"People with invisible disabilities, such as chronic pain or some sleep disorder, are often accused of faking or imagining their disabilities. These symptoms can occur due to chronic illness, chronic pain, injury, birth disorders, etc., and are not always obvious to the onlooker.
Invisible Disabilities are certain kinds of disabilities that are not immediately apparent to others. It is estimated that 10% of people in the U.S. have a medical condition that could be considered a type of invisible disability.
Nearly one in two people in the U.S. has a chronic medical condition of one kind or another. Still, most people are not considered disabled, as their medical conditions do not impair their normal activities. These people do not use an assistive device, and most look and act perfectly healthy.
Hundreds of conditions, illnesses, and injuries can result in a hidden disability - anemia, brain injuries and strokes, allergies, epilepsy, heart diseases, lung conditions, mental illnesses, and chronic pain are just a few examples. Yet, although we are all aware of these individual conditions, there is much to be learned about the shared needs and experiences of the hidden disability community as the unique group it is."
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Taken from the Invisible Disabilities: List and General Information by Disabled World (DW), 29/01/2026
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Link to Disabled World’s (DW) collection of articles, research papers, and documents focused on various aspects of invisible disabilities
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Trying to help a kid learn their times table but they just paste stuff into chatgpt.
Bane of modern existence, I am glad my teacher is old fashioned she taught me how to do problems without calculator even though you’re allowed one in uni here and I am so glad she did because even calculator is wrong sometimes and even if I don’t know how to solve the entire problem by hand I can verify the results. Needless to say she despises AI.
I’m not opposed to children or anyone else fibbing or using tools. But this is the times table, it is literally quicker to do 5 times 7 in your head than to ask chatgpt to get it wrong. (Assuming of course you are capable)
I will say that they did independently develop rudimentary algebra trying to trick me. Because i decided to ask them the questions using facts like “How many stuffed toys you have” times “How many drawings you made yesterday” she would set up the prompt and then end the prompt with like “And my number of stuffed animals is X and I drew Y things”
Yea I understand what you mean but sometimes you need to do certain things the old way. Learning on screens has been proven to be less effective than learning from books for example, I wouldn’t want a kid to use smartphones or calculators for a while, I would let them do things slowly but it would have to be by hand. I am very much a luddite in this sense that I wouldn’t want kids to be using a computer until like age 7 or something and not using internet until similar age. I think something is taken away when devices are introduced so early.
I agree! One small addendum: I think 7 is too early for touch screen devices. Getting acquainted with a regular computer that doesn’t have internet access is actually an interesting way of learning to use the device slowly, especially when you don’t have many programs on it. It gives you a rough understanding on how the tech works, and then you can get slowly introduced to more modern / complex / haptic devices like smartphones or tablets later on in life. I may be talking out of my ass here because I had a similar experience, but I still feel like my usage of smartphones is more on the responsible side because I only got it after graduating high school. That is not to say I am immune to its addictiveness
Yes I agree, I am also just going off my personal experience and what I have seen in the world around me instead of any strict empirical research. That’s why I like to think of internet access as not a requirement for life but an option available whenever neccesary, having access to do much of humanity knowledge is nice but you don’t want to live in it 24/7.