Handimaiden

I (40F, California) have Aetna HMO through my employer. I want to find an individual mental health therapist with experience in a specific issue. I can’t find anyone in network! I found someone great who is out of network. She said she can provide the paperwork to have the insurance company reimburse me.

Does anyone know if there’s a way to get Aetna to cover a mental health specialist who is out of network? I’m fine with paying out of pocket if I know I’ll get reimbursed.

Is there any new(ish) research or at least scholarly articles about what I call the phenomenon of “the new autism”? I apologize if this offends anyone and I don’t even really understand my question completely but I’d like to read legitimate/professional discussion/data/research on what I’m observing which is dozens of adults all of a sudden identifying as autistic in my life. Some of them have not seen a doctor for it. All of them are at least high school graduates, some have graduate degrees. Non of them received special education services or supportive therapies in grade school. Most of at least low level mental health issues (anxiety, PTSD, etc).

Is this really autism? What am I missing

Is this the right place to ask this? Please let me know if not or if you know of a more appropriate place.

I’m thinking of starting a coffee truck/trailer. I live in a very touristy small beach town with two ways out/in and one of those is very popular with tourists on the weekends and commuters on the week days. That road has multiple small fruit stands (owners own the stand and land) on both the way in and out of town.

Ideally, I would get to know the fruit stand owners and make a deal to park my trailer at one on the way in to town on weekend mornings (people going to the beach), the opposite side of the road on weekend evenings (people leaving after the beach) and then headed out of

Can someone explain this to me like I’m a child?

A foster baby was placed with me a few months ago. It will likely lead to adoption in a year or so.

The website reads that a new parent can take PFL when they have “welcomed a new child into the family in the past 12 months either through adoption or foster care”.

Can I take half of the paid leave now (within 12 months of his foster care placement) and the other half after he’s officially adopted (right after he’s legally adopted by me but more than 12 months from placement)?

Thanks!

Jinger’s new book and media tour has lead me down the IBLP rabbit hole again. Can we start a list of Duggar adjacents that are currently, or were, involved with IBLP? I guess there’s different levels of involvement which I find interesting too. For example, lots of IBLP stuff bleeds and wears off onto others without them even knowing the things they’re doing are Gothardly.

Would this discussion be better suited for FSU?

Anyone know of somewhere/someone who has made a list of Reddit’s snark subs? I mostly follow fundie type stuff but I know there are other people snarking about others and I’d love to fall down a few rabbit holes this weekend.

Sorry if this has already been discussed. It’s not even really a question, just something that was on my mind.

Lots of these women are young. Unfortunately, as time passes, some of them are bound to get legitimate illnesses just like anyone else. For example, one of them could get diagnosed with cancer tomorrow (I would never wish that on anyone!) Does the fake illness just go away? Do they try to keep it up? Do they come clean?

Has this happened?

I’m sure anyone here has already heard about this but if for some reason you haven’t, it’s worth checking out.

This podcast, by Christianity Today, takes a deep dive into the Mark Driscoll/Mars Hill scandal. It’s really good. I appreciate that the writers are not anti Christian, I think it showed that they were very genuine.

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/podcasts/rise-and-fall-of-mars-hill/

Why can’t Karissa just let the baby heal at home, why does she need to cart her around to events right now?

In a recent story (5 hours ago) there’s a picture of the baby sleeping in someone’s arms at the older kid’s basketball game. The baby is healing from daysss in the hospital with a life threatening illness AND didn’t Karissa just tell us that the baby has pink eye? In the picture of her sleeping the outer area of her eye looks red.

I just wish this baby could rest and heal at home. She often looks overwhelmed and overstimulated in Karissa’s stupid music videos. I’m sure the basketball game is nothing different, or worse.