Disability

[grayestofghosts]

I am having a thought about how apparently when I was very little, I wouldn't always seem to be able to hear my mother when she was talking to me. So she took me to a doctor and they gave me a hearing test and my hearing was fine -- the doctor said I had 'selective hearing' and both of them had a good laugh about it, like I was just being stubborn and choosing not to pay attention to my poor mother.

I was actually disabled the whole time and nobody did anything about it. I still struggle to understand most lectures and videos. Nobody told me and I had to figure this all out myself in my late 20s. It's a miracle I made it through college, really.