how disabilities affect ppl

[Gina]

or mental things

there was a big discussion in hxhd plz move to forum
how has it affected school etc?? would you blame the disability or whatev or certain things if so like what

my english is gr8 i know

@RuthOnToast; @FallenCeilings; @Prosiary; @FlyingJesus; @Cerys;

[whoeful]

I didnt like flying jesus's point that if someone refuses to read outloud its fairs they should get in trouble or something

[FlyingJesus]

My agoraphobia affects me a lot because it means a lot of the time I literally can't get to uni which obv isn't v helpful. What I find is useful is to communicate with the tutors and other staff so they know what's going on and how to understand and support me, rather than assuming everyone will just magically cater to my every whim and wish without knowing

[Cerys]

I can't comment on the disability side of it all but can with the mental aspects

My school were fairly decent when it came to helping people with mental struggles, but they were useless with recognising it ;/ like if you said to them oh this is how i feel blah blah help please, they'd ignore you and be like ok go back to lesson l o l. They waited til something bad happened to you before helping you, which is what happened with me

But once they realised they were great. I got given a lil pass which let me leave lesson whenever I felt like I had to, and access to Bridge which is a happy lil room where you can do your work in peace instead of doing work with the rest of the class, or just chill.


I've had experience with CAMHS too and i must say in my area they were utter shit.

[whoeful]

My agoraphobia affects me a lot because it means a lot of the time I literally can't get to uni which obv isn't v helpful. What I find is useful is to communicate with the tutors and other staff so they know what's going on and how to understand and support me, rather than assuming everyone will just magically cater to my every whim and wish without knowing

Different when you have a cover teacher though, and they expect you to do things that makes you uncomfortable, and the only way of letting them know is by also telling the whole room?? ygm

[FlyingJesus]

Surely the rest of the class knows since they've been there the whole term if not longer knowing what the person's like. Also I didn't say it's right to punish people for having problems lol I said it's not the fault of the school if a staff member doesn't know something about you that you haven't attempted to let them know about. Support is important but helping others to support you is crucial too, it won't all get done for you

[whoeful]

Most times it has happened is when ive gone into a new class or at start of a new year though, and i have attempted, if ive said i dont feel comfortable with reading outloud/doing something they should leave it at that, id understand if i was argumentitive about it or rude but i wasn't and i arent towards staff

[Prosiary]

As many people know, I have a disability called dyspraxia, it mainly affects me in co-ordinations, speech and how ****g distracted i get with shit so easily lol. IIRC, I got diagnosed when I was like 3, with an mri scan - where i had to be put under so i didn't move because it's linked to your brain, so I got diagnosed with a scan.


It's a developmental co ordination disorder [dcd], its pretty common I think, in 2009 1 in every 20 child aged 7 to 8 had dyspraxia. Theres no real cause for it, but its a disruption in the way messages from the brain are translated to the body, which basically affects how things are done in a co-ordinated way. With me, as a child it took me years to learn to walk and talk, and I had countless years of speech therapy, which didn't help and I still sound like an idiot to this day, lol. As a kid I found it really hard to walk, obviously so I had a walking frame to help me walk and eventually learnt to walk with lots of physiotherapy.

In school, it affected me quite a bit, I was in a special school up to like year 3, then got put into a mainstream school - imo not the best decision by the school but yeah.

It also affected me making friends, as because of my speech and dyspraxia, I suffer with anxiety (not diagnosed bcaus not got the courage to go drs, *REMOVED* lol) and I really overthink what people think about me with my speech and such, this has been happening for years but can't really fix my speech as i'm a lot older so speech therapy probably wouldn't work if I tried it again imo. I also had to use a type writer in school, because whenever I used to handwrite, I could hardly write half a page without my hand hurting loads, suprisingly i'm pretty good at reading imo.

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[whoeful]

I dont have disabilities but i have had struggles with mental health. My school its like, we have sen and we have referrals to councelling places, we also have a tamhs trained school councellor. Ive had camhs before and I stopped for a few years, i was getting help with sen and school counsellor from like year 7 and still now, the school are alright at help but school councellor is v unreliable and isnt always there. Sen are good, i can go to sen classrooms for my exams and to go to when im having panic/anxiety attacks but a lot of the staff just arent fully good at help, like if i dont want to do something, if i feel anxious most staff know that i struggle and will let me leave but when theres teachers who dont know me its hard to explain to them, and they feel the need to punish me as a student, i also have behaviour problems as it is so they just assume its me being bad behaved and/or trying to get out of lesson.

[Cerys]

a lot of the staff just arent fully good at help,

yessss this, when i was at school there was this one woman who taught us PE and she knew I had the slip to get out if i needed to.

tho every time I used it in her lesson she always came running after me screaming and shouting at me to get back to go back to pe, saying i shouldnt have the card and threatening to rip it up calling me attention seeking blah blah
made me so much worse and pretty much scared to go to her lesson

some staff are the opposite of helpful