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lonely-paracosmos · 3 years ago

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Disability pride month?? (Tfp adition)

Miko has EDS (Ehlers-Danlos syndrome) she is very flexible, but has chornic pain bc of it. She wears braces to help her. She doesn't run a lot for this reason, but tries to stay active as she is constantly full of energy

She also has adhd!

Jackson APD (auditory processing disorder) and uses subtitles for about everything, he hates working drive through bc he has no idea what people are saying half the time.

Rafael is autistic and has CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) he is sensitive to loud noises and is easily stressed. He is frequently fatigued and gets ill easily, he has chronic pain in his legs.

When his chronic pain is bad he uses a cane, and sometimes he uses a wheelchair.

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Bulkhead is partially deaf, this is the reason he likes Miko. He doesn't mind her being loud and he finds her easier to understand bc she is not afraid to yell.

Wheeljack is dyslexic and has adhd! He struggles very much reading the human language and tries to avoid it when possible. His adhd just worsens it, so he uses a screen reader.

Ultra magnus has a prosthetic hand (this is canon xkxjxkxm) he is also autistic

Optimus prime and Ratchet both have chronic pain, Ratchet's chronic pain is a lot more severe which is partially why he chooses to stay a medic and focus less on battle. Op and ratch are both on the spectrum

Bumble bee and Smoke screen have RLS (restless leg syndrome) which is why they are both constantly moving around and rather active. They both have adhd as well and so they like infodumping and being able to do things

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Soundwave is autistic and that is part of the reason he is nonverbal. He is very obervsant, but prefers to be alone. He hyperfixates on technology and is very particular with how things are

Predaking is mostly deaf which is one of the reasons he doesn't talk a lot, he knows many forms of sign language and even tought himself forms of earth sign language just incase.

Knockout also has EDS!! Its the reason his parts are fragile and why he stays mainly as a medic. He is easier to injure and constantly hurts himself. He is very flexible as well, but more embaressed about his disability than prideful :(

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(Oc bonus)

Sightfree like his name suggests he is fully blind! He can scan and take pictures of things so he can see them in his system. He also can read heat signatures which allow him to drive safely. He relies heavily on screen readers and loves audio books. Hes also can read braile.

Beep is autistic and has adhd! They get excited easily and like to infodump. They are scared easily and tend to hide

#quy qries #headcanons #tfp #transformers prime #not tagging everyone #transformers #tf #disability pride

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palominocorn · 2 years ago

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Oh hey, I've been called way the fuck out!

My experience with the psychedelic-esque thing is that it's like my eyes not focusing and all the text going blurry. Like what you'd see if you took your glasses off, or took the blur tool on them.

I flip and rotate letters a fair amount, put the components in different places (eg crossing the t toward the bottom), and sometimes just drop part of a word or move letters around inside it. And a whole ton of thing.

BTW there's a lot of stuff that's either part of dyslexia or strongly associated with it that's not reading/spelling rrelated flipping/dropping letters and words in speech, trouble with telling left/right and east/west apart, poor depth perception, struggling to recall what sequence things come in, difficulty modulating and understanding tone, confusing words for similar ones (like sister for mother or fish for flash), struggling to differentiate similar letters when listening or hearing (I can confuse any vowel for any other vowel)...

Some of these are part of dyslexia, and some are part of related/overlapping conditions (dysgraphia, dyscalculia, non-verbal learning disorder, auditory processing disorder, sensory processing disorder, dyspraxia, and dysphasia are all related to dyslexia).

Also, obligatory plug for The Gift of Dyslexia by Ron Davis. It goes into both the neurobiology of dyslexia and details how to accommodate for it. And he's dyslexic himself, so it's not worthless nonsense.

This is what dyslexia is like for me too, and I agree most simulations really don't get it.

Plus letters like d & b will interchange- like I'll read a word like 'dad' and think, "that doesn't fit the context" and check and it's actually 'bad'. Sometimes I still have trouble reading digital clocks because in that font 2 & 5 often look the same to me. I'll also sometimes read text on glass from the 'wrong' side and not even realize it at first. Sometimes I forget which way s is supposed to face, but usually only when I'm very stressed or tired.

On the plus side I can write mirrored text, so that's cool and almost utterly useless 🙂

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wsmith215 · 5 years ago

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Forget his NFL pedigree — Packers’ Jon Runyan Jr. has overcome many obstacles – Green Bay Packers Blog

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Jon Runyan Jr. has been around football since he could lift one of his dad’s first NFL helmets, the one with the Tennessee Titans logo on it, or drape himself with a No. 69 Philadelphia Eagles jersey or sit on his dad’s locker room stool at the old Veterans Stadium.

He always wanted a helmet, jersey and a locker of his own.

His mom and dad, well, that’s a different story.

Jon Sr., a veteran of 14 NFL seasons — one of them a Pro Bowl year and two of them ending at the Super Bowl — never pushed his only son toward the game. Loretta, stressed enough as a football wife, didn’t need to relive it watching her firstborn.

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To them, however, that’s part of what makes their son’s journey to the NFL and to the Green Bay Packers special. Sure, the Runyan name might have opened doors, but Jon Jr. — or Jon Daniel, as Loretta calls him — walked through on his own.

“Him wanting to play football in the first or second grade, I was like, no, no,” Loretta said. “My heart hurt every time I had to go out there and watch him practice, and I would cry. I still get that feeling. Jon Daniel’s my only boy, and he’s my oldest child.”

In so many ways, the 22-year-old selected by the Packers in the sixth round of last month’s NFL draft is both his father’s son — an offensive lineman like his dad, a Michigan man like his dad, a hulking 6-foot-4, 307 pounds like his 6-foot-7, 330-pound dad, dyslexic like his dad — and his own man.

“One thing my high school coach told me was, ‘You’ve just got to be you. Your dad is a completely different person than you, so you don’t have to live up to any of his expectations. Just start your own path and your own goals, and all that stuff that comes with it is just secondary,'” Jon Jr. recalled. “It was a struggle for me in high school, but I chose this road moving onto college, and I’m comfortable with everything I’m doing. He’s cast a big shadow over me, but I’m not trying to live in that shadow my whole life. I’m trying to step out and make an even bigger one.”

Jon Jr. first put on a helmet and pads in grade school.

That lasted only one year.

“He was just too big,” Jon Sr. said. “I always say [in] football you end up in a position by your body type. But when they��re 8, 9 years old, they’re all the same size. Except my kid; he was bigger than everybody else. That first year, the coach said he’s got to cut weight. I’m like, ‘He’s not going to cut weight — have you seen me?'”

From an early age, Jon Runyan Jr. gravitated to the tools of his father’s trade. Courtesy Runyan family

Jon Jr. turned to flag football, and he played everything from quarterback to receiver to defensive back, until eighth grade, when weight limits were lifted and he could put the pads back on.

Loretta, a self-proclaimed “momma bear,” still wasn’t sure football was for him.

“Initially, I kind of pulled him out because he just couldn’t grasp the whole language of the plays,” Loretta said. “He thought he could just get the football, and he could run or he could throw. He has auditory processing disorder, which always worried me because football is like a different language. And he also has Jon’s dyslexia. He had to overcome a lot.

“He begged me to play tackle in the eighth grade. He had been working so hard. I thought he probably needs to start playing tackle. So he played it in the eighth grade. He played three sports in middle school, and he played basketball in the ninth grade. I really wanted him to play basketball because I didn’t like football for him, but he begged me.”

Auditory processing disorder makes it difficult to understand speech. Loretta said preschool teachers first noticed an issue with Jon Jr., but he wasn’t diagnosed until third grade. With APD, dyslexia and being colorblind, Jon Jr. needed extra hours of tutoring, which during the high school season often made for 16-hour days with school, practice and evening sessions with tutors. At Michigan, he earned his undergraduate degree in sociology. Last semester, he began graduate-school classes in real estate development.

“I was that mom who would go to the football coach in eighth grade and explain to him that Jon Daniel’s not dumb,” Loretta said. “If you’re talking to him, you have to make sure he understands and you have to show him. He learns by vision. He has a photographic memory because he’s had to learn other skills to compensate. Teachers would always caution me that something might be too much for him, but he never complained.

“I’ve said to him, ‘If there’s any [charitable] foundation that you ever want to do, I think that’s what you should do because you can inspire people.’ Just the work he’s done — not just football, but academics — and to go through all that.”

While Jon Runyan Sr. roamed Philadelphia as an Eagle, little Jon Daniel got used to an NFL locker room. Courtesy Runyan family

It warmed Loretta’s heart to hear Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst describe Jon Jr. as a “smart” player. And it had to make Jon Sr., once known as one of the NFL’s fiercest competitors, happy to hear Gutekunst describe his son as “tough.”

At Michigan, Jon Jr. started 26 games (25 at left tackle and one at right tackle) and was a two-time recipient of the Hugh H. Rader Memorial Award given to the team’s top offensive lineman — an honor bestowed upon his dad in 1994, making them the only father-son duo to win it. The Packers plan to move Jon Jr. to guard, where they believe his athletic ability is well suited to their zone-blocking scheme.

For now, Jon Jr. is living with his parents and participating in the Packers’ virtual offseason program because of the coronavirus pandemic. But he’s still getting lessons from his dad.

“I’ve just tried to help with the expectations,” Jon Sr. said. “I’ve told him a couple of times, ‘If you’re lucky enough to have an opportunity to contribute your first year, great. Then your second year, you better be battling somebody, really battling somebody for it, because if you’re not making a contribution by the end of your third year, you’re not going to be around.’ That’s what I literally told him after he got picked. It was congratulations, and I know everything you put into it to get this far, but these next two years are going to be as hard as the last 10.”

These days, Jon Sr. works for the NFL as vice president of policy and rules administration, which followed a four-year stint representing New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives. That’s where Jon Jr. says his career path most definitely will differ from his father’s — no politics.

Like father, like son: Dad was a Wolverine, so Jon Jr. went the same way and earned the same gridiron honors. Courtesy Runyan family

For Loretta, it has come full circle. She met Jon Sr. during his rookie season in Houston, where she worked as a police officer. She followed him to Tennessee when the Oilers became the Titans, and they settled in the Philadelphia area with Jon Jr. and his two younger sisters, one of whom is headed to Villanova on a basketball scholarship next school year.

Now, Loretta is about to join a different club.

“Guess what?” Loretta said with an excitement in her voice. “When I was an NFL wife, one of my best friends was Donovan McNabb’s wife, and Donovan’s mom was president or something of the NFL mom’s club. She’s invited me to the NFL mom’s club. She and I are good friends. Roxie McNabb and I have always stayed tight over the years and watched each other’s kids, and now I’m like, ‘Can you believe I’m going to be an NFL mom?'”

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