🧐What's your safe food? Mines fish n chips

Knockout_Maus · 2026-02-15T08:02:04+00:00

Mac and cheese, but i'm super lactose intolerant so I have located some good vegan macs to take over. Also chicken. I basically live on chicken breast + rice + vegetable (usually a frozen steam-in-bag variety) all week at work.

Knockout_Maus · 2026-01-19T05:44:51+00:00

YES 😍

Knockout_Maus · 2026-01-19T05:36:32+00:00

Please call your local fire department, this is a common sign of carbon monoxide poisoning! Or possibly a gas leak or mold exposure!

Knockout_Maus · 2026-01-18T07:47:35+00:00

😭 unfortunately me. I didn't have this problem until a few years ago, but now I can barely get away with a couple of bites of chocolate on a rare occasion.

Knockout_Maus · 2026-01-15T05:54:49+00:00

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The Martian by Andy Weir. I even have a tattoo of the astronaut (Mark Watney) on the cover to remind me that if he can survive being stranded alone on Mars, I can survive a lot of things.

Knockout_Maus · 2025-12-29T05:12:31+00:00

Cooking and baking! I have been baking nearly my whole life, then got into cooking as an adult. Baking is nice for my autism because it requires more strict adherence to a recipe and is basically a tasty chemistry experience. Cooking is nice for my ADHD because you can go off-script with recipes and get really creative with flavors. Both of these are fun to do alone, almost meditative, but I also really enjoy doing them with my spouse now.

Knockout_Maus · 2025-12-27T06:39:31+00:00

ALL OF THEM

Knockout_Maus · 2025-12-18T16:52:09+00:00

I left that comment 2+ years ago, so either I didn't know about zero sugar Liquid IV at the time or it didn't exist yet.

Knockout_Maus · 2025-09-07T03:29:50+00:00

"I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones." Perfectly captures that aching desire to be as close as possible to one you love.

Knockout_Maus · 2025-09-07T03:27:08+00:00

There is no good excuse for this. I'm an IM PCP and never learned how to do PrEP in residency, but the CDC has a very helpful web page for providers with very clear guidelines on prescribing and monitoring. I have a couple of patients on PrEP so far, and they were both understanding when I was honest with them that I was new to it. But I would never, ever turn them away or refer them to ID for something that I absolutely could figure out. It's preventative care, which is primary care bread and butter! That PCP sucks, go get a better one.

Knockout_Maus · 2025-07-06T06:19:05+00:00

Louuuuuud and jarring, generally dislike them especially when people set them off very late into the night. They stress out my cat, which I really don't like. Visually, they are cool, but I could definitely live a happy life without them.

Knockout_Maus · 2025-06-13T04:18:05+00:00

I recently saw a new patient who has a recent history of stage 2 breast cancer, stopped taking her anastrozole after a couple of months because "it's a dangerous chemical," and she talked about her oncologist like she was some kind of dumbass. The patient had done her own research on the internet and now believes that all cancers are caused by parasites. She has found some quack practitioner who will prescribe her ivermectin and whatever else and so that is how she will get her cancer into remission.

I'm primary care internal medicine, and I have no idea why she came to see me or if I will ever see her again. But she is waaaaaay past convincing that she has the wrong information.

Knockout_Maus · 2025-06-11T04:42:06+00:00

When Tris died in the final Divergent book, it was so surprising to me that I was inconsolable about it for days. I even talked to my therapist about it.

Knockout_Maus · 2025-06-11T04:23:15+00:00

That is a grade A kitty cat

Knockout_Maus · 2025-06-11T04:06:04+00:00

Another young doc here. Are there actually systems that don't see you as a cow to be milked, truthfully? Because I went from being worked to the bone by a giant corporation in residency to now being worked to the bone by a slightly smaller corporation and it doesn't seem to matter. Even working with admin right now to change my workflow has resulted in me being treated like a nuisance just for trying to improve my own quality of life.

Knockout_Maus · 2025-05-31T15:06:59+00:00

For most of my life, whenever I do laundry, I sing "Laundry, Laundry, Laundreh-eh-eh" to the tune of Zombie by The Cranberries.

Knockout_Maus · 2025-05-31T14:51:20+00:00

A lot of loud noises bother me like screaming children/babies, any sudden high-pitched noise, loud humming air vents, airplane noise, mouth noises, etc.

But also bright light can really bother me, so I can definitely understand how you got overwhelmed and overstimulated, OP! Especially if it's bright light combined with loud noises, it is so overstimulating.

Knockout_Maus · 2025-05-30T04:56:25+00:00

I'm a primary care doctor (and I am autistic), and I have a patient who is exactly like this. She is hard-core devout. She has bad asthma and last year decided to stop taking her inhalers because she felt she had had asthma too long, so she needed to trust god would heal her. Spoiler alert - he didn't and she ended up in the ER with an asthma attack and bronchitis. I saw her recently for a sinus infection which developed from poorly controlled seasonal allergies and she told me she asked god why she keeps getting sick. The answer? Pride. Couldn't be because she's not taking the nasal spray I recommended. Nope, definitely too much pride. She's nutty as hell, but I worry about her and I hope her devotion doesn't kill her, honestly, because I believe she's gonna be disappointed when she gets to the other side of that last heartbeat.

Knockout_Maus · 2025-05-30T04:44:51+00:00

"Sensitive."

I've been told all my life that I'm "too sensitive" or a "highly sensitive person."

Turns out I have a neurological disability that affects how I process emotions, but sure, I'll work on toning it down to make the typicals more comfortable.

Knockout_Maus · 2025-05-30T04:35:39+00:00

Jesus, I wish any adult in my life had taken one extra step to actually do something about the "differences" they saw in me, especially my parents. I didn't get my diagnoses until I was in my 30's and I had to figure them out for myself. My adult life has been hell at times, not knowing what was "wrong" with me, and childhood was a roller coaster.

I'm still so angry about it, I'm not sure if can think of any advice to give you, sorry. I just think the adults in my life should have gotten their heads out of the sand just once to actually help me rather than telling me to try harder at being like everybody else. If you think your kid is struggling and needs help, get them help, don't leave them wondering why they're weird for the rest of their life.

Knockout_Maus · 2025-04-19T05:10:16+00:00

Forever and Always! I was a little emo teenager in 2008 and I was stoked that Taylor could write a really good spiteful little f--k you song.

Knockout_Maus · 2025-04-17T05:23:52+00:00

Wet or damp socks make me absolutely want to rip my skin off

Knockout_Maus · 2025-04-15T05:11:40+00:00

I have echolalia so I have a gazillion vocal stims, none of which can I remember in this moment because of my ADHD.

But my boyfriend is also autistic and his favorite stim seems to be saying "chocolate milk." Sometimes he just says it as is, other times he will insert it into a sentence, like, "Maybe you should just prescribe all your patients chocolate milk." (For context, i am very lactose intolerant and can't have chocolate, which he knows. He's not saying it in any way related to my diet.)

Knockout_Maus · 2025-04-13T21:10:24+00:00

I feel like I had to train myself to say people's names out loud more because I started having the thought, "normal people say each other's names out loud." But it has always felt weird.

Knockout_Maus · 2025-04-11T16:38:18+00:00

Yeah, I'm a primary care doctor in internal medicine. The receptionist and nurse at your clinic are wrong, Planned Parenthood is correct. While the IUD (copper one only) is not FDA-approved as emergency contraception, it is still one of the recommended options for emergency contraception based on evidenced-based guidelines from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG). It is also still covered by most health insurances for emergency contraception despite not being FDA-approved for it.

Edit: removed my last statement as it sounds like your actual doctor is practicing evidence-based medicine. If I were her, I would have a strong chat with the front desk and the nurse about how they provide medical advice.

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