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I am AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi everyone,

I am going to EXPLODE with super giant empowered feelings if I don't share this right now. Guess what??? I had a horrible super icky, super traumatizing incident with Centrelink yesterday, so today I emailed the general manager of Centrelink about it and he (or at least someone from his office acting on his behalf) replied!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He wrote a super nice response and gave me the number for the "customer relations team" at CL. The woman I spoke to there was super nice and after taking details of the ickyness of yesterday's adventure, she stayed on the line with me while I spoke to a NICE person from the compliance office. And guess what? THERE WAS NEVER AN ISSUE. The call yesterday was SUPPOSED to be an "educational call" just telling me the correct way to report income. That's all the dude yesterday was supposed to tell me - not attack me for not reporting correctly...when in fact I had reported correctly. I have been super struggling since yesterday morning because of that peanut!!!!! I super hope he gets into trouble -grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Anyway, I am going to enjoy this super unusual feeling of being empowered for once, rather than powerless and voiceless. Moral to the story - if you have a bad experience with CL, email the general manager (I am probably not allowed to post his name or email address here, but google will tell you)!!!! Happy happy happy turtle. I'm SUPER Turtle.

@CheerBear @Zoe7 @mudsum @Former-Member @Former-Member @Former-Member @NikNik @Former-Member

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Super awesome @Phoenix_Rising

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Well done @Phoenix_Rising

Proud of you to poke your head out of your shell and storm full front into the battle!

You were right in what you did and it takes courage to speak up and I am so glad they took it seriously and reacted appropriately!

You are AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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As my daughter would say: BOOM!!!

Which has to be immediately followed by a bow-legged swaying gansta walk and weird hand gestures.

I'm doing the combo right now to celebrate your awesomeness @Phoenix_Rising. You might like to try it yourself

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@Former-Member you super made me giggle because I really cannot even begin to tell you how much that is NOT something I would do. 😂😂😂

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Way to go @Phoenix_Rising

I love a little celebration, especially when it involves such awesomesness!

Turtle happy dancing coming your way

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@Former-Member I super wish you could post a video of @Former-Member doing the bow-legged swaying gangsta walk. Is she wearing flippers and a snorkel while doing it? This is definitely good motivation for why I need to keep on keeping on even though it is SO HARD sometimes. 😆

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@Phoenix_Rising @Former-Member @Former-Member this is as close as I could get...

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@Zoe7 Giggle. Yep, just as I was saying, that is sooooooo not my style...but I love the amusing picture in my brain of it being @Former-Member's style! When I am super excited I do tend to bounce around a bit. I also tend to rock and do the hand-flapping thing that a lot of people with ASD do. So...I guess it is my own little turtle happy dance like @Former-Member described.

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Thanks for the visual @Zoe7. Spot on

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I totally love that picture @Zoe7, @Phoenix_Rising, @Former-Member, @Former-Member xx

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