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What’s something your disability has stopped you from learning or doing?
Fun story!
For my Ph.D. I studied brain computer interfaces. Specifically P300 brain computer interfaces. Here's my dissertation, for reference.
As far as I can tell, most people studying brain computer interfaces will ever use them. It might not be for their own communication needs (I'm a a part-time AAC user but I do just fine using my hands to access my AAC; I don't need a brain computer interface.) But if you work in a lab with brain computer interfaces, you're probably going to get called on to test that, like, new settings do what they say they do / that it's still possible to make selections / that the data collection method actually collects the data by using the interface. Plus we get tapped to be "neurotypical controls" (what my papers say) and/or "healthy controls" (what a lot of other people's papers say; I've also seen people alternate between the two) on a semi-regular basis, if we're close enough on whatever other demographics they're matching on to be reasonable.
I'm obviously not a neurotypical control. But I also cannot use a P300 brain computer interface, because that's basically dependent on flashing lights a bunch of times per second. So I got a Ph.D. studying a kind of brain computer interface that I cannot use.
(There are other kinds, some of which I can use. One particularly desperate masters student working with motor imagery brain computer interfaces tried to change his thesis wording to "controls without Parkinson's" so he could use me as a control. Pretty sure his supervisors made him take me back out though; his final thesis says both neurotypical control and healthy control.)
