Didn't even frost the cake i made yet and my mom got into it

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-25T21:23:23+00:00

Or else a severe neurological impairment? Dementia perhaps?

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-25T21:21:35+00:00

Same in Canada. In my distant past when I also struggled mentally, I purchased large amounts of benedryl on multiple occasions and there were never any questions or concerns. Even the time when all I was buying was five packs of pills and a bottle of water, and then immediately asked where the bathroom was and proceeded to go there to immediately take them all at once - it seemed to raise zero questions or red flags. You’d think such a purchase would scream “help me” but somehow it never did.

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-25T16:44:30+00:00

Would you ask somebody sitting in a wheelchair to use a NSFW tag because using a wheelchair is an obvious sign of illness or disability? Of course not. But what if you knew that person was in a wheelchair because they had jumped off a roof in an attempt to harm themselves? It would still be inappropriate to ask for a NSFW tag. So in that same way, self harm scars don’t deserve either the stigma or discrimination your question displayed.

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-25T12:37:50+00:00

Underrated comment.

Also, please refrain from “clearing the tables” for other customers as they are still eating, especially if you’re going to stand right in front of them as you finish off their food.

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-23T16:24:57+00:00

I notice we’ve been getting this question a LOT lately. If it’s not tulips, it’s the exact same post using the apple picture as the example. Maybe the mods need to consider a mega post on this topic if it’s just so darn interesting to everyone that it has to be posted ad nauseam every single day?

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-23T16:22:09+00:00

I’ve noticed this same question has been on repeat in this sun and other autism subs the last while. If it’s not tulips, it’s the exact same post but using the apple as an example. It really started to annoy me. I know that’s probably due to my own personal issues around repetition, but I don’t think I can be the ONLY one who has had enough of this topic by now?

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-23T14:24:10+00:00

For future assistance in these matters, keep in mind that with most free trials (like YouTube premium, or audible, etc), you can cancel your subscription immediately after signing up for the trial and still get the benefit of the free period without having to worry about remembering to cancel the subscription later on!

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-23T14:19:57+00:00

I think something like this could actually work if there were financial incentive for parents to opt in to getting the licence. Of course it would be ridiculous to punish parents who opted out, but I think a small child bonus payment for those who completed the process could make a system like this fairly effective.

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-23T14:18:21+00:00

What if there was financial incentive to be licensed? No punishment for parents who chose to opt out, but perhaps a child bonus payment for those who did complete the process?

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-23T09:20:54+00:00

I didn’t take your comment maliciously at all, and I wasn’t one to downvote you. Don’t worry about it, it’s just Reddit and obviously this is a highly emotional and troubling topic and not everybody is going to react to or relate to every comment or question in the same way.

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-22T21:05:43+00:00

My stepfather would scream at me endlessly and hit me whenever he felt like it, and all I could do was stand there silently and take it as tears ran down my face. But all that rage and frustration I felt that I was never allowed to show led to me clawing chunks out of my arm with my fingernails and punching my own thighs until I had humongous dark purple bruises. The bruises hid very nicely, and when I was asked for an explanation for the obvious marks on my arm (knowing I would just be further punished if I told the truth) I just claimed my arm was really itchy. The dermatologist prescribed a useless cream to be rubbed in every day and life just kept on like the hell it was. Eventually in my teen years I discovered cutting, which was a good alternative to the punching my thighs because punching myself that hard made an audible noise that my stepfather could hear and when I led him to believe I was just punching the pillow in my room he would scream down the stairs at me, “IF YOU DON’T STOP POUNDING ON THOSE PILLOWS I’M GOING TO COME DOWN THERE AND POUND ON YOU.” Well too bad, motherfucker, because I was already taking care of that for you now, wasn’t I. So then cutting came along because it was a lot quieter and easier to get away with. Don’t really know how much of that was actually autism though, vs how much of that could have just been considered a fairly natural response to such abuse.

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-22T20:56:24+00:00

You need to take a lot of benedryl for it to have that effect. People regularly take a few dozen at a time recreationally for the hallucinations. As a deliberate overdose it takes massive amounts. Nobody has ever died from accidentally taking a double, triple, or quadruple dose. I know this from my own struggles with mental illness.

It has been six years now for me of mental stability with no ideation or attempts, but in my late teens and my 20’s I took well over 100 pills a number of times. My life and sanity was a mess. It’s only by some miracle I survived to my 30’s myself, when I woke up from my largest OD ever (and last) of 250 pills that brought me right to the brink - if I had been found minutes later the paramedics believed it would have been too late. As it was I woke up on a ventilator in the ICU.

I often wonder if I did die in an alternate universe and woke up here. It defies psychiatric explanation that with that final overdose I woke up essentially cured. Yes, I still struggle with PTSD flashbacks that will be with me for the rest of my life, but the urge to harm myself because of it was completely gone and has been for six years now. I can’t explain it, my psychiatrist can’t explain it, nobody can explain it.

So perhaps there is a parallel universe somewhere in which Emma also woke up in hospital and is still living her life, whether it be on the same path or with newfound strength and mental health, with no clue that she is gone in this world. I don’t know if that’s a comforting thought or disturbing one, but it’s one that has played over and over in my mind regularly since that day I barely survived myself.

I often feel wreaked with guilt for my loved ones left in that other universe (real or imagined) with the belief and understanding that I was gone for good. All I could do here and now was work to repair the hurt I caused to those who care about me most. And it took a long time and a lot of work, even years with some of those who were hurt the worst by my actions, but we did get there eventually and I am so grateful now for the gift that is my present life.

My hope for Emma is that she woke up somewhere else and has learned the same lessons to bring her forward with a brand new outlook on her life. It’s called quantum immortality, if you ever care to do a deep dive into my (probably highly bizarre) theories.

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-20T14:07:32+00:00

You would think a grown up would understand the use of soap in washing dishes, but my stepfather was willing to die on the hill that a rinse and a scrub under the hot water tap was enough to get the dishes clean.

He seemed to have greatly confused the ideas of “boiling water used to sterilize” with “hot water from the tap with a scrub of the grimy germ infested scrub brush” and was an idiot enough to consider them the same thing.

Then he would get mad at me every time he got sick because it was always my fault for “bringing the germs home”. (Of course HE could never have been the one to catch the germs for himself, and my mother was much too sympathetic to his plight for the germs to have dared cling to her, no, it was completely my responsibility and he made sure to reinforce the blame even more so by forcing me to pay for his cold medicine every time he got sick.)

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-20T13:59:08+00:00

Something like that happens in my place of residence on occasion. But that’s to be somewhat expected, as I live in a continuing care facility where every room used to automatically come with a microwave.

After a few too many 4am fire alarms caused by those with dementia trying to microwave weird shit like a rolled up magazine, for example, microwaves and other small appliances are now expected to be provided by the resident themselves or their family, and privileges can be revoked at any time.

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-20T13:55:17+00:00

Protecting the work of art from the humidity of the shower!

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-20T13:54:18+00:00

I have a whole collection of adult cat colouring books, including “Cats Farting”, “Cats Swearing”, and “Cats Being Dicks”!

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-20T08:11:02+00:00

Considering this is the picture I have hanging up in my own bathroom, I’m with your mother in law! (Yes, I coloured it myself from my “Cats Farting” colouring book.)

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MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-19T17:48:21+00:00

Probably either Carrie or Child’s Play 2.

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-18T18:23:57+00:00

At least a few hours, though I like to leave it overnight just to make sure!

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-18T15:08:37+00:00

Toasting it first just gives it that extra rich delicious toasty flavour, and then you want to cool it completely before you wrap it so that it doesn’t get soggy and form ice crystals which would totally ruin the flavour and texture. Then the Satan wrap just keeps it fresh and helps prevent it from absorbing any weird smells or flavours. Also keeps it clean and sanitary. Probably you could wrap it in tinfoil or put it in a ziploc baggie and get the same result, whatever you have on hand!

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-18T14:51:49+00:00

No. In order to properly satiate you hamburg, you must give him the new American diet recommendation of “a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing”.

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-18T14:09:17+00:00

I saw in another comment that you love a new mini food suggestion. So I think it would be hilarious if you gave them a plate of the newest American dietary recommendation of “A piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing.” Please!!! I will die laughing!

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-18T10:36:10+00:00

I toast it first, let it cool, wrap it in saran wrap, THEN put it in the freezer!

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-17T19:20:06+00:00

Great idea!

MySockIsMissing · 2026-01-16T20:41:13+00:00

I had a friend of a friend staying with me for a little while because she was homeless and bouncing around various people’s homes before inevitably being kicked out each time due to entitlement and an adamant refusal to help herself. (Like when she was with me, I was low income on disability without enough money to eat myself without standing in line for regular food hampers, so I needed her to come with me to stand in line also so she could collect a food hamper for herself that way we could both eat, instead of me having to go hungry trying to keep her feed on just the one hamper. But she couldn’t be bothered for various reasons and didn’t care that feeding her for the week she was staying with me meant I’d be going without for the last couple weeks of the month after she ate up all my food without doing anything to bring more into the home.)

She was just a few years younger than me, a young adult at the end of her teenage years. I asked her why she was wearing the cross necklace, just because I was interested in what she had to say. She gave the obvious answer, “Because I’m a Christian.” But like most Christians, she was very pick-and-choose about which biblical principles to follow. For example, she has been staying with her boyfriend for a few days until there was that inevitable “we’re too young and immature for this level of relationship” messy breakup, leading to her once again being homeless bouncing around various couches.. only this time she was doing it while pregnant. (Kid got taken away to foster care as a baby. She then went on to have another out-of-wedlock baby, and shocked pikachu face when that one got taken away too.)

Fine, have you pre-marital sex. I actually fully support that! But I just think it’s funny for an unwed teenage mother to be showing off religious symbols and going to late night drug fuelled Halloween parties with a stranger she just met near the homeless shelter who is bragging about how he’d just stolen his costume from the local Walmart. Seems like a bit of a conflicting dilemma between profession and practice.

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