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ADHD advocate, former certified peer recovery specialist (specializing in suicide ideation when comorbid with neurodivergence.)

I don't usually pay attention to whichever instance I've drifted into from all, so if you see me in a weird place, that's why!

  • What are some of the craziest censorship instances on TV shows you have seen?

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  • I bet the weird censorship cut would've been a huge smash hit with the fans. (I'm one of them!)

  • What are some of the craziest censorship instances on TV shows you have seen?

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  • ::: I spoiler tagged this long ass post in order to hide it from folks who don't care.

    I'm not that person but I had the exact same thing happen to me! And let me tell you, when I was first watching it as a middle schooler, I knew they were in love! I didn't know that women-who-like-women had a word (lesbian), so I thought, "Well, if you're in love with someone, they're probably your friend. Probably your best friend, so that makes sense. But you can't just call them your girlfriend, because-"

    I grew up in rural Oklahoma (and now live in Tennessee). A woman, who has a friend, and that friend is a woman, makes her a girlfriend. I still call women who are my friends, 'girlfriends,' even though it obviously could mean something romantic. So Uranus and Neptune probably couldn't just say 'girlfriend,' because all the girls who were their friends were their girlfriends, so 'best' friend is probably a friend who is such a good friend, that you're also in love with them. (This was the logic of a sixth grader.)

    It's one of the reasons that Sailor Moon fans have always been so inclusive, have always stood up for other presentations or orientations. Why on earth would we support people trying to hide this stuff from children, when a not-so-small number of us knew what we were looking at when we were children?

    To add to that, I might have had a very unique interpretation of the situation, because I would later learn that I was a demi bisexual (we didn't even have the word 'demisexual' when I was a girl) and what that means is... For me, I usually only want a relationship with the person who is such my best friend, that I also am in love with them!

    :::

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  • Friend, you gotta not care about downvotes. If you bring attention to it, you'll get folks downvoting you just for that. And if you comment a second time, like you did here, you're going to get downvoted all to hell in the second one. Since it's obvious that you care, and folks on the internet love to irritate each other over nothing.

    Future reference- just don't look at your comments again after you make them, unless you've come back because someone replied to you. No need to obsess over things you've said anyway. The internet will hate some, love some, and it won't always make a lick of sense. Put it behind you and don't concern yourself with it.

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  • You just named 4 anime which aren't only relatively devoid of perverse humor, they're also not meant to be humorous.

    I don't know of anybody picking up Attack on Titan, excited to laugh.

  • Logical

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  • In a pinch, flipping the pillow to the cool side and getting up to pee has been helpful for my ADHD ass.

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    Jerkoff

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  • I work with a lot of veterans and the thing that breaks my heart is how many of them really bought into the lie. They really think they sacrificed years of their lives, some of them went through hell, all for the people of their country. And when or if they realize that they were used, it can break them.

    Many, not all obviously, but many of them are victims of this self-same system of oppression. Taking it out on them is exactly what the people who pull their strings want from us.

    No war but class war.

  • Valve's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew, who 'used a $500 check I'd sent him for school expenses and bought himself a CD-ROM replicator… he sent me a lovely thank you note'

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  • When I tell people Lemmy is like the old internet, I'm going to use this specific comment chain to demonstrate it.

  • Can anyone solve this math for me?

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  • I actually came to the comments to see if we had this information! Thanks.

  • Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes?

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  • The zipper in th3 back also helps if you have a big chest and don't want it bifurcated by a zipper.

    And you can't put that same zipper (if it goes all the way up the back) on the side... if you have wide hips.

    So at least that still has reason to exist.

    Source: my own body and never wearing a front-faced zipper after seeing why we don't do that.

  • Lemmy.world needs to moderate those unacceptable comments

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  • Not really. And that's because anybody who would write it down recognizes that they're going to get piled on.

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  • First I am. And then...

    I'm not.

  • Parody songs that play rent free in your head?

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  • This was the one I was coming to add. It gets stuck in my head for weeks.

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  • In November, the boyfriend and I went ahead and pulled the trigger on replacing both of our aging laptops (even though it was a bit earlier than I'd like- I just play a lot of Stardew Valley, I don't really need anything fancy).

    Thank goodness for that. I'm sad other people won't have been as fortunate.

  • Let's discuss: Pokémon

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  • I agree with literally every point you've made (especially the 'had to be there' notes, it's so hard trying to explain that) but one.

    Here comes a billion words on how I love Sun and Moon. Feel free to skip them, I'm just trying to add to the conversation.

    Sun and Moon is on my list of faves because of the slow island vibes, the sun and moon motif... Oh. Let me take a moment and say, as a grass type trainer, I have gotten absolutely effed with starter choices. I love plants, I love flowers, and... It's insane how often the grass-type starter is the weakest in design. So let me say when Rowlet hit the scene, I fell in love. This precious little floof who turns his head all the way around to look at me in battle, and then turns into a moody teenager when he becomes Datrix (if you're petting him after battle, and you touch the feather in front of his face he gets so MAD!), finally turning into the extremely badass Decidueye? Grass/Ghost? Hell. Yes. After watching water and fire get bangers of starters for ages, only occasionally getting a starter that felt like it was "good enough" rarely, finally getting my owl was like a sword-in-the-stone moment.

    I hear you on Z-Moves but I do really love the idea of doing a little Hawaiian-style dance with your Pokemon to power them up. It feels more like I'm contributing than pointing a rock at something. I actually enjoy that some of the dances look really stupid because you have to ask yourself, "Do I want to look cool right now, or do I want to look a little silly and absolutely destroy my enemies?" There's also something excellent in facing a friend in battle, and watching them choose to do a dumb pose with mounting horror. "Hahaha, Chris is doing a dance and the background is pink and oh god no he's chosen to destroy me."

  • If you got accidentally duplicated, do you think your copy would try and kill you?

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  • Me and my clone will be allies. I don't know if we could get along well enough to cohabitate, but we would definitely help each other.

  • Tin can pull tabs: Do you shred your fingers to open them or do you use a spoon like a sensible person?

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  • I often shape and paint my nails and these things chip polish like nothing, so I'll use the teaspoon I have lying out from the last time I made tea, probably.

  • Do you think Taylor Swift will one day find the right dude for her she can live and be happy with?

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  • So again I'm basing this on myself. I think a healthy relationship doesn't necessarily require a lot of personal change. It requires healthy communication, it requires healthy compromise, but if you're compatible (and something of this comes with the maturity to understand who you are and what your needs are, versus your wants) then you can fit together well with the right person without needing to change who you are.

    And I don't love the pairing of the concept of growing (as a person) to growing to be something, or someone, who fits someone else. When I grow as a person it's learning new skills or trying a new hobby, it's growing me. Not conforming myself to someone else.

    Which is a very important distinction because I grew up with a narcissist for a mother and it made me very codependent, and I essentially lost my 20s to failed relationships spent learning that it isn't about making whoever I'm with happy, and it isn't about making myself better to them. It's about knowing who I am, and embracing that so I don't enter or stay in a relationship that isn't already a good fit.

    I'm with someone now who had the same trauma. We've discussed these observations. We know who we both are, and we fit. And as we grow, individually, as we pursue knowledge and hobbies and help others, we communicate, we care for one another, and we continue to fit.

    So again, I'm only pulling from my life experience, but I feel like anyone can settle down or find the right person. They just have to know who they are and what they want, and find someone else who knows who they are and what they want.

  • Do you think Taylor Swift will one day find the right dude for her she can live and be happy with?

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  • I have no idea what that means.

  • Do you think Taylor Swift will one day find the right dude for her she can live and be happy with?

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  • She's only a few years younger than I am and I only just now found someone to settle down with who makes me happy. Based on that and nothing else, I think she'll get there as long as she keeps trying.