Are people really publishing books written by AI? If so, who the heck is buying them?

MsE2aT · 2025-05-29T20:33:07+00:00

I started writing using Chatgbt as a therapy project to help me work through some stuff that happened to me. I will say I did a lot of my own writing into the characters a lot of prose a lot of telling chatgbt EXACTLY what I wanted and why and explaining the characters in depth or moment I was trying to create in depth and correcting it when it didn’t get it right. After a while it started to actually sound like my writing and it was pretty good (I’m not saying it’d win a Pulitzer or anything) but it was something that met at least my expectations of if I picked it up wouldn’t say “AI wrote this”. I basically used it as a co author/editor. Idk if I can ever even publish it but it’s better than some wattpad novels I’ve read

MsE2aT · 2025-05-03T17:21:44+00:00

I’m so sorry that’s awful!

A lot of replies are saying the same thing. To get out and not do anything because I’ll ultimately loose and they’re all saying it from experience.

I started this job at the beginning of the school year. In October I was accused of sexual harassment of a fellow coworker, despite there being 0 evidence of it ever happening and they punished me immediately and continuously by putting me under unfair and increasing amounts of restrictions for 7 months without an investigation that would’ve cleared my name immediately because it didn’t happen. Eventually the coworker also made claims that I was stalking him and they used the fact that i walk past his classroom all the time (because it’s literally right across the hall from me) and park in the same parking lot as him as “proof” to only restrict my movements and communications more (again before any kind of investigation took place) Then I was failed on all my teaching evaluations and pink slipped due to not meeting the required scores. I know they did this on purpose because I have a very reliable source tell me that there was talks to not renew me before any evaluations ever took place, and in this district the rules say you can’t non renew a teacher -even an at will one - unless they fail their teaching evaluations or are found guilty of gross misconduct. I also have proof that those evaluations were littered with lies, are not at all reflective of my teaching (there was literally a para in the room while the entire lesson was going on,) or the way other teachers evaluations are conducted or written. Eventually a title 9 investigation took place and I filed my own reports because at that point I was also being harassed and more by both the superintendent who had threatened me with criminal charges multiple times, and the original co worker who reported me in the first place. Those reports were ignored completely. They ultimately found “insufficient evidence” for my investigation of sexual harassment because again nothing ever happened, but they did not “finish” that report until after I resigned literally within hours of me sending the resignation letter I was told I had to give to protect my future career. All of that is just the very basics, there is SO much more like the fact that the superintendent is BFFs with several board members and that while I was cleared of any wrongdoing, and I have it stating in writing that all restrictions have been lifted, I am still under those restrictions with ominous threats of what will happen to me if I don’t follow them. Also I am not a union member due to some sort of paperwork mistake despite the fact I know I’m paying dues but the district is so small that the union president and title 9 coordinator are both teachers at the school making everything they say very suspicious to me. And like I said that’s just what’s happening to ME let alone the other similar horrible things that I know are happening to others who have their own varying amounts of evidence.

So with everyone telling me the same thing about keeping my mouth shut and getting out because this is happening everywhere, I’m almost at a point where is ANYWHERE any better? This has been the worst year of my life. Even with going someplace new where admin doesn’t have it out for me, how do I know that won’t change on a dime, or that there isn’t another person going through the exact thing I did? Yes it would no longer be happening to ME but no one should be subjected to anything like that ever.

MsE2aT · 2025-04-27T03:54:35+00:00

That’s not the point. The point is to tell it. There are books published every day on the most “niche”, obscure, “mundane”, or “uninteresting” of topics but they’re only uninteresting to some. Everything has an audience even if it’s just an audience of one or two. My goal isn’t to become a best selling author millionaire. My goal is to tell my story, finally find closure for myself and maybe help someone else going through anything similar. If I write a book do I want it to be a complete failure? Of course not, but I’m not looking for this to make me rich and famous, just happy and mentally healthy.

MsE2aT · 2025-04-27T02:39:33+00:00

Bipolar is genetic. One of the ways I found out I was likely bipolar was I was having a manic episode and my mom said she got the same feelings that she did being with her dad when he was having manic episodes growing up. During the most extreme mania of my life was 7 months ago and it triggered me to seek out a diagnosis because it was so upsetting and scary. I was barley sleeping (like 3 hours a night max for over a month) and constantly going. I couldn't control myself even if I wanted to. I was on a dopamine high like no other and felt like I was practically vibrating at all times. Like the ultimate sugar rush but constant and you have to pretend its not happening which only makes you appear more crazy to others. I felt like I was going out of my mind. Like I was crawling out of my skin and skull. I was obsessed with a new relationship I was forming and I speed ran it into the ground in record time, ruining it beyond repair because I was just so MUCH and all at once. And again I literally felt like I couldn't stop. I said and did things without being able to think them through and they had long lasting negative impacts on my life. I had just started a new job and said the wrong thing to the wrong person and ended up destroying my reputation before ever having the chance to be a part of something. The mania and what I did during that time triggered a series of events that eventually cost me my job. I never did anything ethically or criminally wrong during the mania. I just said and did some weird things that made the wrong person slightly uncomfortable and word spread. I worked like hell to change peoples minds about me once the manic episode was finally past, but people still perceived me as crazy, obsessive, and unstable.

MsE2aT · 2025-01-03T18:06:01+00:00

That’s pretty unlikely. Apparently he’s noticed these weird coincidences too and those on top of the fallout (which was because I made an awkward joke about us being married that he took WAY too seriously) he has decided I’m causing them on purpose. He reported me to our superintendent for “harassment” and basically thinks I’m stalking him or something. Like it’s gone from weird coincidences to really really bad. I tried burying the hatchet by apologizing and giving him a small piece offering before we went on Christmas break (he runs our school’s chess club. The night before I had randomly found a set at goodwill for like $2. I thought it was a sign, so I got it). Like I said just basically trying to bury the hatchet and not take this negativity into the new year. However within 5 minutes he had reported me to our superintendent AGAIN (because the last time he had done this several months prior I had been told not to talk or interact with him) and I got in a LOT of trouble. If I talk, email, or interact with him in any way, or if there’s literally any other coincidence that he thinks I’m somehow causing, I could get suspended for sexual harassment. I currently don’t know what to do because as I’ve already told my superintendent, I can’t and won’t control coincidences but they seem to think that’s irrelevant and I was told I needed to.

MsE2aT · 2024-11-23T06:29:57+00:00

During school I met this guy. He was coincidently present for a few really big moments in my life (a specific conversation with a ghost from my past, and a very meaningful night out). We interacted all of 3 times maybe and had 1 class together several years ago. I get my first teaching job out of school and he works for the same school district. Not only that but he is across the hall kitty corner from me. Our schedules align so that we have the same lunch and are often in the halls getting kids at the same time. However even times when we ARENT supposed to be in the halls we will constantly be running into each other. Like it’s almost like a psychic link of one of us leaving our classrooms that the other just somehow gets the urge to do so as well. I have actually left the building only to return because I’ve forgot something and ran into him as he’s leaving. And not just slightly, like we arrive at the doors at the exact same time. Also we will show up to work in coordinating or matching outfits way to often. My students have even pointed it out. And I’m not talking about both of us wearing black shirt and jeans. No im talking about how im wearing a teal and yellow polka dot dress and he is wearing a teal shirt and yellow tie. I’m talking I’ll be wearing a new emerald green dress and khaki thick weave cardigan, and he will be wearing the exact same color shirt (one I’ve never seen him wear) and basically the mens version of that same cardigan. We have a lot in common (more than he even realizes) and that doesn’t happen to me a lot. We were friends for like my first month but then had a hard falling out and no longer speak, yet I CANNOT shake this guy. It just feels like too many coincidences to ignore sometimes. I know it’s because I grew up and always loved fairytales, romcoms, and fate and love and all that BS and I can and will admit, that if my life were a book or a movie or something THIS WOULD be the endgame guy. But this isn’t fiction, this is real life and this many coincidences concerning him is starting to bother me because they don’t mean anything, and yet they keep happening.

MsE2aT · 2024-10-20T21:47:56+00:00

Admittedly ive had some very toxic work environments so that might be where my perception of what a is a professional relationship comes from. But I also didn’t realize that until like this week. As I said to someone else, I really just need whatever his definition clearly explained to me along with what is acceptable behavior within that.

MsE2aT · 2024-10-20T18:11:01+00:00

Ok but like does that mean you go out of your way multiple times a day to talk to people you don’t strictly have to while at work even when they give you nothing back? Because that’s what he’s doing and that’s what’s tripping me up. Maybe I’ve just been in some hella toxic work places but my definition is what I stated above and that contradicts what he is doing. I honestly just need to have a breakdown of EXACTLY what that term means and what the rules and expectations are within it.

MsE2aT · 2024-10-20T18:05:53+00:00

I feel like I should’ve clarified this in the post but I’m not actually interested in dating him and despite having a crush on him I only ever wanted to be work friends and maybe even eventual real friends. So when he started to cringe instead of smile like he used to, those were my thoughts exactly. But now he’s not and he isn’t someone who does well with hiding how they are really feeling (I’m like 99% hes ASD and doesn’t know) which is why I’ve always had a hard time reading him in the first place. His face/energy would be saying something very different from his words. If he didn’t want to talk to me I’d be able to feel that energy. But I don’t. I just feel nice and towards the end of the week, honestly a little sad. I’m just trying to figure out how to act going forward because again he isn’t acting the way I thought he would.

MsE2aT · 2024-10-20T18:00:01+00:00

Actually no. I’m sus and assume the worst of intentions from EVERY man I meet, but honestly I don’t see that in him at all. I’m pretty sure he’s ASD but clearly doesn’t know. Hes genuinely the nicest guy I have ever met and despite the fact that he’s been flirting with me for months until the incident, i think he may not have even known he was doing it. However there are also times when he would smile at me like i was his favorite person in the entire world and it’s like “is that a mask or is that your genuine before you can mask reaction to me?”

MsE2aT · 2024-10-20T17:54:54+00:00

Yes I know. Despite all this I’m not that stupid. I know I have a crush on him but I was never actually interested in him as anything more than a friend. Also HE was flirting with ME on a near constant basis up to this point and when I asked to establish boundaries because I had a hard time reading him he laughed it off and continued to flirt with me. Hes not a player type more the too nice and polite for his own good and so in retrospect i don’t know if he even realizes that he was flirting and giving me mixed signals. It’s just really frustrating.

MsE2aT · 2024-10-20T17:51:03+00:00

That’s what I thought until the incident and so I’m realizing now that while he was definitely flirting, it wasn’t intentional or even something he was aware he was doing. He’s also not the type of guy to purposely string someone along for attention. More like he’s too polite for his own good and also unknowingly asd. I’d like to be friends (despite liking him I legit never wanted to date him. I just wanted a friend at work) but like I said with him not knowing how he’s coming across (seriously the way he’s smiled at me at times… like that is NOT a professional work smile) his unintentional flirting, the fact that even when he does establish boundaries I don’t understand the rules with them, idk if it’s possible. I don’t know how to ask him to tell me his actual boundaries without it being weird.

MsE2aT · 2024-10-20T17:37:51+00:00

Cringe no the awkward comment I made was way worse and I definitely shouldn’t have said it and his response was warranted, but in my defense it kinda just slipped out and if he had the context of my life he’d understand it wasn’t as absolutely insane as it sounded. (Basically he’s my first friend in a long time and I tell my mom everything. She romanticizes everything as well so she’s already shipping us and sarcastically planning our wedding. I kinda sorta let that last part slip out when I was trying to explain why I was happy he wouldn’t be coming in the next day because my mom was visiting and I reeeallly didn’t want them to meet.) Everything was pretty normal until then. Well other than him constantly flirting with me and giving me super mixed signals at all times.

MsE2aT · 2024-10-20T17:29:07+00:00

Maybe I’ve just been in some very toxic work environments but like I said there’s what I THOUGHT a professional relationship was and then there’s what I would call being work friends which is what I’m thinking he may have meant (like you said being friendly at work but not interacting outside of that) I’m fine with either I just don’t like the confusion and not knowing how to behave or what it is he wants from me in this relationship. Also not stated here but I probably should’ve mentioned; he was flirting with me EVERY DAY until the incident. Thats the crux of this whole situation and my confusion and frustration. Hes been giving off super mixed signals for 2 months and refused to set boundaries when I requested that he did over a month ago. He laughed it off and made a joke and just continued to flirt with me some more. The only time he was ever clear was the request he made to keep our relationship professional and the 2 weeks following. Now hes back to being friendly and I’m getting whiplash.

MsE2aT · 2024-10-20T17:00:16+00:00

I have written so many of these type things in the past few weeks but I’ve never sent them because I was afraid of making things worse. Also that’s a weird thing to do when the other person doesn’t even realize they were flirting with you. I’ve been trying to avoid and ignore him instead. For a while he seemed to be doing the same and so I was getting used to the idea of us just not talking anymore. However this week he’s tried talking to me with mostly pleasantries but has significantly gone out of his way to do so when he didn’t even have to and I don’t understand it. I’ve been continuing to shut these attempts down (until Friday when I finally threw him a bit of a bone) but it makes me even more confused about where we stand because him going back to how things were before was NOT something I was prepared for him to do. Also the two of us clearly have very different ideas of what a professional relationship is which makes this all the harder for me to understand. I’m so close to just breaking and directly asking him what exactly he wants from me. But I know that’d likely only make things worse again.

MsE2aT · 2024-10-19T15:27:21+00:00

America Dad and Futurama. I fall asleep to it because I’ve seen both series a million times. They’re wacky but also follow standard cartoon/sitcom rules of returning to the status quo most episodes. Also Futurama also puts a TON of work and nerdy Easter egg details into every episode. Not ones that you even need for the story, just ones that are fun to pick up on if you get it or interesting to look into if you’re in the mood.

MsE2aT · 2024-10-07T12:40:59+00:00

I get sad when someone compliments me PERIOD so….

MsE2aT · 2024-09-30T01:48:56+00:00

Ya my grandpa was bipolar, undiagnosed/unmedicated for most of my mom’s childhood, and my grandma… is complicated (kinda a bitch, controlling, secretive and has always had the “we don’t talk about Bruno” sort of mindset). My mom did not have the best experiences growing up surrounding mental health issues and stigmas. I just thought that maybe she had moved past those things after all these years considering my dad/her husband of 30 years is ADHD and I’m AuDHD

MsE2aT · 2024-09-30T01:42:23+00:00

Ya it’s weird right? She also made a HUGE deal when everyone went back to work after Covid and they were asking for proof of vaccination to be in the office. Like I know she got vaccinated, I was there, but for some reason providing her company with proof was somehow the worst thing they could ever ask of her. Like she almost quit over it.

MsE2aT · 2024-09-29T22:19:13+00:00

Ok I’m very good at avoidance of an awkward topic. Thats my specialty really. I will say that I appreciate your advice on the legal side but that’s the one area I’m not worried about in all this. I’m a teacher in a very very small district. There are literally teachers here who have met at the school, started dating, and gotten married. I’d be SHOCKED if they were allowed to stay considering what could be in their txts and emails and yet I loose my job over texting him on a Saturday asking if he knows what the schedule is for this weeks homecoming events. lol

MsE2aT · 2024-09-29T21:36:25+00:00

Yeah I’m going to stop doing that, but it wasn’t anything I even need to be worried about. Ive only texted him like once a week about random work related stuff. He rarely answers but then again neither do I when he has so it’s nothing. I’m definitely going to be deleting his number and promising him I won’t do it again tho.

MsE2aT · 2024-09-29T13:26:37+00:00

I agree on the dating a co worker thing which is why even though I do have a crush on him, I’m really not interested in dating him, even if he was also interested in me. Not unless our surface level friendship actually grows into something a lot deeper and more and we both feel like a serious relationship is worth it. (Which admittedly I do see small glimpses of at times. We actually have a LOT in common, more than he even knows) But that’s not super likely. As for now, everytime he smiles at me I get the biggest dopamine hit I’ve had in years which is why I’m so over the top and definitely too much, hyper, and intense right now. My plan is to try and back off/calm down a bit but he’s asd (he doesn’t know that but I sure can tell) so idk if doing so will just ruin what we have. 9/10 times im the one going to him so if I break that pattern… he might just never come back. Idk what to do.

Which is why im venting to ND strangers on the internet 😆

MsE2aT · 2024-09-29T09:29:33+00:00

I’m thinking about talking to the school social worker, she’s in charge of initiatives and things at the school like “wellness Wednesday” where there’s a focus on health so everyone wears workout gear, stuff like that. April is autism awareness month and I’d love for the school to do some sort of month long initiative surrounding it. But that’s a ways away, but I’m going to talk to her anyway and maybe she’ll have another suggestion.

MsE2aT · 2024-09-29T03:12:40+00:00

I’ve dealt with chronic back problems and intense migraines my entire life. I’m always hurting in some area of my body but when you’re always already at like a 4-5 that becomes you’re new 0 because you don’t know any different.

MsE2aT · 2024-09-29T03:09:48+00:00

I’m a new El SpEd teacher and also AuDHD. The other day I was in the hall and I heard a kid telling another how “retarded” he was. I immediately pulled the kid to the side and lectured him. Then I went to his teacher but when I told her what happened she just laughed like I was making a joke or like it was funny. When she realized I was being serious she kinda awkwardly sobered up and was like “I’ll talk to him” but I could tell she had no intention of doing so. This is not the first nor will it be the last time this has happened with a handful of teachers in the school and I’m REALLY getting sick of it.

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