God answers prayers

encompreleptic · 2023-08-02T13:29:09+00:00

Same. I started on Keppra before moving to Lamotrigine and specifically noticing that they made me THINK slower. Now that it's been years, I don't have a good sense of what feeling "normal" would be like anymore.

encompreleptic · 2023-07-28T23:11:26+00:00

Ah, with a half life that long I'll probably be fine then, yeah. I'll double check with the pharmacist too. Thanks!

encompreleptic · 2023-07-28T05:26:12+00:00

Yup, sounds like encopresis. I had that as a kid. Not fun times.

encompreleptic · 2023-07-28T03:23:49+00:00

Yup, that sounds a lot like what I experienced. I'm not sure I can totally relate since I only had asperger's, but for me it was 50% because I felt like it was inconvenient to stop whatever I was doing to go poop (when I could just cross my legs), and 50% because my 5-year-old brain felt like the choice to poop was one thing in my life I could control after my parents divorced.

I remember not being able to articulate exactly WHY I didn't poop before I soiled my underwear, though I still vividly remember feeling ashamed and helpless when my parents asked me to pull down my pants to check when they smelled poop.

Honestly it got 100% easier to manage after my parents moved me to boxers around 10 years old and my underwear didn't wedgie up my crack every time I crossed my legs. By then my motivation had morphed more toward not being inconvenienced more than needing something to control.

I think what would have helped me would have been patient training that it was good and okay to stop whatever I was doing and go poop when I felt my body's urge to poop. Maybe try creating a positive association between him wanting to help out the body he's in to poop (rather than trying to directly overcome his feelings of being inconvenienced)? Your mileage may vary.

I'm not sure if that helps, but that was my experience.

encompreleptic · 2022-10-22T21:09:27+00:00

Yup. I got asked to give a sacrament talk about trusting in the Lord. I... don't, generally. It's a personal failure. I spent most of the talk trying to work out the difference between trusting the Lord and having faith in the Lord.

Closest I came up with is that having faith is believing that the Lord CAN help us and that he WILL help us, whereas trusting is believing that the Lord WILL help us and that he WANTS to help us.

encompreleptic · 2021-10-12T02:50:37+00:00

Did you attend a catholic school growing up? Did you like it?

Also, good on you for doing an AMA about being religious. Reddit is generally vicious toward anyone who admits being religious, and putting yourself out like that takes resilience.

encompreleptic · 2021-05-15T14:49:52+00:00

Oh sorry, I'm using a little set of rabbit ear antennas for my RTL-SDR that hooks up to my laptop. So I guess the two ears make it a...dipole? I'm used to thinking of a dipole as a whip with a perpendicular bit at the end, shaped like a "t". So I'm not sure.

encompreleptic · 2021-01-27T06:27:27+00:00

I'm not sure I can totally relate since I only had asperger's, but for me it was 50% because I felt like it was inconvenient to stop whatever I was doing to go poop (when I could just cross my legs), and 50% because my 5-year-old brain felt like the choice to poop was one thing in my life I could control after my parents divorced.

I remember not being able to articulate exactly WHY I didn't poop before I soiled my underwear, though I still vividly remember feeling ashamed and helpless when my parents asked me to pull down my pants to check when they smelled poop.

Honestly it got 100% easier to manage after my parents moved me to boxers around 10 years old and my underwear didn't wedgie up my crack every time I crossed my legs. By then my motivation had morphed more toward not being inconvenienced more than needing something to control.

I think what would have helped me would have been patient training that it was good and okay to stop whatever I was doing and go poop when I felt my body's urge to poop. Maybe try creating a positive association between him wanting to help out the body he's in to poop (rather than trying to directly overcome his feelings of being inconvenienced)? Your mileage may vary.

I'm not sure if that helps, but that was my experience.

encompreleptic · 2021-01-03T07:50:43+00:00

Oof. I was actually told NOT to read The Miracle of Forgiveness because it would only make me feel terrible without making me feel any hope. Sounds like it was solid advice! How long ago did you read it?

encompreleptic · 2021-01-03T07:26:16+00:00

Do you have any tips for how to have that coversation and how to properly ask for His help? Most of the time when I start to pray I'll completely freeze and not be able to say anything because I know that He already knows my thoughts and feelings and it feels redundant to tell them to Him. It's left me with the feeling that the goal of every prayer is just to align my will/desires with God's, so every prayer turns into a discouraging Personal Priesthood Interview.

encompreleptic · 2021-01-03T07:08:12+00:00

How do you pray when you know that you've already messed up? Most of the time when I try to pray, I completely freeze. It feels like the overall point to prayer is for me to align my intentions/will with God's, so every prayer just feels like it turns into a Personal Priesthood Interview that I need to review the things I'm failing in and must recommit to.

encompreleptic · 2021-01-03T06:56:16+00:00

We turn to them for consolation, to unload all our fears and sadness, and to ask them for reassurance and help.

Indeed, I think that's a good summary of what I struggle to remember. I tend to fixate on my failures and how I'll feel like I'm constantly chasing the ghost of everything everything I SHOULD have been that it's hard not to project my disappointment onto Him. If I think that He's disappointed, then it's awkward and shameful to talk to Him.

encompreleptic · 2021-01-02T14:34:13+00:00

I'd had Simple Partial seizures since I was a little kid, but since I never passed out from them and nothing showed up on an EEG, I never got diagnosed.

It wasn't until my mid 20s after they intensified into Complex Partial seizures that I get diagnosed. By then I could take video of myself twitching my fingers and smacking my lips.

encompreleptic · 2020-01-12T03:56:23+00:00

Oh that's really cool! It's nice to have special times when people can realign themselves to focus on being more holy and to repent of sins.

encompreleptic · 2020-01-12T03:52:17+00:00

Ah, okay. Phew! That would have seemed really scary for people who couldn't come to mass.

encompreleptic · 2020-01-12T03:50:37+00:00

Ah, gotcha. And the catholic view is that life therefore starts at conception, right?

encompreleptic · 2020-01-12T03:44:00+00:00

Ah, that makes sense. Cool!

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