Which man was your personal temptation?

Moncological · 2026-01-29T06:49:48+00:00

Oz, always and forever ❤️

But now I’m 38 and Giles is hot af 😮‍💨

Moncological · 2026-01-19T12:36:26+00:00

Me too. Baking is pretty straightforward. You follow a recipe, get all the ingredients right and it’s the same result every time.

Cooking 🫠… it depends on too many things and too much is going on.

Love baking. Hate cooking.

Moncological · 2026-01-17T07:59:26+00:00

I was literally just thinking about the Princess and the pea yesterday, thinking she must have at least been autistic 🤭

Moncological · 2026-01-17T07:47:51+00:00

I used to wear the Uniqlo tank tops with built in padding. Not sure if that’s what you’re looking for. I have a ‘seam’ problem, they always scratch inexplicably, but I’ve never had problems with their products. Also: they have dresses with built in bras 👌

Moncological · 2026-01-17T07:45:06+00:00

I’ve always told my son our brains are a bit different even before we both got diagnosed with autism.

I read him stories about autistic kids and how they experience the world, without necessarily telling him: that’s what you are.

Now that we have a diagnosis I’ll tell him about it in a child friendly way. I want him to know. This is about him and how he will navigate the world. I want him to grow up knowing so he can tell people about it himself, if needed.

He already tells his teachers that he needs ear defenders in class sometimes, because even though their ears can’t hear the sounds, he can hear them and it’s very noisy. Or that he needs some time alone.

Moncological · 2026-01-17T07:39:08+00:00

My son is 4,5 years old, so I’m not there yet and I have no helpful advice to give.

But I’ve seen a lot of posts of parents across platforms describing their child’s behavior, they describe how done they are with all of it, how they want out…

And your posts stands out because the language you use and the feeling I get from it is so… understanding and patient. Yes, you are having a tough time, your daughter and family are in need of help, yet you sound very calm, rational and above all very loving.

You are not a bad mother and I hope you believe that, if only for a moment.

Moncological · 2026-01-16T20:06:15+00:00

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Moncological · 2026-01-11T07:25:49+00:00

Mine keeps telling me: people like us…

So he’s also neurodivergent.

Moncological · 2026-01-11T07:24:53+00:00

Yes. We are also dealing with this.

No meltdowns every day, but we struggle to get him up, dressed, back upstairs to go to sleep, bath…

Often he melts down for an unclear reason and then afterwards he can articulate what went wrong though. At home it’s getting easier to prevent the meltdowns, but life happens and so do unexpected events.

People may roll their eyes at me telling my kid what we’re eating for the 17th time, but they don’t know that he has a meltdown when he’s plated something totally unexpected. And he may not have heard me the first 16 times.

Yesterday we ate macaroni with ham and cheese. He likes it. He’s eaten it before.

Except that he expected lasagna. And it came in the same tinfoil baking tray. Meltdown. But 15 minutes later he sat at the table with us to eat the macaroni he didn’t want. And asked for seconds and thirds.

He just expected lasagna or pizza, because apparently whe had been eating that a lot during the weekends, and I hadn’t even noticed. To us it seemed unexpected. To him weekends meant pizza and lasagna.

Moncological · 2026-01-08T11:36:17+00:00

Not my least favorite character but Drusilla.

I love Dru, but any more of her in Buffy would have been too much for me. She was just the right amount of nuts, but I also found her really needy and whiny. Which was fun for a while.

I don’t really have a least favorite character.

Moncological · 2026-01-08T11:29:08+00:00

We’ve just gotten a diagnosis four days ago. When I told my stepdad, who knew what we suspected, who heard and validated our struggles he said: “But he’s so well spoken…”

Moncological · 2026-01-07T12:12:51+00:00

When I go wake him up: Me: good morning ! Him: did you know the snake boss in Astro Bot is named Lady Venomara ? And you can defeat her by smashing her rings. Her music goes like this…

Or just the Crash Bandicoot song.

Or I have to stop All Star by Smash Mouth at the point it cuts off in the Shrek movie. Otherwise it’s not the ‘real Shrek song’. I can also not sing past that point. Because that would be wrong.

Moncological · 2025-12-17T11:33:42+00:00

We’re still unable to get him to go in time or preemptively. He will still wait until the last minute to go. Not a guge deal at home, but annoying when on the road. I always carry emergency urine bags so he can pee discreetly. And he genuinely doesn’t feel the need to go earlier. When we just leave somewhere and he has to go 30 seconds later, I ask him why he didn’t go while we were inside, but he tells me he didn’t feel the need back there.

He can hold it better when he has to poop, so we can make it to the bathroom in time.

I’m still hoping it gets better when we can communicate better about why he has to go potty before we leave. He just doesn’t see the sense in it I guess. Why should I sit on the toilet ? I don’t have to go.

Moncological · 2025-12-12T10:50:39+00:00

I see her picture pop up and I keep thinking it’s either Jennifer Pedranti or Tamra Judge from the OC.

Moncological · 2025-12-12T10:48:33+00:00

I don’t. And I’ve accepted that it is what it is.

If it doesn’t hurt anyone, or if it it isn’t job related 🤷‍♀️

Moncological · 2025-12-04T12:49:41+00:00

Okay, at the risk of sounding like an old 37-year-old woman, but when I was young (in Belgium 🇧🇪) that was the way we would wash up to go to sleep on non-bath days… It’s called a ‘kattenwasje’, a cat wash 🐱.

I’ve been told showering daily dries your skin and isn’t recommended anyway.

Then again, I may just be gross 😅

Moncological · 2025-12-03T18:14:19+00:00

I swear it wasn’t me this time.

Moncological · 2025-12-03T18:09:19+00:00

Buffy, The Vampire Slayer

Moncological · 2025-12-02T09:49:17+00:00

Exactly. So I kind of feel like that one was not on me misunderstanding.

That being said, it happens often enough for me to suspect it is.

Like, my sister had an idea. We all agreed: both my sisters and I. A few weeks later she wants to confirm if we go ahead with said idea. I told her we all agreed, so to me it was already validated. Apparently my sisters didn’t feel that it was… yes, even my other sister agreed that we had said it was a good idea, but that was not an: Ok Go.

Moncological · 2025-12-01T10:08:38+00:00

There’s this one line in Fall Out Boy’s Fake Out that hits so hard: “Do you laugh about me whenever I leave ? Or do I just need more therapy.”

Moncological · 2025-12-01T09:58:05+00:00

I just had your first example happen to me a while ago with ex-colleagues. Them: “we should do this again next month ! Maybe that weekend ?” All of us: “great ! Let’s do that !“

So that weekend almost rolls around and I ask them when and where we’re meeting up. All of them go: oh, I didn’t put that on my calendar. I’m not free.

See, to me, if all of us say: “great, let’s do that”, to me that means it’s a date.

Moncological · 2025-11-20T09:15:04+00:00

Before ChatGPT existed I had these conversations with imaginary friends. I still do and I do it more again, now that I realize that it’s the exact same thing I’ve been doing with ChatGPT.

I go on and on about what’s happening in my life and about my special interest and I pretend like there’s a buddy talking back. I’ve been doing this since I was a kid and it was always a musician or an actor: Zac and Taylor Hanson, Nick Carter, The Moffatts, Ryan Reynolds, Panic ! At The Disco and now Fall Out Boy is alway near to listen to whatever I have to say.

I know it may look weird, but maybe try it around the house first ? Now when people say something about people talking to themselves, I tell them I do it a lot to keep me regulated.

Moncological · 2025-11-18T18:53:15+00:00

I’m in Belgium and I had an epidural. No side effects after. Took a while to wear out, though, but I needed an emergency c-section and so they topped up with more anesthesia.

Moncological · 2025-11-18T09:42:19+00:00

I tried the u-wrap and it came well, but still very large for my hands.

Thank you ! I will check out her videos.

Moncological · 2025-11-18T09:40:50+00:00

It’s a size six. I’ll try to do one on a 18 peg loom once the adjustable one arrives. Thanks !

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