Hello enableme member
In this edition of the EnableMe newsletter we are focusing on invisible disabilities after stroke.
Invisible Disability, or hidden disability, is an umbrella term that captures a whole spectrum of hidden disabilities or challenges that are primarily neurological in nature.
Do people sometimes have difficulty understanding how your symptoms such as extreme fatigue, dizziness, pain, and cognitive impairments can be so debilitating to you but can even be met with
hostility by society at large.
People with some kinds of invisible disabilities, such as chronic pain or some kind of sleep disorder, are often accused of faking or imagining their disabilities.
These symptoms can occur due to chronic illness, chronic pain, injury, birth disorders, etc. and are not always obvious to the onlooker.
What You Can’t See: “Hidden” Disabilities After Stroke
But You Look Good: Hidden Disability after Brain Injury
Hidden disability after brain injury. What does it really mean?
Is it different from other hidden illness or disability?
“Brain injury is often called a “hidden disability” because the person may have no physical effects but behave very differently.”
“Cognitive difficulties are often called the “hidden disability” because they may not be obvious but can have a significant impact on your behaviour and on daily life.”
one of the major problems faced by people who have hidden disabilities is that often other people don’t see the disability and often don’t believe them. Frequently we are told that we don’t seem disabled. For many people they feel that the foremost discrimination anyone faces is to be disbelieved. Hidden disabilities can also cause difficulties because of the attitude of others due to fear or ignorance as people fear what they do not know or understand or what they can not see.
The Dilemma of Living with a Hidden Disability
Public lecture
hidden dissabilties: Fatigue, dizziness, pain, memory and percation, neglect, sleep disporders, personality changes, how to explain to family and firends.
All this and more – happy reading!
