Spider Christians that use the spider cross on something might be mistaken for Red Hot Chili Peppers fans.

When Martha from accounting last asked me what my plans were for that night, I told her I was going to slap my chicken.

She won’t look me in the eye any more.

Oh god dammit. That is very disappointing.

I’m torn. Alaska is about 100 times the size of Hawaii, so this seems about right. But also I like the thought of enormous Hawaii besides very big Alaska.

When you take them off at night, don’t put them lens down directly on furniture or anything like that. You will scratch them. You can either set them on a microfiber cloth face down, lay them the other way (lens up), or get a glasses stand if you’re feeling fancy.

You could use your glasses holder, which is what I do when I travel, but I find that being able to access my glasses quickly is more valuable to me.

Also I get discount glasses from Zenni, Costco, or Eyeglass World. I never get just one pair because I am forgetful. If you can swing it, I would get at least one backup pair.

When you get a new prescription, you can keep one pair of the old glasses in case something happens to your current pair(s). (The plan being that you will not be completely screwed, you’ll have a “close enough” pair until you can rectify the issue.) If you do that, store them in a case and label the case with the date you got that prescription. I would only keep at most one backup from your old pairs.

Just an FYI, that usage of “spastic” is considered an ableist slur. You can use “erratic” in its place.

I KNEW IT

I’m a bit new to this. What is the plywood for?

Would you look at the time? Loose butt hour.

Every time I see these, I remind myself they don’t want to be around me and they eat cockroaches, bed bugs, and termites (and other yucky stuff I don’t like).

Damn they give me the heebie jeebies though.

I remember your old posts. You made the right call.

It’s hard to tell how long you will be sad. For me, I was sad in the beginning because I missed the good times in the relationship and the things that I wished the relationship could have been. It faded the more I remembered the bad times and how much they weren’t worth any good times, and how my own vision of what I wanted the relationship to be would never come to fruition.

You might logically know it, but you won’t truly know it after some time. Don’t beat yourself up over that.

Right now, focus on yourself and your healing. It might take a week. It might take a month or even a few. But either way you can get through this, and when you do, you will be tougher and wiser. You got this!

Fun fact… Folks can glow after chemotherapy.

I’m not sure, but I know that when a family member had to do a low FODMAP diet, they couldn’t eat things with onions in them. But onion infused oil was fine because the sugars in the onion were water soluble, but not fat soluble so the oil didn’t contain the component they were avoiding. https://www.monashfodmap.com/blog/all-about-onion-garlic-and-infused-oils-on-the-low-fodmap-diet/

Not sure it’s related but it’s the first thing I thought of.

I didn’t realize I was ND for the longest time, until my doctor brought it up.

I dated quite a few ND folks of different flavors. Some of them I thought were NT but later got a diagnosis.

I am friends with NT people, but I just tend to gravitate towards ND romantically. I don’t even think I consciously do it. It’s a lot easier to be myself around folks that just “get it” I suppose.

My current partner (ND) and I can play off of each other’s strengths. Our shortcomings are not symmetrical at all so we can manage quite well. An example is that I am very organized. I can make sure nothing falls through the cracks. My partner is quite disorganized, but is really good at focusing on tiny minute details of her current task and pulling together something amazing.

I do like hearing from my NT friends and we do sometimes discuss things like current events and things that have happened around us. We like discussing the things that we got and the things we missed. But romantically? I’m not sure if that is for me. Special interests? Missed cues? Weird things I’m particular about? My NT friends can handle that in small doses from me, but I’m not sure they could handle it full time.

Yeah I got potential. I put in a lot of effort to reach that potential.

Did the effort pay off? No.

Did it look like I didn’t do anything? Yes.

When I asked for help I was told “just do it.” So I kept trying really hard but still the results were far less than the effort put in. For some reason I burnt the hell out overextending myself to get stuff done.

I feel like the task is moving water from a pond to a large basin. Everyone else got buckets and I got a ladle.

Definitely! I know I screw up sometimes and I apologize because it is my bad for doing that, not their bad for having some trouble with it. We typically give each other grace. I know other interrupters that are not like the person in my previous comment, it wasn’t my intention to paint them all like that.

This person treats it like your problem though. I used them as an example because I felt like it highlighted the fact that autistic people (or ADHD, or anyone with a disability really) can still be a jerk or a bad friend, even factoring in a reasonable amount of understanding for things they can’t control.

I get along with other autistic people about the same way I see non autistic get along with other non autistic people.

I find that I am able to connect with most of autistic people just fine. Communication is fairly natural. I don’t have to dedicate a whole lot of energy when hanging out with these folks. If I’m not close friends with them, I can still spend some time with them and enjoy it in most cases. Every autistic person is different of course. Some are assholes. Some are nice.

I have a few in mind that just absolutely grate on me, though. One in particular will interrupt you while you are talking. They say they can’t help it, but it does make me lose my train of thought and then I forget what is going on. And if you have a hard time keeping up with them (due to sensory overload), they will say you’re not worth talking to and exclude you from the group. I find this person very difficult to get along with and very strongly dislike it when they show up to gatherings I’m at. I don’t meet many autistic people I dislike a lot, though.

To contrast with non autistic people, I find it very difficult to communicate with them. I struggle with remembering context and subtext and have to take a lot of energy to constantly include this in my listening. I feel like an alien trying to communicate with the humans. A fair amount of people don’t have the patience to talk to me or know me as more as an acquaintance, but there are a handful that don’t mind my shortcomings. My friends that are not autistic, I like but it is far more exhausting to talk to them.

No. These are printed plastic advertisements delivered via the postal service. (Other companies might purchase small mini catalogs/coupon books, colorful envelopes, or eye-catching postcards for their mail-based advertisements.) These mailers are sent to many people. Most people refer to these mailers as “junk mail.”

Spectrum is very bad about sending lots of these, as OP has shared.

The fat, jolly, red-suit-wearing Santa as we know it today, created by Coca-Cola to sell more product, is a Marxist. TIL. 😂