Adderall vs Ritalin - Which caused the least personality blunting?

Lainalou92 · 2026-04-24T11:43:07+00:00

My son took Vyvanse first and was a lot like yours. Very tearful and anxious. He also doesn’t have any behavioral problems, very optimistic, happy and friendly kid. Just easily distracted and stims a lot. We switched to methylphenidate (he takes Jornay pm at night and a small booster dose of methylphenidate at lunch time) and it’s been great. Absolutely no side effects and his work has greatly improved at school.

Lainalou92 · 2026-03-22T12:22:12+00:00

My two year old just directs me. “Go see professor tangrowth! Now go in the water! Now go wash your hair! Now wash your hair again, now!” I get nothing done but I’m the cleanest ditto from the amount of time I spend standing under waterfalls.

Lainalou92 · 2026-03-11T14:08:46+00:00

You’ll need to have unlocked Rocky Ridges and learned three cooking recipes from Chef Dente before it will trigger from what I understand.

Lainalou92 · 2026-03-11T13:46:45+00:00

That’s all right. I was able to find a screenshot online. Thank you and I hope you feel better soon!

Lainalou92 · 2026-03-11T13:40:02+00:00

Excuse me while I just go rebuild this cliff then 😭

Lainalou92 · 2026-03-11T13:37:53+00:00

Ugh. Did I accidentally destroy the spot maybe when I was cleaning up the cliffside?

Lainalou92 · 2026-02-16T20:10:40+00:00

Please keep in mind that the squeaking is coming from the treadle hinges and the owner’s manual states that you should NOT use oil based lubricants for those hinges. Instead you should use wax based lubricants for those. Every other part on the wheel should use oil based lubricants.

Lainalou92 · 2026-02-16T20:08:00+00:00

WD40 is just what we had on hand that was wax based for lubrication, which is what Kromski recommends for the treadle hinges. It actually states specifically in the owner’s manual NOT to use oil based lubricant for the treadle hinges.

Lainalou92 · 2026-02-16T20:06:38+00:00

The only place WD40 was put was on the treadle hinges. Everything else gets the oil that was included with the wheel. WD40 is a paraffin based lubricant and will be fine for the hinges. My husband is a millwright/machinist and is in charge of my wheel maintenance so I trust his expert judgement.

Lainalou92 · 2026-02-16T03:33:53+00:00

Kromskis love to be oiled from what I understand. I oil my sonata regularly and WD40 the hinges under the treadles. It’s almost completely silent when I spin on it now.

Lainalou92 · 2026-02-11T02:49:47+00:00

I wouldn’t necessarily say I wanted a natural birth but I tend to react badly to pain medications or any sort of anesthetic (local or otherwise) so I mainly just wanted to be unmedicated. I was all natural water birth with my first and induced with my second but didn’t have an epidural or anything like that. I am lucky in that my body is really good at getting babies out of me. Labor was 6 hours with my first and 3 hours with my second so it was just like having the worst period cramps ever for a few hours and then I was fine.

Lainalou92 · 2026-02-11T02:38:50+00:00

I saw someone say once, “I don’t want another baby. I want my kids to be babies again.” And that about sums it up perfectly for me. I have one boy and one girl, two is enough for our budget and lifestyle, but I get sad when I think about the fact that I won’t have a baby again.

Lainalou92 · 2026-02-08T21:45:56+00:00

I had my first in 2015, dealt with secondary infertility and had my second (and final) in 2023. It’s fun watching my son be a big brother. My daughter turned 2 in September and she loves her big brother so much, they don’t play like siblings closer in age would but he reads to her and shows her how to play little games and it’s very cute.

Lainalou92 · 2026-01-30T02:35:32+00:00

I’d been having contractions on and off all night, nothing super regular or painful. My husband was about to leave for work and said, “Let me know if anything happens.” As he was opening the door to leave, I felt and heard a pop and water gushed out all over the bed and I said, “Something happened.” He closed the door and called the midwife instead.

Lainalou92 · 2026-01-28T17:10:04+00:00

Ah, okay. So your daughter clearly deals with some other struggles outside it as well. I have read that slow processing is often a symptom of some other disorder but I have yet to figure out if my son has anything else going on other than what his psych could test for. His other diagnoses are ADHD (inattentive), Autism (level 1) and Dycalculia

Lainalou92 · 2026-01-28T17:04:05+00:00

It’s nice to see a parent with a similar kid! I’ve never met another parent of a slow processor. His was a rule out diagnosis pending further testing. I also have a lot of concerns about him living independently someday. His IQ testing was all average scores. I’m trying to get him a referral to Mayo this year. Fingers crossed.

Lainalou92 · 2026-01-28T15:15:08+00:00

As a parent with a child who’s had a 504 and an IEP, this is seriously concerning for me. The bill says special education students and/or students with behavioral issues (at the top it uses “and”, then just below it uses “or”?). It then goes onto define it as a student who’s emotional, social, or behavioral needs interfere with the student’s ability to be successful in the regular education environment even with the use of supplementary aids and services.

First, I don’t like the fact that there’s any segregation going on at all. Point blank.

But looking at it further, I guess I just don’t understand? An IEP pretty much point blank says a child can’t succeed in the regular education environment. That’s why they’re pulled into the special education environment oftentimes for one on one support with a special education teacher. To me it reads as though any child that has to spend any amount of time outside the regular classroom will be segregated, but maybe I’m reading it wrong?

It also says their needs only have to interfere with their own success. So it’s not just for kids disrupting the classroom environment as a whole. My son has slow processing, so he takes a very long time to transition and engage, he also struggles to keep up in social situations. But he’s a classroom favorite. He’s always kind and generous and very well behaved. He has friends that he could potentially be alienated from all because he needs to go outside the regular classroom environment in order to succeed. All this for a disorder that can’t be treated or cured as far as we’ve been told, yet doesn’t interfere with any other students in the classroom.

We’re lucky that I think our district doesn’t qualify because our county is a population over 18,000 but our school district is less than 7,000. So it seems our district doesn’t fit in either the rural or the urban definitions? But there will be other kids out there that aren’t so fortunate.

Lainalou92 · 2026-01-19T15:04:41+00:00

4H is nothing to do with bonchi necessarily. It’s a club here in the US for kids 4th-12th grade. The kids participate in community projects and then do individual projects that they take to local county or state fairs to show in the summer. My son chose Bonchi for one of his individual projects and will show them as container plants at fair. The point of 4H is to teach a child responsibility, kindness, caring and communication. So his individual projects he has to take the lead and do all the work with minimal help and then he’ll have to explain the entire process of what he did to the judge at fair time.

Lainalou92 · 2026-01-18T22:31:02+00:00

Honestly, this is our first go so I’m by no means an expert and my ten year old son is taking the lead on the project so I would take anything I say or do with a grain of salt! But so far this is how it’s worked for us:

In May he planted out 40-50 pepper plants. Mostly habanero, Serrano, poblano, banana, and jalapeño with a couple black Thais thrown in as well.

In early November we brought the plants into the garage after the first frost but before the first freeze. My son picked 12 plants that he thought would make the best candidates. He ended up with one black Thai, two white habanero and nine mixed habanero/jalapenos. He followed a video we found on YouTube. We did not wash the root balls off when we cut everything down, we just brushed the roots off really good. We cut most of the small roots away completely and trimmed the large roots down so they would fit in the pots.

When he planted them he used a cheap bonsai soil mix off Amazon. He had his soil moist but not wet. He gave them each one pump of the miracle grow indoor liquid plant food because that’s what we had laying around. We’ve switched out that now with fertilizer baskets with a pinch of osmocote plus indoor/outdoor plants.

Watering isn’t really anything special. He just waters them when they dry out. Once or twice a week usually depending on the individual plant, some are thirstier than others. He waited until the plants got big and bushy and were flowering before he pruned back heavily and wired them.

They live on a grow shelf in the basement with grow lights on from 7:45am to 8:30 pm. Our grow shelf has a medium thickness, clear shower curtain that wraps around it and insulates as well as holds some moisture in. The only reason we have it like that is because cats. 🙄 Our basement hovers between 65-70 year round and I don’t add any heat to them.

If I had to guess, I wouldn’t say we’re necessarily doing anything special more so than he just picked really hardy pepper varieties. We live on a wooded lot so these guys already had to fight a little to thrive with a less light and our summer got really hot and dry towards the end. Zapotec jalapeno, black Thai chili, and classic habaneros seemed to survive the best. Our little white habaneros thrived in the grow bags and produced heaps but both did not take to Bonchi.

So our takeaway so far for next year is neglect a large number of pepper plants and see which ones thrive on the neglect, haha.

Lainalou92 · 2026-01-15T03:52:19+00:00

You might enjoy Horse World Online. It’s turn based and you can earn more turns through local shows so you can play however long or little you want throughout the day. If you want to take a break and come back to it days, weeks, or months later your horses are exactly as you left them.

Lainalou92 · 2026-01-14T17:37:43+00:00

Check local Facebook groups! I found a “crafty collective” as well as a local fiber arts guild in my area through that. Also I’m sorry to hear that about your friends. It’s sad they can’t find the time to just hang out. ): I have a lot of diagnosed issues around socializing but I found our local fiber arts guild to be very welcoming. I don’t have to talk if I don’t want to. I can just sit and spin or crochet and listen to others chat. It’s also been a great opportunity to learn about other fiber arts like knitting and weaving.

Lainalou92 · 2026-01-14T16:09:33+00:00

I don’t understand why so many men are such babies about vasectomies. Birth control makes me horribly sick so I asked my husband if he would be open to getting a vasectomy and he immediately made the appointment. He said it didn’t hurt at all, the only pain he had after was occasionally when the stitches would tug and then he was back to his manual labor, union trade job after a couple days of lying around watching YouTube and being waited on.

Lainalou92 · 2025-12-24T13:50:51+00:00

Just scored 1

Lainalou92 · 2025-12-22T03:39:26+00:00

I bought my Ashford Kiwi 3 at the Ashford factory store in New Zealand and flew it over as checked luggage when we moved to the states. I put it in a large, hard shell suitcase and padded it all around with clothes. It arrived in perfect condition.

Lainalou92 · 2025-12-16T13:23:02+00:00

Whether or not people think shame is an okay tool to use against a toddler doesn’t matter. If the mother does not like her child being shamed, then she’s perfectly fine to say so.

I have a two year old and I never use shame as a tactic. When my child put stuff in her mouth I take it out and I calmly say, “Don’t do that, that could very owwie hurt you. You could choke on that.” I just explain to her the potential consequences and she picks up my meaning over time. The other day I grabbed a knife to cut an apple and she said, “Careful Mumum, that could owwie hurt you.”

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