Just today Safari - which has Adblock for Safari and Adblockpro for Safari - came up with that message above when I tried to play a YouTube video. Is there a way around it, or is YouTube going to force feed me with absolutely insufferable ads as a price for watching YouTube videos?
I have a MacBook Air M5.
I was wondering what the best alternative to the Microsoft Office suite. I thought about installing Libreoffice, as I've used this on PC, but then saw the reviews were terrible in the App Store. I know I could use Google Docs, but it would be nice to have something installed on the machine.
Thanks!
Samsung keyboard keeps triggering a pop up asking me which input method I want. It is quite intrusive.
Anyone know how to fix this?
Phone is Samsung Galaxy A57 5G.
I know everyone may have different experiences, but it seems common for Fibro sufferers not to be believed or taken seriously by those around them - or even by some doctors.
For me, I feel I have little choice but to pass as a “well” person because I don’t “look” sick, and even people who accept I have this chronic illness get bored of my symptoms, or see them as (partly) irrelevant, so they treat me as someone with a mild to non-existent ailment.
The fact that the condition is fluctuating, or doesn’t fit into neat patterns, makes it seem “phony”. I’m sorry it’s more complicated than you have patience for?
When I was going through a tough time, I reached out to an extended family member, who was very quick to lecture me about “putting [my] health to one side” and comparing me unfavourably to someone else in my family who had a life-threatening disease.
It’s funny that others think we can just make symptoms go away at will if they become a nuisance to others. Or we’re just supposed to pretend, because they don’t have time for them right now.
My brother, who lives a long way from me, occassionally half-heartedly accepts my condition, but then forgets about it quickly, and scoffs at me in disbelief if I remind him my condition is debilitating, simply because I don’t present how he thinks a sick person should when he is around.
There is often social pressure to act “normal”. Truth telling can be met with awkward, trivialising, annoyed or blank responses. It rarely gives the other person insight into your condition. If anything, it just makes you seem like an annoying and attention-seeking person. Chronic illness life is seen as an act to garner sympathy or give yourself an excuse to feel sorry for yourself.
I don’t have any choice but to continue working, since I don’t qualify for disability benefits (for reasons I won’t go into here). But since you are apparently looking after yourself, you can’t be “that sick”.
The recovery periods in between shifts, and all the self-care and housekeeping things that you ignore due to lack of capacity, are invisible to everyone else. Very few people understand what you have to put up with when you’re “out of spoons”. They see you when you’re forced to act socially, and assume this is representative of your life generally. If they hear that you are neglecting certain duties, they assume this must be because you’re being weird, you’re depressed or you’re overly anxious about your health.
You just have to push through symptoms sometimes because you have no other choice. This doesn’t prove they’re not bad; only that life won’t let you rest and recover.
In short, I have found the majority of people who profess to care about me utterly incurious about the condition. They dismiss it easily because they can’t fit it into a neat little box. What they can’t understand doesn’t exist to them, or is irrelevant.
What you’re seeking from others isn’t pity or a cure; just understanding - which seems very little to ask for, but extremely hard to obtain.
How do others deal with this?
I’ve experienced this for a very long time, and I’m no longer as bitter about it as I used to be. I just accept it, to a degree, as normal. The people who actually understand you are rare, and their open-mindedness and curiosity is to be valued.
After a while, explaining the condition in a way that is even remotely intelligible to others becomes so tedious, you just lie and tell people what they want to hear. It’s a coping mechanism. But the longer this goes on, the more you end up gaslighting yourself. Because what you tell others is what you end up telling yourself.
It’s as if there is no room for you in an ableist culture, so you have pretend you don’t exist, or you have to pretend you’re not actually meaningfully disabled.
I guess there’s no way out? Or is there?
I don't have a solution to the above. I just have to make the best of a bad situation and enjoy life where I can, however I can. Life is unstable. You have just have to value the present moment.
I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Edit: minor copy-edits