alternategait

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you supposed to do if your tea goes cold?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or a sensory processing disorder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t often feel hungry or have a drive to eat, until I am literally dizzy from low blood sugar. I have found in my life that the need to prepare food can often be a stumbling block to me actually eating. For a while my go-tos were instant oatmeal or cup of noodles. I also have no problem eating the same thing repetitively (see my hummus and cheese sandwich lunch for over a year).

  Soylent was bland, but pretty much instantaneous. I could notice that it was after a certain point in time, have a soylent shake ready to go in less than a minute and sip on that while doing other things.

  I’m not still doing it because now I have a partner who will (sometimes) ensure that food ready to eat is shoved in front of me in a semi regular basis. (Additionally sometimes it is easier to think “I need to prep food for partner” and then there’s dinner for me too, than trying to make the time to make dinner for myself).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fEEt⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I think my buns are usually one of my colder areas on the surface. All that good insulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meanwhile Ball⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh, here’s my problem, a beer lasts me like 45 minutes or more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meanwhile Ball⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a two way street. Your hand is reciprocally warming the drink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meanwhile Ball⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also aluminum is super great at conducting heat! which means your drink will rapidly move toward whatever temperature it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't stop till brimstone⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It also changes the osmolarity of the water in the soil, changing how water can move into their root system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure autism is their baseline.

  Unless it’s a Border Collie, and in that case it’s (probably pretty literal) OCD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just because I’ve had so many people tell me “I didn’t need so many meds/a walker/ oxygen up my nose until I came to the hospital”, I want to point out that the diagnosis itself is not the death sentence. As the organ donor showed, even if no one knows you have rabies, rabies will kill you dead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people who have bad relationship with their parents care about "insults" like "I fucked your mom last night"? Or do you just not care?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  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”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It improves the morale of the future worker.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  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).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people with epilepsy triggered by flashing lights, drive past trees that are backlit by the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a 5 on this scale (maybe a 4 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you beat post-work floppiness?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you beat post-work floppiness?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  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.