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  1. Netflix and Disney+ has done amazing things for my kids French. Just watch familiar shows with French dub. It starts hard but gets easier quickly!
  2. I scored a 26%, which seemed ridiculously high, given how garbled everything sounded during the test. No traditional hearing aids for me.
  3. I very rarely remember I have hearing loss. So much of what I do to accommodate it has become automatic. Walk with my good ear facing my companion, never use my phone with my bad ear, always sit in front of a classroom etc. etc. I was diagnosed as a toddler, I’ve never known any other way.
  4. The kind they recommend these days for unilateral loss, at least in cases like mine where straight amplification doesn’t help understand speech, actually sends the sounds from your bad ear over to your good ear. I wasn’t keen on having radio waves crossing my brain, particularly when I’m doing okay. I don’t know that it would harm me, but I don’t see the need to take the risk for a potentially unnecessary benefit. I would love to try it out, but you have to order a pair and then return it if you don’t like it, and that just seems like a hassle.
  5. I have not. But I wonder how relevant the auditory processing aspect is with unilateral loss. Because I have one “good” ear, my brain does auditory progressing all the time. Would my brain suddenly forget how just because the input is coming from my “bad” ear? I suspect for me it is just the nature of my loss in my bad ear. I have pretty severe loss in some of the common speech frequencies.
  6. Hearing aids don’t work well for all kinds of hearing loss. I have significant unilateral loss, and struggle to understand speech in that ear. But when the audiologist amplifies the speech all I hear is just really loud nonsense. For now I’d rather go without. (For now. As I age, I’m starting to lose the residual hearing I have. Hearing aids are probably in my future!)
  7. The Always FlexFoams are insanely thin and absorbent. After decades of only using tampons I can’t believe I’m using pads, but they are just that good. Nothing like what we had when I was a teen.
  8. Heartbeat is great. I’m used to silly vampires, and I’m used to sexy vampires, but silly *and* sexy vampires? Sign me up!
  9. I really loved Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston. The main character pursues independence and true love, which is definitely a version of the American Dream.
  10. I think you have accurately described the MP Community culture. But that is only a subset of people who use MP products. You do you and use the products the way that is best for you.
  11. I have zero regrets leaving high school a year early. I had simply outgrown that particular fishbowl. I do regret starting college a year early. I wish I had been about 19 instead of 17 as a freshman, because the ever so slightly older kids just had so much more confidence and self-direction. I’m not sure what I should have done for a year or two after high school and before college. Instead I graduated at 20, got a master’s degree and then started law school (finally) the same age as everyone else.
  12. Kang Tae Oh was *so* cute in Extraordinary Attorney Woo. I’ve wanted to watch Run On just for him.
  13. I got to play NT mom today at the Girl Scouts end of year beach party. I kinda like playing NT mom. I know I’m not particularly good at it, but I also don’t really care because I don’t really want to be more than casual acquaintances with these moms. I politely asked about summer plans and commented on the nice weather. Lots of smiling and nodding. Making sure to ask follow up questions but not too many. I’d much rather be real and have a meaningful conversation, but I get to do that at work. It would be awful if I had to play this role all the time, but it’s fine on occasion. I know that I would have envied these moms if I had known them as teenagers, but now I don’t idealize them or want to be them. They are their own thing and I’m my own thing. I feel kinda bad that my Autistic kid has to exist in a majority NT environment at school when I don’t at work. Majority NT isn’t actually the norm everywhere, but it sure is in elementary school.
  14. I love old fashioned girls names, and we used two of them, but Dh vetoed Gertrude and Henrietta. (They were both family names!)
  15. That is hard. Assuming he is Autistic, Autistic kids are not immune to all the emotional issues that a parental separation would trigger. It just gets layered on top of everything else.
  16. My autistic three year old didn’t bite, but she chewed *everything*. Holes in all of her sleeves! And she was a precocious talker, speaking in full sentences at 18 months. Good news is that she aged out of the oral stimulation seeking phase. (All the fancy chew toys we bought didn’t really make a difference, she just grew out of it.) I would definitely keep autism on the radar. He’s young enough that he may still qualify for an in-home early intervention assessment.
  17. I love when fancy places serve fries with aioli. Which is just fancy mayonnaise. Just straight mayo? Not so much.
  18. Law school employment prospects vary widely by the ranking of your law school. UC Irvine is ranked 35th, Georgetown is ranked 15th. This is actually a huge difference. The top 15 schools are elite. My school was ranked 20th when I attended and there was a huge difference between my school and the 15th ranked school I visited my third year. We felt lucky to have a job offer, those kids all seemed to have multiple job offers. There are law schools I would not attend for free. The top 10% of the lower ranked schools will probably be fine, but I would not assume I would be in the top 10% of a given school. I think UC Irvine for free is better than paying for Georgetown, but reasonable people could disagree.
  19. My hospital brags about how all the new moms *love* their milkshakes. But I’m dairy free and somehow it ended up on my chart so no milkshakes for me. (I had a very tasty turkey burger instead.)
  20. Come as You Are was the right book, at least in terms of understanding the issue. Thank you all!
  21. For a 2E kid I would strongly consider going into government. Much, much better work life balance than Big Law and better salaries than a lot of public interest law. (You don’t need to go to Georgetown to get into government.) Debt-free with no GPA restriction sounds pretty darn amazing. I would choose Irvine.
  22. I thought it was a reasonably nuanced article for a mainstream publication. They made it clear that the the family was leaving the “fringe of the fringe” of homeschooling. Still I think they could have noted that for some homeschooling is a better option. Not everyone has Northern Virginia public schools, or would fit in those schools even if they did.
  23. Thank you Rosie! I’ve actually seen references to this before and have wanted to read it.
  24. This looks really interesting, but totally removed from my non-evangelical experience. Thank you for the recommendation, I’m sure it will be helpful for someone.
  25. Dh and I have been married for just over ten years. We still have a strong emotional connection but our physical relationship has dwindled. First it was having small kids and then just when we were coming up for air I had major health issues during the Pandemic. We need help restarting that aspect of our marriage. I’d love some book recommendations. Ideally the book would give us concrete steps to take. We need homework! We are both sort of avoiding it at this stage.
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