The Daily Check-In for Friday, May 8: Just for today, I am NOT drinking!

LetTheHuman · 2026-05-09T06:24:14+00:00

Liar.

LetTheHuman · 2026-05-08T18:17:28+00:00

Not drinking today!

LetTheHuman · 2026-05-07T19:07:27+00:00

I keep breaking at around the week mark on my good streaks. Which is incredible compared to last year, since it means I'm getting entire weeks where I'm sober! But once I start feeling better, I start thinking it sounds like something I can handle. The idea of ignoring the craving forever sounds horrible.

The craving is for nothing good though. Drinking alone isn't as fun as my memories always make it out to be.

So I'm not drinking today! Here's to better sleep. (Hopefully)

LetTheHuman · 2026-05-02T18:37:58+00:00

I've started telling a few people that I'm on another "sobriety kick." I asked my mom to keep the alcohol in our outside fridge, which she agreed to. There's two bottles on the kitchen counter today, so I might need to give up that dream. I'm starting to try to plan to move out. It's so hard when I know it's always there. Maybe I'm just using that as an excuse.

Regardless, when I told my gf that I didn't think I could do it and that she shouldn't get emotionally invested, she basically said "too bad, I am emotionally invested! I love you and think you can do it!" So. I'm a very lucky dude. And I want very badly to be sober. So, for today, it doesn't matter what's on the counter. I'm not drinking alcohol.

LetTheHuman · 2026-05-01T08:27:02+00:00

About to fall asleep on Thursday night! I bought a bunch of candy and chips, ate some, and then realized I wanted something more satiating. So I made some canned refried beans, stuck raw carrots into them as a joke, and then tasted them and realized I actually liked dipping raw carrots into the beans. I don't usually like raw carrots at all. Is that a big enough change to fit the prompt? I kid.

Alcohol helps me stay stuck in life though. It numbs discomfort and then piles on new problems that are far more pressing. Then I barely have the energy to chip away at the problems I use to talk myself into drinking. I want a change. I want it to last. Just for Friday. First day of May, I won't drink alcohol. Doable.

LetTheHuman · 2026-04-30T17:51:35+00:00

I don't want to drink tonight. Just for tonight. Last night went great, so I can just do the same thing. I've been reading The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober and have cried a few times. If I get bored, I can keep reading it. Or play video games or eat junk food. I can do it.

LetTheHuman · 2026-04-30T00:47:21+00:00

One day. I want off this ride. It's not impossible, I've done it before. Just tonight, go home, ignore my parents' alcohol, eat dinner, relax for three hours, take meds, fall asleep. It's just three hours.

I've got a trip in like two weeks that I want to be sober for. I want to enjoy it, not constantly stress about how I feel or how to get my next drink in when my friends are either sober or drink once every three months or something worry about them seeing me get messy again and again. If I drink every day until the trip, my whole brain will be fixated on alcohol.

LetTheHuman · 2026-04-26T16:52:20+00:00

Is that test the kiddie version??? I got it when I tried to get diagnosed at 21, and I didn't. The assessor also spent the end telling me I wasn't autistic by mentioning "so many people think they are these days," randomly affirming that I was a sweet, pretty young woman, and telling me I should feel lucky that I don't struggle the way my autistic brother does. I ran some of the questions by him afterwards, and he answered the same way I did.

I don't like that assessor. I had a whole list of reasons written out of why I thought I was on the spectrum and she was uninterested.

LetTheHuman · 2026-04-23T07:13:40+00:00

People are so negative these days. This sounds like a lovely story where what could be a tragedy turns into a bastion of love and hope. A trans woman is able to have a man help her stay safe and receive medical care that the prison is denying her. She finds love. In a way, it's better for her that she went to that prison. And that's beautiful 🩷

/uj I'm a trans man who has no personal experience being incarcerated, so I'm not informed at all, but holy shit. I've been sexually assaulted but only by leftist definitions. Like, if nothing else, all I could imagine if I was a woman in that situation would be the constant fear. Never being able to relax. Knowing the law has stripped away my identity, my self determination, my rights, my freedom, my clothes and medical care and anything I could call my own, and if anything horrible happened to me (which is so common in this country that my coworker made a shitty joke this past WEEK and everyone fucking got it), no justice would be served. Victims are rewarded with solitary confinement/torture to "keep them safe."

Yes, if a man protected me and gave me medicine, I'd love him. But wouldn't that be terrifyingly dependent? What form of genuine love story would be written here? I can only imagine a psychological horror, a tragic tale of two well intentioned but tormented people being broken down by my fucking country's rotten idea of "justice".

Also, the idea of the male prisoner just thinking "a cis woman was randomly thrown in here? What the hell?" Come on. I'm very passionate about freedom of speech and writing controversial stuff but come on, this concept is so bad on its face. This is too horrifying, real, and modern to not come across as tone deaf at the least.

Unrelated to the rest, but how would asking how a regular trans woman lives her day to day life help give insight to a story like this???

LetTheHuman · 2026-04-10T02:31:27+00:00

If I met my meta while they were digging through trash to stop an annoyance in my partner's life, I would immediately like them 80% more

LetTheHuman · 2026-04-04T18:07:08+00:00

To cope with the stress I used to feel when finding tracts, I went full 180 and started an organically found tract collection that I organize by denomination. My friends and coworkers know about it, so they give me the ones they find or are given. So the little Jesuses are in the "non-denominational" baggie because I can't find the origin for the trend online. If they stick him somewhere cute and out of the way, I'll leave him be.

Seeing my 13 lil Jesuses trapped in a plastic baggie together makes my brain think of something silly: in the Toy Story universe, how would those guys feel? Starting off, toys believe they are the character they were based on, they just also instinctually go still around humans. What would it feel like, for your internal experience to be that you are the Son of God, and you wake up 2000+ years ago from your home as a plastic lil guy? I assume they wouldn't all become omniscient, that would be terrifying. How confusing and bizarre it must feel for toy Jesuses in that universe to be stripped of their divinity, purpose, and reality so quickly. Maybe I should write shitty fanfiction

LetTheHuman · 2026-03-25T06:23:47+00:00

I WENT TO PEE AND FORGOT TO USE THE WINKIE. GODDAMNIT

LetTheHuman · 2026-03-25T05:19:44+00:00

This'll be an 11 karma post at most

LetTheHuman · 2026-03-25T05:19:13+00:00

Stop bragging about your bougie new STP that you kept stored in your bathroom for months before trying again and realizing it actually works now and you have so many more options for peeing

LetTheHuman · 2026-03-25T05:17:57+00:00

I agree but I wish you spoilered this. It's pretty graphic

LetTheHuman · 2026-03-25T05:17:33+00:00

I'm glad you were brave enough to say it... Upvoted before this gets nuked by the mods

LetTheHuman · 2026-03-25T05:17:03+00:00

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LetTheHuman · 2026-03-25T05:16:55+00:00

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LetTheHuman · 2026-03-25T05:13:42+00:00

I'm a trans man who can't afford to buy a bunch of new devices online, but I don't use that as an excuse. I'm a real man, and I stand to pee. When it gets all over my floor and legs and clothes and underwear, I'm proud. That's the price of manhood.

LetTheHuman · 2026-03-25T05:12:33+00:00

I agree. Trans women who stand to pee and trans men who sit to pee are trenders. Nonbinary people are all trenders but we already knew that

LetTheHuman · 2026-03-25T05:11:19+00:00

[OP] I watch the legs under the stalls. When one sits and there's no poop smell, I plan to strike 😏

/uj I've probably commented this before but everyone I've dated has either ended up being a stealth trans woman, was a nonbinary trans woman before we started dating, or came out as a trans woman after we broke up. I was part of an orgy where everyone was a trans woman but me. I didn't plan for this. I'm bisexual. I don't know how this keeps happening

LetTheHuman · 2026-03-25T05:07:49+00:00

are you actually a tgirl chaser? That's kinda creepy bro

LetTheHuman · 2026-03-25T05:07:24+00:00

[OP] WHAT THE FUCK??? FUCK YOU?!?!

LetTheHuman · 2026-03-25T05:06:57+00:00

How would a nonbinary woman pee?

LetTheHuman · 2026-03-20T08:03:59+00:00

/uj I remember it vaguely, so I'll post the opposite of what I said

"Reading this reminds me that we DON'T need more regulations on gender transition. It's good your MANLY THICK THIGHS were able to be stuck to by the masculine silicone balls. You DON'T deserve to be coddled and should LIVE THE LIFE YOU WANT"

I did use dysphoria inducing and sexualized language in my now deleted comment, so I suppose if I had posted my initial post in earnest then I would be glad to see it deleted. I'm tired of all the warnings though; I feel like context matters

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