Hey! I work in mental health services, and I’ve kind of come to a holding point in moving up in my career. I either need to get my master’s degree or figure out a different career path.
The problem is, I haven’t been in school since 2014, and I’m scared that with my dyslexia, I won’t be able to do it. Does anyone here have experience going back to school as an adult with dyslexia?
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Okay, I was talking to somebody the other day, and I got into a huge debate with them about whether or not using AI to proofread your own work is plagiarism.
I said no, because if I had to do all my documentation for community mental health without assistive technology, it would take me forever, and I’d constantly be behind. I dictate using Dragon, then I take what I’ve written to an AI site to make sure words weren’t transcribed incorrectly and that I used them correctly. I also make sure there are no client names or identifying information in it for HIPAA reasons.
Before AI, I had to use a mixture of Dragon, NaturalReader, and reading all my documentation from the bottom up to make sure I didn’t mess anything up. Otherwise, my notes could get rejected, and I could get written up.
My coworker thinks using AI this way is wrong because the AI is basically doing my job for me. And it’s like, no, I’m still doing all the work. I write the notes. I do the concurrent documentation that we’re required to do. I just use AI to help me proofread and make sure I didn’t make any mistakes.
I could seriously fuck up someone’s chart because I accidentally left off an “-ed” and made it sound like someone was suicidal when they weren’t. That’s not AI doing my job for me. That’s me using a tool to catch errors in work I already did.
So, my question is: How do other people with dyslexia feel about using AI as a proofreading or accessibility tool?
So to illustrate my post here this post before I used Ai and just voice to text software on my phone
Okay, I was talking to somebody the other day and I got onto a huge debate with them about whether or not using AI was plagiarism, if you ask it to proof read your own work. I said, no, because if I had to do all my documentation work in community, mental health.It would take me a month and I would be behind. So I dictated to dragon, speak, then I take it to an AI site to make sure that the words I use want spoken wrong into the system or you used it correctly. I make sure there's no client names in it. For hippa reasons. I used to have to use a mixture of dragon, speak natural reader and reading all my documentation from the bottom up to make sure i didn't messy thing up my notes want to get rejected, and I want to get written up. But my coworker thinks that is wrong in the ai is just doing my job for me.And it's like, no, i'm still doing all the work I write out the notes I do.The concurrent documentation that we're required to do I just use the a I to like, help me perfread.And make sure I didn't make any like mistakes.I would go in so much chart and f*** it up.Because I wrote, I left out an -ed and made it sound someone suicidal when they weren't
So mine question how do other with dyslexia feel about AI.
So my mom told me today that my older brother is a born-again Christian.
Translation for those of you who might not know what that means: he found God, and in doing so, his past sins have been erased.
But it doesn't erase what he did.
He's forty. I'm thirty-five. I went no contact with him about two years ago, after I had a massive panic attack during a roleplay scene with one of my exes.
I called him after the panic attack, crying, because I wanted my brother. I told him about the pain he caused me — that I was afraid to say no to him because I thought he would kill himself. He would say things like I was the only one in the family who loved him. That if not for me, he would be dead. He said this after he would molest me.
When I finally told him, he said he was sorry. That he just didn't see me as a sister in those moments.
So I told him: I didn't see him as a brother. I saw him as a father figure. Because our dad was an alcoholic — violent, threw furniture, tried to strangle my mother multiple times. We had cops at our door regularly. My brother was the only safe person in my life.
Until he wasn't.
And yet some days I still miss him. And then I hate myself for missing him.
Then my mom drops this on me — that he's a born-again, after I've gone no contact. It must be really easy to find forgiveness from God when you don't have to look at your victims anymore.
That's a shitty thing to say. But it feels true.