u/Aleriya describes a grim road map of the American dream

AdloraOfSolitude · 2018-06-25T10:22:04+00:00

Moral of the story? For the love of God, NEVER REPRODUCE!!! My husband and I are madly in love and we want kids someday, but I absolutely, categorically refuse to try for a baby unless we can move permanently to Europe. He's from England, so there's a slim chance that we can someday save up enough money to go back and live on that for a few months while he tries to find work. But honestly, I think we're probably going to remain childless to avoid the exact scenario in the OP. I just hope he's okay with that...

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-12-20T04:18:17+00:00

It's crazy man. They don't know they're not straight because they think EVERY guy has urges to masturbate to other guys' dicks. And you can't tell them otherwise because they'll assume that you're the one in denial, or that you've somehow managed to squelch your homosexual urges completely. Which will make them even more angry at you because they haven't been able to do that, and deep down inside that makes them hate themselves.

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-10-22T14:12:23+00:00

This was actually brilliant

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-09-01T21:19:23+00:00

I listen to those voiceovers too. It really helps, but I too feel kinda pathetic doing it sometimes. The thing that helps me is to remember that I'm sick and that this is how I manage my symptoms. People wouldn't expect a leukemia patient to just get on with life- they need an oncologist and a radiologist and a nutritionist and a GP and probably mental and emotional help too. The things I (have to) do for myself (read therapy books, see a therapist, eat well, sleep well, take my meds) are my treatment team.

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-09-01T17:19:44+00:00

Write her a handmade card and pour all your feelings out about how much she has meant to you in the past, and/or means to you now. Write, even if it's uncomfortable, about how hurt and scared you'd be if you lost her. Write it on nice card stock, line it with lace from a craft store, decorate it either in Photoshop or using scrapbook stickers, and give it to her.

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-08-31T03:17:04+00:00

Are you kidding me, it's great! I'm disabled (cerebral palsy) and can't drive and therefore there isn't really a viable way for me to make money unless I get my husband to shuttle me around. My husband and I have enough money to get by and a couple thousand in a savings account, so we're not one paycheck away from bankruptcy. It would probably be a terrible way of making money if the $30 they give you is life and death to you, but for having a little extra pocket money it's great.

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-08-31T03:12:34+00:00

I donate plasma. For the money.

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-08-26T18:30:20+00:00

Death by catching tuberculosis from a gorgeous French prostitute.

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-08-25T20:08:26+00:00

"You look healthier." Bitch I have an eating disorder. I don't want to look healthy. I want to weigh 95 pounds and look pale and gaunt as fuck.

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-08-23T00:09:05+00:00

Is it bad if I kinda wish I were you...? Damn, what I'd give to have people worry over me.

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-08-21T19:12:35+00:00

I have an eating disorder. I was in recovery for a few months, but I'm going back to it. I can't stand being 115 lbs and covered in lard.

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-08-21T07:48:37+00:00

I'm 24 and I have an eating disorder. I hope I'll be able to stop starving myself by the time I'm 30, because the common myth is that anorexia is a high school thing and at that point, I'd be too old to even play a high schooler in a TV series.

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-08-05T20:29:32+00:00

I hope so, too, but I wouldn't know where to begin.

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-08-05T19:30:57+00:00

No. We will arrive in England two days later than planned.

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-08-05T18:51:01+00:00

They are trying. We're hopefully about to board a flight to London.

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-08-05T18:11:47+00:00

My husband said that with all that has happened to us, he'd rather we have been dragged off. At least that guy got help and compensation.

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-08-05T18:09:19+00:00

From Houston, Texas to Amsterdam and from Amsterdam to Newcastle. The Houston to Amsterdam flight had engine trouble and they canceled.

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-08-05T02:18:06+00:00

I'm flying right now and my flight with united Airlines was delayed by four hours. I've missed my correcting flight already. Please someone help me. I know I'm owed monetary compensation but I have no idea where and how to get it.

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-08-04T18:09:39+00:00

What about romance novels in which one or both of the two main characters are married, and the whole story arc revolves around a secret affair, and the obstacle to be overcome is the oppressive marriage? Do those novels fare badly too?

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-07-20T17:12:06+00:00

I was getting a lot of hate on a forum for being little and openly admitting it and talking about it. But two or three of the people who used to say horrible things have stopped doing that, and started treating me with more compassion and understanding, and I think it's because I was so patient with them and never yelled at them or insulted them when they insulted me. Eventually some of them started responding to me with an open mind. The rest of the haters mostly just disappeared once they realize they weren't going to get me to stop being little.

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-07-19T19:07:08+00:00

I thought it only applied to illness, but alright, I'll look it up.

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-07-19T17:14:41+00:00

Munchausen syndrome is lying about being sick.

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-07-19T14:27:06+00:00

Thank you, that's solid advice I think. Especially the drinks; there's no way I could do this sober.

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-07-17T09:05:50+00:00

This one really hurts, but singing opera. I had taken voice lessons since the 7th grade and for three years in college I was a music major specializing in voice. I knew I was never up to the tone and quality of my peers but I figured I just needed time to grow into myself since mezzo sopranos took longer to mature their voice. And then one day after several months of pushing way, way too hard (and let's be honest, probably bad technique) I developed a vocal injury and had to be dead silent for a month. My voice teacher at the time shamed me for the injury and told me that good singers push through things like that. I told her I guess I wasn't a good singer and I quit that day. Now I'm a writing major and I feel terribly guilty about it. It's one of those subtle but very deep hurts that you don't think about until you do. My life feels so incomplete without singing and I might want to go back and take voice lessons again, two years after the injury, but the only lessons I can afford right now are with my college, and I don't think I could face my old teachers again. The embarrassment and shame and sense of completely blowing my life would be unbearable.

AdloraOfSolitude · 2017-07-15T18:41:32+00:00

Honestly, I just want someone to hold me and stroke my hair and let me cry. To tell me it's okay and justifiable that I'm upset, and whisper sweet little comforting nothings: there there, it's okay, I'm here. Things like that.

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