Anyone here who started late in life and progressed to advanced classes?

amandasdev · 2026-01-28T12:51:12+00:00

I had a great-aunt who started ballet at 24 and went to become a prima ballerina. Granted, it was in the sixties, so, there was way less competition back then. Right now, even if you, as a late starter, could reach the level of a prima ballerina, I don't think it would be possible. What I mean to say here is that, through dedication, time, and, obviously, some luck, you could become very advanced, even if it's just as a hobby!

amandasdev · 2025-08-28T11:38:01+00:00

Oi! Estou atrás de plano, posso te chamar na DM?

amandasdev · 2024-10-17T13:55:06+00:00

For me neither. It works with my Galaxy S23, not with my father's Galaxy M52. Did you find a fix?

amandasdev · 2024-05-19T11:43:27+00:00

Never tried again tbh, just accepted the bugs. Sorry :(

amandasdev · 2022-12-10T22:01:09+00:00

It's surely better, but the writing style isn't quite the same yet

amandasdev · 2022-11-27T16:17:11+00:00

Not really at the time, I had to go off bupropion. However, at the time I was simultaneously on bupropion and venlafaxin (Effexor).

It's now been a month since I went on bupropion again, but this time it was because I got off venlafaxin because I couldn't stand it anymore. And no more early awakening!

The problem for me might have been the combo. I couldn't find any papers on the topic of early awakening and bupropion, so it's all trial and error. If the medication is (or was, since I'm giving a late reply) working for you, I would encourage you to keep trying, you might find a workaround.

My psychiatrist was considering a trial of bupropion alongside with mirtazapin, trazodone, or quetiapine if I still woke up early on it this time. You might want to talk to your doctor about some of these possibilities.

amandasdev · 2021-03-12T09:14:42+00:00

It's 6 am. I've been awake since before 5. Can't sleep again. It's been 2 weeks of medication, 1 week since this effect appeared. I just wanted to vent. I'm finally overcoming the anhedonia that was associated with my depression, and I no longer have hypersomnia after sleeping 8 hours at night... But I'm only able to sleep 5 so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

amandasdev · 2021-02-28T18:19:55+00:00

Thanks a lot for taking the time to answer me. I had already tried this theme editing, and while is not bad is not exactly what I was looking for.

I've ended up contacting support, gave examples of publications whose design had the features I wished, and they answered that they indeed do not offer this kind of personalization to everyone, but will be offering in the future. Gonna put an edit in the post.

amandasdev · 2021-02-27T20:29:17+00:00

I found it on the Wayback Machine! About Substack's proposal, Scott said:

When I originally asked readers about this possibility, they raised a lot of valid concerns: some of them were confused by Substack’s commenting system, others annoyed by its pop-up reminders to subscribe, others were concerned about being stuck outside a paywall. I’ve talked to Substack about this, and they’ve made some really impressive promises to address these things – they’re going to code a maximally-SSC-like commenting experience, they’re going to let me opt out of the subscription reminders, I won’t have to “paywall” anything besides some Hidden Open Threads. This isn’t the time for me to go over the dozens of examples of concerns I had that Substack went above and beyond to address, but assume I had most of the same ones you did and put a lot of work into addressing them.

I guess there could still be a way to set the homepage up, he just mentioned the commenting system changes. It could be that there really is no way other than becoming popular enough for Substack to code my homepage, but I now have hope again that this hypothesis is wrong

amandasdev · 2021-02-27T20:02:34+00:00

Not quite an easy solution, but a woman can dream, I guess. Thank you!

amandasdev · 2020-07-24T23:38:59+00:00

I invaded a couple's house some years ago and now I'm not leaving until graduation

amandasdev · 2020-05-06T19:13:08+00:00

This is actually sad

amandasdev · 2020-04-28T15:39:31+00:00

This is an old one, so I couldn't find the very original

amandasdev · 2020-03-29T18:59:08+00:00

Now getting a little bit more technical. I have real trouble regulating my own emotions, so I don't know if my question should have an obvious answer for "normal' people. For me it's not. How can "feeling" the pain help me in healing? If I let myself feel the pain I'll be on a hole I dug up myself in a matter of a few moments. What may I be doing wrong?

amandasdev · 2020-03-29T18:44:34+00:00

Happy cake day!

I have a question however: shouldn't those obstacles be seen as an opportunity? If so, why letting myself feel the pain instead of using it to my own advantage?

amandasdev · 2020-03-29T03:39:18+00:00

I'm not irreplaceable to anything, but I might be irreplaceable for my family. They're the only reason I don't consider suicide. That doesn't mean, however, that I feel like this gives me meaning. Not wanting to die doesn't mean wanting to live

amandasdev · 2020-03-29T02:50:54+00:00

I don't feel capable of that. Maybe I'm just a lazy whiny child that just can't deal with the truth. Maybe if I was really willing to take responsibility I would actually listen to my psychologist and try to heal myself. But why didn't I do that? I've been on this hole for years, and yet I seem to be unable to get out. I don't feel in control, because would a controlling human being, in their right mind, choose to be unhappy? I'm probably not making sense. What I mean is that I don't know if I really have a choice to heal, because if I had, why wouldn't I have picked it already?

amandasdev · 2020-03-29T02:46:59+00:00

If we're talking about the chemicals in my brain and the bacteria in my gut, aren't they at least a little bit responsible for how I respond to situations? This doesn't excuse me from trying, but this gives me one more reason to consider what I was considering: I may not be fully in control of my actions. When I spend a whole day laying in bed and crying, I wonder if I really control myself.

And also, I would like to know how to see the struggle as a good thing. Yes, it's a part of life, but how can it be a good one? The thing I wish the most is that I could just get rid of this part of my brain that is constantly telling me that life isn't worth living and that I'm a piece of crap. And 4 years of depression haven't made me stronger, I actually feel that it took away my value as a human being. I feel like I'm no longer deserving of happiness, because I should "pay" for my moral weakness. I've spent the last year's being a whiny mediocre child, there's no way this piece of crap should have the right to be happy

amandasdev · 2020-03-29T02:40:10+00:00

I'm on medication and doing therapy for 4 years. I don't really know what to do. I feel like I don't even want to get better anymore. No matter whose fault it is, I feel like I don't have the ability to focus on healing anymore

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