I am going to be so bold as to say that a very HIGH number of adults in the United States have a disability…maybe 50% ???   (I am even talking about joint pains which keep people under 40 awake at night, but may not be classified as a “disability”.)   Why do I say this?   My experience as a special education teacher seeing people turned down for services lets me know that the numbers affected by disabilities are FAR greater than what gets reported.    Scores of adults grew up with dyslexia (like 2 famous movie stars …one made famous in the 1970′s and the other in the 1980′s), but dyslexia is one of those that to my knowledge, does not fetch the federal dollars for special education teacher salaries and other support for students.    What happens?

Not everyone is as wealthy as these 2 high profile movie  stars.   What about the person who is in their 50′s  who is extremely hyper, but because they lived in an era when there was no such thing as special education, they were never categorized as eligible to receive services.     Let’s take the example of the person who grew up in a rural town that had very little money to spend on books, let alone extra services because their homes had less value and brought in less tax revenue yielding less school revenue.   These people, if unsupported, will not realize their full potential in life and will deal with their disabilities, as best they can, but nothing “official” on paper gives them support unless they are really humble and check into it later in life.

I would honestly love to read about the parents of successful people with disabilities.   I believe we focus too much on the success and we need to focus on what made the success.    I have heard that the man responsible for one of the United State’s largest theme parks may have been classified as having ADHD had he been born 60 years later.    What did his parents do differently to enable him to have such enormous success?

What about the adult who has diabetes so severely that thy literally “black out” and remember absolutely nothing.   I know of an adult with that condition.

Disabilities, especially when untreated and with little support, can make people unable to mentally process solutions to problems and situations in ways that ENHANCE profit.     We can have all of the wonderful marketing tools that money can buy, but if that business owner/manager or employee is not ready, willing and able to fully process all of the information given to them and CREATE additional profitable ideas, you have what you have always had.    NOTHING CHANGES.

This can creates an atmosphere of fear..afraid of failure due to not knowing how to process NEW information.     I have seen fear torment people.      You want all of your employees on board.

Untreated physical disabilities in various forms, have the same unfortunate consequences in the workplace.      Just thinking about dealing with it on a day in and day out basis is saddening to the person who does not enjoy much support at home.      This wears on the psyche.

I personally know of 2 very happy-type stories wherein the mothers had children, became disabled when the children were around 6 and 7 years old, and the children, one set now in their teens and the children to the other mother now in their late 30′s are VERY supportive of the mother.    This has to do with the children’s upbringing.    They learned banking transactions and how to pay bills when they could barely reach the bank counter top.   They also learned how to cook simple dishes at a very early age.    I know of the children in their 30′s and am personal friends with their mother.    They totally support the mother both physically, emotionally and financially.    I lost contact with the other mother as well as her children.

Please get my upcoming series of ebooks.     There is help for you and your employees in them.    I look forward to seeing your testimonies.  (By the way, you should be able to sell my ebooks and make a second income.)

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I used to be a special education teacher and in my other career, I brought companies $2.4 million in contracts that they performed.