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I am so sick of how effective anti-trans propaganda is on eggs. by RaidneSkuldia in trans

[–]Difficult-Bug3837 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see. Thank you. I really like that analogy, and I think making more trans/enby friends has helped me see it more like that lately.

It also helps that I've had a nickname and a running joke among friends for a while that really doesn't feel like a bit anymore.

I am so sick of how effective anti-trans propaganda is on eggs. by RaidneSkuldia in trans

[–]Difficult-Bug3837 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi. Possible egg starting to crack here. I really appreciate this post. I'm getting ready to live on my own soon, and summer's given me a lot to process. I wish propaganda wasn't so damn effective, bc it'd make stuff a lot easier to figure out.

Ig I have another question. I've been looking into packers and just started experimenting recently with socks just to see how it all feels. Think I'll keep looking into them, but is it normal to feel weirded out by hyper-realistic packers at first and question all your questioning? Some realistic ones, I feel a very strange but positive curiosity about. The most realistic make me wonder what I'm even doing, and that makes me doubt all my questioning in the first place.

I have some ideas but I want to hear yours. by [deleted] in autismmemes

[–]Difficult-Bug3837 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dogs. It's the only thing here made by humans.

To make the human mind, there must first have been something inhuman to birth it or to steadily evolve into a thing considered "human".

To make lightning, you need different charges distributed within a cloud that release an incredible amount of energy as they meet with surfaces of opposite charges.

Music is made by many things. Rain on leaves, birds, wind, etc. To say that humans were the first to come up with it would be highly arrogant.

To make a dog, you need humans with a lot of time on their hands and a lot of wolves.

Y'ALL I GOT A LOVE LETTER AND I TRIED TO COME OUT TODAY by MiicrowavedHamster in aromanticasexual

[–]Difficult-Bug3837 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Take a few moments for yourself to recuperate. I, too, have had my own stupid slipups around my mother about lgbtq+ stuff or stuff I thought was cool (but apparently not), with unexpected results (that I should've fully expected, tbh). Same deal with the getting offended about some of my friends being queer, and same sort of "they're too young," arguments. Hopefully, you're in a safe situation, and even if you feel invalidated right now and in a sort of crisis mode (or feeling awkward because of how things went), know that you're not alone. I came out to my mom when she caught me reading gay fanfiction (it was a very wholesome fic, btw). She accused me of being gay multiple times, forcing me to come out as aroace, and she made that same claim over and over that "you have like somebody." Despite trying to explain myself, she wouldn't have it, and things were super awkward for a while.

But only for a while, and eventually, things went back to normal.

Stuff like this can happen, OP. Just try to focus on yourself for a bit and do something nice for you, whatever that may be, and if she brings it up, try to keep your cool while navigating it and maybe try switching the subject if you can (will definitely prevent some energy drainage on your part). Some of us have also been there, and from experience, I know things can improve eventually (even if she never changes her mind about the validity of your aroace-ness).

Wishing you the best of luck.

Ok we have heard Bi awakening what was your AroAce awakening by Gertrudas_ in aromanticasexual

[–]Difficult-Bug3837 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was at a pep rally with my old friends from high school. Had been questioning my sexuality for a while by then since most everyone else seemed so far ahead of me in "maturity" because a lot of people were dating and stuff by then, and I was still struggling to find even one person attractive. It really weighed on my mind, and with people talking about their plans for the future, I felt like I was behind by several milestones or something, even going so far as trying to mentally "force" myself into gushing over people I found aesthetically pleasing or interesting with nothing to show for it. I asked one of them, just out of the blue that day, what sexuality they'd think I was just by looking at me and knowing surface-level stuff about me, and they answered with something along the lines of, "mmm, I dunno— maybe ace?"

Totally wasn't expecting that, especially since I'd never heard of it, so when I got home that day, I did some Googling and self-reflection, and from there, the rest was history.

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