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Sue Young

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Editor, CIEP intermediate member, dachshund fan, hoping to make my bit of the earth a bit better.

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Lovely. Thanks.

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There's a bakery up the street from me where they saw my email on an order and started drawing tubas on the bags. So I saved em for a year and made a collage for them. Which they then hung up and curated like a museum piece. I love em there and they're always happy to see me ❤️

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Ok I'm probably a bad person but that did make me laugh.

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Beats me. I'd go with a different cover idea.

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I think that good intentions are mitigating but not a a free pass. If I learn that a way of talking about people or portraying them is harmful, it's on me to try and change. I also don't think The Economist has good intentions. Gaza etc? We can think about small things and big things.

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I'm saying, using a walker as shorthand for both age and unfitness for office feeds prejudice that assumes people who use walkers are unfit for whatever.

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We're arguing different questions here. You're saying hey, cognitive and physical decline in older people is a common thing and taking that into account is not prejudice, it's just realistic. (To which I say, fair enough. Might be time to ask why there aren't younger candidates?)1/2

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Oh no I am a boomer too and have had grey hair since I was about 38 so … but there are plenty of people, disabled and not, young and old, who are deeply offended by this cover, so it clearly is seen as a slight by some people. Maybe those people have a bit more of a voice now than 5 years ago?

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I'm not sure I understand your meaning clearly. Are you saying it would not have been an issue 5 years ago because the candidates weren't as old, or that people wouldn't have seen this as a slight to people with disabilities 5 years ago?

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I totally agree about that: it was a terrible performance. But that's not what people's objection to this cover is about. It's a thoughtless, lazy appeal to prejudice that perpetuates and legitimizes it.

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Maybe, if you can't find a good one, you say 'nifty idea but I just can't find the right image' and go with a different idea for the cover.

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Maybe I need my hearing checked!

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Entirely an aside, but I straight-up thought the Australian prime minister said a certain senator was 'a cannibal' today. Took a minute to work out he said 'she's accountable'.

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I was honestly expecting her to mention research saying they're not seeing bad outcomes now. But just, what? Fashion?

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I asked my rheumatologist for an opinion on covid risks for people with my condition– you know, any new research? – and she basically just said do whatever feels right to me. That is not my idea of a medical opinion.

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You guys know actual democracies elsewhere just don't have any of this drama, right? People just go into public libraries and read whatever and no-one knows or cares.

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Cute cover with the edits.

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Started out feeling that this autobiography manuscript was worthy but a bit dull. Now as I work into it I'm seeing themes, turning points, a shape we can make as the author changes – oh yes, we can do this! Getting excited now.
#amediting

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One of those money-pit 'dream' house-build shows is on the TV while I'm doing the initial formatting clean-up on another memoir. Remarkably, none of the authors whose memoirs I've been doing lately give more than a passing mention to the houses they lived in.

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I like the way your typo hints at 'pirate'. For a moment there I got a glimpse of you going in to see someone with an eye patch and a parrot on their shoulder.

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I guess it *is* a rheumatology clinic, so dealing with vague, shifting, hard-to-pin-down symptoms is what they do. But still, it's pretty great.

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You know all those times you got people being dismissive of symptoms? One time, I was just floored when one of the rheumy nurses said she thought I was probably not quite saying how bad it was, and checked me into hospital.

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I just go public so I can't really say 'my rheumatologist', but the whole Hobart team seem to be good this way. 'You feel knackered? It's not OK to feel knackered. Let's run some tests just to see if there's anything, and try changing this dose.'

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What an awful story. Amazing that such symptoms were not taken seriously for so long, especially when you mentioned your mother etc. So sorry you went through all that!

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TBH I now think the carpet on the bedroom floors in our house in Tasmania (hard floors elsewhere) is pretty nasty. We did it to seem warmer but yeah, ew.

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Good to know! Yeah this was a while back. It's just an anecdote, not a statistical study on floor-covering customs in the UK.

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When we lived there for a bit our rented house had carpet in the bathroom. The neighbours remarked with pride how the pattern on their kitchen carpet hid the dirt. On the plus side, we were invited into said kitchen pretty soon and had many great chats out in our respective gardens. Lovely people.

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Have none of you been to the UK?

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Any TV someone else is watching is bad. I recently bought some fancy earplugs and my evenings are now much better.

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Maybe the horror at 'bugger' is regional? I have a couple of very clean-spoken Texan friends who use 'bugger' without a thought. I'm not sure they know what it means.

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At first glance I thought it was even more amazing, with a long black neck and droopy ears like a Nubian goat, and a soft furry nose.

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Sundays: me and my dad, doing our bit to save the basic snack bar that does a pot of tea and a toasted sandwich you can hold in your hand. Dad has bad dementia and gets anxious if we have to wait while Chef gets the garnish just right, plus the sprouts and roast pumpkin just slide off onto his lap.

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Several years ago I got a severe drop foot and joined an FB group for hints & tips. So many people on there struggling to cope without an orthosis! They were just fine, goddammit, just fell over every now and then!

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That 'really think things through' is a scarily big 'if'.

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I feel seen! I was doing exactly the same thing today. Found some actual errors, yes, but mainly wanted to debate some earlier choices.

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Sounds great! How do the chats happen – any timezone issues?

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It hasn't come up for me but yeah, now you mention it I think I would.

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I was thinking, of course, of the scenario of feeding a text into ChatGPT for it to help edit, and yeah, no way would that be OK. Maybe this course is about asking ChatGPT questions or something. But then you'd have to check that it got the answer right, so …

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How could I use ChatGPT for editing without violating my confidentiality obligations?

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Don't see why that disqualifies you as a control. If all the controls were in bounding good health the results would be pretty skewed. The questions give respondents a chance ti mention other conditions.

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Same here due to diagnosis and treatment, in May 2020, of an autoimmune condition that had been making me ill for a while. And I'll still be one the controls who has a little tiredness and shortness of breath and whatever.

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I'm a bit excited. Awesome aurora glow above my house.

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She's off! Huge beams reaching into the sky visible with the naked eye, and at a very civilised 7.30 at night too! Me and the sheep, out in the paddock behind the house, in awe. Southern Tasmania, with my phone.

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