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If it’s not a safety hazard I would just let it be. It’s their house, they can live how they want. It’s stressful to have someone come over and clean your house without being asked. It’s stressful to have someone offer to hire a cleaner for you. Let them have agency while they still can. They can hire a cleaner themselves or move to a facility if they want.
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On 8/17/2023 at 10:21 AM, Murphy101 said:
I decided to give my first Jdrama a try with An Incurable Case of Love. So sappy cheesy. It reminds me strongly of the old kdrama Playful Kiss. Which is basicly one long cringe-worthy event after another. LOL
I thought Heartbeat series ended rather lamely. Not going to spoil if for others though.
I adored Incurable Case of Love. So cheesy, so much fun. I’ll have to check out Playful Kiss.
I was so sure Heartbeat would stick the landing, and then they **completely** dropped the ball.
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I guess the gut test has good sensitivity, but bad specificity. If you get flagged you probably are bad, but not all bad people get flagged. It’s better than nothing I guess?
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17 minutes ago, Ottakee said:
Sorry it hit close to home for you.
My ex is serving 90 years for such things.
I thought of you. I know you had no idea. Thank you again for sharing your story.
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Found out today that someone I’ve known for years, who is on my Christmas card list, was caught molesting a pre-teen. I’m shocked. I know these things happen, they’ve happened in my own extended family, but I’m still shocked. This person is charming, attractive, successful, very involved with their family. Never, ever would have guessed. Just gut-punched stunned.
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Basic intro business, economics and accounting courses are a good idea. Lawyers get involved in business transactions but a lot of them don’t have much business background. You don’t need to be a business expert but understanding the basic concepts will go a long way.
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28 minutes ago, lauraw4321 said:
My SIL said it was like the first Beatle dying. Shocking and hard to believe.
I thought Luke Perry dying would have prepared me for this, but nope. Still shocking.
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7 hours ago, Bootsie said:
How common is it for autism to be suspected in children these days? I was surprised because we had a young couple visit our home a few weeks ago with their daughter who was six weeks shy of her third birthday and their two-month old son. We had never met them before (they are DS's friends). The daughter did the normal things of telling us her name and her age, her brother's name, etc. She learned our names. We had a bowl of grapes and she could specifiy that she wanted the purple grapes and not the green grapes. She asked if she could have an apple when she saw my bowl of fruit in the kitchen. She went in the back yard with DH and explored. She sat at the table and ate dinner with us. She told us about The Little Mermaid on her shirt.... she wasn't clingy, she wasn't aloof, she interacted verbally, she was inquisitive, she expressed preferences... nothing jumped out at me as something off for an almost three year old--I was suprrised when the mom told me that she was being tested for autism the following week. The mom explained that the daughter was a good eater except that she wouldn't eat bananas--which must be a texture thing--so they were concerned she had autism.
This could have been my Autistic kid at three. She was highly verbal and great with grownups. Interacting with peers was more complicated. If you met her casually you probably wouldn’t notice her obsession with princesses or the color purple, and even if you did you would probably dismiss them as normal kid interests. You might hear her sing or hum, but you wouldn’t know that she does it all day. She’s ten now and doing great in a mainstream classroom with minimal support, but I still fought tooth and nail for a diagnosis because someday, probably around college, demands will exceed her abilities and we need to prepare her ahead of time for that day so she knows to ask for help instead of accidentally letting her world implode. Expanded awareness and diagnosis is great. In some ways the most capable Autistic kids are the most vulnerable because they are (mostly) fine until they suddenly (spectacularly) aren’t.
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@SFisher I also have a visual-spatial kid. Constantly knitting, weaving, sewing patterns she designed herself… Eight years old and so clearly an engineer of some kind. She’s easy.
We definitely have a multi-potentiality situation. Older kid enjoys math, and really enjoys being good at math, but doesn’t really examine the world through a math lens. Whereas *everything* is connected to fantasy and language! She could do a lot of things, we will have to see what she is drawn to.
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On 9/14/2023 at 4:27 PM, MercyA said:
Go to petfinder.com. Enter your location, click on dogs, and select "senior."
Oh my goodness. I didn’t know senior dogs were a thing. As someone who gets overwhelmed by dog energy, these guys all look delightfully mellow. Why yes, I do want a dog that will just hangout by the fireplace! (My kids would disagree!)
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My coworker had a major medical event and we did a collection to buy the fire house a new BBQ. My bosses’ husband is a firefighter and he said that they spend a lot of time at the firehouse and there is always something that could use upgrading. I emailed the fire house and asked what they needed that would boost quality of life. They said BBQ. (We had a lot of money because people donated from across our organization.)
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Remember that Memoria Press materials are based on a classroom curriculum from their in-person school. Hence all the work books. I don’t think their materials have a lot of meaningless busy work, but I think you could have a conversation with your kids that covers the same material and saves a lot of time. Have the kids write out some answers for some subjects just to get the practice, but not all the answers for all the subjects. But most importantly, remember that curriculums are tools for you to use. They serve you. Use them in any way that helps you best, and let go of the rest.
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53 minutes ago, Spryte said:
How are the rapid tests holding up wrt accuracy lately?
Are they looking less accurate or still good at detecting?
I have COVID as we speak and the rapid tests still worked for me. Anecdotal, but what can we do?
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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!
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43 minutes ago, zimom said:
"Most" patients will at least score 50-100% on this test, but if they score 0-20% or so, then they need to be really counseled that although a hearing aid might give them an awareness of sound, it will have limited benefit of understanding speech, even in quiet situations. Note: This is NOT an auditory processing test.
I scored a 26%, which seemed ridiculously high, given how garbled everything sounded during the test. No traditional hearing aids for me.
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4 hours ago, kokotg said:
This was...around 15 years ago now, but my kid's was just a standard hearing aid in one ear. He hasn't worn one in years, though...I can't remember why he stopped, but at some point we left it up to him and he didn't want it anymore. If he hadn't been having such severe social anxiety issues, I'm not sure he would ever have worn one. I've asked him about it recently, and I guess it affects where he chooses to sit in classrooms and that sort of thing, but for the most part he doesn't seem to think about it much these days.
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.
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On 8/9/2023 at 11:28 AM, kokotg said:
That's interesting! I remember when my kid was first diagnosed with his unilateral loss, the ENT told us a hearing aid wouldn't help (and I read that in a lot of countries they pretty much never use hearing aids with unilateral loss), but his audiologist was adamant that he should get one. And it definitely seemed to help and he preferred wearing it to not once he got used to it. I wonder if it has to do with age (he was 5)--how easily one can adapt to it?
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.
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On 8/9/2023 at 11:32 AM, PeterPan said:
Have you worked with an SLP who specializes in hearing loss? Ds uses as part of his team an SLP who works on auditory processing of language (which is what you're describing) who had previously worked in the deaf/hoh community. She's METICULOUS about language processing and can isolate every sound, every everything and has worked to get him not only processing it but in lots of situations. She is really precise in a way I hadn't seen before. They told us that when the hearing goes down the processing of the language goes down, resulting in the need for speech therapy for language processing.
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.
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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!)
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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.
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2 hours ago, Jann in TX said:
I'm going to break down and get Hulu for a month so I can watch Dr Romantic 3...
I'm currently watching:
King the Land
Heartbeat (this one is fun! I love it being quirky for some reason...
My summer favorite is still Bloodhounds!
Heartbeat is great. I’m used to silly vampires, and I’m used to sexy vampires, but silly *and* sexy vampires? Sign me up!
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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.
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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.
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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.
S/O: How old were you when you purchased your first house?
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30 and I bought a 900 square foot condo. It was 2010 and prices were still down from the market crash. I had been a lawyer for four years at that point so my income was good but I didn’t have much savings. FHA had just raised the maximum loan amount to support the housing market which was great. The previous limit made FHA loans impossible in my HCOL metro. I paid 5% down on $380,000. Almost immediately met and married my husband and we ended up selling the condo when we moved out of state. I loved that place and wish I still had it, but the hassle of being a remote landlord wouldn’t have been worth it. The unit has at least doubled in value…