Lost my longest post ever on MyLot. What's the longest you've lost?

@TheHorse (205716)
Walnut Creek, California
January 2, 2018 9:31pm CST
I was writing in great detail this evening about how my young friend at the preschool is speaking much better now. (He's the one who understood everything last school year, but barely spoke.) I was distracted by a phone call, and when I came back to finish up the post, it was frozen, and then gone. I wasted only about 30 minutes of my life, but I'm sad you won't get to read the details. I won't try again right now. What's the longest post you've lost on MyLot? Have you ever been around a child who didn't really speak until he was three or four?
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@marguicha (215405)
• Chile
3 Jan 18
I have lost several posts due to the computer. And sometimes it is just the evil elves. I can´t even blame it on technology.
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@marguicha (215405)
• Chile
3 Jan 18
@TheHorse In my house they hide everything
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@TheHorse (205716)
• Walnut Creek, California
3 Jan 18
@marguicha Oh, and my flashlights.
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@TheHorse (205716)
• Walnut Creek, California
3 Jan 18
The elves are after my scissors right now.
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@lovebuglena (43074)
• Staten Island, New York
3 Jan 18
I am not sure if this happened to me in mylot. I did have a similar thing happen in Virily. I was creating a quiz and I needed to insert a picture. I thought that I can do a drag/drop type of thing. When I tried that it took me to a different site and when I hit the back button to go back to my quiz all the questions I had created were gone. :( I was really upset. I am not sure what I did but somehow the questions managed to reappear. Sometimes on mylot though, I may write a discussion and hit the button to publish but it will buffer for a while and not get published and I have to do restart the discussion. Good thing I copy the discussion text before hitting the publish button.
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@TheHorse (205716)
• Walnut Creek, California
4 Jan 18
I think I'm going to write short posts for awhile.
@TheHorse (205716)
• Walnut Creek, California
5 Jan 18
@lovebuglena I always say I will. Then I don't.
@lovebuglena (43074)
• Staten Island, New York
4 Jan 18
@TheHorse You can write long posts :) just make sure to copy all the text just in case.
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• United States
3 Jan 18
i had a 3rd cousin who didn't speak til age ten. um..i don't think i've ever lost a terribly long one..that's part of the reason i don't make really big ones..retyping sucks.
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• United States
3 Jan 18
@TheHorse yea.she said "no" one day and was off and running.they never really figured out why she was mute for so long.
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@TheHorse (205716)
• Walnut Creek, California
3 Jan 18
It really does. In this case, I didn't bother. Is your third cousin's speech normal now?
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
3 Jan 18
I've been around a child who didn't speak till he was four. His parents made him watch videos of Mr. Bean since he was a year old on an iPad every time they got tired taking care of him. I knew there was something wrong with the kid when he turned two and still wasn't uttering any words at all. The kids was diagnosed with autism.
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
4 Jan 18
@TheHorse Yep he did and until now he still would have that once in awhile. But he has been going to a therapist for two years now.
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@TheHorse (205716)
• Walnut Creek, California
4 Jan 18
@toniganzon Can he relate to his peers? Or does he isolate? My little friend does not have autism.
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@TheHorse (205716)
• Walnut Creek, California
4 Jan 18
Did he also have issues with eye contact early?
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@LadyDuck (458085)
• Switzerland
3 Jan 18
I have never lost a post, because I type my text offline and then cut and paste in the "New discussion" window.
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@LadyDuck (458085)
• Switzerland
3 Jan 18
@TheHorse I prefer to write my text, check the spelling and then post it.
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@TheHorse (205716)
• Walnut Creek, California
3 Jan 18
I always say I'm going to do that...then I get lazy.
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@josie_ (9763)
• Philippines
3 Jan 18
I have a grand daughter who is hearing impaired. I'm trying to improve my knowledge of FSL (Filipino sign language). If I am writing a long article, I tend to save it after completing each paragraph in order not to accidentally lost the entire post which is very frustrating.
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@TheHorse (205716)
• Walnut Creek, California
4 Jan 18
Where do you save it?
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@josie_ (9763)
• Philippines
4 Jan 18
@TheHorse _I prefer Notepad to Microsoft word. Easier to save my drafts.
@mayka123 (16584)
• India
4 Jan 18
I have lost posts sometimes due to internet failure or else some problem in the laptop. And then have even forgotten what I had wanted to post !
@much2say (53959)
• Los Angeles, California
3 Jan 18
I know it's happened to me a few times . . . I can't remember what they were about now, but poof and it got zapped to nowhere . My son has a friend who didn't really speak for the longest time - you could barely understand the few words he had, and he couldn't put sentences together. However, you could tell he understood exactly what you're saying - and he did follow directions. His mom didn't really get help for him, but he improved greatly once he started school - he was told he had a lazy tongue.
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@TheHorse (205716)
• Walnut Creek, California
3 Jan 18
Lazy tongue. I doubt that's a "diagnosis." This young fella has a speech therapist and all of us working with him.
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@much2say (53959)
• Los Angeles, California
3 Jan 18
@TheHorse That's what the mom told me. She really should have gotten help for him and I know it was possible to get it through the schools.
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• United States
3 Jan 18
My cousin who’s older than three doesn’t talk much. She’s in speech therapy.
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@TheHorse (205716)
• Walnut Creek, California
3 Jan 18
Does she understand everything. My young friend seems to. And has for a long time. But he's developing a vocabulary now.
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• United States
3 Jan 18
@TheHorse No, not yet.. she's still learning.
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• Eugene, Oregon
3 Jan 18
I have not, but have you written about him before or am I remembering a different kid client? I lost only one that I can recall.
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@TheHorse (205716)
• Walnut Creek, California
3 Jan 18
This is probably the same one. I hope I get to spend time with him again tomorrow.
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@teamfreak16 (43421)
• Denver, Colorado
16 Jan 18
I always cut and paste from a Word or other type program. I learned my lesson after losing a lengthy album review on Epinions.
@kobesbuddy (74553)
• East Tawas, Michigan
3 Jan 18
I've lost a post, several times. It's never material that I write down on paper, instead it's what I'm thinking, at that very moment. It's disappointing, when this happens twice in a row for the same writing! Darn, I'd love to read about this child's delayed speech and progress in the past year! Yes, my daughter has a nephew, who's five years old and Alex is finally speaking, but not very much. His mental development is very slow. This affects his thought patterns and ability to communicate with others.
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