I haven't blogged here since BADD 2014, which means I missed last year. This year there was something that came up on Twitter around the end of April, and now it's BADD again I thought I could develop it into a short post.
With invisible developmental disability, it can be hard to get across the ways it has an effect. At times I've found myself describing mine in relation to physical disability. When I do, I emphasise my physical ability.
Since I'm blogging against disablism right now, you'd think I'd get why it's not good to imply that things like being able to get dressed independently are abilities that are universally accepted as part of some sort of basic skill set that you can assume everyone has. However, this is exactly what I've done when talking about carrying out tasks with multiple steps, for example cooking a meal.
Now, talking about executive dysfunction because of developmental disability is difficult. But saying, "I have trouble with the steps of a task but I can essentially do the basics" is probably quite unhelpful to those who can't physically do "the basics".
Anyway, this is just a short post but I hope to avoid repeating this in future.
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