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I'm a software developer with cerebral palsy. I hope you don't take this question the wrong way, but what sort of condition disables you from working as a soft

I'm a software developer with cerebral palsy. I hope you don't take this question the wrong way, but what sort of condition disables you from working as a software developer? I only ask because I worked very hard to get into this career imagining that it would be almost impossible to be disabled enough that I could not write code without some sort of cognitive impairment. Your post suggests I'm missing a risk factor I haven't accounted for?

sterlind 4y ago
Possible factors: Too many doctor's appointments. Severe fatigue. Progressive illness with increasing disability. Issues typing. Personally, I have hEDS, nTOS and thoracic myelopathy. I was barely able to type for months. There's dictation software, but the learning curve is substantial, everything becomes slow and error-prone, and you have to spend much of your concentration on dictation itself. That and fatigue kept me from working for six months while I rehabbed and adapted.
tptacek 4y ago
This is none of our business.
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skinnymuch 4y ago
I can give my story. I’ll try to be succinct. I got my problems while rich at 17. I was kicked out of high school and then community college so that hurt. I was told I had no issues by free clinic people. By 23 I was broke and had not paid any taxes. That excluded me from some help. My anxiety took care of the rest — I had nothing. I did nothing. I sat around in the bubble that is my parent’s upper middle class house worried about everything. I lived below the poverty line until last year. Many years I made nothing. I believe I was disabled and am still disabled. I found left wing politics and felt more at home. They provided answers to why my life had been so bad. Same politics convinced me I have to start working soon. There’s no excuse. So I began a tech interview bootcamp to break into the industry. I’ve programmed for for years (freelance a bit, partial SaaS attempts, community projects, half done portfolio projects). I am sure I will be fine from here on out. I don’t think you’re missing anything. I don’t know about cerebral palsy but I’m sure you will always have work. Good job succeeding at life even with cerebral palsy!

sterlind 4y ago

Possible factors: Too many doctor's appointments. Severe fatigue. Progressive illness with increasing disability. Issues typing. Personally, I have hEDS, nTOS and thoracic myelopathy. I was barely able to type for months. There's dictation software, but the learning curve is substantial, everything becomes slow and error-prone, and you have to spend much of your concentration on dictation itself. That and fatigue kept me from working for six months while I rehabbed and adapted.

tptacek 4y ago

This is none of our business.

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skinnymuch 4y ago

I can give my story. I’ll try to be succinct. I got my problems while rich at 17. I was kicked out of high school and then community college so that hurt. I was told I had no issues by free clinic people. By 23 I was broke and had not paid any taxes. That excluded me from some help. My anxiety took care of the rest — I had nothing. I did nothing. I sat around in the bubble that is my parent’s upper middle class house worried about everything. I lived below the poverty line until last year. Many years I made nothing. I believe I was disabled and am still disabled. I found left wing politics and felt more at home. They provided answers to why my life had been so bad. Same politics convinced me I have to start working soon. There’s no excuse. So I began a tech interview bootcamp to break into the industry. I’ve programmed for for years (freelance a bit, partial SaaS attempts, community projects, half done portfolio projects). I am sure I will be fine from here on out. I don’t think you’re missing anything. I don’t know about cerebral palsy but I’m sure you will always have work. Good job succeeding at life even with cerebral palsy!