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I am servierly dyslexic and I also have mild dyspraxia. I was told very young about my dyslexia but have only recently descovered my dyspraxia. So I began researching both of my difficulties. The more I research I realise that my entire personality falls in the characteristics of my learning difficulties.
I'm weird, I'm creative, I'm very good at puzzles. I don't always understand social constructs, I see the world differently and get overwhelmed by all the thoughts that race through my head.
I've always been different and that is my personality but now I'm questioning how much of this is actually me and how much is my dyslexia. Not to mention I've always been clumsy, I drop stuff, I walk into stuff. I also characterized this as part of my personality but now I find out it's because I have mild dyspraxia.
I'm not even sure who I am anymore. Am I nothing more than my diagnosis? Is it all just down to my deformed brain? Am I just the same as every other dyslexic dyspraxic person? I don't feel like I have a personality any more.
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No it doesn't define you. You are who you are. I'm sure you got your personality.
ReplyYou are more,way more than a medical issue. You may not know who you are right now,but eventually you'll find yourself.
ReplyI’m diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder and depression. On top of that I have 4 phobias (that completely control and ruin my life) and I’m an HSP. I know that my diagnoses might not be comparable to yours, but I know exactly what you’re too about. In the beginning when I got my first diagnosis, I was relieved, because I finally had a name for what I was struggling with. But as the diagnoses kept piling on, it started to scare me. I realized that my diagnoses will forever be on my medical records, I will forever have to deal with them. I just so bad wanted live a “normal” life.
But it’s not always as black and white as you might think. Having a mental illness, learning disability or any other disorder is not a death sentence. It’s not “bad”. It’s a part of you. It’s what makes you, you. Think about all of the things you probably wouldn’t know without your disorders.
My social anxiety ruins my life. But it makes me more cautious about what I say to people, it makes me realize that words have meanings and that they hurt. It makes me caring and thoughtful.
My anxiety ruins my life too. But it makes me able to analyze things and look at things from different perspectives. It makes me think about tings before I do them.
My depression ruins my life too. But it makes me strong.
My diagnoses don’t define me, and neither does yours define you. You are still you.
ReplyHey.
And to answer your question, no , you are not just your diagnosis.
I know it feels like a label and no one likes being labeled.
But we need labels to function as a society!
If we don't use labels, we won't be able to do anything.
'Heart failure''Gall stones' etc. are also labels, only that they feel normal.
You are whatever you want to be. Your label is only the part of you that is being treated with therapy.
ReplyYour dyslexia and dyspraxia diagnoses does not define who you are. I have dystonia, which is a movement disorder.
Dystonia does not define me at all. I am bubbly (most of the time) and sad or angry sometimes. I like cute things and sweet foods. I am very cheerful when I talk and could talk a million words per hour, but they end up sounding gibberish.
A disorder does not define a person at all, but their actions do.
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