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jaalaDue to the deleterious effects of algorithmic social media and the enshittification of Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and Tumblr, I've been trying out Mastodon... and maybe considering returning here? Hello, Dreamwidth world!
To reintroduce myself: I used to work backstage in opera and theatre, had to stop due to COVID, then crashed hard when I tried returning to it in spring 2022. I'm a part-time caregiver for my mother, and still figuring out how to eventually regain some of my own independent life.
To reintroduce myself: I used to work backstage in opera and theatre, had to stop due to COVID, then crashed hard when I tried returning to it in spring 2022. I'm a part-time caregiver for my mother, and still figuring out how to eventually regain some of my own independent life.
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Date: 2023-12-01 08:10 pm (UTC)* * *
Diagnosis over Zoom is intriguing. I hope the diagnosis such as it is gives you some helpful understanding and resources.
Out of curiosity, if you're comfortable answering, were you able to access it through the NHS? While I'm thankful for publicly funded health care here in Canada, during a working holiday in the UK I found that the NHS covered considerably more breadth. There's some subsidized psychological and psychiatric care here, but it's scant and highly in demand.
My confusing diagnoses:
- "Not quite gifted enough for this public school program" c. 1991. Because I didn't finish the test, ha! Mum, bless her, told me years later how annoyed she was at the tester.
- "Non-hyperactive" ADD, math learning disability, anxiety c. 1996. My high school paperwork said "G/LD" (gifted and learning disabled). Teachers didn't know what to make of it.
- Nonverbal learning disability (NLD/NVLD) with depression and anxiety c. 2000. This guy was certain I never had AD(H)D.
- I suspect a 2010s-2020s diagnostician might have drifted to Asperger's or ASD rather than NVLD, but that's just my personal theory.
- After two hours with a psychologist through a COVID-era counselling program, he in turn was certain that I never had NVLD or depression, just mistreated ADHD. But I would have had to follow up privately and couldn't afford it. (And I didn't much like his manner anyhow.)
TL;DR Who even knows? Several AuDHD traits anyhow.* * *
Oof, I hear you on the refusal of assistance and the ineffiency of service providers. I don't drive at all but there are trains I can take to get to her place in about two hours. I'm doing the same sort of admin--banks, insurance, social workers, GP, pharmacy, various medical specialists. We're woefully behind on lawyer matters following my dad's death... eep, need to get on that now that house-moving and medical emergencies appear to have slowed down.
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I was of course very sad about the OFMD finale, but not in a way that made me want to give up the show. Not everyone feels that way, as is their right. I too drift between fandoms, although generally lurking in my case. Drifting back into "Doctor Who" at the moment...
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Date: 2023-12-02 10:46 am (UTC)Yes I got my diagnosis through the NHS, but the government here is running down the NHS and trying to move everyone over to private, insurance based healthcare. That is a big mistake IMO but the government just want our money, they don't care about us.
That is indeed a confusing list of diagnoses! I wouldn't know what to make of all that.
Sorry your dad died, it's so sad to lose them and life isn't easy with just the one parent is it. My dad died when I was a teenager so my mum has been on her own for a very long time, I think that's why she's so independent.
Yes there was lots of anger and criticism from fans after the OFMD final, but I thought it was too much. It's what the writers wanted to write, and it's not their fault or the actors' fault. Season 3 will be interesting if it gets made.
I tend to like small, old, unpopular fandoms that hardly anyone else does 😂 So my list of fics is quite strange.