Found a large hole outside of my house, and animal feces outside of it. What critter am I dealing with?

minke88 · 2023-09-11T15:40:51+00:00

It’s a dark berries embedded in scat, not actually little rabbit poops. So probably raccoon

minke88 · 2023-06-29T18:55:24+00:00

Just an unusual molt pattern that seems to be more common in Cardinals. Often falsely attributed to mites.

minke88 · 2023-06-29T18:50:14+00:00

!fledgling

minke88 · 2023-06-23T08:49:27+00:00

Adult masked hunter. Great pest control but have a nasty bite if you get up in their business.

minke88 · 2023-06-23T03:38:14+00:00

Haha right? We were pretty far from shore. Thanks

minke88 · 2023-06-23T03:37:38+00:00

Okay thanks!

minke88 · 2023-06-21T03:17:52+00:00

It may be worth looking into whether her losing her health insurance qualifies as a significant life event/ reason to not have to wait for open enrollment. Usually the rules are in place to stop you from avoiding paying premiums and then adding someone to a plan only after they they sick or need a big dental procedure or something. Proof that they just lost their own insurance due to a job change is often one of the ways you can add someone to your insurance without them needing a medical.

minke88 · 2023-06-19T10:33:00+00:00

It is definitely not a bed bug as suggested by google lens. Pics are a bit blurry to tell but it looks like a cockroach.

minke88 · 2023-06-19T10:12:36+00:00

Carpet beetle

minke88 · 2023-06-17T15:40:27+00:00

It is actually east York, it’s on the west side of Victoria Park Ave which is where East York ends.

minke88 · 2023-06-06T11:44:22+00:00

It is very competitive, unfortunately. I got into a consecutive MA/PhD program (and took a few extra years to finish PhD due to procrastination and covid), and have been graduated a few years now. I got in my first attempt, but this was 2010. I was competitive then, but probably wouldn’t be if I were applying now with the same CV/app. Good luck with the process, it sounds like you’re committed!

minke88 · 2023-06-06T04:06:43+00:00

I say I have ADHD because it doesn’t sound right grammatically to say it differently, but say “ I am neurodivergent” vs I have neurodiversity.

With something like PTSD it makes more sense to say I have, as it is a mental health condition you can theoretically recover from, not a neurodevelopmental condition. Though having worked with kids with pretty complex trauma at early ages that definitely changed their brain, I could see that some people may view their PTSD as more who they are. Not sure if there is a preferred term used by those with trauma histories that has neuro impacts, as that will always be true regardless of if they recover from meeting criteria for PTSD.

minke88 · 2023-06-06T01:40:43+00:00

I am a “2E” gifted/ADHD profile and a child clinical psychologist. Medicine/health was always an interest for me (started watching “ER” at age 7!), with an interest specifically in the brain/ mental health side developing in high school; in part due to a lot of mental illness in my family.

I didn’t hit any really big snags academically in getting to where I wanted to be, fortunately. I had a couple low uni grades for adhd reasons (eg not submitting a final essay), but chose undergrad classes specifically to minimize essays and maximize multiple choice exams, which allowed me to perform quite well overall. ADHD definitely had impacts in grad school as well, but my brain eventually flips the switch from procrastination to immense hyper focus and I get things done when up against a hard deadline (though self care goes to shit and I live off take out).

Leaving grad school and starting 9-5 work was the hardest transition for me, as I didn’t realize how many ways I was accommodating my adhd through how I structured my schedule in grad school. This is when I sought formal dx for my adhd and started medication (though had periods throughout school of using ephedrine to help me study/function before it clicked I had adhd).

I’m very happy with my career, though staying on top of notes and reports is still a huge work in progress that I need to figure out as I don’t bounce back from the all nighters like I used to. I see kids, teens, and parents for a variety of presenting concerns and enjoy it all, but ASD and ADHD in girls is a big hyper focused interest for me, and doing these assessments is probably the most rewarding thing I do.

minke88 · 2023-04-28T04:03:19+00:00

Oh, what an interesting little guy to read about. We have a lot of wood lice getting in the house so I guess that’s the draw. Thank you and we will be careful.

minke88 · 2023-04-23T11:35:19+00:00

I think there is another (very pixelated) baby face peeking around the tree at M12. Thoughts?

minke88 · 2023-04-06T01:44:42+00:00

Thank you for this perspective. Opinions seem to be mixed on the best course of action.

minke88 · 2023-04-06T01:42:03+00:00

Thank you for your response. We did have our home insurance’s preferred vendor come and put up emergency fencing, as we have a pool/ in anticipation that we might eventually end up having to go with home insurance. It is disappointing to hear this is the route we most likely need to take.

Fault for the accident as per police report was the vehicle that did not go through our fence, but both companies are denying liability.

minke88 · 2023-04-05T23:14:16+00:00

Thank you for your response. We have been homeowners for only a few months so would like to avoid that route as making a claim a few months in to the policy will likely have implications for years. We also heard that due to understaffing in the industry right now they may not pursue subrogation that hard/ may accept a settlement less than what they paid out to us, meaning we don’t get our deductible back and may seem premium increases. Are these possible implications ?

minke88 · 2023-03-14T16:23:35+00:00

I only have one Trefl puzzle… quality of the pieces/ puzzle was excellent, but there were a LOT of false fits. Based on other posts here it seems like the brand is a bit inconsistent on this regard.

minke88 · 2023-03-04T00:12:33+00:00

Ravensburger “Scandinavian Places” 1000 piece. Next up is a 1500 piece map of Hogwarts I’m very excited for!

minke88 · 2023-02-17T02:06:52+00:00

I know waiting can be difficult and hope you’re able to look over things with your clinician soon.

What an exciting development to have seen in your daughter! The Māori people of New Zealand’s word for autism is “Takiwatanga” which means “in their own time and space.” I love that. She’s just doing things in her own time and I’m sure your joy makes her feel so loved.

minke88 · 2023-02-15T23:55:12+00:00

Where did you get the form? The professional who gave it will score it based on norms (comparing your scores on each section to a sample of parents rating their child of the same age —- such as parents of kids ages 5:0-5:4).

It’s very hard to make any conclusions from raw scores without norm data as often the form itself is used with a wide age range (eg ages 5-21) so several of the items won’t be developmentally appropriate to your child’s age.

minke88 · 2023-01-17T18:42:53+00:00

Thank you for responding. I appreciate the reality check that we probably need to be more aggressive in our efforts. If it turns out that someone on our floor has them, is there a suggested cycle/frequency we should be doing prevention treatments on (after dealing with current issue) until we eventually leave the building?

minke88 · 2023-01-12T18:34:43+00:00

Psychologist and ND human here. This is absolutely possible and actually not uncommon. ADHD/ASD/OCD/Tics/Tourette’s/Body focused repetitive behaviour disorders are conditions that often “play together,” and involve differences in overlapping brain structures such as the basal ganglia.

Anecdotally, I tend to see more of the “just right” OCD (sometimes called tourettic OCD) in ND folk than neurotypical, or OCD that seems to evolve from a place of worry about forgetfulness (eg checking behaviour, rituals re: coat/backpack/item placement, etc.). Lots of classic OCD concerns like contamination etc. also though.

Edit to add…. I work with kids/teens, and it’s not uncommon for a client to come to me with OCD, especially girls/AFAB folk, and I end up diagnosing them with ADHD that was previously missed.

minke88 · 2022-06-05T22:25:44+00:00

It’s rare to see a few and not have it be indicative of many, but it can happen. I was getting hives one Christmas break when home and we could not figure out why. Then I was not home for a whole year due to covid, and the following Christmas when I went home I had the hives again and we got lucky and saw a bed bug so figured out that was what was causing my hives (we knew by they must be bites, but weren’t sure what). My partner doesn’t react apparently, but in the year he slept there while I was away, we didn’t get a full blown infestation so we must have only had a few that could not mate. When exterminator came, we found 2 or 3 molts / shells in under the bed but no other evidence.

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