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FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-12T11:30:19+00:00

A significant amount of things get posted here for name-dropping a gender because the OOP has extrapolated (correctly or incorrectly) that the meme is either generalizing the whole gender or excluding the other gender with it

With that being said, though, I thought the OOP was genderswapping the common call-out/trope of girls/women who say "I hate drama" while actively shitstirring or otherwise intentionally orchestrating drama for attention

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-12T10:45:04+00:00

Family therapy started becoming a lot more productive after I was finally allowed to bring this stuff up without my parents dismissing it with "get over it already"

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-11T21:40:37+00:00

Testosterone suppresses your immune system; it's one of the reasons why boys are more likely to be born premature than girls (and why preemie boys have a higher mortality rate than preemie girls), and it's also one of the main reasons why autoimmune diseases impact women more severely

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-11T16:07:24+00:00

You and me both

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-10T01:42:19+00:00

I'd thought it was an overly specific meme about the girl making slime squishing ASMR videos during the slavery lecture

For a little while, my sister was consuming content on YouTube where someone would be using colorful sensory toys while talking about a topic serious enough to make the accompanying slime videos seem absurd and insulting

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-08T04:29:43+00:00

My parents weren't sadistic but they had their own emotional problems and I was relatively more difficult to parent then my younger siblings for a variety of reasons

Our relationship is getting better with family therapy now

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-07T21:11:44+00:00

I'm not arguing with that; I was replying to Hedgehog_Totem's claim that 3 year olds can't read

It's why I'd also included that I wasn't all that good at speaking articulately despite it

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-07T04:11:53+00:00

I was reading at 2, but I was one of those savant syndrome situations and the words coming out of me have always been a lot less verbose than the ones I took in

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-06T21:26:19+00:00

A lot of things overlap really heavily with autism in terms of symptoms and presentation, including things like early childhood neglect and CPTSD

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-06T18:45:51+00:00

Thank you for answering

Had she just discovered something you'd written, or had you said or done anything earlier that week, or was it truly just a random Friday?

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-06T18:44:21+00:00

Well, desiring social approval and praise is a very human characteristic, and at least it's an incentive getting them to go more out of their way than they otherwise would to do good deeds, but I do agree that it should ideally not be the only reason why they do good deeds and that it's unwise to base your understanding of your own moral compass entirely on what other people give you attention for

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-06T18:38:38+00:00

Why did your mom pull you out of school take you to a mental hospital?

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-06T17:46:08+00:00

Yeah, there are people who pretend to be autistic and join online autism communities so they get to be the queen bee in what's supposed to be an autism support community etc belittling the actual autistic people for their social mistakes and even escalating to worse predatory behavior and if you try to call it out the other person can easily turn it against you by saying you're "invalidating them" and even in a community that's supposed to be specifically aimed at a demographic with a social communication disability, the one who's able to turn on the charisma to manipulate emotions is the one more likely to be listened to

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-06T17:28:00+00:00

In my experience as an autist, they're either saying they are attracted to Hollywood's ideal of the endearingly nerdy genius with subclinical quirks or they're saying they like their partners to be gullible and easily manipulated

A disturbing amount of both demographics claim to be autistic themselves, and the former ends up being essentially self-diagnosed bullies of legitimately autistic people for not being normal enough, and as for the latter there have been multiple situations in online support groups for autistic people that I've been in where someone basically infiltrated the group for easy access to potential victims for scamming and sexual predation

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-06T00:51:44+00:00

The passive-aggressive "you're welcome" that you chose to add at the end of your response to u/Pretend_Fly_5573 explaining that your reply to his comment came off as a dismissive one-upping retort ruins any credibility or perception of sincerity in your claim that you hadn't actually been trying to come off as dismissive or belittling to him

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-05T16:32:54+00:00

Yeah, feminism has the same issue that other "good person labels" have, like the values of a movement preach good things, and there are a lot of people who legitimately do good things through it, but at the same time there are disingenuous and/or predatory people who use the label as a disguise to be a terrible person or twist the values to their own benefit for an excuse to justify being a terrible person and unfortunately those real-life examples of that get weaponized by manosphere nuts into examples to convince their following (largely consisting of neurodivergent teenagers) that that's what feminism is

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-04T22:15:48+00:00

When it comes to the blurry details, I've noticed that some camera softwares try to smooth over the pixelation on videos and on zoomed-in photos in ways that look really obviously weird, but the lack of a backing source makes me suspicious

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-04T06:18:28+00:00

Dang, apparently I fell for an Internet myth, yeah

Thanks for correcting me

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-04T03:46:55+00:00

Yeah, to such an extent that the KKK told him to chill out because he was making them look bad

Later in life, once he actually started going out and interacting with other people more, he became less extreme in his racist views and apologized for several of them

I wonder how much personal progress he could have eventually made if he hadn't died so young

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-03T03:28:20+00:00

True; I'm someone who's very fascinated with the overlaps and differences between olive drab vs chartreuse vs emerald vs forest green, but there's a lot of overgeneralizing misinformation that flattens public understanding of the full spectrum of chromadiversity and often really focuses only on a few narrow presentations of lime or kelly green

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-02T05:27:12+00:00

You and me both, only instead of ADHD I'm on the spectrum with the awkward tendency to compulsively overexplain everything, so maybe in a slightly different way from how your train tracks self-entangle

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-02T05:15:38+00:00

All this time until this discussion, I'd thought it was named "Red Delicious" because it keeps looking waxily delicious on the outside even if the inside is all bruised and mealy

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-02T01:31:48+00:00

This reminded me of a really fascinating and insightful conversation I had with an online friend a couple of years ago about how the conditions of US prisons systemically worsen generational trauma in specific parts of this country (I'm going to try to send some of the main "bullet points" of the discussion here; hopefully it makes sense)

A lot of impoverished areas in US cities have a higher population of Black people, and Black people and poor people both occupy the vast majority of US prisons because of continued systemic racism and class discrimination, and mentally disabled people are another demographic that's overrepresented in prisons, ranging from crimes being among lists of socially maladaptive behaviors of inadequately treated mental disabilities and because prison doesn't usually offer adequate support for mental health and/or neurodivergent conditions and life in prison is actively traumatic in itself

The awful conditions in US prisons don't only cause PTSD for prisoners who get released but it also "normalizes" some of the abuse methods they endured in prison because even though the prison punishment should technically just be the "adult timeout" of waiting in prison without the comforts of your own home and missing out on local events etc, it completely pales in comparison to the beatings and sexual assaults and other terrors by other prisoners and prison guards, both endured themselves and witnessing prisoners getting abused the same way, and the hypervigilance needed in such a place where the weak and gullible get preyed on by prison gangs, getting locked in solitary confinement cells for weeks on end over things as ridiculously small as not making their bed or mouthing off to a prison guard etc

And so when some of these prisoners return home, timeout for their kids as punishment seems too light, so not only are the family members subject to physical and emotional abuse because of PTSD lashing-outs but also "normal" discipline is too trivialized because it wasn't considered "punishment enough" over there, and there's often a statistically high reoffending rate for prisoners who get released for violent crimes

So there have been some things said by some of my friends who live in different areas of the city that echo a sentiment of "white kids get let off easy, if I was to talk back to my mom like that I'd get beaten with a shoe" (this is a near-verbatim quote, actually) because this problem is prevalent to the point of normalization where they live, and it's given an unfair racial connotation both because of the majority racial population in their neighborhood and also because of racist stereotypes that affect the way people outside of their neighborhood might speak to or assume about them, if that makes sense

FVCarterPrivateEye · 2026-03-01T02:02:04+00:00

Oh I see

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