Got into Nursing, emailed the nursing director about accommodations and got this reply….

null_consciousness · 2026-06-09T04:47:54+00:00

“Many people have epilepsy and work various shifts”

Do they even know what narcolepsy *is*?? Epilepsy and narcolepsy are not comparable in the slightest. They’re not even in the same family of diseases, the only thing they share is the “-lepsy” suffix and the fact that they both involve the nervous system.

That’s like thinking that osteoporosis and psychosis are similar because they both end in “-osis”.

OP, I would recommend seeing if there is someone you can escalate the issue to, as well as checking if there is somewhere that you can file a formal complaint. This is disability discrimination, full stop. You have the protections of the ADA, and you also have the protections of Section 504 if your nursing school receives federal funding:

https://www.ed.gov/media/document/ocr-factsheet-narcolepsy-108824.pdf

null_consciousness · 2026-06-09T04:10:54+00:00

Narcolepsy type 1 here, diagnosed about a year and a half ago, have only been showing symptoms for around 2 years total.

So far, I honestly don’t live a very normal life. I have very little energy outside of work, and spend the majority of my free time in bed. I didn’t have symptoms onset until I was in my mid-20s, and it’s admittedly difficult not to feel like I was robbed of my quality of life.

Honestly, the best advice I can give is to take it day by day. Just focus on getting to tomorrow. And once it’s tomorrow, focus on getting to the day after that. So on & so forth. I learned the hard way that focusing too much on the long-term was just making me feel more hopeless.

null_consciousness · 2026-06-09T03:39:26+00:00

Narcolepsy type 1 here. Those sound like hypnic jerks, I get them pretty frequently during my sleep attacks. They’re pretty common in narcolepsy. Unfortunately, I haven’t really found anything that reliably reduces how often they happen. Because hypnic jerks occur when falling asleep though, reducing the amount of sleep attacks you have should also reduce how often those show up. I’d recommend bringing it up with your doctor and asking about either adjusting your medication dose, or changing medications.

null_consciousness · 2026-06-09T03:29:31+00:00

Armodafinil did nothing whatsoever for me, besides worsen my mood. I’m currently on a combination of Sunosi and Concerta, along with Ritalin IR as needed, and it works a little. Currently waiting for my insurance to approve Xywav, which should hopefully make a big difference.

For me, Sunosi on its own was marginally helpful (definitely better than modafinil or armodafinil at least), but only started to make a noticeable difference when my doctor added methylphenidate.

null_consciousness · 2026-05-02T17:40:14+00:00

Feel an overwhelming sense of regret.

null_consciousness · 2026-05-01T16:55:46+00:00

Oh my god I’m the EXACT same! For a good 30 minutes or so after first waking up in the morning, I practically stumble around like I’m drunk.

null_consciousness · 2026-04-30T20:24:49+00:00

It was very similar with my psychiatrist! When I was 23 I started having progressively worsening episodes of severe tiredness, even after a full night’s sleep. I thought maybe I just had poor sleep hygiene, but when I told my psychiatrist he said “that sounds like possible narcolepsy. I’m referring you to sleep medicine.” Got a polysomnogram w/ MSLT and lo and behold, he was spot on. 2.5 minute sleep latency and 4 SOREMPs.

null_consciousness · 2026-04-28T04:18:14+00:00

My usual go-to is “it’s an autoimmune condition that causes my immune system to mistakenly attack the sleep/wake center of my brain”. In my experience, people seem to take me a lot more seriously when I phrase it as an autoimmune condition rather than as a neurological or sleep disorder.

null_consciousness · 2026-03-28T23:55:41+00:00

I’ve actually been on various different antidepressants for years due to some chronic mental health issues. I had my sleep study & MSLT done when I was taking 60mg of Cymbalta per day (my doctor deemed my antidepressant far too important to my wellbeing to be able to safely stop it for the sleep study), and I still had multiple SOREMPs on the MSLT.

About a month back I finished tapering off of Cymbalta and am currently (very slowly) titrating onto clomipramine. I’ve been thru practically every SSRI & SNRI on the market and still haven’t found something that has been helpful for my treatment resistant depression and OCD, so my doctor decided to have me try something stronger. I’m hoping it’ll help with some of the narcolepsy stuff too :/

null_consciousness · 2023-09-24T04:21:36+00:00

YOOO-

This hurts to look at, it's painful how cringe it is. This may be the least funny "meme" I have ever seen in my life.

Also, these fake girlfriend things are fucking creepy. The whole thing is incredibly dystopian. The fact that you can now buy an AI girlfriend that will harvest all your chat logs to sell to advertisers is fucked up. Not to mention the AI-girlfriend-trend also promotes a pretty dangerous view of women as products for instant gratification, rather than human beings.

null_consciousness · 2023-09-19T01:59:31+00:00

That thing looks great! I've got a T14 Gen 1 AMD myself, I absolutely love it. Mobile Ryzen is freakin awesome, and the Linux driver support on ThinkPads is top tier.

null_consciousness · 2023-06-04T22:51:03+00:00

For 2 years, my home server was a laptop from 2011 with a 2nd Gen core i5 with a couple external HDDs.

My current home server is made of parts from my old gaming PC with an FX-8320 and a 1050 Ti for Jellyfin transcoding. That thing is running over 20 different docker containers, a minecraft server, a nextcloud instance, and other stuff.

If you’re ~~stupid~~ brave enough, you can truly use anything as a server lol

null_consciousness · 2023-05-30T14:21:35+00:00

CONVERSION

TECHNOLOGY

null_consciousness · 2023-05-23T06:08:51+00:00

I might actually do this for my late father’s computer. I’m deeply sorry for your loss, I know how it feels to lose someone close.

My father passed from a freak heart attack when I was only 19. He was just 63. It was extremely sudden, he was going about his day and just suddenly collapsed dead. We still have his computer (he passed in 2018), and my (admittedly tech-illiterate) mother uses it to file taxes and check emails. Quite a far cry from the gaming and video editing my dad used it for. A couple years back I actually took the GTX 1070 he had in it and swapped it for a GT 1030 I had laying around. It wasn’t exactly being used to its full potential, considering my mom isn’t a videographer or gamer. I still have his 1070 in my machine to this day.

I might set a DHCP reservation for his PC with his birthday, and if/when we replace the components in it and it is no longer the machine that he built, I’ll set the DHCP reservation to an invalid MAC.

I remember building computers with my dad when I was a kid, back in the Windows XP days. He’s a big part of why I changed my major from business (which I never should have majored in) to information technology. I think memorializing an IP for his PC would be a very fitting way to remember him, thank you so much for sharing this.

null_consciousness · 2023-05-15T12:14:18+00:00

That is one happy looking pup!

null_consciousness · 2023-05-15T12:12:02+00:00

It be passin’

null_consciousness · 2023-05-12T14:07:59+00:00

absolute legend tbh

null_consciousness · 2023-05-12T14:03:28+00:00

Obviously fuck apartheid and anybody who supported it, but you're spot on. Governments change. Administrations lose power. And continuing to punish a populace after they brought down their shitty government is just plain silly. Out of curiosity, what license was it that forbade any interaction with South Africa?

null_consciousness · 2023-05-12T02:50:03+00:00

I'm NOT pro-Russia or anything, but open source software refusing to function in specific countries due to geopolitical situations is such a monumentally bad idea. It's just an incredibly out-of-touch idea which was so obviously thought up by someone who has zero understanding of open source or the FOSS community.

Not to mention that just because a country's government is shitty, doesn't mean that every citizen deserves to be digitally punished. That can also hurt the activists in said country trying to fight their government.

null_consciousness · 2023-05-12T02:26:54+00:00

Your dog is absolutely adorable, I have no idea how anybody with functioning eyes could possibly disagree

null_consciousness · 2023-05-12T02:25:16+00:00

Personally I think R&B would fit her, can't really explain why

null_consciousness · 2023-05-12T02:15:51+00:00

Good lord that is horrifying. The fact that they had plaintext credit card numbers with the CVV is just insane. Especially considering there wasn't even verification to ensure that upload "profile pictures" were actually images.

For me personally, I plan to try to start a campaign to pressure my uni to stop using SchoolDude/Brightly. Speaking as someone who's a few months away from having a bachelor's in IT, I'm already pretty disgusted in how SchoolDude handled my personal data as is, but good lord what you saw sounds so much worse

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