How the hell does one prove an invisible disability?

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I appealed my request for reasonable accommodations with the housing authority. They sent paperwork to the doctor who diagnosed me, but the doctor says she can't fill out the paperwork because she's a PhD and not an MD.

Now what the hell do I do? There's no way to prove that I'm sensitive to noise.

I'm going through a similar process, I think.
Do you know about the regional centers around California? They might be able to help.

I'm curious. What kind of accommodations do you think the housing authority could provide?

I rather doubt they have sound-proofed apartments.

I had a room mate in college that got a note from the head of the math department that the room I rented was too noisy. It was right next to a subway. I had the room all to myself for a couple months.

This just keeps him or her having to get a pad by the freeway.

You can prove CAPD really just as well as you can prove deafness.

A hearing test, where your individual elements of hearing are normal but in a test with more distraction, or a more general test, you fail.

I was actually diagnosed with CAPD before anything else by a good few years due to recurrent failing of the school hearing test, and when sent to an audiologist for further testing I would pass.

Sadly they only gave a note for preferential seating, and didn't explain to my mother what it was and made it seem like no big deal, no one realized it was causing me severe pain.

Anyway, if they trust a hearing test to be enough to prove someone is deaf, it should be enough for CAPD.

I think the way forward is through both your doctor and the person who did the specific investigation around the hearing sensory issues.

Your doctor gives the assertion as a Medical person that you do have an issue in the area of an invisible disability. Your doctor Refers to the report you have from the specialist in the field, to assert that on the basis of their training and experience as an MD and the specialist evidence in the report produced by an expert competent in that field, a valid reason exists for an accommodation to be made.

I had a hearing test done and the guy who did it testified for me for my disability hearing that I almost attacked him when he started with the normal pitches that he starts with. He had to alter the test for me because I was so sensitive.

And Bea, they can soundproof his windows at the very least to keep outside noises outside.