Hi :)

SE9St8
SE9St8 Scope Member Posts: 21 Contributor
in Start here and say hello!
Hi my name is Sophie :) I'm 21 and am disabled physically and also have many learning difficulties too. I use a neowalk walking stick

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  • janer1967
    janer1967 Online Community Member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    Hi and welcome to the community Feel free to join in or ask any questions 
  • SE9St8
    SE9St8 Scope Member Posts: 21 Contributor
    Thank you so much both of you :) I'm unsure how you reply to comments but hopefully you'll both get this :) have a good weekend!
  • SE9St8
    SE9St8 Scope Member Posts: 21 Contributor
    Teddybear12 said:
    Hi If you want to send a message to a certain member put @ before their name like @SE9St8 or you can use quote at the bottom of the leave a comment page. Take care
    ahaaa thank you! I understand now hehe
  • L_Volunteer
    L_Volunteer Community Volunteer Adviser, Scope Member Posts: 7,922 Championing
    You're replying to our comments really well @SE9St8! Welcome to Scope's forum. It is great to see you have joined us. How are you at the moment?  :)
  • Alex_Alumni
    Alex_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,538 Championing
    Hello and welcome @SE9St8 thanks for joining, I'd be curious to know about the colour and design of your neowalk stick, as I know they can be quite varied :) 

    Take your time looking around the community, and let us know if you need a hand with anything. Hope you're enjoying your weekend!
  • SE9St8
    SE9St8 Scope Member Posts: 21 Contributor
    L_Volunteer said:
    You're replying to our comments really well @SE9St8! Welcome to Scope's forum. It is great to see you have joined us. How are you at the moment?  :)
    Aww hi! I'm doing okayish :) what about you! xx
  • SE9St8
    SE9St8 Scope Member Posts: 21 Contributor
    Alex_Scope said:
    Hello and welcome @SE9St8 thanks for joining, I'd be curious to know about the colour and design of your neowalk stick, as I know they can be quite varied :) 

    Take your time looking around the community, and let us know if you need a hand with anything. Hope you're enjoying your weekend!
    Aw thank you so much! Mine is a very pretty champagne fizz I think it's called in question mark handle style with a lovely turquoisey end :) as a kid said to me once BUBBLES hahaha! 
  • SE9St8
    SE9St8 Scope Member Posts: 21 Contributor
    janer1967 said:
    Hi and welcome to the community Feel free to join in or ask any questions 
    Hi :) thank you so much! xx
  • Alex_Alumni
    Alex_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,538 Championing
    That's amazing thanks for sharing @SE9St8, and what a good photo too, I love that your dog's coat and your hat and the stick end are matching! :) 
  • L_Volunteer
    L_Volunteer Community Volunteer Adviser, Scope Member Posts: 7,922 Championing

    I can hear from “okayish” that you are not completely good at the moment @SE9St8. Would you like to share more with us about this?

    We are all here for you and listening to you if you would like to share more with us about this. I do love your photo though  :)

  • brightboy
    brightboy Online Community Member Posts: 16 Connected
    I’ve been trying to get better. After the start of Covid I self quarantine This action has increased my anxiety and feeling very isolated. I’ve paid off my credit cards & my overdraft, so at least I’m solvent. But now I feel I’m out of touch with people. Starting a conversation with someone is strange now. I used to strike a conversation at will now it’s difficult 
  • SueHeath
    SueHeath Online Community Member Posts: 12,388 Championing
    Morning @brightboy yes i can understand your anxiety, isolation caused a few problems with peoples own confidence.
    It's so good that you got your finances sorted out as well.
    Going back to starting a conversation for instance on this thread/chat you could start by saying to @SE9St8 what a lovely dog she has or how nice and wintery her photo looks, i'm hoping the more you join in on the forum the more confident you will get, try coming to the Coffee Lounge and start with the number games, you wont need to talk but you will get used to seeing us around.
  • brightboy
    brightboy Online Community Member Posts: 16 Connected
    I’m not a quick at texting because I’m dyslexic, to be honest I hate having to write. I couldn’t spell my own name when I left school. So I have (issues) it appears to me that people who can spell ether texting or on a computer are thinking at lease twice the speed I can think. But give me spanner & point to something you need fixing I’ll have it done in a jiffy 
  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 13,778 Championing
    brightboy said:
    I’m not a quick at texting because I’m dyslexic, to be honest I hate having to write. I couldn’t spell my own name when I left school. So I have (issues) it appears to me that people who can spell ether texting or on a computer are thinking at lease twice the speed I can think. But give me spanner & point to something you need fixing I’ll have it done in a jiffy 
    I used to be like that but now I actually find typing hard.
  • SE9St8
    SE9St8 Scope Member Posts: 21 Contributor
    Alex_Scope said:
    That's amazing thanks for sharing @SE9St8, and what a good photo too, I love that your dog's coat and your hat and the stick end are matching! :) 
    Awww thank you! Betty our dog is the best! She helps so much with making me happier and relaxed! You can tell my favourite colour is blue hehe
  • SE9St8
    SE9St8 Scope Member Posts: 21 Contributor
    L_Volunteer said:

    I can hear from “okayish” that you are not completely good at the moment @SE9St8. Would you like to share more with us about this?

    We are all here for you and listening to you if you would like to share more with us about this. I do love your photo though  :)

    Aw thank you!

    I'm just very worried about my future right now and also just made a post about the medical gaslighting I've had. I don't know I just feel sad right now and let down by health people who i really want to help with my chronic fatigue and chronic pain but they just don't listen and are so rude
  • SE9St8
    SE9St8 Scope Member Posts: 21 Contributor
    brightboy said:
    I’ve been trying to get better. After the start of Covid I self quarantine This action has increased my anxiety and feeling very isolated. I’ve paid off my credit cards & my overdraft, so at least I’m solvent. But now I feel I’m out of touch with people. Starting a conversation with someone is strange now. I used to strike a conversation at will now it’s difficult 
    I feel the same. I've experienced so much isolation ever since I got long covid so ever since the start of covid too. Friends haven't been reliable now that I'm very ill and they jusy don't make the effort anymore.

    Finances are so stressful too, so I'm glad that part id doing better :)

    I find the same, it's so hard to talk to people now, especially if I have no energey as I'm just not in the mood and have no energy to socialise. I forget how to talk and have gone back into my lil shell again :( 

    I hope you are doing as okay as you can right now
  • SE9St8
    SE9St8 Scope Member Posts: 21 Contributor
    brightboy said:
    I’m not a quick at texting because I’m dyslexic, to be honest I hate having to write. I couldn’t spell my own name when I left school. So I have (issues) it appears to me that people who can spell ether texting or on a computer are thinking at lease twice the speed I can think. But give me spanner & point to something you need fixing I’ll have it done in a jiffy 
    I feel this too! I have dyslexia and many other learning difficulties too! That's amazing about being able to fix things so quickly! We all have our strengths but it doesn't mean our harder parts are bad!

    I get what you mean about thinking slowly. I used an overlay for many years after my teacher noticrd how behind i was,  ever since 2019 I've used special coloured glasses noe and thry are a life changer!

    People who judge you on your spelling are just silly people who have nothing better to do with their lives :)
  • brightboy
    brightboy Online Community Member Posts: 16 Connected
    I don’t care about my spelling, the text bots help a lot. I just can’t remember what a letter looks like & then I find I press the wrong button and have to delete & start again. It’s really annoying. As I have just finished with a dating site, I wasn’t getting any response from other women. I just didn’t know what I am doing wrong. As I lost my wife in 2015 I feel like I’m invisible. I feel I need a pick up every day or I will stay in bed all day. I’m trying to put myself out on social media to meet new friends. This is all I can think of doing for now 

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