I have the opposite problem, where people assume chronic means it’s permanent and it can’t get better. I know it often does, but not always. So I get accused of lying and faking when people see me do a thing that I previously didn’t want to do because it caused me pain.

Don’t answer if you don’t want to, but how are you finding thyroid free life? My doctor is kind of recommending it for me, but I’m on the fence (context: I have Graves’ disease, autoimmune hyperthyroidism)

Congrats on that decision, sounds like it’s good for you!

Pretty sure you have to pay if you back out as well, so that’s not an incentive to kill you either.

Mmmmmh yes, being super ableist in a post that’s calling our ableism

You can tell her you met someone, me, who has two of the things on your list and has been vegan for 3 years.

You can get help setting everything up, but you have to be the one to push the button, pick up the lethal medicine, etc

Intuitively, it seems like it’s hard to catch even when you know the symptoms. I’d get almost all of those from a combination of stress and a period.

You keep saying ‘clarifying what she meant’ everywhere. I just don’t get where you get that that’s what she meant. She just said she sees a bias against pro-Palestinian protesters. That’s not implying the bias has anything to do with Judaism at all.

There’s many such nickname based on trumps fake tan. We can’t really claim superiority on the nickname thing. It IS funny though.

This is a twofold problem. One part is that your ethical beliefs aren’t compatible, one is his disregard for your needs.

Whether you can live with the first one, only you can tell. It’s valid to want to date someone who holds the same beliefs as you, and it’s valid to be ok with some ethical differences. The latter of course comes with some logistical difficulties that can be a lot to handle, maybe even too much.

The second isn’t something that’s healthy for you or the relationship. You’ll have to talk about that. If he can’t respect your needs, that’s a pretty fundamental incompatibility.

I’m not neurotypical at all, you can’t tell with a lot of us if you don’t talk to us

Omg very similar here! My best friend, who lives oversees now, is coming to visit for 3 weeks. It’s been about 2 years since I’ve seen him. If I didn’t know him, I wouldn’t think it possible for another human to understand me on such a fundamental and intuitive level as he does. I’m stoked!

Interesting, where are you? It’s more or less the opposite here (Austria). Hospitals will let you wait for ages (like 2 hours, possibly even more if it’s particularly busy) if you walk in with something that doesn’t require immediate treatment and/or their more advanced machines, and they’ll tell you you shouldn’t waste emergency resources for that stuff. I’m talking about COVID or the flu or things like that as a healthy young adult. But GPs will always take walk-ins for immediate issues. Mine has a wait time of 10-30 mins for walk-ins.

I always get excited when I get on one of the old ones, they’re so charming and no worse than the new ones. A bit louder maybe.

Wait is it normal to need an appointment for a GP visit?

Mostly things that fall under the category of women not being able to be a threat/dangerous. Especially white women, which im usually read as.

This includes everything from talking to children in public to actual minor crimes like shoplifting.

ETA: this is in fact a prime example of how sexism is mean to everyone. Women are not dangerous because they’re weak, men are dangerous because they’re strong. Neither is generally true.

I’ve silently cried in public many many times and nobody ever bats an eye. If your town is over a certain size, people tend to prefer to mind their business.

Not done yet, I just keep finding groups of three today

My mum at least asked ‘do you learn about this stuff in school?’, to which i awkwardly said yeah. We did get some pretty good classes on bodies, the biology of reproduction, and contraception. I even remember having a test on contraceptives in biology class.

Unfortunately, it was very cis-het only. I had to figure out by myself that I should be using protection during sex even if both participants had a vulva.

As for drugs, it never occurred to my mum that anything other than alcohol and nicotine could be relevant to us. She did well on keeping me from smoking just by telling me about her experience as a smoker and how hard it was to quit. I kept my drinking and weed smoking from her pretty well because even a mention would make her angry. To be fair, as an adult I understand she had some trauma from her mum being an alcoholic.