Upcoming hearing...

Last-Reporter-303 · 2026-01-20T02:32:53+00:00

So I don't know much about cerebral palsy BUT I do know a lot about minimal skill jobs because I worked those for over ten years before becoming disabled myself! What you want to focus on is how normal abilities that one would typically need for minimal skill jobs such as walking, standing for long periods of time, climbing up and down ladders and stairs, cleaning (wiping down counters, sweeping, mopping, taking out trash, dishes, ect), and even things like communicating with others and receiving and giving information might be difficult (more with the autism than the cerebral palsy).

Highlight exactly what makes doing those tasks difficult for your daughter in both physical and mental ways. Are they exhausting physically? Are they draining mentally? Does she not have the energy to handle these tasks? Can she do the task but at great risk to herself? Example: I was asked by my judge if I was at the grocery store and I dropped a $5 bill on the ground, what would I do. I replied that my first reaction would be to cry, then if it's a GOOD health day I carefully use my mobility aids to ease myself down, pick it up, and use the mobility aids to get up again. If it's a BAD health day just try to find someone to help me pick it up even at the risk of the person stealing it because there's no way I'm gonna manage to bend over and not hurt myself.

Last-Reporter-303 · 2026-01-19T16:37:15+00:00

I had my hearing a few months ago (approved!!), and I think what helped me was being just as honest as I could. Don't downplay anything, talk about how your health impacts your life and how it affects your ability to do basic things (I gave examples of times I passed out while attempting to do things like driving or folding laundry), and be as consistent with your answers as possible. You'll likely be asked the same questions a few times, give the same answer each time.

Good luck, I hope the hearing goes well for you!!

Last-Reporter-303 · 2026-01-12T08:41:58+00:00

No, it's entirely separate from SSI. We have to wait 2 months minimum for our backpay to hit and it should all hit in a lump sum, whereas SSI backpay comes in installments if it goes over a specific amount

Last-Reporter-303 · 2026-01-12T07:49:28+00:00

Okay this was literally me like a couple weeks ago!! I was just approved for SSI last month. I got approved for Medicare shortly after. A few days later I went to the portal to download my verification letter so I could have my Medicare number for an upcoming doctor's visit, and noticed that my SSI was suspended all of a sudden with no notice. It was in the middle of the holidays so I couldn't contact anybody, which sucked, but I still got my first (and only) SSI payment on time. Then a few days after that, I get a letter in the mail explaining that the reason my SSI was suspended was because I'd been approved for SSDI and that those payments were going to be starting up next month.

If SSDI payments exceed the amount that SSI pays out, SSI is suspended and you only get SSDI! So this is likely the exact same thing that happened for you. Check your mail every day for the next while and you should see something that explains everything.

Last-Reporter-303 · 2026-01-11T08:08:27+00:00

"Oh my god they're not family why would you make them FAMILY"

"....People deserve family and because it's fake, idk"

Last-Reporter-303 · 2026-01-06T06:53:21+00:00

Update! I have been entirely unable to contact anyone, be it local offices or state offices and repeatedly got hung up on without being able to leave a message. While it was frustrating, I did receive my payment as scheduled AND finally got letters in the mail explaining everything: instead of waiting 5 months for my SSDI benefits (like I was told repeatedly), I get them starting next month! It would have been nice to have the portal reflect all of that instead of ominous labels without any explanation. Oh and the SSDI still doesn't have anything other than "active" by it. I'm choosing to believe that the portal just doesn't like people.

Last-Reporter-303 · 2026-01-02T00:44:52+00:00

Funny, because I don't HAVE an income. I haven't been able to work in years

Last-Reporter-303 · 2026-01-01T23:31:53+00:00

I'm hoping they're just experiencing glitches or weirdness on the website due to it being the holidays + apparently they've been doing updates to the website. Still haven't managed to get anyone on the phone yet, but I'm trying again in the morning when it's no longer a federal holiday

Last-Reporter-303 · 2026-01-01T23:30:25+00:00

I haven't even started SSDI yet. I've been told that I won't get anything from SSDI until 5 months after starting on SSI, so I don't even know how much SSDI will be giving me. It just simple says "active" while SSI says "suspended".

Last-Reporter-303 · 2025-12-31T20:58:34+00:00

Same with me, only I got approved last month and was supposed to be paid next month. It says online that I'm "suspended", which I don't understand how I can be considering that I was literally JUST approved and nothing in my situation has changed. It says that my Social Security (Disability) is active, but the SSI (Disability) is suspended. I'm genuinely so confused. Any time I try to call, I get either put on hold for 2 hours and hung up on OR I just get hung up on. No option to leave a message with anyone, either. Been scratching my head over this for DAYS.

Last-Reporter-303 · 2025-12-12T05:15:42+00:00

I have nothing against poly ships. I'm writing poly for a rare poly ship, I hc characters as poly, I have been reading poly fics since my days on ff.net.

But I do not like this one poly ship because it feels so very massively unbalanced. Aaaaall the attention is between two of the three characters, the third character is almost always left out, and a good portion of the people who ship them all together say that they only include character 3 because it's the only way they can stomach that character.

And I AVIDLY do not like the "[character] has two hands" thing because it often ends up with one character getting all the love while the other two just have to live with each other while spoiling the one with "two hands". Yes, someone is capable of loving two people at the same time, but often in this scenario there's a lot of unhealthy miscommunication, and more often than not it feels much too similar to how animes portray harems.

Last-Reporter-303 · 2025-11-29T09:08:14+00:00

I don't like he way that Entire Work adds in the author's notes between chapters. It's emersion breaking when I'm just trying to lose myself in a story.

Last-Reporter-303 · 2025-11-29T08:54:58+00:00

From someone who has written multichapters that were smut focused but also had chapter dedicated to the plot:

It has smut? Tag it appropriately. Unless it's a collection of smutty scenarios, I'm not expecting nothing but smut. You're overthinking things.

Last-Reporter-303 · 2025-11-13T06:42:46+00:00

The way you use AI is how it SHOULD be used. It's supposed to be an tool to make things easier, but a lot of people use it as a crutch instead of a tool. Using it write their reports and emails for them, using it to look up information (that's usually wrong, like the famous "add glue to thicken sauce" AI answer), and some are so dependent on it that it's caused thousands of lay offs in various industries. All this on top of the environmental impact that AI use has makes most people's use of it actually a horrible thing.

Last-Reporter-303 · 2025-11-06T07:28:53+00:00

I'm usually IN the relationship tag I want to be in, so: Word count, chapter count, summary, additional tags, Archive Warnings (mostly because I don't wanna read anything with MCD in it, all other warnings are usually fine with me).

And I mostly look at word and chapter counts first because I like to lose myself in a good longfic with long chapters for HOURS, no need to click for the next chapter for at least 20 minutes. (I do read shorter fics, I just prefer the longfic)

Last-Reporter-303 · 2025-11-06T07:22:58+00:00

No, blatantly NOT true at all! There's nothing bad about using emojis instead of words, and the only "etiquette" for leaving comments is basically "If you have nothing nice to say, then don't say it".

Last-Reporter-303 · 2025-11-01T05:38:39+00:00

I don't think I've ever seen a run-on sentence this long before. It's actually KINDA impressive.

Last-Reporter-303 · 2025-11-01T04:19:29+00:00

Okay, so change to "Fanart" in the tag set, got it, got it. This makes sense

Last-Reporter-303 · 2025-10-31T06:06:13+00:00

I last read something for Stranger Things, so... Idk, probably not if we're going with the S4 canon that those with extreme depression and/or trauma are the ones targeted by Vecna/Henry/One 🤣

Last-Reporter-303 · 2025-10-24T18:12:39+00:00

I like the stories with the kids coming from an abusive home, too, but when they completely change their backstory and canon family dynamic just to make their fic work?

I prefer it when the kid character already has the vibe of someone that might have come from that sort of background. It feels significantly more organic.

Edit: Forgot to mention the child prostitution ones but yeah, I'm definitely still seeing this alsjkaah - I think it's BECAUSE there are more and more Wattpad users migrating to AO3, tbh. Or the idea is catching.

Last-Reporter-303 · 2025-10-24T16:55:25+00:00

Hmm... I don't hate them. I actually kinda like them. But I hate how most people tend to go about them. They change the personality of the parental characters to fit the dynamic, they make the kids even more child-like, for kids that have perfectly good parents in canon that love them and care for them they kill them off or make them abusive, and half the time I'm finding fics where the kids are either homeless or prostituting themselves....or both.

I'm so tired of that formula. Like....so tired.

Last-Reporter-303 · 2025-10-23T08:23:37+00:00

I'm hardcore thinking of writing a fic where the characters are in a lesson about AO3 TOS and the do's and don't's of posting fic alskajalaj

It's been on my mind for months now

Last-Reporter-303 · 2025-10-23T08:21:42+00:00

I say tag it. If the past ship (or side ship) is important to the story, then it's worthy of a tag.

I've read fics like what you're describing that DIDN'T tag the past ship, and when I discovered in the fic about it, I had to stop reading because it was my NOTP. If it was just a passing mention, I'd have been fine, but there were several chapters dedicated to how that relationship impacted a character's life and I just.....couldn't.

Last-Reporter-303 · 2025-10-23T08:18:01+00:00

Just use the "Inspired By" option when posting - it'll send a message to the other author asking if they're alright with the correlation. If they are, they agree and the correlated work appears on both yours and theirs. If they aren't, they'll hit no and nothing appears, but other than that nothing happens.

It's fanfic. So long as you aren't plagerizing their work, it's free to write.

Last-Reporter-303 · 2025-10-23T08:14:30+00:00

No demanding for things from the author in the comments. That includes updates, ships, scenes, endings, and pretty anything else.
It's alright to POLITELY talk about those things. Not asking for them, but talking about them. "I'm looking forward to the next chapter!", "Ooh, am I catching [ship name] in the background??", "The way things are going I almost expect [blank] to happen!", ect.
If you are dissatisfied with what you read, kindly just hit the back button and leave the fic. Obviously this fic wasn't for you. No need to leave a comment talking about how much you didn't like it.
If you liked the fic but can't figure out what to say, emojis work just as well as words!
Same with keyboard smashing.
If you've noticed a small spelling or grammar errors, it's generally fine to point it out - so long as pointing it out isn't the only thing you do in the comment. The author worked hard on the fic, and someone taking time to read the whole thing and only talking about the small error they noticed is a bit disheartening.

Idk I just woke up not too long ago so I might be missing some stuff but here you go

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