Microwaving some soy milk and stirring in some powder isn’t exactly ‘make’

Me: if I DIY I’ll save money!

My 30 bottles of nail polish plus files and oils:

You 100% are judged on your looks. As someone who’s assigned female though, and usually lets interviewers read them as such initially, I have something to add.

There’s a VERY specific type of look women have to have in order to be seen as professional. You have to be as flawless as possible, but you also have to be understated. Any ‘fun’ type of femininity is looked down on. The long lashes, long nails and red lips definitely fall in that category. ‘Professional’ for women means you have to spend a lot of time and money on skin, makeup, jewelry, nails, hair, clothing, but you can’t have fun with it.*

Personally I’m in stem academia, where it’s expected that you look like you don’t spend any time on your appearance at all. Otherwise it’ll be assumed you can’t keep up with the men. Still can’t have, for example, body hair though.

*Unless you happen to have fun with nude colours and understated jewelry and fashion. Nothing wrong with that!

I have autistic sensory issues and the cheapest one I can at all tolerate to have on my skin is 15€ for 50ml. I have so many of the 5-10€ bottles at home and can’t handle any of them. Fml

My brain always gets caught on this shit. Makes me feel guilty in certain situations bc it’s classist to want by-the-book grammar, but sometimes I genuinely have trouble understanding. Word repetitions aren’t that bad, I’ll just read the sentence a second time and I’m good. But its/it’s or there/they’re/their being mixed up can take me a minute to understand. Also, figured of speech that evolved over time and don’t make literal sense anymore, such as ‘I could care less’ often take me a bit. People can feel understandably offended when you ask if the mean ‘could’ or ‘couldn’t’ care less. But sometimes, I genuinely need to ask. Honestly makes me feel shitty about myself at times.

Half ashamed to admit but I’m white and sometimes something like that slips out when I see my partner. How are some people so perfectly milk coloured

My mum made the decision to not let me skip any grades as well as not let me be tested got ADHD and still is like this.

This follow along while helping family is 100% why I keep a windows partition.

Ugh little rant bc I got my hopes up: when multiple counter indications apply (for me here: autoimmune disease, antidepressants, birth control), doctors tend to be so unhelpful. They’ll give you the ok for the issue they’re trained for, like a psych would potentially give the ok for the SSRIs. But even if you get the separate OKs for all the separate issues, there might be some intersectional issues that only occur for those who have a combination of the counter indications. If you ask a doctor about that, all of them will say they honestly don’t know because it doesn’t fall within their discipline. Can’t even blame them, but it’s so frustrating.

I’ve had 2 or more messenging apps for about a decade now because of this.

I was like 9, which would make it like 2006, and I remember just typing ‘Star Wars’ into YouTube with my sibling every time we were on the PC unsupervised. The culture at the time in my area was very much that the internet wasn’t for kids.

I have sensory issues and don’t handle crowds or noise well, I have fun for a little bit if it’s not all too crowded, but then I crash hard while still there. After 1st of May I slept 19:00-11:00. And that’s in a country where the very worst I’ve personally witnessed police do was surround and unjustly arrest people. But if I can spare the resources, it’s totally worth it.

I scoop the spread with a tea spoon, scoop it from the spoon with the edge of the bread, then spread with the back of the spoon. Hate to do it differently.

As is often the case, NTs will tend to have preferences here and relate, but the extent of discomfort at getting a weird spoon will usually be different. And it’s hard to explain to an NT just how bad it is.

Everyone basically saying that you can fuck yourself and should never drive again is a bit of a dick at best. It’s ofc perfectly fine to not want to drive. But if you do have to, or if you end up wanting to in the future, it’s not like this was your only chance and you can never again learn. If you want/have to get back to it, please practice with someone experienced in a calm and safe environment. Pay for an instructor, go to and empty parking lot, etc. Take as much time as you need before you’re good enough to drive in traffic again.

you’re done with your research before there’s any official ruling

This really isn’t how science works at all. Results that aren’t reproducible and can’t be retested under varying conditions are almost completely meaningless. And no way to find out if it’s (justly or not doesn’t even matter) decided that you can’t do that kind of experiment shortly after your single one experiment is over.

Sandbox games are the wooooorst for what this post is describing! Currently the sims for me.

I’m not saying more kids die in traffic over there. I’m saying people have to be, and are, way more careful to keep their kids away from traffic.

That, and streets are deadly hellscapes over there a lot of the time. Driving laws are barely enforced and infrastructure is almost like it’s intended to kill anyone who dares to exist outside a car.

Hey now, some of us are both