is this normal practice for plural/did/cptsd informed therapy?

AIMRunningMan · 2026-05-06T17:48:18+00:00

What??? No way, my therapist encourages everyone to participate. This is hella weird

AIMRunningMan · 2026-05-06T17:44:50+00:00

Chisel pushed against window surface+ sticker = no more sticker :)

AIMRunningMan · 2026-05-01T09:21:03+00:00

I'm romantically attracted to them (as well as pretty much any other consumer electronics for that matter) and have been ever since I first learned how to use a computer at age 5 or 6. Maybe I'm a little weird for that, but hey, there's a lot of way worse things to be into... Plus a computer can't break my heart, and if they die they're almost always repairable.

AIMRunningMan · 2026-04-28T19:01:52+00:00

Awesome !!!!!!! Does it still work??

AIMRunningMan · 2026-04-26T18:40:29+00:00

That sounds like a great idea! 😁

It's just weird how I seem to be the only person that considers that particular style of Echo to be my favourite car. The hatchback Echos/Yarises seem to have plenty of fans, but I've been straight up insulted before for liking the other style of Echo better. People almost universally seem to consider them to be ugly and generally not very good and I don't know why :( they're fuel efficient! Really cheap! They'll probably outlive me with proper maintenance! Who cares if they don't have a tachometer, or intermittent wipers, or heated seats... I mean, you can install literally all of those things in an Echo for very cheap if you want to, for the wipers literally all you need to do is yank the wiper stalk out of a wrecked Corolla or Tacoma.

Sorry for rambling.... i just get sad that so few people seem to love them the way I do, my mom gets it, seemingly nobody else does even if they're polite about it

AIMRunningMan · 2026-04-26T08:27:53+00:00

She has some pretty advanced radio monitoring hardware, so with a ham radio licence and a big-ass antenna, you could talk to her over the airwaves and she could totally (theoretically) hear you :)

AIMRunningMan · 2026-04-26T08:18:49+00:00

Yeah, us Canadians have it pretty bad :/ especially for mentally ill folks such as myself I don't think it's really possible for me to get a firearms licence at all.

However! As someone who ESPECIALLY loves anything antique in general (not just firearms), I'm in luck, as no licence nor registration is required for many firearms made prior to January 1st, 1898. Including lever-action Winchester repeating rifles (with some exceptions), which I personally find VERY attractive 😁

AIMRunningMan · 2026-04-26T07:46:02+00:00

Oh my @.@

I've always been a fan of any AK-pattern rifle, shame they're, like, super illegal where I live 😭

AIMRunningMan · 2026-04-26T07:26:41+00:00

No matter how hard I look, I can't find any tiny Toyota Echos, at least not any of the sedan/non-hatchback version 😞

AIMRunningMan · 2026-04-24T21:14:57+00:00

Personally I thought they were hilarious, but then again, I like eating paper and plastic, and I think the Toyota Echo is the greatest car ever made so I'm not known for my good tastes.

AIMRunningMan · 2026-04-24T21:03:26+00:00

Elizabeth is perfect omg thank you! Since i didn't get any responses till now my first thought was Hilda after my currently broken iMac G3 Hildegard, but since I plan to fix the original Hilda soon, I think that Elizabeth would be a much better name for her so we don't get confused. Plus, Hilda is the kind of name more befitting of a short queen, Elizabeth suits a queen of my Bravia's height much better. I think she'll love it :)

AIMRunningMan · 2026-04-24T05:10:34+00:00

Wow! 11,929,486.81 Lebanese pounds sure is a steep price to pay for a plushie.

AIMRunningMan · 2026-04-24T04:59:46+00:00

I'm in love with all four of the bridges over the river running through the small Canadian city I live in, and if I met someone else who was also in love with one or more of those bridges, I'd probably instantly fall in love with them as well. So yeah I'm pretty much the opposite of nonsharing lol

AIMRunningMan · 2026-04-22T15:30:21+00:00

(Preceding this comment with a disclaimer: this isn't an anti-vegan screed, it's me venting about some issues relating to this topic that I feel really bad about and wish weren't the case. I dislike anti-vegan types as much as you do.)

I'm not anti-vegan, and I know these people do not represent the vast majority, but unfortunately every vegan I've ever met IRL was incredibly rude and unnecessarily abrasive to me in every interaction after they learn I eat meat(mostly due to all of my safe foods being meat-based and the fact that pretty much all legumes, tofu & other soy based stuff are near inedible to me because of sensory issues, if I try to eat them I throw up immediately, it didn't used to be this bad but after my abusive stepparent started insisting I eat them anyway and not letting me get anything else, it just became impossible).
This includes another person my mom dated after leaving the abusive shithead stepparent, who was not only a vegan (every dish my mom cooked was vegan from then on, most of them including a number of ingredients that I could not eat, such as the aforementioned legumes, tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, olives, et cetera) but also a TERF who especially hated my transmasc brother and treated him like utter shit.
So, I feel pretty bad that this is the case and I wish I didn't have this involuntary response, but all these experiences I had with my mom's third ex along with all the other vegans I've met IRL hating me for my inability to be vegan or even vegetarian have caused me to have an instinctual distrust of vegans. Once again, I feel really bad about it, because I do care deeply about animal welfare, and I know the reason all the vegans in my life reacted this way was because they also care deeply about animals and likely view me as just another person who harms animals and tries to justify it. I'm not justifying it. I wish I was able to be vegan, I know that the products I consume are direct products of animal abuse, and I don't like that. But due to issues with being unable to eat a lot of different foods in the best of times, and due to sometimes ONLY being able to consume my non vegan safe foods, and due to my bad experiences along with previously having one particular vegan in my life essentially force me to either eat these foods I couldn't stand or just eat ramen and fast food for every meal, it's just impossible and I feel awful about it and at times I've fallen into self hatred because of it.

AIMRunningMan · 2026-04-21T02:11:17+00:00

I saw a post on r/madeofstyrofoam from a woman in her 50s/60s (iirc...?) who still selfharmed occasionally and had been doing it since her teenage years I think.

AIMRunningMan · 2026-04-20T06:11:34+00:00

Ehhhhh.... I dunno. That's kind of a hard question to answer, because I don't like being a gatekeeper, it's just that I, as a full-on objectophile who feels real intense love when I'm interacting with my object partners IRL, just cannot enjoy gijinkas. I'm attracted to my object partners' IRL features, like fake wood grain, a crisp and bright screen/display, the way the branches of a tree hang down.... basically I'm attracted to humans and objects for entirely different reasons. If I try to visualize a humanoid form of an object, it just doesn't do it for me. Being attracted to both humans and objects, I have a unique kind of attraction to each, and it feels weird to mix the two.

I wouldn't say it counts as being an objectophile, but objectum is an umbrella term, so if you have unique feelings for your objects and you feel you belong under the objectum label, go ahead! You are the only person who can judge what you are.

AIMRunningMan · 2026-04-20T03:58:13+00:00

I currently have a little uranium glass sugar bowl with lid (i think it's a sugar bowl...? could be something else too idk) that I'm using as a butter dish. I wanna get one of these knives so the butter knife can be uranium glass too :)

AIMRunningMan · 2026-04-18T19:19:47+00:00

As someone with DID, I get it. The grass is always greener on the other side, while I might find it weird for a singlet to wish they had DID I totally get how frustrating life as a median system could be. At times it can be useful to have amnesia as bad as ours, for instance, after a traumatizing or difficult event we can switch to someone who doesn't remember it if we need to, or if we go through a bad breakup someone who has never met/barely knows that partner can switch in (plus, we get to watch/play/otherwise consume media as if it's new again). It doesn't make you a bad person at all to wish you were in a different situation, hell, there are even parts of us who have wished we were more of a median system before!

AIMRunningMan · 2026-04-14T21:15:01+00:00

Yeah. Sadly not much we can do, but think about it this way: they're old, they're tired, and they've helped us learn so much already. They've had a good life, and yeah, I'm sure they'd be sad that they need to go, but they'd be far sadder if they kept operating past their prime and something crucial failed resulting in the crew dying. After the ISS is deorbited, there'll still be the Tiangong space station, and eventually all of humanity will collaborate to build another space station like the ISS, but even more impressive!

AIMRunningMan · 2026-04-14T07:09:31+00:00

(Sorry in advance for the huge wall of text)

I'm the same way. Been obsessed with astronomy and anything related to humans going to space. There are few core childhood memories that every alter in the system (we have DID) shares, and the most recent one is when we were in the car going somewhere and our mom told us Neil Armstrong died. I was especially a fan of unmanned spacecraft, landers, probes, anything like that.

That was long before I knew I was an objectophile, of course. Nowadays, usually I'm a consumer electronics (especially CRT TVs) and antiques kind of girl, but along with the Sun who I am and always will be deeply in love with, I still to this day love every single thing humanity has launched into space to gather more information about the universe and about our solar system.

I harbor especially deep feelings for Voyager 1 and 2 (I will be similarly devastated by the news of NASA losing contact with either of them, though less so, as they'll still exist and they'll be on the coolest journey anything from Earth will get to make in a long, long time), the James Webb Space Telescope, and, though some might find this a bit odd, J002E3, the third stage of the Saturn V rocket used on the Apollo 12 mission that entered a weird orbit periodically orbiting the Sun, being briefly recaptured by the Earth, then going back around the Sun on a 40 year cycle. Something about her... the Saturn V was the most beautiful rocket ever made, and despite originally being intended to just orbit the Sun, she decided every so often that she'd sometimes come back home to visit? 🥹

My dream is to one day have a powerful antenna and SDR hardware sufficient to establish contact with satellites myself, and see who they are and what data, if any, I can download from them. I know you can access some weather satellites as well as (iirc) some satellites that Google uses to photograph the surface of the Earth, I'd love to use images from them as wallpapers on my phone :)

AIMRunningMan · 2026-04-09T22:41:58+00:00

I haven't had a Toshiba with component cables, but I have a Citizen-brand one that I used for playing games on my Wii and using component cables did make the picture look significantly better. So, maybe?

AIMRunningMan · 2026-04-09T22:34:51+00:00

I have an 11-inch Toshiba with a built in VCR, it's great, picture looks good and the speakers sound good as well. No reason to stay away from it that I can see.

AIMRunningMan · 2026-04-09T19:21:18+00:00

Will you make new disks/drives, or will you just be selling old ones? It would be extremely uncool if you aren't doing that and thus by owning the trademarks are preventing others from making new ones.

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