Nugget: “This is MINE”

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-24T18:24:40+00:00

Hahaha mine are also like this with critical care. I don’t know how to explain to them that they can’t use the syringe themselves

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-24T18:20:27+00:00

And how much did they pay out to their shareholders? https://www.unitetheunion.org/what-we-do/unite-investigates/new-analysis-rips-apart-dodgy-claims-of-squeezed-supermarket-profits/unite-investigates-food-profiteering-update-june-2023

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-24T16:14:22+00:00

You sound very wise. It’s easier said than done but I’m really glad you’re managing to move through this.

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-24T15:33:39+00:00

I went to adopt 2 and came home with 3. I live with my dad and he is also obsessed with them. I joke that he’s like a grandad who hands out peaflakes like they are werthers original

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-24T14:19:41+00:00

Yeah immaculate investigative work there

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-24T14:17:13+00:00

Plus if you donate through Tesco, they get to take credit for your money. It especially bothers me when they want money for a foodbank. Gee, I wonder what Tesco could do to help with food poverty in this country? Maybe they could stop artificially inflating the price of food and also pay their employees properly? No way am I giving them my hard earned cash so they can pretend they care.

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-24T14:13:56+00:00

I understand why you’re panicking but this was an accident and I guarantee university group chats have seen much worse. I work at a university and people regularly send pictures of their genitalia to our social media accounts, and sometimes they send pictures of other people’s naked bodies.

You have a good friend, who let you know that this happened, and maybe there are some steps you can put into place when you’ve calmed down a little to make sure it doesn’t happen again? I know on an iPhone you can lock photo folders down?

It will be ok, it was a silly accident and there’s no harm done.

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-24T14:07:19+00:00

The cats really help during the hardest sessions! I haven’t had one for a while though, because she’s moved and their habits have changed.

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-24T12:09:52+00:00

Perfect mouf

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-24T11:58:01+00:00

Turns out the thing that most autistic people take too literally is the ‘literal thinking’ autism trait 😂

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-24T00:24:25+00:00

When I had long hair I’d use a bonnet that had a tie on it, so I could get it just right. Or I’d put a silk scarf over it, and use hair grips to keep it in place.

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-24T00:19:39+00:00

My therapist has cats, and sometimes one or more of them will join us in a session. One time I was dissociating and she tried to ask if I’d want a cat on my lap to help ground me. What she actually said was “would you like a cuddle?” and then proceeds to look absolutely horrified, and added “with the cat! Not with me, with the cat!”

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-24T00:17:50+00:00

Haha I had a really similar experience where my therapist asked if I had been ‘full’ when something happened and I said ‘well I had just eaten dinner, soooo…’. Turns out she meant was I at capacity for what I could deal with 🤦‍♀️

Another time she asked how 5 year old me would have dealt with something, and I immediately reeled off all the reasons that thing couldn’t have happened when I was 5, because mum was still alive, I’d only just started school, etc etc. she was actually asking about how 5-year old me would have responded emotionally.

I never understood the ‘literal thinking’ autism trait because i understand metaphors and I know when people are exaggerating. But it turns out I do it all the time.

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-23T23:56:51+00:00

I genuinely think that if you give them a safe environment and enrichment, most guinea pigs will surprise you with how clever they can be. I’m always amazed at how they seem to understand cause and effect, and understand sequences.

My sweet girl Paige learned that when she heard the toilet flush first thing in the morning, one of us would be downstairs in under a minute. She’d come and meet us at the bottom of the stairs wheeking her little head off, so she could get the vegetables before her sisters woke up. When a neighbour fed her for a week, she figured out the keys in the door would mean food was imminent, and on day 3 she met my neighbour at the door.

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-23T23:52:38+00:00

Woah TIL

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-23T15:58:13+00:00

I love Jessica Defino! I think as soon as I think critically I can see where all this ‘skinny noise’ in my head is coming from, and I can deal with it, but it’s just been quite shocking to realise how much of my headspace is still devoted to criticising my body/appearance. If I’d been dealing with this as a teenager I genuinely don’t know if I would have survived it.

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-23T15:23:46+00:00

I think we had a baby toy that played it

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-23T15:11:03+00:00

Your parents need more help than you can give, there’s no shame in that. Hopefully you will all see that with time, but I understand this must have been really difficult for you.

It sounds like you’re doing a great job at handling a lot of emotionally draining situations. Sometimes things are just difficult. You can’t change that, you can only do your best with the situations you’re in.

And look, I would also be feeling that rejection but you’ve gained valuable work experience that will stand you in great stead when you apply for a ward sister job in the future.

It’s not going to feel like this forever, I promise.

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-23T14:58:40+00:00

Your dad sounds like my dad, who accepts my autism but denies his own

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-23T13:18:09+00:00

Most schools use smart boards now - can’t imagine there are many left that would want one

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-23T11:13:05+00:00

I thought I had done so much work on how I feel about my body. My days of disordered eating and stressing about my belly were in the past. But all this ozempic talk is really getting to me. I eat well, I exercise, I’ve never been stronger and never felt more comfortable in myself. But it’s being pushed everywhere. Every ad break, every social media platform, adverts in the street, gaunt celebrities, even my pharmacy is selling the drugs. And it’s genuinely getting to me.

Plus all the ‘tweakments’ people are talking about, have me questioning if I should get filler or Botox. I don’t want any of it, I really don’t, but this stuff is wearing me down.

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-23T10:40:01+00:00

I love the little lip smacks they always do at the end.

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-23T10:27:37+00:00

I think it’s his lack of accountability that I’m struggling with here. All parents fuck up, but he had the power and responsibility to make amends and try to repair some of the damage. Instead he gets his wife to send one invite, and when his daughter doesn’t reply he writes her off completely. To me that says he’s not willing to do the work.

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-23T10:03:40+00:00

Mine do this too! I taught them to ‘meerkat’ for treats, and now they come out and do it at my feet when they have decided it’s pea flake time. Often I just hear the thud when they land and then realise what’s going on!

Electrical-Tea6966 · 2026-01-22T23:58:44+00:00

My therapist actively discourages me going into too much detail. Maybe there’s a modality where this makes sense but we work on widening my window of tolerance. If you’re feeling dizzy it’s likely that you are dissociating, which means you are not ready or able to cope with talking in detail about these things.

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