When most people think of impairments they think of someone who cannot walk, or talk or something that is visual. Typically the impairments that are under the hood often go unrecognized till you get older and yet people still do not understand. So what is the list of impairments you have and how they affect your life and how people react?

Not to mention some impairments to might have heard about but do not think is a big deal?

1) Low Blood pressure

- Sadly with our current health nut fitness trends in the United States...Sugar and Salt are being attacked and highly reduced to help people with High Blood Pressure to stop consuming foods with high salt and sugar.

- One thing people do not understand or even know there are people with 'Low Blood pressure"

- If we do not eat enough Salt or Sugar we can easily pass out and be affected for months with high fatigue or worse.

- I remember passing out on a train going to Midway Airport and my doctor tells me I need to eat more bags of potato chips.

- With bans of sugar and salt being that they negatively affect those who over eat those with Low Blood Pressure find it harder to find food they can eat to function.

- Most people think we are lazy or just do not want to do anything problem is we get fatigued very easily especially when we do not get enough salt.

2) Far Sided Sight

- Most people are near sided so seeing things far is a problem so most people understand people who cannot see things far away but those who are Far sided cannot see things up close well nor can they notice objects that are literally right in their face.

- I've always been able to see farther than most people in fact my vision is 15/20.

- Someone asks me to look for something and that its right in front of me I cannot notice it. Though I have glasses to help see things closer to me it doesn't help much and I typically have to feel around.

3) Left Handed

- Most right-handed people feel all left-handed people should be able to use right-handed objects well enough I always point to Zelda on the Wii. Link was left-handed in the demo and GC version but so many right-handed people found it so hard to hold the wiimote with their left hand and it made them so uncomfortable they literally inverted the world to make it look like Link was right-handed.

- Teachers often do not have the training to teach a left-handed person how to write so they typically develop sores and calluces.

- We often develop poor handwritering due to inexperienced teachers who cannot teach us how to write and often chided us as children http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/school-survey-handwriting.html

- All scissors, certain knives are molded for the right hand so left-handed children often are chided as children for poor arts and crafts. Till this day if you give me the wrong scissors chances are I might break them or I cannot use them because I am left-handed. When they suggest I use my right hand I suggest you try to use your left hand and tell me how it feels? They do not understand.

4) Tongue Tied

- Before the 1940s two things very common in the United States to do at birth is to circumcise a child and cut his or her tongue tie.

- Problem is the generation that was to young to go into World War II and to old to be apart of the baby boomer generation stopped performing the act of cutting a childs tongue tie at birth believing it not natural which has led to people of the baby boomer generation and this current one to think being tongue tied is a funny joke or phrase or a myth.

- Fact is being Tongue Tied (Ankyloglossia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankyloglossia) is very real has causes many speech problems that occur throughout life when people do not fix a child who is tongue tied.

Tongue tie laser removal surgery on an older advlt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOJXqOAnHvQ

- Being tongued tied means the tip of your tongue is literally attached to the bottom of your mouth. So sticking your tongue out, saying certain words, or even kissing is an issue.

- People who are tongue tied sometimes cannot prononce certain words and we use our teeth sometimes to pronounce words.

- If an advlt has a tongue tie removed some of his speech habits most likely will not change even though his tongue is free.

- Being tongue tied can make a person become antisocial or ruin that person's self esteem because he or she might not be able to talk correctly or pronounce certain words.

- My 5th grade teacher used to call my stupid in front of the class because I could not say the word she presented me on a card. Problem is I did not know I was tongue-tied cause I thought it was normal that people's tongue were attached to the top of their tongue.

I have a Speech Impairement it can be.......hard to deal with people sometimes.

I know that people with diabetes if they dont get enough glucose for long enough can act JUST LIKE a drunk and even somtimes get violent. IN criminal justice class we watched videos about cops using tesers and such on these people because they thought they where uncooperative drunks. Now most cops have like a bag of candy in their cars in-case someone has a diabetic indecent. I dont have it myself but its something to throw in this thread.

I write my letters weird.. Only thing I could think of..

I'm not sure if it's considered an impairment, but since you mentioned it: I'm left handed.

I have really ugly handwriting (at least to me, I've seen worse though) and people have told me before "You have some pretty bad handwriting for a perfectionist." and other things along those lines. I suppose it may be because I am left handed, I don't know. :s

irl I wRite Like this By cAptiLizing ceRtAin letteRs. I'm cool like that, but really it's an old habit.

Im left handed too. One of my instructors I will take next semester requires hand wiriten work. Im am currently researching technology on a typed to hand written machine.