u/demon_fae

By complete beginner I mean “can apply chapstick successfully most of the time”. I am seriously starting from nothing. I do have non-makeup painting experience, but that’s it.

I am also unable to wear foundation (it has to do with area, not ingredients. There is no way around this.), so I’m stuck working with my natural skin tone (so white I could get sunburn from a full moon). I do prefer slightly more masc looks, but I’ll take anything that walks me through how mascara works at this point.

Things that are apparently not evidence of N24:

- exhibiting a clear progression pattern that other people have noticed and mentioned

- not responding to insomnia meds but responding at least a little to circadian rhythm meds

- literally being diagnosed with N24 by a doctor in a different Kaiser region

I have no idea what counts as hard proof, especially if you’re on literally any medication-apparently that makes diagnosis impossible.

Anyway, if you’re in the SF Bay Area and putting up with Kaiser, ask for Dr Marcos. The other doctor (I forget his name) doesn’t believe in circadian rhythm disorders, and will try to catch you out as being off your meds if you have bipolar (I don’t think that was even to do with my sleep, he was so pushy and weird about it that I got the impression he legit doesn’t believe that anyone actually takes their prescribed mood stabilizers.) Dr Marcos will be skeptical unless you can fully free run with no meds, but he’ll at least try to treat it anyway.