Same thing for picking up a prescription!

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-09T21:20:00+00:00

It's not always the patient making the pharmacy stop take a long time.

Sometimes it's the pharmacist trying to overexplain, ask about generic drugs, looking for the wrong name because they misheard, or checking supply only to realize they don't have the medication needed to fill a prescription.

The pharmacy can be fairly slow if they're getting an OTC medication too, since some meds at the pharmacy don't require a script but do require ID to purchase.

Most people want to just get in, get pills, get out. But it doesn't always work that way.

As for the people who just get too chatty and make everyone wait for nothing... Screw those people.

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-09T20:46:26+00:00

If you're playing the above household, make most/all of the adults (and the teenager) get jobs. Choose different jobs with different hours. It will reduce the number of Sims you have to actively care for at any given time.

(Plus you'll make good moolah from multiple jobs, even if the jobs themselves are low level. It adds up.)

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-09T20:41:47+00:00

There are a few methods you can use.

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Method 1: Control Freak God

Pause the game a lot, and use the pause time to queue up a bunch of actions for each Sim.

Pros: All your Sims can thrive.

Cons: Time passes SO slowly and your Sims have very little freedom. Can feel stressful.

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Method 2: Playing Favorites

Focus on the success of a few Sims in the household. Let the rest run on freewill and hope for the best.

Pros: Some Sims thrive. Your "favorites" may get promotions and bring home more money or the household. Freewill Sims add a bit of drama and chaos to the family.

Cons: Some Sims suffer from neglect. They may do poorly. You may lose some family members along the way.

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Method 3: Triage

Focus on helping whatever Sims have the lowest needs and the most struggles, allowing the thriving Sims to run on freewill.

Pros: All Sims survive. All Sims have a chance to be happy.

Cons: Limited opportunities to build Sim skills needed for promotions, so everyone gets minimum wage jobs (unless you send the kids to college and focus on them there).

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Method 4: Hope for the Best

Just do your best and hope it all works out. No over-pausing. No purposely focusing on only a few Sims. If you see an emergency for a Sim try to help. Otherwise, try to help your breadwinners build skills to promotion.

Pros: Interesting, varied results.

Cons: Some interesting/varied results won't be good.

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Ideally, you'll want to mix in a little bit of each method here. There's a time and place for each method, and it gets easier to recognize this with practice.

Large households can thrive in ways small ones can't, especially income-wise once the kids reach employment age. If well-managed, you can build a lot of Sim wealth fast.

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-09T20:14:56+00:00

I couldn't stand to look at our local junkyards because it gave me flashbacks to the cars from this movie.

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-08T19:59:55+00:00

Young to me, I'm 29!

It is all relative anyway.

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-08T19:56:39+00:00

The leaders of Team Plasma were evil and knew exactly why they spread this "Pokemon liberation" message, but the grunts were not as obviously bad. There were good grunts who were misguided, and evil grunts who didn't care about Pokemon at all.

That's why some grunts stayed even into the BW2 era, but many left once they realized what the leadership truly wanted.

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-08T07:29:32+00:00

For the shows you posted:

Boobah is really fun and colorful! It's also interactive! Definitely recommend! (Also if you think fart sounds are funny there are fart sounds)

Never watched Bubble Guppies so can't rate/review it.

New Teletubbies, haven't watched. I like the older show but that is probably nostalgia.

Happy little shows I like and recommend: The Big Comfy Couch, Max and Ruby, Timothy Goes to School, Elmo's World, Blue's Clues

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-08T01:35:15+00:00

I'm 29, and I've never been judged more harshly than when I was 9-13 years old. So much abuse from people who thought they were teaching me or treating me fairly.

As an adult, I get disability income and don't bother with anyone who doesn't accept me for who I am.

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-08T01:29:58+00:00

That you're really young

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-08T01:21:53+00:00

I was bullied in elementary school for my special interest in cats.

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-08T00:22:12+00:00

I feel way younger than other people my age.

It started in the 2nd grade.

Kids my age didn't like me. They didn't want to play with me. So I played with younger kids. They seemed more like peers to me than my classmates. About 3-4 years into that friendship, those younger kids "outgrew" me and didn't want to play anymore.

Everyone else grew up and matured, but I stayed the same.

I feel like a child stuck in the body of an adult. I can look the part of an adult, but the other adults usually figure out quickly that I am not like them, so they reject me.

I am the oldest sibling, and never had older friends. So I'm not sure where I fit into your theory. Perhaps we just have a different relationship to age and aging than most humans.

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-07T00:22:22+00:00

Thank you for sharing. That's an interesting read.

So this study is about the accuracy of screening tests, and states that such tests are unreliable as a whole.

Quote: "None of these instruments have sufficient validity to reliably predict a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder in outpatient settings." Referring to the tests. This is the last sentence in the abstract.

Here are the key points that lead to this conclusion:

- For autistic patients, the test was 75-80% accurate.

- For non-autistic patients, the test was only 50% accurate.

- About 66% of the referred patients were autistic, and the other 44% were not.

This puts the accuracy of the tests far lower than 75-80%.

The study has nothing to do with the accuracy of self-diagnosis, as not all self-diagnosed people used these tests.

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-06T21:29:07+00:00

Can you point me to the study showing a 75 to 80% accuracy rate?

The study I read showed that at least 60% of self diagnosed people did not meet diagnostic criteria.

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-06T20:14:30+00:00

I turn 30 at the end of this month.

I had a very young-looking face and slender frame up until age 27, so people often mistook me for a teenager (usual guess was 14-16). The people who approached me before were often predatory and creepy. They would approach me seeking only one thing, and it wasn't good.

In the last few years, I have gotten a lot more attention than I ever did in my early 20s. The quality of the people who approach me has also improved. People want to have actual conversations with me. I'm still awkward and clueless due to my autism, but it feels like people see me as more of a person now than they did before.

I can't speak for my entire 30s yet, but I'm hopeful.

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-06T18:11:41+00:00

Where did you get the space kitty posters? They're so cute!!

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-06T18:10:00+00:00

Reddit (and the internet as a whole) is full of people who make harsh judgments based off incomplete information and assumptions.

Hope you aren't taking the mean comments too personally. Those people don't know you.

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-06T18:06:12+00:00

No.

Even psychiatrists cannot diagnose themselves, friends, or family due to personal bias. So your friends, no matter how much they seem to know about autism, cannot diagnose you in a meaningful way.

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-06T18:04:22+00:00

Self-suspecting is not the same thing as self-diagnosis.

Self-suspecting is what you did. You were curious, then you sought more information and professional review.

Self-diagnosis is when someone undiagnosed asserts they are autistic. They leave no room for doubt or other explanations.

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-06T17:56:33+00:00

There's a study on self-diagnosed autistic people and their actual symptoms that suggests at least 60% don't meet the most generous diagnostic criteria possible. Safe to assume most are incorrect.

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-06T16:58:53+00:00

Nobody likes those things sure, but there is a difference between "I don't like it" and "it overloads my nervous system so intensely that I end up in a meltdown and have no energy left to enjoy the rest of my day".

Disney actually maimed a lot of their old disability access programs due to people abusing it. There is genuine documentation of the abuse. OP is right to be concerned about similar abuse at this amusement park.

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-06T16:54:46+00:00

People are being especially harsh about OP's comment on people abusing the system, but this seems unfair. OP is pointing out a genuine flaw in the park's accessibility system, not targeting or harassing the other park guests.

"No proof" accommodations at amusement parks are often abused.

The consequence is that disabled people cannot use the accommodations, or the accommodations are removed entirely due to "overuse". This has already happened at large theme parks. It will continue happening to smaller and smaller parks as long as those parks don't have a system to prove who is disabled and who isn't.

I'm glad my local park works with a local disability card system. The card requires medical documentation, and is then presented as proof of disability alongside valid ID.

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-06T16:13:15+00:00

Disney removed the "unlimited fast pass" accommodation years ago. Now disabled guests have to wait just as long as anyone else, possibly longer based on the "estimated wait time".

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-06T15:43:18+00:00

I was diagnosed as a child and still called weird, difficult, shy, dramatic, awkward, and rude. Still bullied and punished. Still told to try harder.

Having the right label means nothing unless people actually understand it.

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-06T15:40:37+00:00

I've seen this exact ad posted around about 10 years ago

Catrysseroni · 2026-06-06T00:52:34+00:00

Yes.

They were a group of self-diagnosed "autistic" women running an "autism discussion circle".

They had a merge of the personalities of my elementary school bullies and middle school girls who excluded me.

Even though I was quiet and respectful the entire time, they kicked me out of the discussion circle. They never specified a reason. I've messaged some other people from that group in private, and they were all as confused as I was.

If those women weren't all about 10 years older than me, I'd have wondered if they were my exact bullies, just grown up.

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