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There are so many things to say here but ultimately the whole Centrelink system is not built to provide payments, it is built to deny them, so it is definitely going to be hard. That said, once you are approved it is fairly stable and my partner who has been on it for about 8 years has never had a blip or glitch or even hint of a problem. I was also able to eventually get Carer payment and provide care full time, though now with the progress we have made I am working part time and moving towards full time.

Depending on what you are diagnosed with the oath can be really variable. If it is something like bipolar (rapid cycling especially) there is no reasonable way you can maintain employment without significant support and accomodations.

That said, a reasonable doctor should be able to see the impact in your life and should be willing to handle the form, regardless of your age. Saying because you are young you are not disabled is just pure nonsense and would definitely be a good reason to move on and if possible make a complaint. It is literally discrimination to deny someone services based on age and this person is aware of that. Saying that you don't need DSP because you are in your 30s is like saying you don't need insulin in your 30s, maybe statistically it is less common but medical decisions are driven by statistics and implemented on an individual basis.

Anyway, switching psychiatrist is probably the best move if you think they are unlikely to change their mind. Trying one more time to get them to process the paperwork may be worthwhile depending on your circumstances.

If you do try I would recommend making a list you take with you of the areas of your life that are impacted. Can you perform your activities of daily living? Do you currently receive support from other people? How many jobs have you had and for how long over the last 10 years? How many units have you failed? Have you had a large variance in grades between units because of this issue? What about relationships? What about non work non education things like friends and hobbies? What about physical health, including diet, exercise, and drug use?

Lastly, I would consider being cautious about which drugs you are recommended. My partner developed mild twitching as a result of one medication and now 3 years later the symptoms are starting to lessen, but some of the meds can have big side effects and may also not do all that much to help. An incorrect diagnosis can lead to significant harm, so making sure you are personally well informed about what is happening, what you have been diagosed with, and what medications you are on will help protect you from harm. Also consider that non medical interventions can be a good adjunct to medical interventions, so managing your diet, getting good social connection time, exercising, and engaging with things you enjoy can make a significant difference.

My partner was diagnosed with extremely rapid cycling bipolar 1 and was on lots of meds for it, after a lot of work we have figured out that they are actually autistic and have ADHD along with a buttload of childhood trauma resulting in CPTSD. Work on the CPTSD has made a massive difference to life and making appropriate accomodations for the autism and ADHD have led to tonnes of other improvements. Medical support for ADHD is not practical where we are living but in another year we will be moving to somewhere that has actual support for that and meds look likely, specifically a stimulant, but apart from that the entire current treatment plan for the last 3 years has been diet (strict keto moving towards carnivore), reduction and eventual removal of almost all dairy (caesin specifically), and a buttload of trauma work as the interventions and then supportive modification of the environment including changing lighting, removing loud electronics (some wall chargers scream all day), managing clothing, and removing sensory stimulation that is unpleasant like terracotta and smelly deodorant. All of these things have done more than the meds ever did, but those meds were for the wrong issue and so may be perfectly good for other issues without being right for my partner, no shade on meds.

Good luck, and DM if you have questions

Yeah, I like DITMM but my partner and I keep an eye on each other, so if I take my meds and mark it off in Telegram they can see it immediately and that log is permenant, rather than being stuck on one device and only for me. Still, handy if you don't have a helping hand like I do.

I have a large cardboard box with arduinos, raspberry pis, and various other electronics. Will they ever get used? If they stay in the box definitely no, but I don't have a good system for getting them out while not having them just become clutter. That said, Ritalin helps a lot, so maybe with a good sleep and some good meds on board I have a chance.

I can genuinely point to Jupiter, any time, day or night. I may need to get my bearings for NSEW but assuming I have any point of reference I can just point at Jupiter. It is my favourite planet and since I was a kid I was a little obsessed and figured it out, now it just runs in the background like a little JPS (Jupiter Positioning System) all the time.

A truck driver in Australia has to have a higher grade license than a car license. In IT I had a bunch of certifications and so on but that never changed my earning potential much. I think the lack of a university degree was the big thing, but in truck driving that won't be an issue.

I'm 17 years without alcohol, 16 without "le drugs", and 15 without smoking. I still have issues in my life and challenges to solve but wow, all of those would be harder and more numerous if I still behaved like I used to. I had a fairly short period of massive excess and had a few lucky moments of clarity which resulted in me quitting it all one after another. My partner and I have been together since just after I quit drinking and I am really glad they never had to see me being my worst self.

My biggest takeaway is it really does get easier with time. The hardest times were within a short time of quitting. The longer I sustained the more ingrained the change became and now I would be stubborn and resist any sort of backslide.

I'm a fulltime Linux user and have been for about 15 years. Mint was a great district for that early phase where I was learning about the general difference between a locked down Windows environment and something more open and customizable. It put really good limits on my guesswork and made lots of sane, reasonable decisions about how things should be.

I moved around a lot, but my next medium term district was Linux Mint Debian Edition, then on to plain Debian (testing branch), around a couple of others until now I am on Arch based distros, mostly plain Arch but on one machine Manjaro. At every step some people told me I was on too simple a distro, others said it was too complex or unstable, so I just learned that everyone prefers what they have and are used to and it is much ado about nothing. In the simplest form, you do you, nobody else has to live your life and use your system.

That all being said, I love being on Linux. Wine has gotten so much better over time which is amazing, but also with the development of game environments like Unity, Godot, and so on developers have never had an easier time targeting Linux with a real release. Valve has definitely helped by pumping a lot of resources into Wine and also the surrounding stuff like OpenGL and Vulkan so that's pretty cool.

Things have only gotten better since I started with Linux and it seems there is a lot of room to keep going. I am hopeful about the future of gaming on Linux and I really do think it is the current best platform for the future.

No, never. Diversity is the strength of open source software. Someone coming along and doing things differently to you is actually really helpful. Just remember that if you are both open sourced you can both see how each other solved a complex problem, fixed a bad bug, or made a performance gain. You won't be able to directly import their code but the back and forth is helpful for both of you.

That said, helping with an established project is generally a better idea than making a new one from scratch unless you have a clear reason to be different. Many hands make light work and if you can work with someone you may make something better together than you would on your own. Never let that stop you though, go have fun, make a cool thing, and if it turns out you would rather work more in a team you can bring what you learned from building your thing to another project later.

The a fanfic author drops a new chapter my partner is at least as excited as I am when a new video game drops. There is nothing cringe about fanfiction, it is creative writing just as valid as writing a new piece from scratch, just with more context built right in. If you like fanfic then maybe writing it is a good idea for you

That said, when it comes to writing, reading is the key. Read lots and lots and lots, then write whatever takes your fancy, but never stop intaking new works. All writing is some sort of remixing and that is OK, you just want to have a lot to draw from and then write a lot of bad stuff to learn how to write well.

Oh of course, I just find that having some weird needs gas made me seek weird solutions and I like to share them around. I definitely didn't get anything malicious from your post? Not sure if my tone came across poorly, I was going for a cheerful and helpful response, not any sort of critical or nasty, sorry if I sounded harsh or anything like that, definitely not my intention.

A simple but honestly kinda brute force way around it is to replace the TTF or equivalent font file for their font with a copy of Comic Sans on your system. It will show as Comic Sans on your system but will actually be Arial or Times New Roman or whatever in the document, so it will be what they expect on the other end.

That said, it is a simple accomidation, it should be manageable for them.

Seconded, a positive mindset is what we are cultivating and that starts at the name. It is also clearer, we all know that reform is possible but some people interperet antiwork as full work abolishment, something way down the line of work reform.