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<blockquote data-quote="allhaileris" data-source="post: 551719" data-attributes="member: 5663"><p>Thanks all. I guess this is my "group therapy" being here. The only group here that I know of meets during work hours. I'd love to be able to take some time between work and home, but we only have one car. I could take the bus, but it's an hour home instead of a 10 min drive. husband picks me up and immediately starts talking. I've asked him before to give me 10 minutes of quiet and he just can't do it. Can't be quiet in the morning either when I'm just not awake, it takes me like an hour to really wake up. I'm also having some auditory processing issues (had a hearing test, it came out beyond fine, but my brain is mixing up letters in words and I can't hear well in noisy areas). So the constant talking is actually even worse on my brain because I can't process it correctly all the time. Watching TV is fine because the pictures make up for the words I miss, or the story will explain it later.</p><p></p><p>We're big Renaissance Faire geeks and this weekend is the first of five weekends that we go work it. Before I always did the same thing and husband and daughter. This year I got a different job on purpose, so I could have a break from them, and take daughter from husband when he needs to do his thing. My goal is to work in the morning and then be able to take some naps during the day while they're busy. This will also give me some time to go do some photos by myself. It'll also give me some time to spend with friends. This is one of those things that is super hard work to get prepped for, but totally worth it. It stresses me though, the getting ready. husband still hasn't sorted the tents from us moving, there is a pile that is like half a car that is all camping stuff and he has to match the poles with the good tent. I saw a huge bug out in the garage a week ago and I'm scared to sort through them myself (husband thinks it was a potato bug, I think it was a 10 legged hairless conjoined twin mouse, I trapped it under a box, put a drill on it, and in the morning it was gone).</p><p></p><p>I love to read, but nobody at home will let me read, husband just talks to me when I have a book in my hand, it's so disrespectful. I used to read all the time on BART, many years ago, I could get through a book a week, but now I'm lucky if I can get through a couple books a year. I have a half started book just sitting there needing to be finished. I have started watching shows on Netflix on my phone since we have the wifi turned on at home and I don't use data while on wifi. The headphones do help some.</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure how much I can trust this therapist, I really don't trust many people at all. People just kind of suck. This lady is older than me, maybe early 60's, late 50s. So she's not some brand new grad student, but she's not my generation either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="allhaileris, post: 551719, member: 5663"] Thanks all. I guess this is my "group therapy" being here. The only group here that I know of meets during work hours. I'd love to be able to take some time between work and home, but we only have one car. I could take the bus, but it's an hour home instead of a 10 min drive. husband picks me up and immediately starts talking. I've asked him before to give me 10 minutes of quiet and he just can't do it. Can't be quiet in the morning either when I'm just not awake, it takes me like an hour to really wake up. I'm also having some auditory processing issues (had a hearing test, it came out beyond fine, but my brain is mixing up letters in words and I can't hear well in noisy areas). So the constant talking is actually even worse on my brain because I can't process it correctly all the time. Watching TV is fine because the pictures make up for the words I miss, or the story will explain it later. We're big Renaissance Faire geeks and this weekend is the first of five weekends that we go work it. Before I always did the same thing and husband and daughter. This year I got a different job on purpose, so I could have a break from them, and take daughter from husband when he needs to do his thing. My goal is to work in the morning and then be able to take some naps during the day while they're busy. This will also give me some time to go do some photos by myself. It'll also give me some time to spend with friends. This is one of those things that is super hard work to get prepped for, but totally worth it. It stresses me though, the getting ready. husband still hasn't sorted the tents from us moving, there is a pile that is like half a car that is all camping stuff and he has to match the poles with the good tent. I saw a huge bug out in the garage a week ago and I'm scared to sort through them myself (husband thinks it was a potato bug, I think it was a 10 legged hairless conjoined twin mouse, I trapped it under a box, put a drill on it, and in the morning it was gone). I love to read, but nobody at home will let me read, husband just talks to me when I have a book in my hand, it's so disrespectful. I used to read all the time on BART, many years ago, I could get through a book a week, but now I'm lucky if I can get through a couple books a year. I have a half started book just sitting there needing to be finished. I have started watching shows on Netflix on my phone since we have the wifi turned on at home and I don't use data while on wifi. The headphones do help some. I'm not sure how much I can trust this therapist, I really don't trust many people at all. People just kind of suck. This lady is older than me, maybe early 60's, late 50s. So she's not some brand new grad student, but she's not my generation either. [/QUOTE]
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