Dealing with your peers

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quietmorning
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Re: Dealing with your peers

Post by quietmorning » Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:56 am

These are great!! Please keep them coming if you have experienced something that was a little hard to swallow from someone.

I have in mind a few activities to start writing, and I'll post them here with a link to my dropbox to get the file as it will include posters along with the activities.

It will probably be a few weekends before I can get the link up since we are in Lent and about to celebrate Pascha (our Easter) which is really heavy duty Easter on steroids in the Orthodox Christian Tradition and my Saturdays for the next couple of Saturdays are going to be swamped. But if I can get them posted earlier, I will.

I will also put together several support group formats for anyone who is interested in starting a support group in their area. If there is a format available, then anyone can facilitate it and the leadership can change to keep the group healthy.

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SleepingUgly
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Re: Dealing with your peers

Post by SleepingUgly » Wed Apr 24, 2013 7:11 am

I tell almost no one about my sleep apnea. If I were well treated, I think I would tell people. But having all this daytime impairment without an obvious solution in sight makes me hide it. Having this invisible disability probably causes people to think a lot of things about me that I don't like, such as that I'm not ambitious or that I'm not that intelligent. It's near impossible to memorize and learn information as tired as I am, and I'm soon going to demonstrate that. Only they will not know it's because I'm tired, and will likely just think I'm an idiot. OK, everyone cry now. LOL
Never put your fate entirely in the hands of someone who cares less about it than you do. --Sleeping Ugly

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Re: Dealing with your peers

Post by DreamStalker » Wed Apr 24, 2013 7:30 am

SleepingUgly wrote:I tell almost no one about my sleep apnea. If I were well treated, I think I would tell people. But having all this daytime impairment without an obvious solution in sight makes me hide it. Having this invisible disability probably causes people to think a lot of things about me that I don't like, such as that I'm not ambitious or that I'm not that intelligent. It's near impossible to memorize and learn information as tired as I am, and I'm soon going to demonstrate that. Only they will not know it's because I'm tired, and will likely just think I'm an idiot. OK, everyone cry now. LOL
Well I think you are one of the more intelligent members on the forum. If you were to get your therapy optimized as well as I have you might be called a "wacko job" like me too.

So you really can't win at this game IMO.
President-pretender, J. Biden, said "the DNC has built the largest voter fraud organization in US history". Too bad they didn’t build the smartest voter fraud organization and got caught.

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Re: Dealing with your peers

Post by SleepingUgly » Wed Apr 24, 2013 7:40 am

DreamStalker wrote:Well I think you are one of the more intelligent members on the forum.
Thanks for the compliment, DreamStalker.
Never put your fate entirely in the hands of someone who cares less about it than you do. --Sleeping Ugly