u/SheOfRedIsle

What are the opinions on whether you keep or sell the custom contraptions?

I’m trying to figure out my layout. I’m struggling to find inspiration and am wondering if part of my issue is that I’m keeping the lower ends of the custom contraptions. I figure it gives more buzz and gives more things to view but I’m not sure if it’s actually advantageous.

Is anyone else experiencing issues related to heat/humidity?

I’m in month 10 of concussion/traumatic brain injury recovery. I was hit from behind while stopped at a red light last August and have been working toward recovery since. I have no other injuries. I had hardly a scrape. My brain went from 0km-70km and back again and now I’m this. I’m still not able to work. I had come a long way but now I feel like I’m back to how I was in December.

I am Canadian. I don’t have any memories of how the heat was affecting me when this all started, so I don’t have a reference point. I think I made the most progress from February - May. I was able to do a few executive functioning tasks/day. I could do a few more chores, attend the an event or even 2/per week. I watched my son play ball, saw my daughter’s musical. I was able to drive a bit more and even handle fluorescent lights for a while.

I attend therapies at physio and neurovision each week I also have psycho therapy every other week. I just started with an OT and I am waitlisted for SLP. When I say I’m trying to do everything I can to get back to life, I mean it.

I’m raising three kids. My oldest is autistic, my youngest is an adhder. My middle is literally in a psycho educational assessment to figure out autism/adhd because I missed it with him and now he’s struggling. My husband is very busy - PE teacher but also coaches various teams outside of school hours and umpires a number of evenings each week and 2-3 weekends each month during ball season. Prior to this accident I was working as a spec teacher in a small autism classroom. I was busy and the load was big but I loved it. I was managing, not well but not drowning either. I mean I’m not back to work better, which sucks cuz with no income it adds a bit more stress, but I was getting through and feeling like improvements were slowly happening.

And then the heat started. Within the span of 10 days we have gone from a nice spring temperature 15-20 during the day (60-70F I think) to now feeling like 38-40 with the humidex humidity level is 76 today. (100-105F). And I know some people live with that all the time but when you don’t get to acclimate, it’s a big change. Most years I find it tough. This year - the pressure in my head is insane. I hadn’t endured the weird whole head pressure in maybe months. Kinda forgot about it. It’s back. Everyone. The headache pain is just below when I take my migraine meds. The confusion, the word loss, the inability to speak properly, struggles with vision, noise in my ears. It’s all back.

But worse, is the emotional stuff. It didn’t occur to me until today that maybe the weather is affecting it. I’ve been so angry. I am mad about everything. I’m losing my mind at my husband day after day. I am crying multiple times a day. I am overwhelmed by absolutely everything. My nervous system is beyond tense. Now that I am aware I am going to move forward with how I survived last fall. Naps, meditation, scheduled breaks, open communication with treatment professionals. But I’m scared. I’m scared this will last. I’m scared something has regressed and this is now my permanent.

I’m sorry this is long. The ADHD brain was always a challenge. But it is so so much harder now. I want to quit. I want out of this life. I won’t quit. I’m too stubborn and my kids need me. But if I could just opt to never feel anything ever again, I would.

Anyone else having a workshop glitch? Every time I try to make 3x Wide Net it creates survey scanners instead. I can make a single Wide Net, so not the end of the world. Just a funny glitch. I have a bunch of survey scanners now. Lol I figured I had just misclicked the first time but made 2 more before noticing. 🤦🏽‍♀️ 😂 I wish we could send items to other museums.

I am just wondering if there is a workaround. My kids have to walk along a busy Oshawa 4 lane road to get to their school on a side road. Nice big sidewalk, safe distance from the road, so normally not an issue. There has been some construction going on and off the last year and a half. Every now and then they fully block the sidewalk. Sometimes for a day, sometimes for a few days. There is no safe crossing between my house and the construction point. In order to cross at an intersection my child would need to add an extra 1.7km to their walk (850m there and back). So kids being kids, they wait for a gap and run through across to the other side.

Is this one of those things we just put up with or is it something that I should be contacting the city about? Is it even worth contacting? I really don’t know.

****TRIGGER WARNING - sexual abuse ****

Hello all. I am looking for book recommendations regarding the satanic panic of the 80s/90s, and how it affected children raised by parents who fell into the satanic panic clutches.

I am a child of the satanic panic. My mother dove in completely, radically altering how our family lived and how I was parented. The Jesus Movement was already alive and well in our home before the spiritual and satanic stuff entered. I don’t know the exact catalyst - combo of books about ritual abuse and movies about how Satan controls. I won’t go into much detail on all the crazy stuff, but my mother firmly believes that she was ritually sexually abused for years, was diagnosed DID by a christian therapist (no psychology or psychiatric degree) and has spent the better part of 25 years going to therapy to help her “others” meet Jesus. The focus of Satan, the demonic, ritual abuse, role of females in witchcraft/fortune telling, avoidance of anything secular, attitudes toward sex, role of suffering to cleanse - it was all very prominent in my childhood. I am now in my 40s and only starting to realize how much it influenced my thinking, self worth and anxiety. I no longer call myself Christian, but the guilt, shame and fear continue to influence my thoughts. I’m trying to unpack it and have been working on changing my reactions and thinking patterns. I would love to read some books about the experiences of other kids who went through this and to give me understanding and perspective on what went down and how people got to that place of absolute unhinged thinking.

If you know of any good books or podcasts, I would greatly appreciate it.

If you’re looking for a good investigative podcast CBCs Satanic Panic takes a good look at horrible accusations and unjust trials in a small community in Saskatchewan in the early 90s.