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I’m 34 and am certain I have some form of APD. I was tested for hearing as a kid (under 6), and my parents were told, “She can hear just fine, she’s just not paying attention!” I can’t understand speech in noisy environments, or distinguish melodies in live music if it is too loud or I am too close to the instruments.

I’ve always known this about myself, but recently at an event, it was made clear to me just how MUCH I rely on lip reading, and how participation in conversation with background noise is impossible without it. It got me wondering, is there anything that can actually be DONE for APD?

I never thought about getting tested, because I assumed not, but thought I’d ask. I‘m not in school, and am self employed very part time, so no formal accommodations needed.

I’m autistic, if that makes a difference in whether or not treatments or helps are available for my situation.

This book surprised me. Obviously, crummy men would use the same tactics in the past as they do now, but narcissists and gaslighting are such buzzword topics right now, I guess I wasn’t expecting to find such a textbook description of the escalation of subtle abuses in an old classic. Arthur’s love-bombing, guilt-tripping, negging, neglect cycle is something I’ve seen happen in real life to women I know, and I appreciated the author’s foreword (which I only read afterward), indicating a desire to save even one woman from such a real danger.

I wish Markham had been more interesting a character! I found him flat, found his violent jealousy off-putting considering his and Helen’s official stance was not in a relationship, and didn’t have a reason beyond pity for Helen to root for them getting together at the end.

Agree? Disagree? Share your insights!

My son is a couple days shy of 16 weeks, a week and a half shy of 4 months. Wake windows are 1:15-1:45 and 4 naps a day. 5 days ago he started going 4-5 hours from when he wakes from nap #4 and when he finally goes to sleep for the night (putting us around 10:30, which is past my bedtime). Night sleep is about 9 hours with one wake to feed 6 hours in.

Since then he has started rubbing his eyes and yawning earlier into his wake windows and then screaming and struggling for a long time at each nap.

I honestly can’t tell. Is he overtired or undertired? Do I need to stretch his wake windows and drop a nap? Or do I need to start naps at the first sign of sleepiness and add a nap?

Not sleep trained because he’s not quite 4 months, but he’s also been showing signs of self-soothing, as sometimes during these past 5 days, I’ll take a break from rocking or bouncing or wearing him while he’s screaming to go to the bathroom or tend to my other kids for 10 minutes and come back to the crib to find him asleep and sucking in his fingers. (Other times he’s still wailing.)

Hi! My baby is 3 months (14 weeks), and I also have a 10 and 8 year old. Bit of background: My 8 year old woke every 2 hours on the dot all night from birth to 15 months. It was exhausting, and the only sleep training methods I knew at the time were CIO and Ferber, both of which would get him worked up until he vomited, and taking a bath and washing sheets at 10pm is obviously not conducive to sleep training. It wasn’t until a sleep consultant walked us through a different method (browsing the sub, looks like y’all are calling it the Chair method), that we got him to sleep through the night.

Anyway, with that in mind, I don’t want to wait until toddlerhood to get quality sleep this time! So walk me through:

- any tips you have to establish good sleep habits in the month or two leading up to sleep training

- how to know when to transition to a clock-based bedtime

- what a good bedtime routine looks like (bonus points if we can make eager big siblings feel included in part of the process!)

- how to know when baby is ready to sleep train (I know at least 5 months, but like, behaviorally, how can I tell he’s ready)

We are in the midst of the 4 month sleep regression right now (my other two hit it at this age as well), and hoping to start implementing good habits and routines after we come through the chaos out to the other side! Baby’s current night sleep looks like a 6-7 hour stretch, feed, followed by a 2-3 hour stretch, feed, and sometimes an extra hour after that. His daytime sleep is all over the place currently, but we were at 1.5 hour wake windows before the regression hit last week.

I have an A5 binder that I love. It’s slim and pretty, and I love being able to take the pages all the way out to write in them and pop them back in. I keep 3 months of daily pages in it at a time to keep things portable. The company that makes the planner I’ve been using for years has discontinued its A5 inserts, and only have big, fat whole year planners. :-(

I want a month view, a month dashboard with habit trackers and goals for the month, and I want daily (not weekly) pages that do NOT have an hourly schedule printed in them. I did a ton of searching yesterday and couldn’t find anything like this for an A5 binder. Any leads, please and thank you?

Okay, y’all convinced me. I need to lift weights for my lifelong bone health and general sense of wellbeing.

But, like, do I HAVE to do a ton of different weightlifting exercises and try to hit each muscle group or whatever, or can I just pick one “move” and do only that and still have good bone health? (I know, I’m resisting the resistance here.) Is there a movement that is better than others? How do I know what weight to use and how many reps? How do I reframe my mindset so I don’t feel like a gross, smelly, peacocking, body-obsessed gymbro while lifting? (Also, what is my problem and why do I feel this way?) My husband has all the dumbbells and kettlebells and a bar, so equipment is not an issue.

I’m mid-thirties and want to have a sturdier body as I enter my forties. Thanks!

I’m a big Snoopy fan and am eyeing the current Humble Bundle of Peanuts comics. However it says the format is PDF. The only PDFs I’ve used on my kindle are knitting patterns no more than about 6 pages long, and trying to zoom in to read small text is yuck.

I have no intention of reading comics on my mini phone, so: Will the files even fit in SendToKindle? Is there something I can convert them to? Is there a panel detection tool out there that can add on the panel zoom feature Kindle uses in its own comics? Will PDF comics just be a bad experience on my Colorsoft no matter what I do to them?

When I Google, I just get results for a Kindle Comic Converter that apparently no longer exists, which is why I’m asking here. Hope these aren’t dumb questions!