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Friday, 21 March 2025

Difference between

 




We need to learn for example;


“what is the difference, the same, similar between mental health and illness”?

“What is the difference, the same, similar between learning disability and difficulty”?

“What is the difference, the same, similar between anger and anxiety”?

“what is the difference, the same, similar between Autism and Anxiety”?

“What is the differences, the same, similarities between ADHD, Autism and Anxiety”?

“What is the difference, the same, similar between Schizoaffective and Bipolar”? 

“What is the difference, the same, similar between Dyslexia and Dyspraxia”?

Making information accessible for special needs and disability.

https://www.mencap.org.uk/learning-disability-explained/research-and-statistics/health/mental-health

As confusing as it sounds, it is possible to face Mental health

 with and without learning disabilities and difficulties, they are the same, 

but they can be linked to one another. For example; if a person gets 

frustrated with what their disability or difficulty does not let them do, 

it may cause them Anxiety. This is where each person faces them faces

 a disability with a difficulty but with ability. Dis is the difficulty.

 (This is the difficulty.) (Dis is the ability.) This is the ability. What's the difference between a learning disability and a mental health problem? | Mencap

Learning Disability vs Learning Difficulty vs Learning Disorder - The Debate Continues - Harley Therapy™ Blog 

The difference between a learning disability and learning difficulty.

 A disability is a condition that affects the brain and body, 

which is impairment which affects most things do,

 the difficulties you face depends on the disabilities you face. 

There are many disabilities that cause difficulties such as for e.g.;

 vision difficulties in sight or not seeing at all, blindness etc, 

movement, thinking, remembering, hearing, mental health and social relationships. 



It is natural to get confused with a learning disability and a learning difficulty because they both seem the same but really very different to one another in most ways. 

Learning disability do not have the general intellects that learning difficulties have but it is possible to have both. Not everyone has both.  Learning disabilities reduce the intellectual ability and difficulty of what people face by affecting things people may do and need help with. Such as household tasks, education, work, social lives and more.  

What is a learning disability?


 It can affect lives in huge different ways 

such as household skills, shopping, money,

 health, education, work, social lives, friendships, relationships, family and more. 


It is easy to get confused with disability,

 disability, difficulties and poor mental health.

 Mental illnesses.

People with disabilities can face poor

 mental health but don’t necessarily

 need disabilities to face poor mental health,

 the same either way round. 

 It is not always necessary that you

 face disabilities, difficulties or special

 needs to face poor mental health. 

As for the difference between learning

 disability and difficulty,

 learning difficulties does not affect

 intellects as learning disabilities do. 

As I said, this dish is difficult. 

Special needs means needing support for difficulties.

Abilities mean strengths.

The difficulties slow us down. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/learning-disabilities/


Saying this is the case with everyone.

 Attitudes have been getting. 

better in the last so many years

 but we still have a long way to go. 

People who are not disabled were 

viewed as normal but what normal. 

at the end of the day?  

Everyone is a human being.

What is a learning difficulty?
There are many different learning difficulties here
 such as Dyslexia and Dyspraxia. 
People who face learning difficulties
 may face more than one learning difficulty.
Everyone faces learning difficulties with one another
 but also, one person may face it differently to the other.
People who face learning difficulties 
may need a lot of help and support.
Everyone is different in areas of life to other,
 one person’s ability may be
 another person’s dis, this difficulty.
Learning difficulties do not make
 you have difficulties with everything. 
Some people who may face learning difficulties,
 I may face learning disabilities too,
 which may be one or more than one. 
Most people with learning difficulties 
may need help in the classroom,
 workplace, at home, going to places,
 talking to people such as doctors, dentists, etc.  

How do you know if your child or
 children have learning disabilities,
 difficulties etc?
The signs may not show when they are 
babies but may do when they start childhood,
 unless they were born with them.
This does not mean I am right, 
this may depend the type of disabilities etc
 they are face and even your child or children, 
meaning their strengths and what they struggle with a lot etc. 
My problems started at birth, but I have two nephews with disabilities
 and difficulties like mine and yet with both,
 my sister did not have problems at birth or 
when she was expecting both as far as I know. 
 Some people may need more support than others. 




A difficulty is what a person may struggle with whether it is talking,
 listening, taking in information, reading, writing, math and more,
 which is where they may need support. How they struggle may
 depend on the learning difficulty they have. 
Another word for this is called special needs.
 For example; Dyspraxia, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia.
How is that different to a Learning disability?
 Learning disability is a disorder for e.g.; Down Syndrome,
 Cerebral Palsy. What is the same is that all of those can start before,
 during or after birth. You will need to study all types of disabilities 
and all types of learning difficulties to know which one is which. https://www.understood.org/en/articles/what-are-learning-disabilities?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google-search-grant&utm_campaign=g_en_mb_learning%20disabilitiesej&utm_content=learning%20disabilities%20types%20nb&utm_term=types%20of%20learning%20disab
Learning Difficulties: Types, Causes and Symptoms | Mencap

Difference between Mental health, Mental – ill health and other problems. 

These days there is a lot of disability and mental health awareness to what there used to be, 

but all still have a long way to go.

  Everyone feels negative at times but if it all goes on longer than necessary,

 it is due to concern. 

It is good when mental health is good but when it is bad more so than when it is good. 

There are concerns of Mental – ill health. It all works how we feel, behave, think, react,

 interact and more to life. Mental health is emotional wellbeing, 

or should I say Mental – ill health is emotional wellbeing?

 Making people sad, angerly and more. 

When it is positive we may for e.g.;

 feel happy, on top of the world etc. 

What causes these emotions and 

what type of Mental illnesses are there?

As confusing as it sounds, it is possible to face Mental health

 with and without learning disabilities and difficulties, they are the same, 

but they can be linked to one another. For example; if a person gets 

frustrated with what their disability or difficulty does not let them do, 

it may cause them Anxiety. This is where each person faces them faces

 a disability with a difficulty but with ability. Dis is the difficulty.

 (This is the difficulty.) (Dis is the ability.) This is the ability. What's the difference between a learning disability and a mental health problem? | Mencap

Learning Disability vs Learning Difficulty vs Learning Disorder - The Debate Continues - Harley Therapy™ Blog



Difference between Mental health, Mental – ill health and other problems. 

These days there is a lot of disability and mental health awareness to what there used to be, 

but all still have a long way to go.

  Everyone feels negative at times but if it all goes on longer than necessary,

 it is due to concern. 

It is good when mental health is good but when it is bad more so than when it is good. 

There are concerns of Mental – ill health. It all works how we feel, behave, think, react,

 interact and more to life. Mental health is emotional wellbeing, 

or should I say Mental – ill health is emotional wellbeing?

 Making people sad, angerly and more. 

When it is positive we may for e.g.;

 feel happy, on top of the world etc. 

What causes these emotions and 

what type of Mental illnesses are there?

 The most common is Anxiety and Depression. https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=AwrEsHhJOdtn9s4DiQkPxQt.;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3JlbC1taWQ-?p=list+of+every+mental+illness&ei=UTF-8&type=1476589-vsub-2_24957_2_nwtb2&hsimp=yhs-caerus&hspart=litmus&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Aw%2Cm%3Ars-top%2Cct%3Auni&fr=yhs-litmus-caerus

One of the causes are family related. Mental Health and Learning Disabilities: Why a Higher Risk? – Learning Disabilities Association of America

 The most common is Anxiety and Depression. https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=AwrEsHhJOdtn9s4DiQkPxQt.;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3JlbC1taWQ-?p=list+of+every+mental+illness&ei=UTF-8&type=1476589-vsub-2_24957_2_nwtb2&hsimp=yhs-caerus&hspart=litmus&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Aw%2Cm%3Ars-top%2Cct%3Auni&fr=yhs-litmus-caerus

One of the causes are family related. Mental Health and Learning Disabilities: Why a Higher Risk? – Learning Disabilities Association of America



Difference between Mental health, Mental – ill health and other problems. 

These days there is a lot of disability and mental health awareness to what there used to be, 

but all still have a long way to go.

  Everyone feels negative at times but if it all goes on longer than necessary,

 it is due to concern. 

It is good when mental health is good but when it is bad more so than when it is good. 

There are concerns of Mental – ill health. It all works how we feel, behave, think, react,

 interact and more to life. Mental health is emotional wellbeing, 

or should I say Mental – ill health is emotional wellbeing?

 Making people sad, angerly and more. 

When it is positive we may for e.g.;

 feel happy, on top of the world etc. 

What causes these emotions and 

what type of Mental illnesses are there?

 The most common is Anxiety and Depression. 





The differences between dyscalculia and dysgraphia, is there anything the same one another? 


Dyscalculia is a mathematical learning difficulty like Dyslexia but  with numbers, which cause people who face it a lot of Anxiety. They call it math Anxiety.  

I used my fingers, calculator, cubes when I was a child etc., then most of my math were wrong answers. But Again, back then I didn’t know what the problem was neither did others who knew me but what we did know, we didn’t understand why I couldn’t learn like other people.


 I know I wasn’t the only one struggling with this, but I didn’t realize that at the time, I thought I was different to everyone and without trying to play on sympathy and attention, I felt as life wasn’t living at times but as I am learning what my problems are, I am learning to accept the support I need, I don’t feel like the stupid one anymore. 

I have learned over the years now I am just slower than other people and I am not alone as I thought I was. 

Dysgraphia is a handwriting and spelling learning difficulty where people struggle to write neat, struggle to spell, with grammar, punction and more. Without lines and margins on the page, their writing may be all over the place. 

https://www.understood.org/en/articles/math-anxiety-vs-dyscalculia-compare-the-signs?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=dyscalculia&utm_campaign=EN_Dyscalculia_EJ&gbraid=0AAAAAD-LTGLOEEBhbF4sxAEGqjym2Go9Z&gclid=CjwKCAjwjOunBhB4EiwA94JWsCK93GIOnTEd8xrdcFX3vU8cD3a502_F2X9uK6dqR0SdDL6QHn1FPRoCaF0QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds




Difference between Dyslexia and Dyspraxia.

I bet you wonder what I am talking about,

 well writing about when I call the title difference between,

 I bet you wonder what I mean. 

That is very understandable you may be thinking. 

What does she mean by The difference and the same?


Well, you may have noticed I have written about some disabilities, difficulties, conditions etc.,

 similar if different from one another so this is what I am going to cover in this chapter.


Let me start with the differences and same between and in Dyslexia and Dyspraxia. 

Research says that Dyslexia used to be a learning 

difficulty that causes people to struggle reading,

 writing, and spelling but that will always be the case. 

I guess nothing has changed there because.

 I think I have had that all my life, and I am sure I am not alone. 

However,’ as I said earlier that.

 does not mean the person cannot read at all,

 it is just difficulties along the way. Even those who 

can’t read and write think as much as those who can read and write, 

they have knowledge and things.

 to say and stories to tell. We should not judge a book by its cover.

To be truthful I am uncertain whether I have Dyslexia as well as Dyspraxia even I 

was Diagnosed twice for Dyslexia, maybe three times but never for Dyspraxia, even those.

 I have struggled with taking in what I have read, struggling with reading certain words.

 and spelling certain words; motor skills meaning physical skills 

so, I guess I do have both but whether

 or professionals etc. see it that way, I don’t know.

 

By own experience I cannot help but

 sum up what it may be like for others as well.

 I’m not sure whether it is possible to have Dyslexia and Dyspraxia,

 or you can just have one or the other. I guess so because I think. 

I have always had both. You may think if I have been diagnosed for

 Dyslexia three times and it came up that I am, 

that I must and yes I believe I must be.

 The reason I said I am uncertain is because Dyslexia and Dyspraxia

 are so similar as far as reading and writing is concerned. 

If you have both it can be hard to tell which reading, 

writing etc., which is dyslexia which is dyspraxia.




Going back to forty to 50 odd years 

ago when I was in school,

 Say I was seven to eight years old. 

I had forgotten what the teacher had said. 

It was a handwriting lesson. 

The teacher told us to miss a line between 

the date and title,

 then miss a line the title before we continued writing.

 Naughty me forget all that as far

 as the teacher was concerned.

  All because of that as she was looking at my work,

 she slapped the ruler across the back of my legs.

 This was in a special school. 

Going by that experience I do not have

 any hard feelings for what she did,

 that was the generation at the time.

 Despite that going by today’s standards,

 she should not be allowed to do

 what she did but maybe she did because. 

she had to at the time because no

 one really understood disabilities, difficulties etc.

  Then again that could have been

 anyone who forgotten to do as she said, 

it so happened I was the child who forgot. 

Thinking about it now, I will be honest to say

 I have memory whether it was intentional or not

But I know it was one of the experiences

 that taught me right from wrong,

 some people may see is as abuse may

 be it was today.

Me myself I am not sure what to see as,

 as was the norm in those days.

Children back then never really knew 

if they were in the right or wrong.

If we said back then sorry I forgotten to miss a line for example.

Adults would not see it that was, 

and we would accept we were in the wrong,

 whether it was on purpose or not.

That was all we knew. 

Disabilities and other problems are no excuses for 

behaviors but they do not help behaviors. 


I guess there may be most people who

 it may be as if it was abuse in today’s world.

 I will be honest to say I don’t think in the way

 I see it now in the she must have seen.

 Her intentions were punishing me to remember next.

 time to miss the lines when I was told to, not abuse me.

 However,’ I do agree,

 there are worse things I could do very well

 have done to deserve the punishment.

 I had, not that I was perfect

 child because no one is.

I do not blame her because she was 

following the system at the time, 

which in most things weren’t necessarily 

unfair but there were worse things to be punished for, 

which back then were minor and major

r things no one got away with overall.


Before I change the subject, I may be wrong this

 but maybe the easiest way to

 tell the difference between Dyslexia and Dyspraxia,

 is the motor skills problems being.

 Dyspraxia and the reading and writing problem

 but not necessarily, 

you would think it would be

 the case but not sure it is as 

simple as that Sorry this is confusing isn’t it? 


However, would adding Dyspraxia can cause the problem with gripping,

 incudes gripping pens and pencils for example. When I was in school I did not know 

I had Dyspraxia and neither did anyone else. However,’ everyone knew me,

 or most people and I knew what was then clumsy, that I broke things etc. 


Back relations from others was like punishment,

 which like to me at the time,

 but it was very understandable in one way. 

When I used to write and I even the same today example, without

 meaning to I press too hard on the paper.

 Teachers always wondered why I was sharpening. 

pencils at the desk every five minutes lol, as easily broke them without meaning to. 


May you have worked the same and different between the two learning?

 difficulties that sound the same but different, Dyslexia and Dyspraxia,

 maybe I have explained some notes, look and see if a link written by someone else helps.

 https://www.readandspell.com/difference-between-dyslexia-and-dyspraxia 


The differences between dyscalculia and dysgraphia, is there anything the same one another? 


Dyscalculia is a mathematical learning difficulty like Dyslexia but causes a lot more Anxiety,

 which I face myself. where for me I cannot really work out math in my head. 

I used my fingers, calculator, cubes when I was a child etc., 

then most of my math were wrong answers. But Again, back then I didn’t know.

 what the problem was neither did others who knew me but what we did know,

 we didn’t understand why I couldn’t learn like other people.

 I know I wasn’t the only one struggling with this, but I didn’t realize that at the time,

 I thought I was different to everyone and without trying to play on sympathy and attention,

 As life wasn’t living at times but as I am learning what my problems are,

 I am learning to accept the support I need, I don’t feel like the stupid one anymore. 

I have learned over the years now I am just slower than other people and I am not alone as I thought I was. 

https://www.understood.org/en/articles/math-anxiety-vs-dyscalculia-compare-the-signs?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=dyscalculia&utm_campaign=EN_Dyscalculia_EJ&gbraid=0AAAAAD-LTGLOEEBhbF4sxAEGqjym2Go9Z&gclid=CjwKCAjwjOunBhB4EiwA94JWsCK93GIOnTEd8xrdcFX3vU8cD3a502_F2X9uK6dqR0SdDL6QHn1FPRoCaF0QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds


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