I guess the big man is having a big laugh!

Welcome and introductions
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Hi, I’m Merari.

A puertorrican born in Philly but I grew up in Puerto Rico. I left my beautiful island to get my autistic fist child diagnosed.

I came with a 2 year plan, my 4 year old son and 4 bags. The 2 year plan became the rest of my life plan when I met my current husband and stay here. We had 2 more children. I had 3 kiddos but it wasn’t enough. After fostering over 30 children we recently adopted our 4th and 5th child. To top it all we just started a busines.

So of course…

I just got diagnoseda couple of month ago.

They say, make plans and God will laugh.

He is cracking up right now.

We put everything into our new business and now we have to sell it. I have been struggling with energy for a while already but I blamed it to keeping up with the kids and working 12 hours a day.

I was a person who never saw a half empty glass. My glass was always full and now I feel like it is empty. People still claim that I inspire them and I bring so much positivity to people. Sadly, I spend so much time cheering up others and keeping everyone okay, but I feel alone. I feel that no one really understands what I’m going through. This isn’t a common condition in the Hispanic community so people don’t know about it.

I’m happy to have found this forum. Reading other people’s experiences made me feel no so alone.

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Hi Merari,

Are you living in the Uk now?

Have you had much support with your recent diagnosis?

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I live in the US. Is this forum only for the UK?

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I don’t know about whether this forum is only for the UK - you would need to check in the forum rules.

The MS Society that the forum is part of is a UK charity, and therefore I imagine most people that use it are from the UK.

There may be differences in treatment etc as the UK health system is so different from the US system.

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Greetings from a very wet and grey Scotland. So far as I know there is no restriction on citizens of countries other than the UK using the site. As @lnp8acr says the MS Society is a UK Charity so you might be puzzled by some people’s posts.

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It helps things from going off on a tangent if anyone outside the U.K. declares where they live.

MS is the same, but available DMTs differ (This is true even between countries within the U.K.). Also the health systems and social support are very different outside the U.K.

I think all are welcome but let us know if you are outside U.K. and be sensitive to asking questions that would be more appropriate to a group in your own country

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