Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about. A precise question gets a precise answer; a general one gets everybody’s favourite anecdote.
ingrid_STO said:It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about.
Adding a me-too, because a thread of one person's experience is not much use. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.
ingrid_STO said:It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about.
Coming at ingrid_STO’s question from a different direction. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.
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Reporting back.
Late follow-up. I did not do what was suggested, I did something adjacent, and it worked; posting the difference in case it matters to somebody.