Need a place to vent or rant?
Having a safe place to vent or rant is important for everyone. But if you're coping with disability it's even more important. Managing your disability and relationships with others who may or may not know how to provide support for disabilities can be a full time job - and a major headache. Families with disabilities, especially children with learning disabilities, have to contend with school bureaucracy and teachers who may or may not be trained to deal with learning disabilities or other special needs. And if you're a teacher, you need support too, right? You probably have your own good reasons to rant. Others may be dealing with disability discrimination, problems in getting disability grants or benefits from disability insurance, or other problems in dealing with 'the system'. Or, maybe it's dealing with personal relationships that gets you down. Coping with disability and relationships with family, friends and neighbors can provide its own special type of anguish. We want to hear your story. It's important for you as an individual to get it off your chest, rather than let it fester. There is no need to register or even provide your name, so feel free to tell it like it is. You'll even be able to provide your own commentary - support, advice, ideas - for each contribution as well. What drives you crazy in coping with disability?You're not alone! Share your frustrations here. What Other Visitors Have SaidClick below to see contributions from other visitors to this page...
Two children with special needs - looking for advice on coping
I am a single parent of two special needs childdren. My son is 15 and is severly disabled. I don't throw pity-parties and I force myself to go to work so "it can't be that bad". I'm currently in my 20s and was born with skeletal defects involving my hips, legs and feet. I've had numerous surgeries to correct and preserve the joints ...
How to cope with undiagnosed disability??
Hi I'm 26. I'm a mother of 2 yr old special needs lil girl. I feel so alone I don’t have any kind of support group. Not getting any help, while there are others running businesses and collecting SSI is a joke, they give people who are able to run businesses disablitly checks all over webster county kentucky, but I will end up homeless. Hope the ... Frustration with parents - inclusive education I am a special educator working for one of the prestigious Inclusive School in India. My frustration heightens when i am unable to communicate with the ... Poop - Fecal Smearing and Autism My five year old son is Autistic and has been fecal smearing for 3 years now and most recently has started diaper shredding. No one has any real solutions ...
Frustrated mom to a stroke survivor
My son was born and started having seizures after birth. He was diagnosed as having a stroke at some stage inutero which was causing the seizures.
Kids with ADHD!!
End of the rope!
Employment
I'm not good at writing, because I have aphasia. School Hi. My name is Vicky I am 15 years old and in grade 10, And I have a number of different disabilitys and I really don't like school and I don't know what ... The "special needs" Classroom I recently took a job as an educational aide for a class of autistic kids. I have a son with FX, so I am not new to this type kid. However, the teacher ... Why not meet disabled at home or school? One thing that drives me nuts is all the appointments with professionals where the disabled person is expected to show up at the office of the therapist ...
Handicapped parking spots and blocked handicapped entrances
It may seem petty to some, but it drives me crazy to see fully able people park in designated handicapped spots!
Can "stair-bombing" lead to better accessibility?
Here's a cheeky way to make more people aware of accessibility issues - "stairbombing".
Help the disabled or increase corporate profits?
I'm just a bystander to the political nonsense going on in Washington, but still, as more details emerge, I get angrier and angrier.
Single Parent of a Special Needs Child
My name is Shelly and I am a 40 y/o single parent of a Special Needs Child.... My Madison My sister Madison is a moderate mentally disabled person and is 22 years old. She is the sweetest girl in the world and I couldn't be more proud to be ... I Have High Functioning Autism I'm a High Functioning Autism student in my second year doing a BA Music Journalism. I'm also a songwriter/composer signed to Triumph Music Publishing....
Lack of appropriate accessible housing
I am 42 and have arthritis in my knees back and feet after jumping through a window years ago when we had a fire.
My biggest frustration - need advice
I am a kidney transplant patient. I'm in a CPR class and we had to do an exercise on giving breaths for as a fallen adult.
Handicap parking!
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