Anyone here learning disabled?

[SchizoGymnast]

I've done a substantial amount of research on the topic of people with LD and their lifetime outcomes, including dropping out of school, drug abuse, and suicide. I'm curious as to how many people on here have a learning disability and who feel that their life experiences lead them to this forum and this place in their lives.

For reference, LD includes things like:

• Dyslexia
• Dyscalculia
• Nonverbal learning disability
• Dysgraphia
• Dyspraxia
• Auditory processing disorder
• Visual processing disorder
• Brain injury

Feel free to share your specific learning disability. Maybe you're not the only one!

 

[doomerguy88]

I was diagnosed with a learning disability when I was a kid but I don't know what type it is. I just know that every couple of years in school I would take some kind of test with the counselor that involved things like reading comprehension and looking at pictures of a weird shape then recreating it with these triangles pieces. I definitely feel like things don't come as easy to me as other people

 

[Archness]

Yea, I have autism. Not sure if you would consider it a learning disability but it was outright considered a learning disability in the past. Way before people tried the whole "Autism is a superpower" thing. Not saying it'll literally doom you to be a dumb failure of a person, obviously, like many other disabilities, including dyslexia.

But I can really say in my case it really contributes to how I've become very blackpilled about this world and suicidal. I flat out don't intuit anything that isn't very abstract or something like operating traditional roguelike controls (such as in cdda). I also don't understand normal people on a fundamental level. Essentially, for all practical purposes, I simply lack the hardware to really comprehend people and society sufficiently to fully "Enjoy" it anymore then I am as a literal NEET living practically for free to spend all day and all night on my PC.

It's really quite hopeless, and I really am disabled, either I'm actually a retard who's just good at faking intelligence to myself or others, or I'm just weirdly incapable of comprehending certain things that end up with me just hardly functioning in this society. Either way, it's certain that I will never get the good life, never even find real love or connection with anyone.

Maybe it's not actually my autism, maybe it's just something as simple and benign as "Low IQ". But as I continue to live, as I'm unable to grow into a functional adult, when I can certainly perceive mother's unspoken frustration that I didn't just grow out of autism: I just feel so broken and defective.