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- Comment on Albanese under fire over 'cowardly' response to gambling reforms 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I have no confidence that even the ones he has agreed to will come to fruition. But it’s so buried that nobody will realize 🤷♀️
- Comment on Might explain some of my dating missteps 2 weeks ago:
😢 where I’m pretty much at at this stage too. It’s horribly lonely
- Comment on Might explain some of my dating missteps 2 weeks ago:
Yes I tend to have a standard answer for set situations now too. Now it’s more so jarring when I’m unsure of the relationship “level” like I have made acquaintances and friends with coworkers. Some are “work friends” (only see them at work) and one or two are outside of work friends. I feel like I’m glitching when one of my work friends but also friends outside of work asks me how it’s going because my brain is like generic or real answer, glitch glitch.
And also how do you reach out for support or tell someone you’re struggling? I really haven’t figured that out yet.
- Comment on VicPol at the NDIS rally yesterday afternoon 2 weeks ago:
I’m in Melbourne and this kind of shit is why I think I really can’t go to protests. I’m autistic and passionate about advocacy (I work in the industry). I can keep my cool pretty well in verbal exchanges but I would lose it, meltdown if I saw people being treated like this. And then I would probably be assaulted myself.
Disgusting treatment of disabled people. You should report that library security too. They are scaring disabled people into silence - especially in public protests.
- Comment on Might explain some of my dating missteps 2 weeks ago:
Yeah this is what I’ve observed too. It’s very, very strange to see the messaging around these things change. For extra context I’m autistic and have mental health issues myself. People confuse me in general lol.
I feel like I’ve watched things go from “no, no, we don’t talk about those things, sweep it under the rug, everything is fine” to “reach out! Speak to someone! Believe victims! It’s ok not to be ok! #mentalhealth #noshame” and then in recent years we’ve developed the term “trauma dumping” which appears even to apply to friends.
It feels a little like we went “speak up, reach out…ah fuck, no no stop now”. I actually find it quite concerning.
And then people wonder why others are turning to AI companions. I don’t personally but it does make sense to me when the social game is as confusing as it is especially around mental health or even quite minor stuff things can get the “trauma dump” label. I even remember seeing a couple of people say you shouldn’t trauma dump on your THERAPIST 😅😅😅
How are you is the most confusing question a person can ask 🙃 like, really or generic answer? It can be a very lonely question, that one.
- Comment on Tattoo 3 weeks ago:
I still hold my fingers in the L shape like I was taught as a kid to figure it out a lot of the time!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Haha as a lesbian, same. I prefer none or very little for both myself and in an attraction sense. But that’s just a preference and it’s no different than idk, preferring blondes over brunettes or something. And just like I wouldn’t point out someone blonde for being blonde instead of brunette, I wouldn’t with body hair 😅 there’s no shame in it just because some people have preferences!
The other thing is it just seems so ridiculous to me because of all the things, you really don’t see someones armpits very much 😂 like it’s really not a big deal either way but it’s not even something that is in your face. I can’t say I notice peoples armpits on a regular basis, y’know?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s the removal of body hair that is seen as “new”. It’s the way it’s ridiculed like in this post when there’s a tiny bit of stubble lol and it’s worth mentioning.
Though I wouldn’t say that’s new either, it’s just more and more widespread the wider the communication methods have become. But this isn’t “new” even in the modern world for Hollywood, it’s online now with the wider reach but this stuff has existed for as long as we’ve been photographing celebrities lol.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The thing is body hair has a purpose but aesthetics has taken over that. I don’t think it’s weird either way to keep it or shave/wax it. Everyone has it because it’s the way the human body is designed and like everything else on our bodies, we get to choose what to do with it 🤷♀️
- Comment on Honestly impressive how pharmacies are able to find a new type of problem every time I go to pick up my meds 3 weeks ago:
Yes some are, I was on lithium too and I’m on Vyvanse - both bottles. But stuff like Panadol, neurofen, cold & flu, all the OTC stuff I can’t think of anything that’s bottled.
I do think blisters are better. I accidentally overdosed on lithium years ago. It was pretty stupid but I used to use a spare lithium bottle for my next days medication. At the time I was on 21 pills a day so when I accidentally grabbed the wrong bottle and swigged my pills, noticed it felt a little more than usual but not enough to bother checking. Until I got really sick and figured out I’d just taken over 30 lithium pills 🤢
- Comment on Honestly impressive how pharmacies are able to find a new type of problem every time I go to pick up my meds 3 weeks ago:
Haha was thinking the same thing. Minor issues here for certain medication availabilities at times but nothing that would make this meme relatable to many people!
- Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah or even if you can, you will make significantly less money! It’s not only about the hours, it’s still about being able to make a living wage.
- Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek. 3 weeks ago:
Out of curiosity, assuming a lot of this discussion is US-based, which I’m not, do you have the work from home options there very much? I know managers in my organization often work 4-4.5 days but a day or half a day is at home.
Others that can work most of their job from their home! Not sure what this is looking like in other countries these days (I’m in Australia). Obviously depends on the job!
- Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek. 3 weeks ago:
I think some people also struggle with the lack of routine when on a break from work. I know I do (though I am autistic) and it’s not necessarily that I want to be at work lol but it’s the lack of structure for the days. Waking up and not having a plan is very overwhelming for me and definitely gets me into a depression if it’s consecutive days without any structure.
I do think non-autistic people can struggle with this too - you definitely see with it retired people and others who say stuff like they just don’t know what to do when they’re not working or they come back from the break and are still feeling burnt out. Some people do need to more consciously plan for breaks so they can kinda make their own structure for the week or however long it is they have off. I used to have the same thing even at school - even though I hated school! 😅
So I think different people just need to figure out what works for them - some people can just take time off and go with the flow whereas others need to have a few things to do over the time off, some basic plans and others might need to make themselves a whole routine.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐢 Wednesday 6 May 2026 3 weeks ago:
Today is a little bit better than yesterday so far and I’ll take it! I hope everybody is doing alright and don’t forget to check in on each other 🥰
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐢 Wednesday 6 May 2026 3 weeks ago:
Damn that’s a really interesting point actually. I tend to be fact, logic and emotionally driven lol and I really struggle to understand when people aren’t grasping the facts of a matter. I know sometimes I can get emotional so sometimes I will take all the emotion out of my stance and focus on the logic and facts - thinking that will be more understood than injecting emotions into the argument but it still doesn’t work.
Disclosure; I’m autistic so I honestly just thought this was me not being able to communicate, which maybe it sort of is, but it also seems like a flaw to not be able to accept facts as facts and to see logic? I also think online is a terrible measurement of effective communication though.
So…how do you be persuasive? The only answers I can think of by what I observe are all very cynical but possibly accurate? That it basically has to be painted as something that directly benefits the person you are trying to convince? How else can you effectively persuade someone? Genuine questions here 😅
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐢 Wednesday 6 May 2026 3 weeks ago:
This is why I’m partially grateful for my perma ban 😅 so far it seems less explosive arguments on here and just slower so less opportunities to get into those kinds of time wasting, frustrating reddit back and forths.