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If you’re having trouble dealing with your depression and it’s affecting your work, it may be time to ask your employer for accommodations under the ADA. While disclosing your condition can be a scary step to take, chances are that it’s better than being fired for poor job performance.

The Americans with Disabilities Act does cover disability due to mental illness. However, this only applies if treatment is not successful. Several Supreme Court rulings essentially said that if you are not limited in “major life activity” when you are under treatment, the disability for all intents and purposes doesn’t exist, and you are not entitled to accommodation. Major life activities are “learning, thinking, concentrating, interacting with others, caring for oneself, speaking, performing manual tasks, or working.”

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I had a fascinating experience recently when I introduced my five year old son to online role-playing games, specifically World of Warcraft. For the uninitiated, World of Warcraft is an online, Dungeons and Dragons, sword and sorcery type of game in which you play a character who can be human, dwarf, elf, etc. Since there are other players online at the same time as you, you can chat and form groups to fight monsters.
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bowlwithwelt.jpgI just finished this in the beginning of September for my mom’s birthday. Because of the welt, it doesn’t wobble as much as the other felted bowl pattern.

I plan to re-do it, just to double-check the pattern, and then I’ll publish it here.

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