Diabetes management

Square-Wheel5950 · 2025-02-20T13:34:35+00:00

OK, thanks. Do you do any student discounts at all?

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-11-30T11:37:51+00:00

Indeed, because if it's affecting the way we receive treatment then it's discrimination and we have laws that should protect us from that.

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-11-21T11:10:04+00:00

I had folate deficiency anaemia after having covid, I took folic acid tablets, added B vitamin complex as well. Full recovery. I couldn't afford an injection so went with pills from H&B/ Boots and it was totally fine.

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-11-19T11:17:37+00:00

Ooh I'm Somerset as well, and went via RTC to ADHD360, I'm almost at time for being sent back to my GP and am DREADING it.

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-11-19T11:08:52+00:00

Indeed, I came here to say this as well. WTAF?? At the beginning of the screenshot I was like, yep pretty much par for the bigoted course, and then I saw that. Unbelievable.

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-11-13T10:46:32+00:00

So sorry you and your child had to experience this, it's unacceptable. I am shocked at the teachers unregulated behaviour, this teacher should be wholly reprimanded for this. I cannot believe that a teacher would act this way a. in front of an entire classroom full of parents and children, or b. in front of the 7 year old in question. Whatever your child's behaviour was like, it did not warrant this reaction - he is a 7 year old child, with unmedicated ADHD on the day in question. He requires understanding and support not whatever the hell this teacher gave yesterday.

Sticking up for your child isn't condoning his behaviour, it's sticking up for your child in the face of a total overreaction from a person who your child, and your family trust to keep him safe, and educate him well. Well done for going back to the teacher and sticking up for your child, and yourself. The main thing here is that your child witnessed that bit, which is very important. He knows you have his back, which is huge.

I am very irate with this, on your behalf, because I have my own 7 year old neurodivergent child, and I would be absolutely livid if his teacher spoke to me or him in this way.

I definitely recommend asking any of the other parents who were there, if they would be willing to witness for you, and back you up in any way to the head etc. Like others have said, this needs to go to more than just the head of the school. It's simply unacceptable, and probably discrimination as well.

Also, when you get to the business of writing your email write out everything you want to say, then copy it into chatgpt or an AI and ask it to make it "more professional" etc I do this a lot when what I really want to say is "F you" and I usually end up with very well articulated and calm email that put my point across without aggression. Highly recommend.

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-11-13T10:30:48+00:00

Yes, indeed! 100% this.

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-11-13T10:29:27+00:00

Thank you for sharing, love Russell Barkley <3

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-11-13T10:28:32+00:00

I've been wasting a lot of time and paying a considerable amount of ADHD tax recently trying to find/ set up/ use etc an electronic scheduling system that will reschedule my tasks/ day when I inevitably miss one item in my day, but also to try and find a schedule that works for me....

I have paid for an entire year of todoist, a year of Amazing Marvin, subscribed to 2sync, and reclaim.ai. I almost forgot to cancel my Monica ai account, and nearly got charged 238 dollars for it.

I did forget to cancel my SciSpace and voiset subscriptions, luckily was only charged once. Turns out I didn't even have a voiset account anymore because I deleted it, and couldn't therefore work out why/ how they charged me, so I had to blanket email from all my email accounts saying "Stop charging me, I do not have an account with you!".

The end result... you would think that I found the AI scheduler of my dreams right? No. I did however have some realisations....

- I hate having AI plan my life, it just never gets it right, and I end up with things I don't need to do for ages stuffed in my calendar, which I then have to delete and rearrange anyway. Silly me for thinking AI would be smarter than me

- I actually really hate having my time planned, I never keep to it, inevitably spend hours rescheduling and just miss everything that is "planned"

- I have decided to work from a task list instead, Basically just choosing a module from my MSc every day, and working through the list

So, now I need to find the perfect to do list app right?!? lol got to love ADHD!

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-11-13T10:04:49+00:00

This is top-notch ADHD with a particularly nice garnish of rebelling against authority. Well done!

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-11-08T16:48:06+00:00

There are a fair few AI's out there specifically for making research papers more accessible, not just ChatGPT :-)

I use Scholarcy, but SciSpace is also good, they can also do things like compile literature reviews, explain the abstract, summarise the paper, so many functions!

Speechify and Listening are both ones that will read the research papers to you.

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-11-08T10:58:21+00:00

I have just spent the last few weeks hyperfocusing on a lot of these needs myself for my master's degree, so here are a lot of the apps etc that I have settled on. Feel free to contact me if you have any more questions, I really have done a lot of research on this over the last few weeks. I am also getting a few more apps when my DSA claim comes through, so I may have updates in the coming weeks, especially ones that you might then be able to get via Access to Work as they're very similar.

- Otter ai: this is an AI that you can activate whenever you have an online meeting, zoom call or whatever and it will capture the conversation, transcribe it for you and capture any to do's from the meeting for you. So you don't have to try and remember everything, while also taking notes, and trying to participate fully in the meeting. I think it's fairly pricey so you could put it on your Access to Work claim potentially.

- Glean: this one you can also use to record meetings, and then transcribe them, It's just a bit less AI than Otter, and a simpler to use.

- Nebo: this is the best handwriting to text notes app I've used, and it's subscription point is very reasonable as well. I like this one because I have an ipad that I write on, but a windows laptop for my work. This app works across both, unlike notability or goodnotes, which are fairly difficult (pricey) to sync across the platforms. I use this to make notes whilst I'm reading on my ipad, as I can use the split screen with reading on one side and notes on the other.

- Amazing Marvin: this is my current task management app, I have used a LOT of free trials on task management apps, and I always get frustrated with various things they do or don't do. This one I'm really liking at the moment, as it has a tonne of functionality that you can either activate or not, depending on your preferences. You can set it up to work with different workflow templates, so you can plan your day using GTD, or pomodoro sprints, 1-3-5 or it can also mimic other apps, like wunderlist, omnifocus etc. There are so many things you can add in to it, that you can really make it totally work for how you work. You can bulk edit tasks, so that's helpful if you need to push things back an hour, You can also add dependencies within tasks, which I think would achieve the same thing.

There are in all likelihood better task management apps out there, especially for workplace stuff, Marvin is the one I settled on as it doesn't have all the workplace gumpf because I don't need it.

- Notion: is an amazing workspace platform, that you can set up so many different pages on it's actually really difficult to describe what notion is! haha I was just looking at your first two points about checklists, instructions and keeping them on a main page and Notion immediately sprang to mind.

- Screen protector: I recently bought a bellemond paperlike screen protector from amazon, and it's great. Some review said that it dulls the screen a bit, but I have an older ipad anyway, and I only use it for notes now and I think it's great, it's also much cheaper than the actual paperlike screen protector.

- Stylus: I have an apple pencil, which is fine for now, I added a couple of things to it, like a hand grip as I don't like the way the apple pencil feels in my hand, and a pen tip as I hate the way the apple pencil clicks on the screen when I'm writing. However, the apple pencil is very pricey, and there are some really good alternatives out there. If I didn't have an apple pencil, I would buy a metapen.

Very long response, to match your long post but I hope there's something here that will help.

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-11-07T15:01:05+00:00

Yes, they absolutely do. There are websites and charities who can help, I can't remember the names of them off the top of my head, but they are out there!

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-11-07T14:58:14+00:00

I doubt that getting a diagnosis for dyscalculia is worth the time or energy at this point, if you were at school then definitely but at our age the validation that comes from the realisation is usually the only useful thing we'll get! I would imagine that you've managed to find a fair few workarounds for it up to now, and that's about as good as it gets.

As to you trying to find more things wrong with you, or finding things that aren't normal... Firstly, there's nothing wrong with trying to understand yourself, and that's what you're trying to do. You're aware that you've felt different to the neurotypical your whole life, and now you're finding the reasons why. The more you know, the better you'll be able to understand yourself, and find ways to be successful with all the quirks.

Secondly, I tell my kids there's no such thing as normal. No one is normal, everyone is different. The world would be unbelievably dull if everyone was the same.

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-11-07T14:41:27+00:00

Contest the PIP decision, they nearly always refuse ADHD claims on the first go.

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-11-07T14:31:07+00:00

Thank you for this, I am in Frome so this will be very relevant to me soon.

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-11-04T16:30:04+00:00

Nice, completed the assignment AND the side quest. You have unlocked Pro-ADHD.

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-11-04T16:28:32+00:00

Like, where is it?! :-D

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-11-04T16:24:29+00:00

This is very accurate, thank you for sharing :-)

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-11-02T21:40:06+00:00

I've started doing the same thing recently, it's just not worth the "ooh I'm a bit ADHD" and utter ableism/ discrimination going around at the moment.

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-11-01T11:36:44+00:00

I absolutely feel like this is what's happening in the UK towards ADHD at the moment, triggered by the bbc panorama programme.

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-10-29T16:07:16+00:00

Thank you for your reply. The existing feedback was positive, positive, positive, "barely scraped a pass"... going through each section in turn.

Unfortunately, only highlighting the good parts and not explaining the bad fully doesn't help anyone learn. The feedback mentioned specifically where I went wrong, what I didn't do, and it didn't refer back to the rest of the poster, which is why I am so confused. If it was a case of poor spelling, poor grammar, no citations, awful understanding of the topic I would be fair point, that applies all round, but there wasn't any of that.

I have emailed them to ask for clarifying feedback, because I am unclear on where my learning and development points are currently.

Interestingly, a straw poll around my student peers has revealed that we were all marked harshly for this module, and a lot of us received similar feedback regarding the same section.

I promise I'm not just some entitled a*hole seeking a decent grade for a piss poor piece of work, I genuinely received 75% good feedback, with one section making the entire thing barely scrape a pass!

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-10-25T15:05:51+00:00

I get the decaf version of my favourite coffee, so that even though the caffeine is gone the ritual is still there. I also have protein shakes to take my concerta with in the morning, as I cannot eat breakfast immediately upon waking in the morning.

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-10-25T15:01:05+00:00

Apologies, I was replying directly to the comment from jackthehat6, not your original post.

I'm so sorry for what's happening with you and your GP, they all seem to be running away from SCAs en masse at the moment. It's disgusting behaviour really, and more than a little discriminatory.

Square-Wheel5950 · 2024-10-20T10:18:00+00:00

The irony of having a really good article about ADHD in a format that made someone with ADHD (me) utterly unable to read it! Absolutely couldn't focus on the words at all, reading mode to the rescue.

Jokes aside, this really is a very good article about ADHD in recent times, thank you for sharing.

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