The fun part is being accosted about how forgetting to do something is not a valid excuse, and that I really don’t care about person {x} or priority {y}, because if I did then I should’ve done it already! 🙃

I’ve held an interview with one of my former school bullies from highschool for a position under my team. I only had a suspicion when I came across the resume, but I just knew it was him when I saw his face on cam.

It was nice seeing him fumble over the curveball technical questions that I threw at him, and told HR that he wasn’t only a poor fit, but not to even send a follow up response l either.

I was lucky to get both physical and verbal abuse from my family, so I’m just a grown up mess now.

I am glad to see the studies come out that validate these experiences on a more empirical level.

Just gotta swap lead poisoning drinking water with checks notes Lead poisoning in drinking water, the air in the form of emissions and microplastics!

(I know lead was dropped from most gasoline in the 90s, but the effects linger. Also in some places there’s exemptions where small planes can use leaded gas to this day)

Furry sysadmin and trans girl reporting here lol

That is true! Though with computers being one of my “productive” traits, I do get asked to look at computers instead 😅

I’m in a similar boat, I’m kinda hopeful now that I have enough money saved up to see someone, hopefully I’ll get some validation and a possible explanation on what’s “wrong” and maybe ideas on how I can right myself without sacrificing myself at the same time

This is too real for me lol

My struggle is that I’ve sorta fallen out of my current friends group since I’ve found myself increasingly contradicting myself in order to make myself “fit in”

I’ve since been learning to be myself more and have at least 2 friends I keep in touch, but oof do I struggle to stay in regular contact.

Then there’s my desire to make friends that share similar interests and the motivation to go through with socializing is just not there 😅

This sparks joy

In my experience, all the places that I’ve been to that aren’t cash-only accept Interac (or just debit), both large and small businesses that sometimes don’t have the Interac sticker. It could be my luck, but I’ve yet to find one that has a card terminal and doesn’t do Interac.

Is it weird that I kinda have both?

I got diagnosed with ADHD at 25 , and I’ve been like 90% quiet most of my adult life. However I recall every now and then when a memory hits, I used to be suuuper energetic, talkative and all over the place overall as a kid.

Since my family thought that getting me mental help = being put into an asylum for life, I never got assessed and was instead chastised/shamed into not talking (and in parallel the regular kids would mock and tease in the school system) so I’ve sorta just got quiet which just got me more inwardly chaotic

That is also accurate lol

As someone who’s trying to figure out how to recover from some pretty bad burnout while avoiding becoming homeless in the process, I appreciate this.

I have been loud in my first few pride months, but im slowly figuring out how I can “fix” my cup and fill it for me before I start pouring back out again.

2 real

Then when there is energy to respond, there’s like 5-10 messages to respond to, sometimes from the same person and depending on the day it can feel overwhelming enough to either leave them on read or only respond back to 1-2 messages

I feel that in my soul as someone that has gone undiagnosed as a child but somehow everyone else picked up on it

Not officially, but I’m diagnosed ADHD and for now, self-diagnosed autistic

I managed to finally save up enough money to put myself on a waitlist to get called to setup an appointment to start my autism assessment in several months from now, so…yay?

That looks nice n cozy :3

I relate rlly hard w/ pinkie, her vibes are amazing and has been helping me re-explore the fun side of me that I had to hide a long time ago

This show is really good btw, and watching with Blahaj must be fun too!

Don’t worry, they have BRAND NEW PACKAGING to try and distract you while a few (or dozen) grams get shaved off the total weight posted

There’s nothing like the formative experiences of prior “friends” making plans, asking to join and either receiving a “hahaha, no” in response or just getting an incorrect time/location to shut me up🙃