Funny how the clear agreed advance consent principles of bdsm never applies to finding out if strangers consent to hearing quite that much detail about your sex life, particularly where descriptions of violence is involved

raising that point is deflected as kink shaming though🙄

Yeah, similar reaction to stuff about my childhood. It’s almost disturbing when you talk about it and people are horrified or sympathetic!

They seem offended by any suggestion this is of content or thirst posting and yet the only replies they encourage are from men (usually with Union Jack in handle) making carry on style innuendos.
I clearly do not understand this type of heterosexual culture at all

Sorry that happened

Pre-Marla Singer, Girl Interrupted and prozac nation era it wasn’t understood (or worse that toxic ‘edgy but kind of cool’ vibe), it was gossip and no one wanting to be your partner in home economics (probably in case you had ‘an episode’)

One brief adolescent inpatient stay was enough to convince me that it did not provide any real help but did result in social stigma and me being gossiped about as a cautionary tale after discharge. It was regularly used as a form of threat after that and I doubt any of that is a unique experience

There’s also that awkward almost walk of shame bit about going there and getting back, plus you have to present at an acceptable level of crisis need, not too little but definitely not too much. Not great for members of Team Flat Affect

Smol boy cat happily asleep in his new camp diamanté collar

I don’t even want to click on that. Yes I get a bit eyeroll about people with an existing large platform who start processing their own recent diagnosis by framing it as advocacy. That doesn’t mean their neurodivergence isn’t valid, just that their lives and opportunities are very different to mine

People are entitled to their personal beliefs! The key word is personal though

My relatives cross a line for me because they refuse to accept not everyone shares their personal flavour of beliefs, to the point they have and do offend people of both other faiths and none

The nursing home are helping with the hospital admin bit and the funeral arrangements were done in advance. The nursing home manager is a star for going beyond and it’s a huge help after a lifetime of shitty experiences with Pinderfields hospital I have panic attacks just at seeing their number

It’s more of a passing thing in an acronym fest, however the incidence of MTHFR variants is really relevant to outcomes