zebras and Spoonies! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today I am going to be talking about my experiences with sensory processing problems as another installment in the “My Diagnosis” Series. In my last installment in this series, I talked about my auditory processing disorder specifically. However, there are other ways that sensory processing effects my life.
Continue reading “My Other Sensory Stuff”My Auditory Processing Disorder
Hello my Zebras and Spoonies! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today. I’m glad that you are here. Today I am going to be talking about my experiences with Auditory Processing Disorder as another installment in the “My Diagnosis” Series.
This disorder is also known as: Central Auditory Processing Disorder and Receptive Language Disorder
To start off, Auditory Processing Disorder is a neurological disorder in which a person has difficulty properly interpreting sounds received by the ears, particularly the phonemes of speech. Auditory Processing Disorder is common in ADHD and ASD. So, it could be caused by either of these conditions, both or neither. No way to tell really.
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Hello my Zebra and Spoonies! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today. I’m glad that you are here. Today I want to talk about my Obsessive or Special Interest. This is something that is considered a common trait for people with autism and I didn’t talk about it when I posted about autism, so I decided that I would make an additional post for the “My Diagnosis” series so that I could talk about it.
Continue reading “My Special Interest”My OCD
Hello my zebras and spoonies! Thanks for coming and visiting with me today. I am glad that you’re here. Today is my fourth installment for the my diagnosis series and I am going to be talking about my experience with OCD or obsessive compulsive disorder and how those symptoms have impacted my life.
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Hello my Zebras and Spoonies! Thanks for coming and visiting with me today. I am glad that you are here.
I have decided that my next series will be about my various diagnoses. I am going to be sharing my personal experiences with these diagnoses rather then discussing what the diagnosis is in all its possibilities. I feel that it is important for those of us who are living with chronic illnesses to share their lived experiences. This has value because many of our illnesses are invisible, rare, hold stigma and are misunderstood. Talking about our lived experiences can help shed light on what it is actually like to live with chronic illness. The internet has given us a platform that we historically have never had before. By using it, we can help change the way that people with chronic illnesses and those with disabilities are being treated both medically and socially.
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