Initialisms galore in this post
It was actually my Income Support that was playing silly buggers, I didn't figure that out until my last bank credit made it onto the full online statement. Just phoned them up and it turned out that because there had been a change in my entitlement to DLA they needed more information before they could pay me. Ah, what a user-friendly system it is. /sarcasm. A good thing is that they've re-instated my SDP which was due to be taken off me next month (but the DLA decision changed that).
Last night, as usual, I was finding it difficult to get up from the sofa and take my meds then go to bed. I asked for someone on IRC to tell me to take my meds and go to bed, and they did, and that worked. I respond really well to direct orders when I'm having problems. I discovered that a few years ago when a council worker came round to my council-funded bed and breakfast room (£400/week for a flipping year because they lost my files) and found me in a right state: he told me to have a shower that day and go to an appointment to be allocated a hostel place the following day, and it worked. I'd not showered for a couple of months I think. 'I think it'd be a good idea if you had a shower' doesn't work, but 'have a shower, it'll be a good idea' does work for me. This is the sort of stuff that flippac often does for me, I appreciate it so much.
DLA = Disability Living Allowance, doesn't matter if you're working or not. Has a 45 page form. I only applied for that when I was well enough to. I had to appeal a decision with it recently and was successful. SDP = Severe Disability Premium. Not the same as Severe Disability Allowance, though I keep getting the two mixed up. IRC = Internet Relay Chat.
Cisgendered = not transsexual/trangender/genderqueer. It's a way of describing non-trans people that doesn't imply that trans people are weird; for example, calling non-trans people 'normal' would imply that trans people are not normal, and we don't want to encourage that sort of thinking do we people?
There aren't as many initialisms in this post as I thought there were. I was talking to nitoda about language that excludes people, and using non-mainstream abbreviations without explaining what they are does exclude people. It's so easy to get stuck into a pattern of using short-hand when you're talking with a group of people who mostly know all of these abbreviations; I'll try and not alienate the n00b any more. Hm, I'll take this discussion onto bicon I think, it's an important one. It's not just abbreviations: there is a whole set of vocabulary and concepts used in the bi community and other queer communities that is possibly going to be completely new to most people. I'm thinking of words like genderqueer, cisgender, poly, zie/zir/zim, and concepts like respecting people's gender identities whatever their appearance (the singular mythic operation is not compulsory), negative language being re-claimed, geeks/poly people/BDSMers being rather noticeable in numbers, sex and relationship structures being discussed a lot of the time.
Yay my parcel has arrived! I now have sportswear that is as black as my very soul. Ahahah. Now I shall rule the... sorry, silly. And I'm going to have more coffee this morning!
Last night, as usual, I was finding it difficult to get up from the sofa and take my meds then go to bed. I asked for someone on IRC to tell me to take my meds and go to bed, and they did, and that worked. I respond really well to direct orders when I'm having problems. I discovered that a few years ago when a council worker came round to my council-funded bed and breakfast room (£400/week for a flipping year because they lost my files) and found me in a right state: he told me to have a shower that day and go to an appointment to be allocated a hostel place the following day, and it worked. I'd not showered for a couple of months I think. 'I think it'd be a good idea if you had a shower' doesn't work, but 'have a shower, it'll be a good idea' does work for me. This is the sort of stuff that flippac often does for me, I appreciate it so much.
DLA = Disability Living Allowance, doesn't matter if you're working or not. Has a 45 page form. I only applied for that when I was well enough to. I had to appeal a decision with it recently and was successful. SDP = Severe Disability Premium. Not the same as Severe Disability Allowance, though I keep getting the two mixed up. IRC = Internet Relay Chat.
Cisgendered = not transsexual/trangender/genderqueer. It's a way of describing non-trans people that doesn't imply that trans people are weird; for example, calling non-trans people 'normal' would imply that trans people are not normal, and we don't want to encourage that sort of thinking do we people?
There aren't as many initialisms in this post as I thought there were. I was talking to nitoda about language that excludes people, and using non-mainstream abbreviations without explaining what they are does exclude people. It's so easy to get stuck into a pattern of using short-hand when you're talking with a group of people who mostly know all of these abbreviations; I'll try and not alienate the n00b any more. Hm, I'll take this discussion onto bicon I think, it's an important one. It's not just abbreviations: there is a whole set of vocabulary and concepts used in the bi community and other queer communities that is possibly going to be completely new to most people. I'm thinking of words like genderqueer, cisgender, poly, zie/zir/zim, and concepts like respecting people's gender identities whatever their appearance (the singular mythic operation is not compulsory), negative language being re-claimed, geeks/poly people/BDSMers being rather noticeable in numbers, sex and relationship structures being discussed a lot of the time.
Yay my parcel has arrived! I now have sportswear that is as black as my very soul. Ahahah. Now I shall rule the... sorry, silly. And I'm going to have more coffee this morning!