What are learning disabilies and other problems?

Learning disabilities are conditions, the brain and or disorders that can affect, body, brain or even both, which can happen before, during or after birth or maybe even both. This affects every day of people’s lives, but they do face strengths as well as weaknesses. There are all types of disabilities and other problems, I will talk about in this book and others you may need to research elsewhere. Like I said there are different forms of Autism, there may be different forms of other disabilities and other problems. I hope I have not confused you with the difference between learning disability and Autism, which confuses as well cause even I must research to be sure and often different references tend to tell you different information etc. I think Autism may well link into more mild mental disabilities. Whereas Dyspraxia, which is a physical learning difficulty.

According to Mencap, there are 1.5 million people with a disability in the UK.

Like I said with Autism always except the unexcepted the same with all disabilities. No two or more people with the same disability necessarily face the same in life as far as what their strengths, weaknesses, etc are concerned.

Different types of disabilities and other problems.

Muscular dystrophies are when the person is weakening gradually in a limit of time. It seems to be more in common in boys than girls, just like Autism really. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/muscular-dystrophy/types/

Spina Bifida can happen during pregnancy when the spinal cord nerves run down the spine. This causes physical disability. This can affect people’s balance, movement, bladder, and bowel control. The bones and joints deformities that can affect the movements. Hydrocephalus high presage on the brain because of fluid not being drained away. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Spina-bifida/

Cerebral Palsy happens during pregnancy. It is a Mental and Physical disability affecting the body and the mind. The brain controls the movement of the body in every stage of development. Almost like a form of Autism, which is damage can happen during in birth or any time due to a brain injury such as lack of oxygen or the child might have been shaken. Children may face these difficulties, posture, ability to put the body in a chosen positive and keep it there. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/cerebral-palsy/

There are more disabilities that what I have said. These disabilities affect everyday life. For example, mobility, ability, use of hands, physical co-ordination, or and bladder and bowls, lifting, carrying, hearing, speech, eyesight, memory, concentration, learning, understanding, awareness of danger and maybe more.  Some disabilities affect more parts of life than others.  Learning disability websites adultprotection.org.uk, community.care.co.uk https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrIDKEgpJVeDWUAOw53Bwx.;_ylu=X3oDMTBycDZicmtuBGNvbG8DaXIyBHBvcwM2BHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--/RV=2/RE=1586893985/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.mencap.org.uk%2flearning-disability-explained%2fconditions-linked-learning-disability%2fcerebral-palsy/RK=2/RS=Bgzmxu13oWdZzTVACR30aNqbkjk-

Anxiety disorder.

Anxiety is a Mental health disorder that causes people to feel stressed, worry, panic, overthink. Some things don’t even need to be worried about what people worry about or people don’t need to worry as much as they thought but this can vary, this isn’t always the case but with the right support, etc. It is possible to help people to get through.

 It may be possible that Anxiety can be linked to disabilities, mental problems, etc people may but may be possible to have Anxiety on its own as well, which for whatever your career is you may need to research this.

 Really, I can speak about the problems I face myself. Although, having been to school, college, etc coming across people who faced different problems, they have told bits about theirs.

We may panic if we only have a limit of time to do something, something bigger than it is to us, we may overthink without meaning to, we may make a mountain out of a molehill without meaning to, we may say something that may only be said in a few words in one million words, which that could be partly Dyslexia too.

Sheer panic may cause us to have a dry mouth, feel shaky, sweat, even fast heartbeat, tense and finding it hard to sleep.

All these things could boil down to panic attacks, which maybe someone is worried about something but maybe they do not need to worry as much, for example, being nervous about an example, their driving test, etc.

This could even be about emotional problems, family, friends, relationships, etc. I guess there are many websites I can put on but down to you to do your own research as well.

Speaking from my own experience The anxiety I think can link with Autism going what I face been in busy places with a lot of people, cities, train stations, bus stations, airports, etc.

Autism is a lifetime disability or even disorder, most of us with Autism have a learning disability, I am one of them.

I may be wrong but those of us with Autism face social and maybe even general Anxiety. This may cause social interaction and a lack of communication and understanding.

Asperger syndrome is a form of Autism in people who have high intelligence. They do not have language difficulties.

Communication

o         Little language

o         Speaking in the same tone

o         Unable to understand meaning of gestures and facial expressions

o         Difficulty understanding jokes.

o         Mixing up words like you and me.

°                      Repeating what one another say.

Movements

§  Flapping hands

§  Twirling toes

§  Interested in one topic

§  Having fixed route/upset by the change

§  Sensitive to sound, smell, taste etc.

§  Misunderstanding people’s thoughts feelings, actions etc.

Cause of Autism

The cause of Autism is unknown yet although in my case I was born a lack of oxygen to the brain, which caused me to have mild Autism. Although I say that as I have not been diagnosed but these things were never known when I came to the world nearly fifty-one years ago. However,’ as the years went on, my family films, read books, etc on Autism to think what they learned is so similar if not the same of myself, how I was in my own world, finding it hard to accept change, liking my own route, etc. I think if I have any form of Autism at all it is likely to be Asperger. About five to ten years ago I asked my doctor about getting diagnosed but she said there was no funding for adults.

I guess just before the 21^st century, there’s been a case of MMR injections to protect meseals, rubella, they said there was a risk to Autism as a side effect from the injection, I myself find it hard to understand. I guess if the MMR is likely to be the cause of any type of Autism it may be Autism Spectrum, which I may be right or wrong, which is down to you to research.

Epilepsy, Anxiety, Pressager, Depression, and Stress.

Stress and passage is and always have been the worst killer of all for everyone but if you have certain disabilities etc, it is hard for a person to cope with. However,’ each person naturally copes differently from the other. Bearing in mind that stress plays a lot on a lot of people’s minds, which seem easy for you but the end of the world to them. When people are stressed this is a sense of worry for them and even others around them. some people somethings will not leave their minds.

Not in everyone’s cases despite the stress they face and how they cope with it, they still manage to live long lives but sadly not always as I just said not everyone’s cases. Somethings that people may face other may say move on, get over it, which is not that simple, only they know the person who is putting them through what they are putting them through, which may be why they are finding it hard to get over whatever the problem may be or they may not get over whatever at, which is likely to cause them a lot of anxiety and depression and even risks of suicide attempts, etc. This cause is emotional issues such as relationship, marriage break – ups, death, etc. This can be hard whether you have disabilities etc or not but then you need as twice as much support if you. It is enough to deal with the general day to day life such as paying bills that people tend to worry about, for example, therefor how would you help people with disabilities and other problems, through these issues? These stresses can make even a healthy person ill, let alone a person who faces disabilities, etc. This may make them angrier, stressed, and depressed than other people.

In many ways, panic attacks could be quite alike epilepsy, for those who face these issues with their health, the stresses of life are even worse for them. As we all know there is no easy way to avoiding stress. However, most people disabilities etc may be unaware of what may have happened for a problem to get out of hand so many things may be unintentional. I guess in many cases it can be hard to tell if someone is having a seizure or a panic attack but many say non – epilepsy seizures are fairly similar, which this may be where ECG scans etc may come in, where your health professionals may need to research.

If seizures get awfully bad or if epilepsy is mistaken for panic attacks, there can be a risk of a person taking no medication or mistakenly overdosing themselves.

When I was about eighteen when I was working and training at the riding stables over Wales. The riding instructor Miss Coyne thought I was having seizures, so she got the doctor over Wales at the time to put me back on the tablets, he put me on Tegretol, I know I wasn’t having seizures but Miss Coyne was saying otherwise. By the time I was twenty I got sick of taking them for no reason to point I took an overdose of the lot at home and ended up in hospital overnight, from there I was taken off medication altogether after I had an ECG that came back normal. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/epilepsy/symptoms/   https://www.netdoctor.co.uk/conditions/brain-and-nervous-system/a336/epilepsy/  https://www.brainline.org/article/seizures-and-epilepsy-frequently-asked-questions

Many medications in The 70s and 80s made you very drowsy, they used to slow me right down to a point I was a danger zone. I could not find my way around places; I had no sense of direction and danger risk of getting run over on the roads. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Epilepsy/   https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/76/suppl_1/i45

Most medications can make people feel which I guess is part of the side effects, this something else for your health professionals to research.

Nevertheless, Anxiety is a Mental health disorder that’s not much different to ADHD, which also can be a sense of stress and anger, both those can easily get mistaken to one to another, both those need researching to see what is the difference and the same as the two.

 These negative feelings may trigger off whether there’s the reason for it not which also needs to be investigated. Many times, on and off through my life I felt stress and anger with and without a reason.

 I am not saying I was not naughty but it always used to furstaight me to I was feeling angry and stressed on and off with and without a reason, even more so without a reason and years ago this wasn’t understood so now how can we help society to understand what we didn’t understand years ago? How can people themselves who face these problems understand themselves? https://theydiffer.com/difference-between-anxiety-and-adhd/

Depression.

Most people say that more men take their own lives than women, which not sure it is true how true it is, but I can well believe. Now I know not a lot of you guys like hearing this and this case reading. I know many would be thinking us women think we are always right, or always right, but I would not say we always are. I guess many of you have heard this many times over the years, and I sorry yes you must be fed up with hearing it.

 However,’ not saying all of you and I hate having to say this, there’s shouldn’t be a barrier between the two but there seems to be in this case and I’m just been honest. Even before we were aware of the internet etc, when I was a kid, young adult, etc, not on purpose but say passing in the street, etc, I would hear people talk about how boys and men find it hard to say what they were thinking more so than girls and women. How most men would shy away to whatever was said to them etc.

My ex-partner was a fine example where at times, I never knew whatever was bothering whether it was something else or something, he only said if he wanted to and if he wanted to.

 He would sit there silent with a face like a wet weekend as if he were going to blow his top at any second. If you ask him what is wrong, he will say nothing, or it is nothing to do with you etc. Things like he would moan because he is in pain, but he would not try going anything to get himself treated etc, if I said doctors etc he would refuse etc, very stubbed. He would bottle things up and be complete and he’d moody etc until he decided to snap out of it, it was like no one else mattered.

 If only I had the strength then to walk away and let him copy on his own, which yes that’s how he made himself out he wanted but I was so much in a different frame of mind back then I found it hard to walk away from that point but I years later, better late never as they say but not an easy one when someone doesn’t can’t accept your help.

 Not everyone is like him, I am pretty certain he didn’t want to be helped but I think might have been a different story if I had walked away from that point but in many people’s cases, it’s not an easy one if someone does find it hard to open up.

When having read on the internet, that more men talking their own lives then a woman doesn’t seem to have changed even since before we had the internet, maybe numbers meaning the number of people but it’s hard work where numbers are up or down each time you may look.

Depression affects a lot of people’s state of mind. In the case of learning disability and other problems, it can be even harder due to behavior, some people can take longer to accept a negative situation in their lives than others. It can be harder for a counselor or therapist if a person either refuses to help themselves, or accept help, which is why all you can do is empower someone and let them make their own choice whether they want to go for it or not, if they do then it shows they are helping themselves or and they are taking on board what you may have suggested to them, then you know they are coming to sessions till the end if they are either helping themselves or and trying to follow what you suggest.

Some people can become moodier if they take to learn to live with whatever they may be facing. You would think those who have no intentions helping themselves wouldn’t try to go with counseling or therapy to start with but it doesn’t always happen that way, where they think you can do all the work, which shouldn’t be that way.

I guess it can be extremely hard to cope if people have children, children can sense when their parents are unhappy, this can make the children unhappy too. Take, for example, children with Autism, which even harder for an Autism child to understand when their parents are split up and understanding why they are. Society tends to think that Autism children purposely behave badly which is not the case when parents need the support to be able to cope. If the child or and parents could make a choice what will it be? Parent slipping can be destressing for children whether or they have Autism. However, the child has the right to know why but when is the best time to raise that so the child can learn to understand. How are either parent or both parents are going to cope with the child’s distress, this could be where the child needs some form of emotional support, therapy, or and counseling them to live with their parent’s break, which could be the case whether the child has Autism or not, this could cause the child a lot of Anxiety and Depression I guess depending on the situation.   

At least 75% of people if not more face Depression in the Uk. My guess, only a 3^rd of people try to get help may be more or less which is concerning but we can force people to do so.  Depression affects older people, they 1 in 5 but I am guessing a lot more than that, which are mostly those who live out in the community and care homes, plus people with disabilities and other problems. https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/a-to-z/d/depression  https://www.bupa.co.uk/newsroom/ourviews/2017/10/anxiety-depression

What is Dyspraxia?

Dyspraxia is a hard disability and mental problem to explain and understand, it is a very hidden learning difficulty, lifetime long – term condition. Many people have already lived
with Dyspraxia our lives being misunderstood and being told that we are a danger to society. The condition makes you who and what you are, which we are classed as clumsily meaning a health and safety hazard without the right support in the teams of society and even the eyes of the law. Most of us with Dyspraxia can walk and talk but whichever it is still a very hidden condition. Not a lot of people can tell unless you spend a lot of time with people with Dyspraxia. We have difficulty with things climbing things such as a ladder etc in my experience.

Dyspraxia is a condition that should be taken seriously because it can affect everyday skills like cutting one’s toenails and fingernails, shaving, kitchen skills, etc.

Both awareness and funding need to be raised for the condition.

As far as I am aware that the condition is only been aware of say the last fifteen to twenty years. Therefore, there may be different forms of Dyspraxia, which society needs to research.

 The world understands that the world can know everything right away. No one is blaming anyone but if Dyspraxia was understood many years, we may have had the right support and may not have been classed health hazards and useless people. This disability has caused us to be made to feel guilty for things we cannot help and also caused us to be hated by the world. We understand it is understandable in one way for the health and safety of others but not the fault on the purpose of the people who have disabilities. The awareness is good but all very well to raise when there is not the money in the world to support it. One thing is raising understanding of Dyspraxia so we can be at least understood for what our disability is about.

Dyspraxia is when people are unaware of the world around them. It is too easy to not look where you are going, bang into things and people around you. People with Dyspraxia can find physical and mental skills hard. Dyspraxia is mostly misunderstood has been a danger to society, which you are but with the right support you can get by in life.
 The reason for Dyspraxia being misunderstood is because it is a hidden disability. Yet with Dyspraxia being a lot to do with the body and brain, even though it is hidden because people can walk and talk it is more major than those disabilities who need 24-hour care in everything. The advantage is that people with Dyspraxia have the ability though to ask for help if we need it. There is just a wide circle of skills we find hard. The cause of being misunderstood is the fact we can walk and talk so people think we can manage our lives the same as them. Dyspraxia is a Motor skill and co -oration disability but it is also can be a reading and writing disability not much different from dyslexia.

For eg, a baby may find it hard to roll over, take longer to stand up and balance, walking, climbing, slower to talk and be understood.

Exercise maybe harder to access, some people may only manage swimming, exercise or and even horse riding. Some people may not manage to ride a real bike. Some people may find it hard to hop, jump, run fast and even skip. Some people may find it hard to throw and catch a ball. Some people may find it hard to stand for a long time.

 Children may be slower to walk up and down stairs safely without support. There are some stairs even adults and teenagers may not be able to manage without support. Some stairs can be harder for some people to manage than others. Some people find it hard to dress, tie shoelaces and etc.

 For most of us, it can affect our lives with not being able to drive a car and not being able to have children because of carrying and lifting. As time goes on support gets better in some ways but not in others. On the other hands with the cuts, the government is making it is hard to say what the future is.

Other examples

·                     Doing jigsaws

·                     Gripping pencils

·                     Playing games

·                     Mixing with people

·                     communicating 

·                     Reading

·                     Writing

·                     Emotional problems

·                     Poor short-term memory

·                     Using a knife and fork

·                     Carrying hot drinks in the left hand or and you may be only able to carry one hot drink at a time.

·                     Personnel care for eg, cleaning teeth, washing hair, shaving, cutting toenails and etc.

·                     Emptying the hoover and putting it back together again.

·                     Finding it hard to understand people and make friends.

·                     Poor vision

·                     Sensitive to light

·                     Sensitive to nose

·                     Sensitive to touch

·                     Sensitive to taste

• Lack of awareness in body-positive, space and spatial relationships.
• Hard to take in information.
• Hard to keep tidy.
• Cooking for eg, carrying heavy joints out of the oven, chopping up and straining veg.
• Hard to learn sounds, movements, and proofreading.
• Hard to concentrate on too many things at once.
• Slow to do a job and finish it.
• Daydream be in a world of our own.
• Find hard to listen to people in groups and take in what they say.
• Finding hard to understand people and be understood by them. 
•  Change can take a while to get use to whether it is good or bad.
• Good and bad days for eg, something we managed great yesterday we are coping really bad today.
• Some skills we just never manage but others we manage for life.
• We may get frustrated and angry easily.
• We just might give up if people give up on us too easy.
• We may be stressed and anxious easy.
• We may feel low in our self-esteem. 
• We may get upset easily.

Other awareness of the disability.
Some people with Dyspraxia have flat feet but I also have wide feet. I have really bad problems getting shoes to fit me. Some people even find it hard to type and grip the mouse on a computer. My problem can be I type so fast I do not notice my spelling mistakes and the words I have missed out of sentences. Some people find it hard to plan things. Some of us have poor relocating cannot look quickly and effectively from one object to another, looking from the television to the magazine.

Although there seems to be a lot of things that we find hard, there are some things that get better through our lives. I still remember as a child finding it hard for a lot of years cutting meat up with a knife and fork. In some cases, if someone is on some medications the side effects can make life even harder for them. If you have a lot of problems with hands, some medications can make them worse, which makes some people shake.  Not everyone finds the same things hard and not everyone finds the same things easy. I even find some things I just have good days and bad. Strangely in some things, there are some weaknesses that can turn into confidences because with this being a lifetime disability you become used to what you can and cannot cope. The fact that we are keen, willing people because we find so many things hard, we do not give up until we achieve what we want to. Sometimes though society gives upon us. To start with it may seem hard to believe that there are positives in Dyspraxia, but it is taking a long time to believe in that, your disability and most of all yourself. You can find so many things hard, yet it is to believe the bad as well as the good because you do not appear to strangers to have disabilities.

Our lives are not all black and white there are positives about us, yet some are from the things we do find hard.

·                     Some things that we may see differently from other people can be right.

·                     We find it easy to get along with people if they understand us and we understand them.

·                     People need to give themselves time and time to get to know one another.

·                     We can be carrying people who need support as much or if not more than us.

·                     We have a powerful and creative imagination in our daydreams.

·                     We are very keen learner’s despite finding learning hard, nothing stops us.

·                     We have good long-term memories.

·                     We can create for eg, creative writing art painting and drawing. 

The causes of Dyspraxia.

As far as I know Dyspraxia is caused by a lack of orgxen to the brain at birth or when a baby is born too early. I think this can be linked to epilepsy or and a stroke. I think are many other causes of Dyspraxia.

Different forms of Dyspraxia.

It sounds as if the world has a lot to learn about Dyspraxia, which is hardly surprising as it is a hard disability to understand and explain. Just because I am Dyspraxia, does not mean I know everything about it. In my respect, the world knows more than me. What I do know is how it has affected my life. I am glad to say now it has opened now. There may have been thousands of children in my school, I would have been aware, but I doubt it. I know what it has like to feel so alone even though you are more than likely not. Bullying never seems to stop because you look and or seem different from other children. Even by adults your so misunderstood because quite rightly even adult expects to see a normal child, whatever normal is at the end of the day. Putting yourself in the shoes of parents, life can be a jigsaws puzzle for them when their child is slow at learning or and they know what their disabilities and health problems are.

Movements are to do with Motor skills, Co-oration, and balance. For eg; opening a tin with a can opener.
Language is speech how we sound, make ourselves understood and misunderstood mostly the cases are.
Perception is Understanding and or misunderstanding others, messages, the world around us and etc.
It's more likely possible to have all of those forms of Dyspraxia as I have found all those things hard throughout my life. Having said that when you have a good many other disabilities it can be hard to say what causes what. For eg, I could either Asperger Syndrome or and ADHD, Dyslexia, Epilepsy as well as Dyspraxia. could have one form of Dyspraxia, two or all three. I know what I read about Dyspraxia sounds like me.

Sometimes when I am speaking, I find it hard to sallow when I speak therefore no understands me. I have always had problems with my tongue, teeth, and lips which goes very dry as skin becomes loose. Even though I feed myself, I am still a very messy eater. As a very small child I found very hard grip a knife and fork I think food used to go everywhere other than my mouth over the floor everywhere, although I don't see how I've always loved my food too much and ate too much.

Some words I may say may not come out correct but may not be far off, otherwise, I'm well misunderstood. Sometimes I may talk too quiet in case I do not sound like how I want to sound like. Yet when I am sure of myself it works opposite; I can be too loud.     

Some famous people with Dyspraxia.

Daniel Radcliffe who plays Harry Potter, David Bailey who takes pictures, Florence Welch, Hannah McDonnell actor, Helen Burns character out of Jane Eyre, Samuel Taylor Coleridge poet, CK Chester, Ern  Est Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, and George Orwell writer.

Dyspraxia needs to be taken seriously as it is a hidden physically learning difficulty and it is not noticed a lot, it is a life long – term condition that affects people physically and mentally. It should not stop people from living their lives with the right support when needed. Dyspraxia slows people down with everyday skills mainly physical skills, which makes it is hard for us to complete tasks, work, etc at the same time as other people unless we have the right support to do so. It is not always understood because the fact most people with Dyspraxia can walk and talk part from we may find it hard to explain ourselves to people very well or and we may stutter, the learning Difficulty is very much hidden.

However,’ it is important to except the unexcepted with all disabilities and all problems including Dyspraxia, lots of people with the same problems aren’t all necessarily the same as one another but that is likely to vary. I can only speak for myself having to be Dyspraxia myself, what I face may not be the same for everyone who faces the learning difficulty and long-life term condition.

I think and feel it is important for a young to get a lot and the right support from the start of life so skills can come as easy as possible for them, but some may need more support than others.

My reasons are because Dyspraxia can have a huge on a person’s life physically and mentally least from my experience such as tieing, shoelaces, buttons, zips, etc but some of these items can be harder to manage than others such as lids, pop bottles, etc, which I have faced all my life but only been aware why for say the last fifteen to twenty years or so and I’m nearly fifty – one. Dyspraxia can affect gripping and strength, if a person has not had psycho from a young person, like from my experience because of Dyspraxia was unknown when I was a young child. This can affect you from having your own children without the right support to help you look after them mainly in terms of bathing, dressing, holding your child, etc.

Just to say that Dyspraxia isn’t all negative on the positive the side I have done creative writing courses, been a public and private Advocacy worker, been on and off computer course for twenty – three years, I can draw, paint, poetry, short stories, etc I need support with, I have done three Mentoring qualifications and as I said at the start of this book I have been a visiting Lecturer in learning disability and mental health since 2015. Therefore, a person with Dyspraxia does not face all negative.

https://www.webmd.com/children/guide/detecting-learning-disabilities#4