You only get hours of itchiness?! I get welts that last for weeks and cause discoloration even once the swelling is gone

I care that some one wants to insult me. My go to response for anything related to my mom is “sorry you had to find that out”.

This is the answer I was expecting to find. Between people it makes nauseous and people who don’t have they eyesight for it, there’s enough trouble to skip.

abused by both their patients who lack the mental faculties to know what they’re doing and their workplaces

Oh theres a number of patients who are of fully aware of what they are doing who are happy to have a chance to abuse someone they see as below them (either because of classism or racism or sexism).

Five years feels like an excessively long time especially if someone had a one off due to illness, or a condition that is well managed medically. I wonder if there is an appeals process.

It seems to me that dinner and cocktail parties have really fallen out of favor. It makes since to me though. Both my spouse and I work, so neither of us can do the prep work to get our home ready and a meal ready in time to have guests. Hosting norms would also have me pay for the food or drinks which fine once in a blue moon, but not something I could do frequently. I’m one of my few friends with a space that would even make sense to host in, so I’d pretty much be the only one hosting, so the only one spending money. It quickly becomes something I don’t want to do.

There’s also a reduction in affordable third spaces. I get third spaces needing to make money, but it’s so expensive to go out with friends and just hang out.

I’m on the very realistic visualization end of these and I wouldn’t say that I see anything with my eyes when I’m visualizing. It’s more like I have a viewing room in my mind that I can expand, or push away as I need, in a similar way that I can change the volume of the voices in my mind.

I’m a 5 on this scale (maybe a 4 1 on this scale (maybe a 2 if I’m distracted, processing other stuff) and I have a big component of kinesthetic sense and some emotional tone comes into play. It actually often takes work for me to turn ideas into words. This gets harder if I’m tired or sick or something.

Edits: I forgot the actual anchors.

“end up staying awake staring at the ceiling all night anyway.”

This is still better for you than not resting. There’s been a tumblr meme going around that the MythBusters and Deadliest Catch crossover episode showed that just laying down and closing your eyes even if you do not fall asleep resulted in huge gains in cognitive function over not resting.

I call it apartment gravity. The gravity in my apartment is just way way higher than the rest of the world. What can I do but sit or lay around.

I got a friend these as a gift, he really liked it.

Honestly lots of them grew up and realized that what they were doing wasn’t healthy for anyone including themselves. Neil Strauss wrote a second book detailing how PUA exacerbated his trauma and poor mental heath.

Without a flared base it is decidedly not butt plug shaped.

I think I have a lower threshold for saying “my friend” than for actually considering someone my friend. I think I have a lot of friendly acquaintances. People that I spend time with because we have some things in common (usually my hobby groups). Friends are the people that reach out to me, or that I reach out to for reasons outside of our initial reason for contact.

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