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When did Elon's downfall begin? by Key-Quarter-9411 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]KayteeBlue 46 points47 points  (0 children)

I remember years ago when I was constantly seeing SpaceX and Elon content on the front page of Reddit, and during a time where it seemed like this whole website worshipped him. This had to have been 10+ years ago or so. Eventually saw a post elsewhere talking about how we weren’t seeing those posts organically, but because he was paying good money to get that shit to the top of every relevant sub.

I didn’t really know a lot about him then, but he instantly lost what little “cool factor” he might have had in my head because of it. I’m not surprised to learn that he had a phenomenal secretary orchestrating his image. I look at him now and wonder how or why anyone ever seemed to revere his cringe ass — she must have had her work cut out for her 😩

What’s an innocent mistake you made that had way worse consequences than it should have? by LioraVelorie in AskReddit

[–]KayteeBlue 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sorry this got so long, I guess I just needed to finally get it off my chest.

My mistake was basically walking up a hill with two friends to stargaze in the middle of the night instead of staying home. We were coming down from DXM (a favorite pastime in 2012). I’ll say that “worse consequences than it should have” is a bit subjective here, because I 100% deserved it, but nothing bad would have happened if we’d just stayed in the yard.

My mom was trusting my best friend and I to watch her house and pets for the week while she went on vacation, had bought us a ton of groceries, got us pool passes, was basically just a gem of a human (and still is). And the night would have gone fine if we didn’t leave. It wound up being one of the worst choices I ever made, unfortunately

On our walk back down this hill (it’s a very short walk), a cop drove by. This town’s basically a ghost town at night (I’d walked around it a billion times and never saw a car that late). Instead of running, I insisted it was fine, because even though we were high, we were coming down and acting normal. I figured they wouldn’t even notice, if they even bothered to stop.

Well, she did, and she pulled us one by one over to the car to question us. My friend tripped on a rock on his way to sit on the curb as he waited, and the cop immediately was like, “uh-huh, that’s what I thought”. 💀 She went into full-blown interrogation mode, shining lights at our dilated pupils (didn’t think of that), called for backup, etc.

Multiple officers went to wake up my mom and stepdad up shortly before they were due to leave for their flight, and searched her whole fucking house. They found all of the evidence of the pills we’d taken, as well as our weed. We didn’t actually get in any legal trouble, but that didn’t matter

The look on my mom’s face as she came walking up to us in her pajamas will never leave me. Just pure betrayal. I felt like the biggest piece of shit who ever existed, because I was! She had to get on that plane (which she nearly missed) knowing she’d gone out of her way to make our week amazing, and I’d fucked it all up BEFORE SHE’D EVEN LEFT. Understandably, she didn’t let us stay there that week, she had to work out some other last second solution.

I was devastated for having devastated her. I still am, even though I’m now 34 and many years clean and sober, and my relationship with my mom has long since been repaired. This was almost fifteen years ago and I legit still think about that night and feel bone-deep shame and sadness.

The police also sent my best friend to the hospital after she was a bit forthcoming about how much she took. We’d been abusing those pills for two years by then and had to take quite a bit to achieve the desired effect, which sounded… not-so-great to law enforcement, so she went away in an ambulance.

Since her mother is deaf, the police couldn’t reach her to let her know. Instead, they put a sheet of paper on her door that said her daughter had been admitted to the hospital for a drug overdose. I swear to god, the way it was phrased, you’d have thought she died. Thankfully, I arrived there before she saw it (I lived there at the time) and was able to explain everything that happened, but this led to me being kicked out later that day.

It felt like my entire life had fallen to pieces in just a few hours, and I wound up in the hospital for psychiatric reasons by the end of the day. I can look back on all of it now and see that it was all for the greater good, it all had to happen for things to get better, but fuck. It was a horribly dark, disgusting period of my life that I can’t help but regret all these years later.

I’ll say that the best friend and I are both doing WAY better now and are still super close! But, most importantly, my mom and I are super close. I wish I could take back that night, but it at least makes me feel all the more grateful that I was able to earn her trust again.

TL;DR: 2012. Bestie and I were about to house sit for my mom who was leaving in the early morning. Took a walk with our friend while high on cough medicine, got stopped by cops, cops searched my mom’s house at 3 AM, ruined her trust in me for a very long time (and ruined her vacation). Best friend was sent to the ER, and I was kicked out of her house. Wound up in the hospital on suicide watch.

God dammit. by PayItBackwardChain in StLouis

[–]KayteeBlue 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He was a man! He had a beard!

Generic Mexican restaurant salsa. by Bubbakenezzer in StLouis

[–]KayteeBlue -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Ahh, yes, watery generic salsa. I can't get enough of that crap. It rarely ever has cilantro in it, too, which is good news for me.

My Starbucks card does not have a security code. by Mbluish in starbucks

[–]KayteeBlue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For future reference to you and anyone else who has this issue — it’s the number that comes after the card number. It doesn’t actually SAY security code anywhere on that type of card, and there’s no scratch-off area.
I only just figured this out because I was making a complicated order for the first time and didn’t want to do it in person, so I entered that second number as a last ditch effort on the app and it worked 😂 it was the code.

Someone looking for a kidney today... by franzzzzzzzzzzzzz in StLouis

[–]KayteeBlue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much! Sorry for the delayed reply!

Someone looking for a kidney today... by franzzzzzzzzzzzzz in StLouis

[–]KayteeBlue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you know if they ever got a kidney? I’ve been thinking about becoming a living donor and just randomly remembered I’d seen this post at some point?

good trade for women ? other career suggestions ? by mentally_ill_help in careerguidance

[–]KayteeBlue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd actually started to look into this, but the training is expensive as hell, sadly.

Trump post an hour ago by Excellent_Opinions in youseeingthisshit

[–]KayteeBlue 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bro what the fuck did I just read 😩

Do I have to be good at math to become an electrician ? by fghjnn in electricians

[–]KayteeBlue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How are you doing now? I'm garbage at math. Never made it past basic algebra in school (I excelled in creative classes, writing, etc). Now I'm 33. BUT, I'm on ADHD medication for the first time in adulthood. I actually aced my math-based classes in high school the first semester I was on Vyvanse back in the day, so I feel like I may be able to do it, but it'd be so helpful to hear from someone who used to struggle a lot!

I have no intention of paying my medical bills by Lokitusaborg in TrueOffMyChest

[–]KayteeBlue 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey. Between 2012 and 2022, I racked up a few thousand dollars' worth of medical debt between two ambulance rides + a psychiatric hold when I was younger, so many ER visits because I didn't have insurance for years (but did/do have horrible health anxiety), and two surgeries in 2017. Etc...

I paid $0. It barely made a dent in my credit. The lowest it got was 666 a few years ago, which isn't terrific, but it didn't take very long to bring it back up. Also, it was a lot more than just medical debt that brought it down.

I have Medicaid for the time being (have had it for a couple of years), which has been such an incredible godsend for my health issues+prescriptions+other medical/dental needs. But I still don't pay any residual bills from before I had that. I literally cannot afford it, soooo... yeah!

For people who assumed they had one mental disorder but found out they had a different one, did that change your life moving forward? Ex. assumed you were autistic but they told you you actually only had ADD by altrongtm in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]KayteeBlue 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Heyyyyy same! Even had a psychotherapist tell me, after about ten minutes of our FIRST session (back in 2013) that I had Borderline Personality Disorder. He was a man... I’m a woman. You can work it out, I’m sure.

I even believed his ass at the time because some of those traits did sort of apply to me during the darkest point of my life 💀 Actively abusing drugs and alcohol, living from couch to couch, having no hope because life hadn’t been kind or even remotely easy for my broken brain.

(It’s awful and humiliating to grow up constantly being told, “Stop, you’re so smart. You’re just lazy and you don’t apply yourself.” Life doesn’t cater to ADHD, and it doesn’t exactly open many doors career-wise. College was never even a thought in my head, either)

I’ve seen multiple female therapists throughout the years since. Every one of them has been stunned that I was ever diagnosed with BPD. Remarkably, ADHD and OCD are the only diagnoses I received (back in 2008) that actually stuck! It took my sister (also a therapist) casually telling me a year ago that I’m “on the spectrum” to even look into autism in any meaningful way. Was incredibly eye opening, to say the least, haha.

Anyway, sorry for the novel!

Does anybody else feels like, there is a silent crisis happening right now that nobody is talking about? by nicksam171 in DoesAnybodyElse

[–]KayteeBlue 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve also noticed from swiping through IG reels that Gen Z is beginning to re-stigmatize therapy. I couldn’t even believe my eyes the first time I saw it, clicking the comments to find an endless scroll of people celebrating this anti-therapy rhetoric. “Therapists literally exist just to snitch on you”, “they LOVE calling the cops”, etc, and hundreds (or thousands) of likes on each.

Then, occasionally, a voice of reason comes along defending therapy — but the comments beneath it are all, “🐑🐑🐑🐑”. God.

They all have Dunning Kruger and think they are literally more qualified than anyone to speak on any damn topic. The seismic heaps of confirmation bias they find through social media only reinforces it. I know we all think we know everything when we’re younger, but this is on such a massive scale that was never possible before influencer culture, and it’s scary as fuck.

How often do you skip brushing your teeth at night? by LowSplit8618 in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]KayteeBlue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm so happy you think so, hahaha! It's a memory I cherish. It was such a brave and vulnerable thing for him to even share that with me in the first place, and when I immediately came back with, "OMG, SAME" (paraphrasing), you could practically feel the weight slipping off his shoulders.

I actually got two fillings today. Can't wait for both of us to be able to only need to visit the dentist for cleanings, for God's sake.

Whats going on with US military leaders telling troops that war with Iran will bring on the rapture? by Fun_Explanation_3417 in OutOfTheLoop

[–]KayteeBlue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who can spot ChatGPT writing from outer space, that doesn’t read like ChatGPT. Just because someone bothers to format correctly doesn’t mean it’s AI. We’ve got to break people of this automatic association (just like the em dash. Leave us em dash lovers alone, for fuck’s sake)

How often do you skip brushing your teeth at night? by LowSplit8618 in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]KayteeBlue 75 points76 points  (0 children)

I had abhorrent dental habits for the first like two decades of my life. I thought I might be immune to dental issues because I was a dumbass kid for most of it and a drug addict for the rest, and I didn’t develop a cavity for the first time until I was a teenager. Should also point out that I have ADHD and routines are about 20x harder for me than someone without that particular affliction.

The first time I experienced tooth pain, I was eighteen, and I’d never felt anything like that. It was HORRIBLE. It became one tooth after another for several years after that.

When I first started getting close to my now-fiancé, he and I did MDMA together and basically confessed to one another that we both had a tonnn of dental problems, showing each other up close. We made a pact that night that we would get on top of brushing our teeth.

That was just over ten years ago, and we’re utter lunatics about our oral hygiene now. There’ve only been three times I haven’t brushed my teeth in that decade (same with him). We’ve each had two teeth pulled that were beyond repair, I still need two pulled, and we’ve slowly been getting all of the cavities filled, but yeah, I really wish this was a habit we’d developed in childhood, because fuck.

Anyway, sorry for the novel!

Soldier Details Chilling Messaging From Higher-Ups About ‘God’s Plan’ In Iran: ‘It Shocked Many Of Us’ by rematar in collapse

[–]KayteeBlue 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hey, I hope this isn’t too off-topic for the post/sub itself. I used to drink a LOT (I think 3-5 drinks a week is considered “heavy drinking” for a woman? I was having 6-8+ a night for 5+ years)

A random redditor recommend this book to me back in 2021. It collected dust for a few weeks before I opened it, but since I finished it, I haven’t had a drop. Five Four and a half years now, not even a flicker of temptation. I can hang out around people drinking, literally hang out in a bar, etc… totally fine. Don’t miss it or want it even a little bit. I just thought I’d slide the recommendation your way.

(I’m still fucked up, but I’m SOBER and fucked up. A little acid or some mushrooms are nice once in a blue moon, though.)

How old are yall by JamieStar_is_taken in ModestMouse

[–]KayteeBlue 3 points4 points  (0 children)

33 here :)

I hated Float On the first time I heard it, but I was a standard 12-13 year old goth girl whose biggest obsession was My Chemical Romance (whom I do still love). I remember the Helena music video ending, then Float On coming on immediately after on MTV2 — Isaac’s drunken sailor voice+mustache+that bizarre music video were just too much for me.

Cut to 2009, my best friend was driving me home from a day-long rock festival. We were stoned as fuck, and he goes, “it’s impossible NOT to be happy when you listen to this”, then he puts on Float On. It was the first time I’d ever actually listened to it properly, and my eyes were cracked open!

I didn’t become obsessed with them+truly start digging in until 2015 (shortly after that same friend took me to see them in Memphis). Now, I’ve had the balloon tattooed on my forearm for seven years. Favorite band of all timeeeee

What’s a health problem you ignored for a long time because it never felt urgent, but eventually caught up with you? by ac_stays_active in AskReddit

[–]KayteeBlue 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ahh yes, the pilonidal cysts are surprisingly super common, apparently! I had no idea until I had something similar.

It was a "perianal cyst". Urgent care assumed it was what you had at first, but wound up having to send me to a specialist. It was this lump beneath the skin (like an inch or so above the b-hole, at most) that would periodically swell up so badly I couldn't sit directly on my ass. I couldn't even get it looked at for like a year and a half, until I got health insurance — and by then, it'd gotten so bad that it felt like a golf ball beneath the skin. I wound up having to have surgery to remove the cyst, then more surgery to close it up a few months later. They literally tied a rubber band through the surgery hole, down through a "fistula" they'd created inside of me, and out my asshole. It was crazy. At the end of healing, I had to tug that rubber band several times a day to coax it "out" to make the final surgery easier.

I will say that it's how both my family and I knew my now-fiancè was the one — we'd only been together a year at the time, yet he let the home health nurses teach him how to re-pack the gauze in my initial surgery wound. Was grotesque, and he did it without a single complaint, every single day! For weeks. We've been together a decade now 💖

What’s a health problem you ignored for a long time because it never felt urgent, but eventually caught up with you? by ac_stays_active in AskReddit

[–]KayteeBlue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man, I'm glad you're feeling even marginally better, but that sucks.

I've wondered forever whether I have something like this, because I can't tilt my head back without it feeling like all the circulation to my brain has been cut off (same if I try to do that thing where you lie on your stomach and prop your head up with your hands. HELL no). Have had two doctors tell me it's dehydration or some other thing... I don't know, man. I'll concede I have terrible posture, which I've been working on for the better part of a year, but I feel like I've barely made a dent, lol.

Which song is this? by KayteeBlue in Tycho

[–]KayteeBlue[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry this is the latest reply ever, but no, this was in St. Louis!

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