(reposted from Daily Kos)
Being learning disabled sucks. But it doesn’t completely suck. It’s not like I’m a Republican or something.
Being LD defines me, but it doesn’t completely define me. I’m LD. I’m also a liberal, a Jew, an atheist. A man, a husband, a father. An American. A New Yorker. Most of all, like all of you, a human. Humans are complex.
So, below the fold, I talk about what it’s like to be me, what it’s like to be LD, and, most specifically, what it’s like to be LD me. I don’t talk much about my politics, my religion, my ideas, and so on. But don’t get the idea that LD is the most important thing in my life – it isn’t. It’s just the most important thing in this diary.
And don’t get the idea that every LD person feels the way I do about being LD. They don’t. Some feel the way I do; some are angrier. Some are less angry. And LDs differ a lot. I’ve got nonverbal learning disability, and even we NLDers vary. A lot. We say
When you’ve seen one person with NLD, you’ve seen one person with NLD
enough preamble! Follow me below the fold