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    :thumbs: Great news, relieved to hear it went well, that is sooo positive, it really makes a difference when you know they really really do understand, is this with general life support or uni support, what kind of things are you working on at the moment.

     

    I am really happy for you.

     

    JsMumxxx

     

    General home support, help organising things, communicating with various official things etc.

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    Lots of good stuff going on at the moment, just a lot of change as well :rolleyes: Starting my new course properly on Monday, picking up the keys to our new flat on Thursday, moving next weekend, having first session with support worker on Wednesday. Currently going through testing for celiac and awaiting an appointment to be seen about hypermobility syndrome. Getting input from NAS outreach team soon. :lol: It's all coming together at once, so much to think about I think my brain will explode. :oops:

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    Ok it's still a mess. Got declaration form this morning and the notification is completely wrong. It says I didn't apply for fee loan even though I did (I checked my online application), also it has nothing about my maintenance grant and worked out that with their figures I'm 1k down this year on last years funding :angry: I wish these people would get their act together already. :ph34r:

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    I get incredibly anxious about having to make a phone call. If there is any way to communicate then I will explore every other avenue first, some people are only reachable by phone though :unsure: If I do have to phone I end up spending a lot of energy psyching myself up to it or end up putting it off for a long time (then things don't get sorted :wallbash: ). I know quite a few people who have problems with phones. I really don't like mobile phones, well only for text at least, they always make me jump because of the sudden noise out of nowhere.

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    i hope they don't,though i expect they will include the special needs that our people get if any of them get anything,that is. Its already a lottery postcode for what your can get already. I hope i am worrying about nothing. :rolleyes: any of you have any concerns about all these talks about cuts?

     

    Yes I am concerned about cuts, I've only just managed to arrange help and am worried that it will be taken away. :unsure:

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    I may be wrong here but I am sure that when my sister was at uni as a single parent she was able to go to the uni's welfare (I think that is what it was) and they gave her an emergency loan, just a thought for you to maybe look into...

     

    Yeah I'm going to pop into the advice and welfare service place on campus tomorrow. I saw online that there is a short term emergency loan that I can apply for which is up to £300 so am going to apply to that. Plus I'm taking part in a study which will get me another £40 :lol:

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    Just offloading frustration here! I applied for my student loan for this year, about 6 months ago! It still hasn't been assessed, there was some mix up between the uni and the LEA. LEA claming they hadn't received paperwork from uni and uni saying they had already sent it. I can't even get a provisional sum because they need the confirmation that I've changed over to psychology. :wallbash: I'm supposed to start monday, was relying on that money coming through. So now have no money, no food and don't know when it will all be sorted :crying: I had my first head banging full on meltdown in ages because of this, and boy my head hurts an hour after that fact. Anyone else in student loan misery? :tearful:

     

    Edit: Just rang them up and apparently it's going to take them a week to process it, then student finance will send me out a declaration form then I have to send that back. In total that should take 2 weeks meaning I have no money, no food and Em has no fuel to get to work for 2 weeks! :tearful: I have no idea what I'm going to do :crying:

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    This sounds exactly like I was when I was younger. My reading age was always way beyond what it should have been. I found school very boring because I didn't find any of it particularly challenging, it was only when I went to university that it even came close to stretching. :whistle: The biggest complaint I had about school was the boredom, and spent most of my time helping those who were struggling. I would encourage it though, books about interests, visits to museums. :)

     

    My mum used to say that I was born 30, my language was so formal and I had next to no interest in conversing with other children (mostly because they didn't understand what I was chatting on about :lol: ). While most children were running around and digging holes, climbing trees, I was talking about Kosovo, famine, religion, politics (how I didn't like the Tories :lol: ) . Eventually people caught up with me, but I can still bore people silly and not even realise it :lol:

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    Im starting at university on 21st which is worrying as despite me asking several times they still claim to not have a timetable so i can plan my life. Im hoping to get a part time job before all the other students arrive and beat me to the few jobs round here!! Need the timetable to say what hours i can do.

     

    Same here! Then again I haven't actually asked about the timetable yet, I probably should.

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