Thanks. <3 I'm glad you found something that helped you! It's so frustrating. I've gotten fairly good at managing, but it'd be nice if I could tell someone "This is why I can't do that" and just have it be accepted because a reason was included.

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Me: Oh sure. I’ll cycle for 30 minutes. That’ll be hard because muscles but fine.
Also me: [almost faints five minutes after arriving]
Doctors & PTs: You’re totally fine physically.

YES I CAN TELL THIS IS CLEARLY NORMAL.

Matt has a lot going on, and I'm sure would appreciate some book sales. I can personally recommend the bronze carriage story as a terrific Gothic ghost story that would not be out of place in any classic collection of eerie tales told by the fireside.

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You got this! That’ll look gorgeous. 😄

I’m so sorry to hear this, Matt. Wishing you and Cat the best.

The Octocon schedule is here! And I'm actually organised enough to work out a post to announce this. (My brain this summer. I swear.) Come join me at @octocon.bsky.social in October!

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Oh! If you’re wondering I’m on the correct route now! It takes a bit, but we get there in the end!

Ah. It’s “not slowing down the traffic with turns to get to this building”. Not a fan. It’s a cycling lane for a reason.

And I just want to point out that I’m on foot. Also cars what the eff are you doing on the cycling lane?!

The bus yard, in case you were wondering, is a square or a rectangle with a wide open area for buses to park in. You know the type of space you can go through in a straight line.

So obviously I went in the opposite direction then circled the wrong way trying to fix that.

Point in case: it has taken me five minutes to navigate the bus yard to find the way to follow the app.

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I didn’t know what it was at the time and knowing would’ve meant I could’ve looked for an instructor with an understanding of and experience with my particular set of issues because I’d have known what to look for and ask.

I had other reasons too, but THAT one could’ve been addressed well.

Other fun fact: Yes, I could learn to drive and it’d be perfectly safe. It’s not like dyscalculia meand you absolutely cannot ever. It’s just when I was a teen and asked if I wanted lessons “But I can’t tell left from right and almost bash into my friends’ bikes” was one of the reasons I said no.

Anyway, have morning musings on life when you can’t tell left from right fast or reliably and can’t read maps!

I have other concerns about me cycling anywhere, but for sure a new route is not it because I will need to stop repeatedly to check the route and I will mess it up and risk being late in a way I won’t on foot or with public transport. It’s easier for me to monitor traffic and the map on foot.

Another is “oh just cycle there” because the assumption is that you can memorise a new route in one go. I, er, have managed to get lost on a straight line.

I was in York once for an interview, trying to get back to the hostel afterwards. I wound up at a museum ON THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN repeatedly.

Fun fact: one of the reasons I don’t have a drivers’ license is because I need more than a split second to tell left from right and this is already dangerous on a bicycle.

It’s one of the things people generally don’t really grasp about dyscalculia affecting you.

Tech fails are so deeply frustrating!