The way my therapist describes it, is that sometimes my symptoms can be very disabling. Not that 'I am disabled'. Subtle difference, but it helps me.
I'm older than you, and my disability provisions have been at work, not school.
But, possibly like you, my symptoms involve me getting disorientated in time and space - getting lost in the past in the present and losing myself to defensive 'protective against past trauma' mind states. This can really disrupt my ability to express myself and relate with others, and yes, is disabling.
It's not really that I'm/you're intellectually disabled - rather that the intrusion of your symptoms into your mind prevent you from fully accessing that intelligence, because your mind is too busy trying to protect itself from the past, or feeling too weighed down with dark sadness.
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