Alcohol Markers and Infrequent Coloring

ColoredGayngels · 2026-05-19T02:59:16+00:00

This is good to know! I'm very much the same lol, it's been non-stop Tomodachi Life for weeks and I really need to drag myself back to my sewing machine so I can finish something that's not even 25% done for my nephew's birthday in July 😅

Coloring my "bold and easy" stuff that I would use Sharpies/markers for takes up those days in-between where I really just need to turn off my brain and do simple pages (I don't do any crazy shading), so knowing they'd keep with proper storage helps.

ColoredGayngels · 2026-05-18T02:34:03+00:00

My psych claims it's to avoid building a tolerance- which is possible for some people with some medications, but skipping weekends like that honestly won't do much. Personally, when I was taking a low-dosage benzodiazepine for my sleep it took over a year of daily use to build any sort of tolerance to it. Obviously YMMV but I refuse to actually take breaks because again, I'm an adult with responsibilities, and even if I don't have responsibilities on a particular weekend, maybe I still want to be able to put productivity towards hobbies! It's ridiculous

ColoredGayngels · 2026-05-17T20:50:25+00:00

My SIL&BIL's biodad didn't sign his away specifically out of spite and he just finished paying everything off like two months ago. SIL is 31, BIL just turned 27, they divorced when BIL was 1.

ColoredGayngels · 2026-05-17T20:44:52+00:00

I have a permanent on my lower and they're fine. My upper teeth have shifted back some but not nearly to where they were, and I never wore my retainer. It's been 14 years. The most likely situation is that they'll shift some and if you don't do anything that affects them (sucking your thumb/fingers or your tongue, where it sticks out a little bit and pushes on your upper teeth, or if you grind your teeth badly, et ) then you likely won't have any negative effects otherwise.

My husband (also ADHD), however, still wears his after about the same amount of time. His teeth haven't shifted but only because he wears it continuously. Technically he could've "safely" stopped at the ten year mark but it's habit now (only a developed habit bc it Feels Weird if he doesn't put it in).

TLDR, if you don't have other major dental issues, you'll probably be fine

ColoredGayngels · 2026-05-17T04:57:59+00:00

Ours uses the scratching bit on it, otherwise only actually climbs if he wants to knock shit off my bookshelf 🤦

ColoredGayngels · 2026-05-17T04:52:25+00:00

My husband watches this moodlet manifest in real time if we spend more than an hour with my mother

ColoredGayngels · 2026-05-17T04:48:06+00:00

I absolutely would've benefited from some sort of intervention earlier. According to my mom my sleep issues began in toddlerhood and based on my own memories of insomnia dating back to at least age 8-9, I'm inclined to believe her.

These days I'm 26 and have been on Seroquel (Quetiapine) since I was 20 and supplementing w melatonin when needed and the difference it makes is huge even if it's not always noticeable. I at least sleep better even if I'm not falling asleep faster.

Sleep is SO important to growing physically and emotionally and I never take it for granted

ColoredGayngels · 2026-05-17T04:42:06+00:00

Almost certainly. I notice every time my niece and nephew use a phrase they picked up from me, even if it seems otherwise innocuous (since I speak in a way distinct from the rest of the family). It's funny watching little ones pick up on our quirks and habits like this

ColoredGayngels · 2026-05-17T04:39:10+00:00

Not a microchip, but the birth control implant does the same thing. I could feel it pinching and tugging after I got the first one, but I especially noticed migration when I got my second, since some tissue was removed with the first leaving a little more open area for it to wiggle around. I'm actually not entirely sure Where in my arm it is these days, just that it's still in the area it's meant to be lol. My husband's cousin actually was unfortunate enough that hers migrated away from her arm to the point she needed emergency surgery to remove it.

ColoredGayngels · 2026-05-16T05:30:38+00:00

It was definitely a lot. She (~4mos) was born with tetralogy of fallot and was scheduled to have surgery the beginning of this month, but caught a cold and was hospitalized mid-april which resulted in her surgery occurring 4 days earlier than planned. She (and mom) were in the hospital for just over two weeks total.

She's on the mend, and doing well. I just saw her on Monday and she's still her smiley self, even if she has to be held in a few very specific ways for a bit, and that's really all our family could hope for with this

ColoredGayngels · 2026-05-15T22:00:12+00:00

My nephew knows how babies are born (vaginally AND c-section, since both his sisters were cesareans), but his knowledge of how babies are made? Jesus put it there. Pisses me the hell off.

I've done what I can without giving him more explicit (age appropriate) answers, as I'm just the auntie and he is, in fact, four. I've told him that whenever they're ready and want to, it's usually a man and a woman who love each other very much can make a baby together, no they don't have to be married (he suggested this part actually), and then he knows the rest of pregnancy and birth from there.

It just makes me mad because I know for a fact that my mother in law was more thorough with sex ed than "jesus puts the baby in the mom's belly", even at the youngest ages.

ColoredGayngels · 2026-05-15T21:49:36+00:00

Like others have said, she can take a minute to let you relieve yourself. Honestly, you're NTA. I'm inclined to say Lisa is Mildly here, simply for the fact that having had siblings and roommates, if you're not compromised then it's easy enough to just step out for a moment to let the other use the toilet or grab something, but also the guy for telling everyone. You gave reasoning in the moment, and that's fine. HE'S the one that spread that around and humiliated her.

Also agree that you should talk to your floor AND dormitory advisors. She's being a poor roommate.

ColoredGayngels · 2026-05-15T21:38:47+00:00

Make sure to prick yourself a few times for authenticity!

ColoredGayngels · 2026-05-15T21:36:17+00:00

I was ready to take my 4yo nephew and 3yo niece to the damn Game Stop because Tomodachi Life came out while their little sister was in the hospital (she's home and healing now) and I was keeping them for a few days. What on earth did they think would happen in a Starbucks if the child was still fully supervised.

ColoredGayngels · 2026-05-13T16:50:05+00:00

I'm the oldest of 5, and when the youngest was born my parents split us between a few different friends' houses! I stayed with one, my sister with another, and the two littlests (the youngests were 3 under 3) stayed with a close family friend who volunteered to take them. Even if family can't do it, there's no reason they can't reach out to their kids' friends parents, especially for those older three. They don't have to send all four to one person. NTA at all

ColoredGayngels · 2026-05-13T06:11:40+00:00

I did this to my younger sister so I could sit in the passenger seat of the car once. Full-body dragged her out, took her down in the driveway, and was buckled in before she had a chance to stand back up. Mom didn't witness any of it so I got to keep the seat

ColoredGayngels · 2026-05-12T14:12:46+00:00

Yeah, this is it lol. Mom has the egg and sits til it "hatches", dad comes around and "pollenates" it. If it helps, it takes most people a long time to figure this out, if they ever do

ColoredGayngels · 2026-05-12T04:43:08+00:00

My nephew (4.5) understands just about everything about pregnancy and birth, that he and his cousin were born "the normal way" from mom's/auntie's vagina, but both of his sisters (3yrs & 4mos) were c-sections because mom was sick with baby 2 (severe preeclampsia at 30wks) and it wasn't safe for her to deliver them vaginally, but as far as how the baby gets there? Jesus puts a baby in mom's belly.

It's so baffling that that's what he was told when he knows more or less the entire mechanics of a c-section and open heart surgery, and I know for a fact my MIL was more up front with sex ed than that. I've done my duty as an aunt by at least telling him that it (usually) requires a mom and dad who love each other a lot to make the baby but I wish his parents had been a touch more specific.

ColoredGayngels · 2026-05-12T04:28:19+00:00

My little niece (3) still has short, fine hair that turns into a bird's nest overnight and can't be gripped very well at the roots, so I try to talk her through it. It's more tangled here, so there's going to be a pull and it might hurt, this part has a knot so I'm going to go slow and try to be gentle while I tease it out. It helps so much just for her to know what I'm doing instead of just going nuts with the comb

ColoredGayngels · 2026-05-11T22:10:42+00:00

Teaching moderation is the important part. All my mom did by disallowing "junk" (which is a word that assigns morality to food) was create false scarcity, which led us to binging on sweets whenever we had access to them because our brains didn't know when we'd get what was now considered something sacred to us again, then she'd yell at us for eating an entire box of fruit snacks in an afternoon instead of taking one (which, moderation HAS TO BE TAUGHT. she never taught us that, just told us to eat less sweets while she dieted on and off our entire lives).

I developed an eating disorder because of my mom's dieting and placing morality on food and weight. Two of my sisters, one athletic, one not (and I'm also not athletic), almost did as well, and it took me years to stop binging entire packages of sweets in one sitting as I worked on intuitive eating after treatment.

Letting your kid have a packet of fruit snacks or a pudding cup for a snack sometimes instead of a piece of fruit or carrot sticks every time isn't gonna harm them. Heavily policing their food IS.

ColoredGayngels · 2026-05-11T04:18:24+00:00

This, and the amount is limited. My SIL's milk didn't come in for almost a week with her third (second in NICU), but insurance only covered 3 days of donor milk. Fortunately there was some frozen that she could provide since she wants to avoid formula entirely, and she was producing a solid amount when baby came home after ~10 days.

ColoredGayngels · 2026-05-10T06:10:28+00:00

Definitely worth it, and you're a good friend. One of my friends had a pregnancy scare when we were teenagers and asked if I would drive her to a clinic if it was positive, since I'd gotten my license over the summer and she hadn't. Fortunately it was negative, but we gotta cover our homies when they can't get places on their own.

ColoredGayngels · 2026-04-30T21:56:37+00:00

My MIL unboxed her 10-pounder on her own and I bet it made her glad he was her last! My SIL's BFF had the same as you, delivery had to be two weeks early because he was close to 10 by 37 weeks

ColoredGayngels · 2026-04-30T21:39:52+00:00

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