@Meow Mix
Do you have any daily/regular difficulty with your disability?
Also, if i can ask, what caused your aphonia?
Some difficulties I have to stop and even think about because I’ve dealt with it for so long. There are obvious things and less obvious things: which I thought the thread might enjoy the less obvious ones, like trying to talk to cats instinctively.
Off the top of my head, things that
annoy me are things like the inability to use drive throughs (when I had to drive to an office anyway), having to have people make calls for official things (I never called anyone unless I had to beforehand anyway but it is annoying if I want to, say, make a doctor’s appointment).
I carry cards in my phone, purse, dashboard, etc. if I get pulled over.
People always think I’m being rude if I don’t respond immediately. People think I’m showing them my phone as in “look at my cool phone,” not at the text I’ve typed for them to read.
I could have learned ASL and it was recommended to me but I’ve been suuuper not committed to doing that (and it only helps if people around me do too). So I write and text. This gets annoying and cumbersome sometimes. Imagine having a conversation at phone typing speed (but I’m actually stupid fast at it, but still).
Text doesn’t carry inflection, emotion, sarcasm, things like this well, so that’s a daily thing. I try to still express with my hands, face, and body even if I’m writing or texting.
Big side track there, annoying things… imagine just wanting something stupid like “hey, while you’re in the kitchen…”
I type faster than I write so I will take new peoples’ numbers that I’m meeting, and try to delete them if it’s temporary but still end up with a contact list where I’m like “who the **** is green hat girl?”
I have to be especially conscious in sketchy areas (I can’t scream), I do have a whistle in my purse that I’ve thankfully never had to use.
It’s actually hard to think of all the things as I said because it’s just life now, haha ^.^
In any case, this was a neck injury from a car accident; and a good reason for people to know to wear their seatbelts because I was not. The nerve damage was bilateral, which is probably why I had trouble swallowing and breathing for a while after before some of the treatments they did; they said that this was unfortunate because for a lot of people it doesn’t affect both sides and they retain more voice function than I did.