I've been thru this too. I went from fit most of my life to overweight in my mid twenties, and people just stopped being decent to me or treating me like I had any value. I was dealing with substance abuse and a bad relationship, and it was devastating.

I'm sorry friend. You do have value

I've been halfheartedly saying I'm going to start a religion based on ads being bad for one's soul. It makes more sense every day.

I fix software on these things! No one ever quite gets what I do for work, it's nice to run across in the wild.

I feel seen lol

When people around me complain about being worn out, i cheerfully remind them that we're about the only critters that don't just fucking REST when we're TIRED.

Why the FUCK is it normal to down stimulants 'like an adult' instead of napping?

I'm narcoleptic, and I've been defending my need for sleep my whole life- but mostly, its me reminding people that I nap when my body feels fatigued, like every other mammal I'm aware of, and perhaps I'm not the unusual one.

fundie

victimized as a child

That venn diagram is a circle.

Do super soft yoga in the morning.

When i tell people i do yoga every day before work, they think its MUCH HARDER than it is. I get up, drink a whole glass of water, and sit on my mat. If its cold, i use a space heater. I put on an easy yoga video on YouTube (i love Yoga with Adrienne) and i only do the floor parts lol.

I am in such better shape, i have more energy, I've lost weight, my posture & balance are better, and i can self-regulate my emotions a thousand times easier. I am so, so much happier with this simple lil 20mins starting my day.

In my experience as AFAB with a more monotone, less femme voice, I got 'you sound bossy' 'you sound like a bitch' or just ignored until I 'asked nicely' which meant 'sound subservient'.

It has caused me so much trouble in sounding authoritative, because I always had to be high pitched to be heard, but deep pitched to actually be listened to.

He's always been a spoiled heir with massive wealth from apartheid and blood gems

How good could his personality ever have been, truly

Stupid compulsive heteronormativity, Gadget should have been my bi-awakening but noooooo i probably just like fixing things :/

When I got fat, people were assholes to me so much more often. They had no patience for me, it was crazy. I got back in shape and I'm worth courtesy and kindness again, apparently.

I'm afraid of aging in part because I'm scared to lose that basic human decency again.

I'm pretty well convinced that all the 'stop the steal' shit in 2020 was to give us all media fatigue for when it actually happened in 2024.

It worked -_-.

Good question, I looked and it is unstable at higher temps!

Ketamine, however, is higher-temp stable ;)

Damn right, im slutty with all the genders now

He can't, former and current presidents aren't allowed to

I assume he lacks the ability as well

Nobody hates gay women, and that’s why you can say ‘dyke.’

... thats fucking news to me, joe

Yeah that kid will look back in 15 years and wonder why the fuck his parents didn't try to hold someone accountable. So many people failed to protect this child, he doesn't even realize it.

he has “taken to using violence against other inmates to relieve his frustrations with his self-inflicted predicament.”

Oh yes

Framed as well meaning, oh-honey advice from older women, I've heard that or some shade of it at least 100 times since around 8yo, I don't think it's rare, unfortunately.

It went hand it hand with "the bellies that show are the first to swell", which my store manager said to me at 17yo, the comments that other girls should keep their boyfriends (my friends) away from me, all the weird punishing ingrained misogyny bullshit women do to each other in US gender culture.

As soon as I got secondary sex characteristics, I started getting in trouble for just, like, existing

I appreciate you. I had a good lawyer take up my wrongful termination case, back when i was idealistic.

He knew i was right, but on paper they skirted the law. He put in the work to get me unemployment & keep me housed, and he never even billed me.

Thank you for trying. I know its hard.