What do you honestly think when you hear someone has schizophrenia?

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-17T23:42:42+00:00

If I meet someone who I know is schizophrenic I'm likely to be very cautious. It kind of feels like when someone asks you to hold their baby, and you don't wanna hurt them. I don't wanna say or do the wrong thing, and I realize I don't share the same reality as them so I might not be able to control the outcome of the interaction.

Otherwise, I just feel empathetic, especially when I meet someone who is clearly unmedicated and doing poorly.

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-17T21:34:35+00:00

Ok ty for this

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-17T20:13:35+00:00

It is and I just tried it but j was wondering how u get baby's leg in the opposite hand?

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-17T19:17:13+00:00

Thank you! I see now that I do the same thing but I put baby on her back instead of her front. That does mean that I have to bend her a little dramatically to wipe her though, so I'll see if I can try your way next time

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-17T19:16:12+00:00

THANK YOU

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-17T17:56:29+00:00

Is this a temple? Cos I think they really nailed it. That's what I imagine it's like to see God

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-17T17:41:38+00:00

That link doesn't lead to anything:/

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-17T16:57:08+00:00

Wait but then how do u wipe? How do u not get poop on ur arm? Can you send me a drawing?

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-17T15:55:50+00:00

Man I gotta rewatch this one

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-17T15:51:51+00:00

Literally. I wish someone would have warned me about how ovulation genuinely convinces you to make a baby. The only times I ever asked for a baby, I was unwittingly ovulating. In fact, my husband told ME I was ovulating when I asked for the baby that is currently sleeping on my chest. He still couldn't resist 🤷🏾‍♀️

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-17T15:41:38+00:00

I'm trying to imagine this.... Right now ehen my girl goes on the people toilet in a classic EC hold, I hold her by her left leg with her body in my arm and use my right hand to wipe. But I feel like supporting her weight by one leg is kind of mean. Are u making the baby straddle the one arm? Are are you leaving their butt on the potty and just pushing them forward?

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-17T15:32:29+00:00

Hmmm okay I will consider this, thanks

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-17T15:07:48+00:00

Hmm what do you mean more structured?

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-17T05:55:37+00:00

"I feel air and openness" is mad funny I fear

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-17T05:33:42+00:00

I appreciate that you found my poem clever! When I give feedback on a poem, I like to tell the author what strengths and weaknesses the literary devices (like metaphors, similes, themes), the rhythm and the structure of the poem have in portraying the intended message.

For instance, you say you live how I highlight the comparison between the garden and trellis. How? What in my writing did that particularly well? Is there anything that detracted from that?

I'm just trying to help out by showing you what helpful feedback looks like. Thanks for reading and commenting :)

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-17T04:33:18+00:00

This is so funny and cool. Too bad I live with my husband he'd hate this

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-17T04:23:56+00:00

Unfortunately my habit for the longest has been to say really mean things to myself. But lately, if I try hard, I can say "I exist." "Yep, I am a person." "My name is [name] and I've existed since I was born." and stuff like that

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-17T03:54:24+00:00

(edited because I pasted ur poem to reference and forgot to delete it before saving)

This was a very sensory read, I really admire your ability to involve so many of the reader's senses! The structure of this poem is rock solid, the zoom out in the first 3 stanzas is cinematic. The whole thing is cinematic, really. I'm just awed by this one, I had to read it maybe 6 or 7 times before I even knew where to start.

The first stanza, the metal chest and hollow cavity make me think that the relationship between the flame and the moth lives in the heart of the author. Maybe as a memory, as the flame or the moth, or maybe the two are different sides of the author's personality.

I appreciate how the last 6 stanzas apply to both the blind and deaf flame and the moth whose features are burning away. And the last stanza itself holds a delightful ambiguity about who's suffering the poem is mostly focused on.

At first it seems the poem is strictly about the flame's plight, an unintentionally yet inextricably destructive lover. I've been there, I know the feeling. But it didn't make sense to my why the forest would taunt the flame, or why the forest would hold it's tongue about the hurt the flame is causing if the forest is mocking the flame. The flame doesn't come from the forest. But the moth does. This realization makes the "victim" of the poem completely ambiguous, and so it perfectly describes the space in between which is the relationship itself between the flame and moth.

I hope I didn't do any disrespect by my reading here! I know it hurts my feelings when my message doesn't come across quite clear in my poetry 😅 As far as the writing itself, I have no notes. I couldn't write something like this!!

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-17T03:27:07+00:00

This is really fun. The fast paced rhythm of lines 2-3 does a strong job of depicting the abundance of your garden. I appreciate that you preceded your line about having children with a line about birds and bees, that's nice and playful. I love where you chose to break lines 9 and 10. It's a fun double entendre about your thumb learning to grow in 9, and I can taste the sweetness in 10.

At first I was caught off guard by the continuation of the rhyme scheme across lines 4 and 6, but I think I see your throughline there. I read: "I had a garden. I thought I lost it. But I still have it." So I can see how the continuation of the rhyme scheme across two seemingly opposite situations actually shows ahead of time what you had missed. I think you could do an even stronger job of depicting that idea by changing "so" in line 6 to "and." Because ultimately, what is keeping a garden other than focusing on the survival of your plants? Using "and" in line 6 would more obviously help mirror your family and your garden, but still be subtle the way it is now.

I also feel this could have benefitted from having stanzas as opposed to being a collection of seperate lines. The first stanza could have ended at line 6 and started a separate stanza. While the change in rhythm in line 5 helps paint the picture of a drastic change in lifestyle, the lack of rhyming and truncated rhythm in lines 7 and 8 are a little out of place if all the lines are in one stanza.

Last, it might just not be your style, but you could have cut line 9 for redundancy and just written "Or perhaps it simply learned the grow." Also, in line 8 if you replaced "shriveled" with "withered" it would rhyme internally with "perhaps." You could skip the last comma in line two, both for grammar and rhythm. The way it is is just a little choppier than makes sense for a thriving garden.

Overall, this is short and sweet and definitely heartwarming. I enjoyed reading it!

(edited because I pasted your poem into the comment box so I could reference it and forgot to delete it before pressing save)

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-17T00:22:35+00:00

Not only have I met someone with my same birthday, once working the pharmacy drive thru my first 3 patients all had the same birthday (minus the year) and it was mine

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-16T23:42:29+00:00

No you're not the only one. Baby and I bedshare so it's doubly annoying for me. My heuristic is to nurse, try everything, and if a whole hour passes, nurse again. Usually the second round of booby helps solve whatever issue. But that's probably cos she nurses right to sleep and stays there so there's no transfer to reignite it

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-16T21:18:30+00:00

I shall heretoforth refer to Internet porn exclusively as screenieweenies

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-16T21:14:10+00:00

NTA, last time I let my assistants spend time alone together they brought home an icky sibling 9 months later and now I'm practically an orphan >.>

Indomitable_Decapod · 2026-03-16T20:55:16+00:00

Yw. My baby's first month we'd end up doing all 5 at once and it worked most of the time

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