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I really don't know but I don't consider it to be a physical disability as it is not severe and does not stop me from speaking when I want to. I would consider it to be more of a mental disability and perhaps that is what you mean by "neurocognitive". I'm not too knowledgeable about medical terms.

Thank you for clarifying that. I understand your point.

Sorry for going off topic.

hmm... anyone else here think alex should sticky this or something?

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Have a severe scolisos, pre-severe hearing loss, and mild speech impediment beside Asperger Syndrome.

I also have Attention Deflict Disorder as my mental disability.

Heavy labour and lifting is prohibit dues to the fact that my spine can't support it weight and walk at the same time.

Pre-severe hearing loss prevent me hear TV and radio like normal people. Very often I turned on subtitle and closed caption to understand what TV and movie are saying. It prevent me from getting a job that require lot of communication. It even prevented me from doing a good job in telemarketing.

Mild speech impediment prevent me from producing a natural English accent which I am a natural born citizen of US.

I might another disability dues the fact that I write essay and graded as it was written by high school person or Elementary.

Awful hand-writing, some trounle with my eyes and low tolerance for drugs and alcohol - I was once sedated for a biopsy, the nurse said "alright, lets just give that half an hour to work", then I tipped off the table. I was unconscious before I finished falling. The last thing I remember is the nurse going "oh s**t!" and an arm appearing in my field of vision as she tried to catch me.

My hearings about 80% of what it should be and there nerve damage in my left hand but those are not because of aspergers.

I also have strange poture and an odd gait but I'm not sure if that counts as a disability.

Movement disorder (variously considered parkinson-like or catatonic, which is a neurological term that was later hijacked by psychiatry) which also contributes to decreased stamina, some combination of migraines and trigeminal neuralgia, general severe pain that's not known whether it's central pain or some other kind of neuropathic pain, asthma (that recently has been severe enough to restrict movement, which is why I'm including it), reflux (which might be why the asthma is getting so severe, they keep talking about doing surgery for it), straight neck (with enough pain and muscle spasms associated with it to cause serious problems), jaw problems including pain (related to BJHMS combined with a 'deformed' jaw), BJHMS itself, and probably a partrige in a pear tree somewhere along the line.

Meaning I use a wheelchair part-time, sometimes not being able to get around at all without it, sometimes not being able to get very far without it, depending on how everything else is doing. Also some of this may contribute to my speech problems increasing over time.

I would say no as I'm not disabled by what I have. I was diagnosed with hypotonia when I was a kid, but I went through physical therapy for it which greatly improved my problems. I still have a little bit of problems with it now, but I'm not "disabled" by it. Also if nearsightedness counts, but I'm not disabled by that either.