Any disabled queers out there?

[joseph]

i hered some gay pepole say badsthings about disabled.like saying retard. i heared some disabeld pepple say bad abot gay peple like its is bad being gay . it is bad. i dont wont to be left out of gay peple im a proper gayman

[Jay]

I injured my left leg when I was around 11 years old. Fell downstairs. I thought it was just a minor accident so I didn't bother to tell my parents about it. Granted, my left sheen was bleeding really badly. But it still didn't trigger me to tell my parents.

As a result, my left leg (Either fibula or tibia or both) bends quite a bit. It doesn't look bad when I stand still. But it's not pretty when I walk. I used to be ashamed and avoid looking at my left leg. It affected my self esteem. It used to ache a lot when I was overweight. The pain disappeared after I lost weight (And also after I encountered a weird accident).

My aunt once said, "It's a pity. He has such nice look but with such leg. Is there any way he can get it fix?"

Strangers and also my high school best friends used to mock and mimic the way I walk.

It took me few years to overcome my insecurity. I trained myself every single day by walking and running in public to improve my confidence and self esteem.

Maybe Pellaz is correct. Maybe it is fractured. I will consult a specialist once I'm done with my surgeries.

My injured left leg doesn't bother me anymore - in any kind of way.

[archubbycub]

I have type 2 diabetes and a slight case of ADD, but I really don't consider myself disabled. I greatly admire those who have physical disabilities but "rise above them" to lead a very productive life. Reminds me that my problems are minuscule!

[Hayden]

I'm never sure if this falls under the category of disabled, but:

I was born with some thing called a glycogen storage disease type 1B. It's very rare. Last I heard (like ten years ago) there were only six in California with it. Basically it means I can't create a blood sugar on my own, therefore I have to drink a mixture of cornstarch and water ever four hours to stay alive. At night I put NG tubes (nasal-gastric) in me and connect it to a feeding pump. You can kinda see the pump in the background of my avatar pic. When I was a kid I used to wear the tubes all the time. It wasn't until I was thirteen I was able to stop wearing them during the day (childhood nickname = hose nose :biggrin.

My particular brand of GSD comes with something called neutropenia, which just means I have a severely compromised immune system. I'm extremely prone to infection. I've spent many, many weeks in hospital rooms because of a scrape or small cut that ended up taking over an entire appendage.

[joseph]

disabeled is when its stop your doing things.or need help to do it

[ChadCoxRox]

I'm never sure if this falls under the category of disabled, but:

I was born with some thing called a glycogen storage disease type 1B. It's very rare. Last I heard (like ten years ago) there were only six in California with it. Basically it means I can't create a blood sugar on my own, therefore I have to drink a mixture of cornstarch and water ever four hours to stay alive. At night I put NG tubes (nasal-gastric) in me and connect it to a feeding pump. You can kinda see the pump in the background of my avatar pic. When I was a kid I used to wear the tubes all the time. It wasn't until I was thirteen I was able to stop wearing them during the day (childhood nickname = hose nose :biggrin.

My particular brand of GSD comes with something called neutropenia, which just means I have a severely compromised immune system. I'm extremely prone to infection. I've spent many, many weeks in hospital rooms because of a scrape or small cut that ended up taking over an entire appendage.

I had never heard of this. Sounds so serious compared to your positive attitude about it. Thanks for explaining! As a type I diabetic it sounds like a cousin disorder...

[Hayden]

I had never heard of this. Sounds so serious compared to your positive attitude about it. Thanks for explaining! As a type I diabetic it sounds like a cousin disorder...

Hey there CCRox,

My situation was much more serious when I was a kid. These days I'm able to maintain my condition, to an extent, by being responsible and remaining consistent. Unfortunately, not everyone in my position is as lucky. The only other person I ever met who had GSD died when I was nine (he was seven). Part of the danger is that there is such a narrow window of time to keep the glucose levels up. Within about thirty minutes of not drinking the cornstarch when I'm supposed to, my blood sugar will drop to the teens, which as you know, hypoglycemic or hyperglycemic, is a terrible, death impending, feeling. There's been several occasions where I've gone to sleep at night only to wake up weeks later in the hospital because something went wrong with my feeding pump. But that hasn't happened in a while.

I was lucky because my mom was very diligent in keeping me healthy, thus instilling good habits in me as an adult, which is surprisingly not as common as it should be from what I understand.

Interestingly, without the tubes in all the time (thus without people constantly staring and asking questions) I kind of forget that I even have this disease. It's kind of like living dual lives .

It is a lot like a cousin to type 1 diabetes. But in a way, it's also like the polar opposite too. I'm never sure about exactly what the rules for consuming sugar are for diabetes (you can't eat much of it, but sometimes you have to eat a lot of it?) but I can't consume and sugars whatsoever. That's any of your uses: sucrose, lactose, and fructose. No fruit for me. With GSD your liver lacks the enzyme to convert glycogen back into glucose, therefore, any sugar I consume just stores in the liver forever and begins to impede liver function (that's why it's called glycogen storage disease).