The Purple Butterfly
The Basics
A Earful
Being Different
Anxiety
100
Number of people who have lupus in the US.
What is 1.5 million? (Or any close answer)
100
A place where one can get referrals for formal screening for learning disabilities.
What is Disability Services?
100
Cochlear implants.
What is a type of assistive listening device?
100
The disease that affects Lauren A, the author of "Sometimes being different is a bad thing".
What is Elhers-Danlos syndrome, or EDS?
100
The place on campus where you can seek support and assistance with mental health issues
What is the Stone Center?
200
The reason why the butterfly is related to lupus.
What is a red rash across the nose and cheeks?
200
The meaning of ?/jwice in spam around campus.
Who is Jim Wice?
200
The name of the cells in the hearing system that sends electrical signals to the brain.
What are hair cells?
200
Name 2 symptoms of Elhers-Danlos syndrome, or EDS
What are loose joints/double-jointedness/joint dislocation, hyperelastic skin that bruises easily, easily damaged blood vessels, back pain, flat feet, early arthritis, vision problems? (Any two)
200
The most common mental illness in the United States.
What is an anxiety order?
300
3 parts of the body that lupus can damage.
What are skin, joints, blood vessels, organs? (Any 3)
300
An assistive technology.
What is Kurzweil, Dragon Naturally Speaking, Bookshare, or Live Scribe pens, hearing aid, etc? (Any 1)
300
The name of deafness occurring before the learning of language.
What is pre-lingual or before language?
300
The treatment of Elhers-Danlos syndrome, or EDS
What is physical therapy? (No specific cure)
300
2 symptoms of anxiety.
What are weak/pulsing body, shallow breath, crushing feeling on chest, heart racing? (Any 2)
400
3 types of common symptoms of lupus.
What are joint & muscle pain, fever with no known cause, headaches, sun sensitivity, extreme fatigue, swelling, Raynaud’s phenomenon, ulcers? (Any 3)
400
25% of people have lost a job because of this. (Hint: Often caused by the weather)
What are migraines?
400
The number of people worldwide who have cochlear implants.
What is 219000 (or any number close)?
400
The activity that was unsafe for Lauren A, the author of "Sometimes being different is a bad thing", to participate in because of Elhers-Danlos syndrome, or EDS?
What is physical gym?
400
One of the experiences that triggered Catherine Nicoloff's anxiety. She wrote about this in her article "I'm an Optimist".
What is the vibration of a cell phone because of an incoming call/text or a sneeze? (Any one)
500
3 types of medications commonly prescribed to lupus patients.
What are corticosteroids, immunosuppresants, anti-malarial medications, chemotherapy drugs? (Any 3)
500
An assisitive technology that allows students to scan their reading materials and have the computer read text back.
What is Kurzweil?
500
The inventor and creator of Deaf Music.
Who is Shawn Dale Barnett?
500
The incident that convinced Lauren A’s (the author of sometimes being different is a bad thing) mom that she couldn’t go to recess anymore.
What is the time Lauren fell and badly scraped her knees to the bone, and needed 60 stitches?
500
The type of prescription Catherine Nicoloff (author of "I'm an Optimist") takes to help control her anxiety.
What are sedatives?