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Furry Chat => General => Topic started by: Mr.FooxKarma on November 29, 2016, 11:51:06 AM
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Sorry if this post seems slightly out of place or has been done before and if it has then I'll happily remove it.
I was wondering if their any furs who have problematic, annoying, disabling, painful, embarrassing and or serious or moderate health problems. Mainly physically or possibly mentally if serious.
I have definitely been curious because of my own background and my mates personal experience.
I have a some what chronic stomach disease that has been going on for years now, it's easier to mange but sometimes I just feel absolutely terrible, hard to eat, throwing up bile, bleeding. I have weight problems causing me to look almost anorexic at 115 pounds and 6 ft give or take. I also have other issues with bone and tissue in my chest causing a slight protrusion, currently fixing that though with bracing or surgery.
Well that's about it for now! Kinda just wanted to create this so others don't feel to ashamed or misplaced, even embarrassed.
This world takes all different kinds, strengths and minds, so it's better to stick together. ~ <3
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I was recently diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea. I think I've had it for ten years or more without realizing it. I was tired all the time no matter how much I slept, but didn't know why. Basically I went about a decade without a good night's sleep. Now I have a CPAP machine and it's not much of a stretch to say that it's changed my life.
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I have a muscular disease called spinal muscular atrophy- basically as time goes on all my muscles will get weaker and weaker. there is no therapy and no was to stop the progression. so because of it ive been in a wheelchair most my life- but I know others who have the same thing and are much worse off.
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I have a muscular disease called spinal muscular atrophy- basically as time goes on all my muscles will get weaker and weaker. there is no therapy and no was to stop the progression. so because of it ive been in a wheelchair most my life- but I know others who have the same thing and are much worse off.
Oh...I'm incredibly sorry to hear! That's sounds...rough. If you need anything, vent, rants, raves, advice I'm here to chat!
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Thank you, genuinely, and I suppose like any medical problem that anyone has -you get a bit used to it.
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Thank you, genuinely, and I suppose like any medical problem that anyone has -you get a bit used to it.
You're welcome. :3 and most definitely you have to adapt if your going to live, albeit a little more effort then others.
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i normaly dont reply to these things
mental
ADHD
aspergers syndrom
both have given me greif but im used to it and i can handle it easy
if you dont know what they are google is your friend
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I have very severe anger management issues. I've put myself and other people into the hospital as a result.
Well I hope you mange it a better! Anger management can be kinda therapeutic. I personally feel like I can't get angry...like I'm pretty quiet and apathetic, I can barely yell, that's what pisses people off the most when their screaming me. xD
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I'll copy mine from my journal
may be tough at times, I don't let it bother me or get in the way
Personal info about me I'm willing to share:
If I were to say something about myself that I haven't shared on other parts of the forums.
I do have diabetes type 2 - kind of the worst kind, have to take medication for it every day and inject insulin every night.
I have been to the hospital as well once, December 11th 2015, related to diabetes, almost a year didn't take medication or doctor's advice, consumed too much starch (potatoes and rice) and fats (fried foods) which I can have in small quantities as long as the rest of the meal is healthy. I still remember felling very dizzy, headaches, and very fast rapid heart beat - one of my mom's husband's friends took me to the hospital and stayed overnight - no one in my family knew I had diabetes, I never told them my grandma was the only one who knew.
Ever since I left the hospital, I been taking better care of myself, doing everything the doctor's recommend. So far been doing very good.
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I have asthma, which has gotten better since I was a kid, though I still have attacks if I push myself too hard outdoors.
Also struggled with anorexia, not much anymore but I'm still underweight for how tall I am, and I still have some trouble eating calorie - high foods, though I know that the kind of calories I need will benefit me. But I'm okay.
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I have extreme rolling in my ankles, which throws my whole center of weight off. It gives a lot of ankle, knee and lower back pain which can make walking hell at times. The treatments I've had haven't done much to alleviate the issue and were a complete nightmare. I've also been diagnosed with hyperlaxity (which a lot of people tend to have), but unfortunately developed symptoms that leaves all my joints sore, and will progressively worsen. I have IBS, which can be really embarrassing at times.
On top of that I have moderate Aspergers Syndrome, ADHD and Dysphraxia (I think that's how it's spelled).
Thankfully I've been surrounded by very supporting and understanding people who have helped me along the way.
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Thankfully I've been surrounded by very supporting and understanding people who have helped me along the way.
that's one of the most important part, i'm glad you have people like that in your life.
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I have a brain ingery, broken wrist ,back, lag and face
:( but its part of life o and bad bad pain it whould make the strongest man cry
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A.D.D
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what were we talking about again? Food? :D
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I have a brain ingery, broken wrist ,back, lag and face
:( but its part of life o and bad bad pain it whould make the strongest man cry
The only thing I can add to that is getting beaten with a baseball bat, especially the side of my knee. The thought that went through my head was " Damn, this is what the guy from casino felt like..." Then proceeded to cry like a little bitch, not from the pain as much as from thinking about the dude from Casino. xD
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Hey it's ok :(
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I have ADD, very very shaky hands, paranoia, possibly more stuff in diagnosis.
I may also be slightly on the autistic area of mental problems with stuff like I never actually understood emotions completely and had to teach myself both that and humor and other stuff.
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Funny how I found this thread just after coming back from my doctor. Anyway... I have been experiencing chronic fatigue for a year and a few months. At the beginning, I just felt very tired and needed a nap every day after school, but with time, it became worse and worse: I just came to the point where sometimes I can barely walk and oftentimes I can't focus on school, thus making me fail quite a few exams, while I used to ace all of them without even studying before I got... this thing. In fact I still don't know what it this, last week I did a few tests to an hospital, and earlier today I went to my doctor to see the results and discuss them. No anomalies came up from the tests, and now my doctor proposed the idea that it might be neurological.
Regarding mental conditions, I have been diagnosed with AvPD and BPD a few months ago, plus an unspecified language disorder since I was a kid.
Sweetie...I'm here for you! I love you so much and it kills me so damn much your distress...I promise this won't consume me or you, I'm always here and will get through this! I love you Baud. ~ <3
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and earlier today I went to my doctor to see the results and discuss them. No anomalies came up from the tests, and now my doctor proposed the idea that it might be neurological.
I hope you can figure out what is causing this, always easier to start tackling the problem when you know what it is.
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I have mostly teenage girl issues.
Low self-esteem, (Not Severe, Im fairly happy)Depression, Severe Social Anxiety..
The whole package.
I cannot believe I forgot to mention this. ^^'
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Well,i have only one medical issue asthma
I haved asthma for almost 5 years,its started because i was smoking in past
Thanks god i dont smoke anymore for 2 year
Right my asthma can be trigged by dust and sudden weather change (moisture)
If i will get fursuit,i hope it will not trigger my asthma :)
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I have ADHD (It apparently used to be really bad according to my parents. I myself don't really remember, after all I had no focus.)
I have a herniated Back disk.
I have bunions in both feet (Meaning that the area where my big toe and foot come together are pressed tightly against each other in a weird way. They say that it wears down your stamina far quicker than the average person when it comes to running or walking. But with ADHD I kinda can't tell LOL).
That's about it (If I don't include my fear of crowds that causes anxiety often.)
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I have ADD, very very shaky hands, paranoia, possibly more stuff in diagnosis.
I may also be slightly on the autistic area of mental problems with stuff like I never actually understood emotions completely and had to teach myself both that and humor and other stuff.
Shoon, your post hit a nerve. Wasn't going got join this thread, but thought you'd like to know there are more of us out here.
I was diagnosed with ADD long time ago and am a Ritalin kid. I have spent years dealing with the damage that f-ing drug did to me during my formative years. It is hard for me to express emotions, sometime my reaction/interactions are inappropriate, I am quick to rage, etc. Also mildy dyslectic..
Used to think I was messed up, but now I realize it was just my wolf spirit and I not working together... Think aggressive wolf pup and a withdrawn kid from a messed up home. Who's going to get the attention. Anyway, now that I finally understand and am working WITH my wolf things are much better. At one job I had to be psych tested every year, and they always marveled at my IQ MENSA level) and the different thought processes I have/use, told me my mind just works differently... well duh.
Due to my wildness over the years I have added a string of overuse and self-inflicted damages: 3x shoulder repair, broken hand, broken ankle bone (twice), neck and back issues, messed up my eyes (welding and chemical splashes), 2nd degree steam burns from hand to armpit 3/4 around the arm, etc., etc,....
Yes, I'm probably older than most here, have had more time to both break and fix myself...
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I don't recall the medical terminology, but I will explain my rather unusual medical problem :P
I have a random blood vessel in my brain that is not meant to be there, it's not a blood vessel that has moved it's just a new blood vessel that doesn't actually do anything. This can be very dangerous, because if the blood vessel bursts it can cause an aneurysm which is often fatal. Luckily, there are two scenarios for the blood vessel, it is either an artery (apparently it is dangerous then) or it's a vein (apparently it's not dangerous), in my case it is a vein, otherwise I probably wouldn't be alive today!
Despite the blood vessel not being fatal it has caused a string of other problems, namely it is applying pressure to the optic nerve of my eyes, which causes several eye problems that are not correctable. Nystagmus (shaking of the eye), problems with lens focusing (fixed by glasses), no control of upper muscles in the right eye (can't look up with the right eye) and so forth. Due to the last thing my brain only looks through my left eye when I see normally, but I can mentally switch my vision from one eye to the next. Such a condition means I'm unlikely to be able to drive in my country. Glasses get my vision to about 50% of normal vision, which is better than it was but still not perfect. Theoretically eye surgery could fix the issue, but the issue is so rare (less than 100 people on earth have this issue) that no procedure has been developed.
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I have had mental problems since an early age, and I'm often slow to react to things; such as social situations. I've always been like this and it doesn't really affect my quality of life, at least when I'm having a good time. My diagnosis' are as follows; BPD, anxiety, social phobia, PTSD, and psychotic disorder.
The BPD causes the most problems in general and covers a broad range of symptoms, one of the ones I actually remember are; Seclusive-ness, hostility, impulsiveness, and generally extreme emotions. It kind of goes hand-in-hand with my anxiety and makes it nigh impossible to take public transport, grocery shop, or do anything that involves going outside of my apartment.
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If I were to tell my issues from a very quick standpoint, I would basicaly say ever since I was able to express myself, I was overly emotional. In 5th grade I was diagnosed with chronic depression, severe anxiety, frequent panic attacks and audio halucinations. Now that I'm nearly 20 everythign stayed the same, except the audio halucinations turned into seeing people who aren't actually there. They're mostly black siloettes and as of recently they went from dormant and acting like a part of society to mass murdering eachother. Can't tell you how many times I would see a kid hung from my ceiling fan at night.
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Yes I have now been officially confirmed to have crohn's disease, hell atleast I know what it is now.
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Btw remember that I love you
I love all ppl
If you think no one loves you
Remember that there is ppl like me that loves all ppl
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Btw remember that I love you
I love all ppl
If you think no one loves you
Remember that there is ppl like me that loves all ppl
I love kraft Mac and cheese and my baby baud and blue but not much else.
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Do on to others as thay shood do on to you ^_^
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I've got Charcot Marie Tooth's. Basically, I have a serious lack of myelin, the neural coating that speeds up impulses. For me it results in reduced balance and limited stamina.
Also, I have a problem with envy. I can't let it go if someone has or has done something I want (to).
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Sudden and sometimes long attacks of coughing. The warmer I get the more likely it'll end up with coughing. It's not really disabling in any way, but it can be annoying sometimes. I don't know why being even slightly overheated causes it, sometimes it just happens out of nowhere even if temperature is OK.
This might be caused by smoking, and that's one of the reasons why smoking sucks.
I also have arachnophobia, which is a huge problem during the summer. It feels like a battle for survival when I see a big spider on my wall. I live alone so there's nobody to take care of it for me. Sorry all the spider furries out there, but I'm too scared to throw them out.
It's English dictionary time. Oh yes, now I know why knowledge IS power.
It may sound really weird, but arachnophobia can be fun. Horror movies don't scare me at all, but one quick search for "spider australia" on the internet and I'm on a NOPE train straight to NOPEville.
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I also have arachnophobia, which is a huge problem during the summer. It feels like a battle for survival when I see a big spider on my wall. I live alone so there's nobody to take care of it for me.
I have a huge fear of bees bordering on phobic and i feel the same about summer. the minute its warm out they are everywhere!!!
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I have a huge fear of bees bordering on phobic and i feel the same about summer. the minute its warm out they are everywhere!!!
Bug spray is a must-have during summer. I feel kind of uneasy when there's a bee in my house, I understand that. There are also hornets here where I live and I'm afraid of them too. That's a massive problem, they're harder to smack than spiders and they can be really aggressive.
But stay strong, grab a book and educate the living crap out of them.
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Aww no, bugs, and spiders are all important parts of the ecosystem! I'm scared of stinging things (WASSPPPS), but I think I've only killed them when they were in my house.
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Nothing currently ailing me. I'm very prone to sinus infections.
I've already had one this winter, and I'll probably get another before Spring comes.
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I don't really consider myself afraid per say, but I am uneasy around wasps because I was stung by one a couple of years ago. (BLEEP)er sat on my shoulder when I tilted my head to the side.
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I'm also pretty terrified of bees where it used to cause problems, but I've sort of grown out of an intense fear and now just have a "If there's a flying bug that can hurt me I'm going to walk away from it"
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If we're still talking about fears, I have thalassophobia. It's not something I've been diagnosed with, but I don't know if you can be diagnosed with it anyways. Now, what is it? It's the fear of the sea and other large bodies of water. It makes me stay ashore everytime I'm on the beach (though, I swim in swimming pools just fine).
But at the same time, I'm really interested in the ocean. I love listening to all of those mysteries going on in it, and terrifying creatures from it. But only from a distance. (That means only from videos. No first hand experience.)
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wow, i feel so sorry for all you guys, and for those who can, i hope you all get better! i use to major medical problems but they eventually faded, i hope and pray your lives get easyer and more comfortable, if you ever need someone to talk to, or someone to yell at (for stress reasons) ill be there! just send mea pm!
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I do have a bit of scoliosis myself.
Also I consider adopting to stop my aforementioned CMT from spreading. It's not horrible, but it is a setback I'd rather not put on my child (if I ever have any).
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I'm annoyed at mine. I have pretty severe social anxiety, and a frustrating recurring depression.
Physically, and really annoying, is a persistent stomach issue. It hit my around 2007, and WRECKED my intestinal system. The doctors honestly had no idea what the cause was. It wasn't anything that was causing lasting damage, so they just gave me stronger meds. After a while it settled down a bit (maybe 1 1/2 to 2 years of it being a biiiig pain). Even since that time frame when it cooled down, it's stuck around, but has been more cooperative.
To this day the two or three doctors I've seen still don't know what it is, so I stopped going to the doctor when it acts up. I've been sticking to the over the counter treatments they instructed/suggested, though I try to avoid even those. It makes travel these days VERY annoying, but it's at least manageable.
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I'm a case and a half - grab some snacks, sit down, and enjoy the ride:
I was born with a birth defect known as a cleft palate. It's basically when the roof of your mouth (or palate) never forms (google it.) I got it stitched up at 6 months old and again at 5 years old.
The cleft palate meant my speech and eating were severely affected. I was fed milk from a bottle with a very special nipple as I was unable to suck. I was fed for a minute at a time constantly throughout the day and never drank much. It got easier when I started solids but even that would become hard for me in later years; my upper 'jaw' never grew with the rest of my head as it had no natural bone-stitching, meaning my upper set of teeth were completely unaligned with my bottom set and I couldn't chew properly until I got braces a year ago.
I went to a speech therapist from since I started speaking until I was 8. My doctor told me at age 14 that I was the quickest and best recovery from CP he's ever seen in his career. I'm lucky.
I was often frustrated as a small child when people asked me to repeat myself over and over. To me, I sounded fine, but my words never really made sense. I couldn't say any sound that required my tongue to touch my palate.
My frustration led way to me being an irritable child; a thing that was only made worse by the fact that I'm on the Autism spectrum (diagnosed at 4) which was much more severe when I was younger. I'm still affecting by it, of course, but I'm so much better at handling it.
When I was in 6th grade and getting out of my bus seat at my stop, the bus suddenly jerked a bit as the driver put the handbrake on, wobbling me enough that I fell backwards onto the metal step leading to the back seat. My butt hurt but that was about it...until I tried to get out of my desk chair a couple of hours later and fell straight to the ground. Turns out I hairline-fractured my tailbone as well as pushing my spine a centimetre up. I'm okay but I have trouble sitting down and have to shift a lot to avoid pain.
My knees are also screwed from chemicals in Pepsi Max deteriorating my joints. Goes to show that you never know what might affect you negatively, especially in the case of 'diet' products.
Due to Autism I also suffer from audio processing issues. In short, it is the inability to process the meaning of the sounds I hear. We attach meaning to sound with reference to more than just the auditory signals. I have difficulty associating sounds with written language; have problems recognising sounds and therefore decoding words or messages; have difficulty in organising auditory information to effectively decode the meaning of a given message, often as a result of one of the above two problems; often speak in a monotone, without rhythm or intonation, and have a hard time perceiving these subtleties in other speakers (like sarcasm and emotion); and am unnerved by background noise and loud noises, meaning I often cannot follow what other people are saying if present in a chatty place like a party or classroom.
On top of this I've had a horrid home life filled with emotional and mental trauma which has shut me off from trusting people and resulted in me having major anxiety of both social and general.
Sorry if I just put a super downer on your day...but there it is. And I didn't even mention that I'm blind as a bat and have the depth perception of a one-eyed person.
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Hey everyone! So I wasn't originally planning on posting in here but after meeting a few really special furs I feel more comfortable about it.
Similar to Fable, I have spinal muscular atrophy. I'm currently not affected too much by it, I just tire out a little easier than others. But over time my muscles will deteriorate more and I'll get weaker and weaker until I'm unable to do much. I got tested for it a few years back, around halfway through my senior year of high school, so I'm still struggling with accepting it.
Until I got on here and started talking to Fable after I saw his post, I never thought I'd meet anyone who understood what I was feeling. So thank you again so much for sharing that, it really means the world to me.
I'm also always here if anyone ever needs to talk or vent or really anything. Love you all! ^_^
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I'm a case and a half - grab some snacks, sit down, and enjoy the ride:
I was born with a birth defect known as a cleft palate. It's basically when the roof of your mouth (or palate) never forms (google it.) I got it stitched up at 6 months old and again at 5 years old.
The cleft palate meant my speech and eating were severely affected. I was fed milk from a bottle with a very special nipple as I was unable to suck. I was fed for a minute at a time constantly throughout the day and never drank much. It got easier when I started solids but even that would become hard for me in later years; my upper 'jaw' never grew with the rest of my head as it had no natural bone-stitching, meaning my upper set of teeth were completely unaligned with my bottom set and I couldn't chew properly until I got braces a year ago.
I went to a speech therapist from since I started speaking until I was 8. My doctor told me at age 14 that I was the quickest and best recovery from CP he's ever seen in his career. I'm lucky.
I was often frustrated as a small child when people asked me to repeat myself over and over. To me, I sounded fine, but my words never really made sense. I couldn't say any sound that required my tongue to touch my palate.
My frustration led way to me being an irritable child; a thing that was only made worse by the fact that I'm on the Autism spectrum (diagnosed at 4) which was much more severe when I was younger. I'm still affecting by it, of course, but I'm so much better at handling it.
When I was in 6th grade and getting out of my bus seat at my stop, the bus suddenly jerked a bit as the driver put the handbrake on, wobbling me enough that I fell backwards onto the metal step leading to the back seat. My butt hurt but that was about it...until I tried to get out of my desk chair a couple of hours later and fell straight to the ground. Turns out I hairline-fractured my tailbone as well as pushing my spine a centimetre up. I'm okay but I have trouble sitting down and have to shift a lot to avoid pain.
My knees are also screwed from chemicals in Pepsi Max deteriorating my joints. Goes to show that you never know what might affect you negatively, especially in the case of 'diet' products.
Due to Autism I also suffer from audio processing issues. In short, it is the inability to process the meaning of the sounds I hear. We attach meaning to sound with reference to more than just the auditory signals. I have difficulty associating sounds with written language; have problems recognising sounds and therefore decoding words or messages; have difficulty in organising auditory information to effectively decode the meaning of a given message, often as a result of one of the above two problems; often speak in a monotone, without rhythm or intonation, and have a hard time perceiving these subtleties in other speakers (like sarcasm and emotion); and am unnerved by background noise and loud noises, meaning I often cannot follow what other people are saying if present in a chatty place like a party or classroom.
On top of this I've had a horrid home life filled with emotional and mental trauma which has shut me off from trusting people and resulted in me having major anxiety of both social and general.
Sorry if I just put a super downer on your day...but there it is. And I didn't even mention that I'm blind as a bat and have the depth perception of a one-eyed person.
Damn.... Nova that puts the u in sucks. ;3; you weren't a downer...thanks for sharing! I really appreciate your input actually and I'm honestly glad I made this thread...it shows that not everyone is a young healthy adult, people have problems and no problem is one in the same...no matter how little or how sever someone's problems are, they're all important! Thank you so much and I really do hope you manage better then most. ^w^