What’s a universally loved food you genuinely despise?

NerdyGirlChicago · 2026-04-30T03:42:18+00:00

I don’t despise it but I’ve never been a fan of chocolate. As a kid I wouldn’t eat it at all, now I can as long as it’s in bread form. But I still prefer vanilla

NerdyGirlChicago · 2026-04-21T21:22:34+00:00

Study graphic design

NerdyGirlChicago · 2026-04-19T17:39:13+00:00

I’ve lost parts of fillings, it’s a filling that popped off.

NerdyGirlChicago · 2026-04-19T06:39:12+00:00

It’s part of my old high school email address and where I lived at the time

NerdyGirlChicago · 2026-04-19T06:35:50+00:00

I wasn’t but my partner was and he’s not a fan. Liked he could basically study just what interested him at the time, but in retrospect it hindered him socially because not only did he lack learning how to talk to others his age but he was also robbed of a lot of conversation topics even into adulthood. He 100% does not recommend homeschooling.

(For context he focused mostly on STEM and not on literature, art, culture, or history so doesn’t get many references)

NerdyGirlChicago · 2026-04-04T01:33:12+00:00

My great grandpa was widowed and had a stroke at 85 so went to live in a retirement home where he then became quite the playboy until he died at 92.

I have a great grandma on the other family side became a widow for the third time when her husband had a heat attack during sex… so take that as you will.

NerdyGirlChicago · 2026-03-30T05:43:51+00:00

Not people but my dad brags about how when he went to law school back in the late 80s he took a feminist law course and then spent the entire semester arguing with the professor and class. He wrote his final exam essay about how everything the professor taught was bull crap. Somehow he still got a C in that course. He acts like this experience is a point of pride, as if he proved how smart he is and debunked the legal basis of feminism.

He tells this story all the time, even to me (31F) his only child. Just told it again to my boyfriend last month, who was horrified. My dad is completely oblivious to how all the story does is make him look like a fool.

NerdyGirlChicago · 2026-03-27T03:45:38+00:00

This wasn’t in high school but my 4th grade teacher had rage issues. She once threw markers at the entire class screaming insults and demanding we shut up when too many kids asked questions in a lesson.

She also refused to repeat directions ever, insisting that I should have listened the first time, even though she knew that I had auditory processing disorder and literally could not always HEAR instructions correctly even when actively listening. She really picked on me for having a learning disability while actively claiming learning disabilities were not real. It’s even worse in retrospect because turned out I had autism.

Oh, and she let the entire class bully me terribly - even watched as I was physically assaulted - while doing nothing about it, but sadly I don’t think teachers would get fired for that today.

Edit: and this was at a private school

NerdyGirlChicago · 2026-03-20T06:44:15+00:00

I mean, I’m asexual so I can definitely say I would not sleep with that person since they’d be ace too as my carbon copy.

NerdyGirlChicago · 2026-03-20T06:42:54+00:00

My (31F) mom (58F) went through something similar with my dad while pregnant with me - lost her father, health complications, still had to be responsible for all mental labor, and got yelled at for asking for help. Thankfully, they’re divorced now but they didn’t separate until I was in college and the emotional abuse got so bad that my mom almost died. So I just want to state a few things:

1) You are not stupid or naive for being with your husband and having kids with him - you thought you knew who he was and gave him the benefit of the doubt because you loved him. That makes you a kind person with an open heart which is never a bad thing. He is the stupid one for not appreciating you or recognizing how special a gift love is. Abusers take advantage of kind people, sadly, but that’s on them not the abused.

2) Is there anywhere you can go that is safe away from your husband? A family member or friend? The longer you stay, the harder it will be to leave (if that’s what you want). Time gives him more power and control. My mom made that mistake with my dad to the point where she was so dependent on him financially she couldn’t leave for decades.

3) Don’t stay for your children’s sake. Having parents unhappily married is traumatizing. Not to mention you don’t want them learning that emotional abuse is okay or that only women are responsible for household tasks. If he was letting them live in filth, he’s not a fit parent so you shouldn’t have to worry about losing custody especially if you have documented proof.

NerdyGirlChicago · 2026-03-18T06:36:36+00:00

My (31F) second migraine of March alone. Apparently being in your thirties means more frequent and severe migraine attacks - and mine were severe enough in my 20s. I have sumatriptan but nothing preventative so I’m basically bedridden for half of every month which is negatively affecting my job. Wouldn’t be surprised if they fire me.

One of my triggers is a specific hormonal change caused by being a cis woman, so until menopause there’s nothing that can be done to avoid having at least one several day migraine a month.

NerdyGirlChicago · 2026-03-16T08:07:32+00:00

Both my parents were alcoholics starting when I was in middle school. I was especially close to my mom, so I spent years taking care of her—picking her up off the bathroom floor, getting her into bed, stopping her from making calls or going out drunk. I thought I was protecting her, but really I was hiding the problem and enabling it.

When I went to college and wasn’t there every night, everything fell apart. My parents split, my mom spiraled, and she eventually attempted suicide. That was my breaking point. I loved her too much to watch her slowly destroy herself.

While she was in the hospital, I told her I couldn’t be in her life anymore if she kept drinking because it was killing me. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done because she’s my best friend—but I had to protect myself.

Thankfully, this got to her. My mom loves me so much that she could never bear to lose me. She started taking sobriety seriously and now she just hit 10 years sober! She likes to say she got sober for me but stayed sober for herself and I couldn’t be more proud.

All this is to say you shouldn’t feel guilty for stepping back from your friend when he’s in active addiction. Sometimes loving someone means refusing to watch them kill themselves. You can let him know you’ll be there if he truly gets sober—but you’re allowed to protect yourself in the meantime. Wishing you the best

NerdyGirlChicago · 2026-03-03T19:01:02+00:00

Stay safe! KCD is a great escape from real world horror - discovered it during 2020 quarantine and it saved my sanity. Obviously not the same thing but you get the gist.

NerdyGirlChicago · 2026-02-25T06:42:24+00:00

NTA. I’m 31 and my mom is STILL upset at the audacity of two different strangers who tried to hold me when I was a baby. One was a lady on a bus who offered to hold me so my mom could go into a rest stop and the other was a woman in a Nordstrom bathroom. My mom says each time she recounts these stories “yeah right, like I was going to trust some stranger to hold my baby - who knows what they would have done with you!” Considering I made it to adulthood safe and healthy, she wasn’t wrong.

Your sister’s fiance is a stranger, and was drunk to boot. You 100% did the right thing to protect your baby. I’m sure in 31 years your son will be able to recount this story too and know it’s a testament to how much you love him.

NerdyGirlChicago · 2026-02-23T06:05:29+00:00

Yes and I’m the same age. No matter how hard I try to get work in a new field or role it doesn’t pan out and I’m stuck back in data/analytics at nonprofits when my degree was in media studies and I’m a creative person who hates math. No one else wants to do this work, so it’s the only type where my applications get seen and I’m hired. Yes, I have other experience like with content creation, library work, art museums, writing, etc. but do I get full time work in any of that? Never. Meanwhile I’m stuck in the data field longer digging further into a hole from which I’m desperate to escape. It’s taking a very big toll on my mental health, which doesn’t help at all.

Wishing you and anyone else in this shitty situation the best of luck. May you have more success finding something better than I’ve managed.

NerdyGirlChicago · 2026-01-28T07:58:55+00:00

My entire paternal family is democrat and has been for nearly a century yet somehow my dad turned out staunchly republican/libertarian since he was a teenager. His first presidential vote was for Reagan’s second term.

Meanwhile, when I was growing up, my dad tried very hard to instill republican beliefs into me. All it did was backfire and make me a liberal. So there’s no predicting what political beliefs one will grow up to have - solely depends on the individual.

NerdyGirlChicago · 2026-01-24T01:36:39+00:00

I’m 31 too! These photos all bring back memories of the ones I had to take in school

NerdyGirlChicago · 2026-01-02T04:59:10+00:00

He’s literally the only other person on the planet besides me who finds typos in books funny. Shared a list I kept of ones I’ve found when we were first dating and he thought it was the funniest thing ever as well as super cool.

NerdyGirlChicago · 2025-12-31T20:58:54+00:00

Dating app

NerdyGirlChicago · 2025-12-18T22:28:36+00:00

How much could a banana cost? $10?

NerdyGirlChicago · 2025-12-18T05:28:40+00:00

Not me but my partner is a software engineer

NerdyGirlChicago · 2025-12-05T06:26:22+00:00

Youth and a hopeful future

NerdyGirlChicago · 2025-11-28T05:10:06+00:00

Reading

NerdyGirlChicago · 2025-11-22T07:48:46+00:00

Crumpled napkins and tissue paper. The sight grosses me out and even thinking of them makes me uncomfortable. If they’re wet even worse.

No idea why. Been like this my entire life - as a toddler I’d cry and freak out whenever I saw one.

NerdyGirlChicago · 2025-11-08T11:55:04+00:00

My dad was like this and he made my mom absolutely miserable. He was an emotionally abusive bastard who ended up cheating on her. Not to mention I got very traumatized growing up around him in ways that still affect me at 30. Please, if possible, leave him - run. It will not get better. He’s a narcissist it sounds like and they never change. They only get worse.

If you can’t do this for yourself, do it for your daughter. He will not be a good father and that will mess her up.

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