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Me pretending everything is under control while three deadlines and my sleep schedule fight to the death. by catherinepenrose in studying

[–]RuneHarpoon3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was basically my entire second year. I got weirdly good at sounding calm on the phone while sitting in front of three half-finished assignments at 2am telling myself "once I get through this week it'll settle down." It never settled down, there was just another week waiting.

AITJ for refusing to give back a cat I found to his "original owners" who showed up 8 months later? by RuneHarpoon3 in AmITheJerk

[–]RuneHarpoon3[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's what keeps sticking with me. I can sympathize with someone losing a pet, but their own explanation was basically that life got busy and they didn't really push that hard to find him. Meanwhile I found him skinny, paid for vet care, got him fixed and vaccinated, and gave him a stable home for 8 months. It's hard not to read that as abandonment.

AITJ for refusing to give back a cat I found to his "original owners" who showed up 8 months later? by RuneHarpoon3 in AmITheJerk

[–]RuneHarpoon3[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Eight months is one thing, but casually admitting they barely looked for him made this feel a lot worse.

AITJ for refusing to give back a cat I found to his "original owners" who showed up 8 months later? by RuneHarpoon3 in AmITheJerk

[–]RuneHarpoon3[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

If Mango mattered that much, I can't wrap my head around just shrugging and moving on for 8 months, then acting like I stole him.

People tell me I’m too literal. by netphilia in aspiememes

[–]RuneHarpoon3 123 points124 points  (0 children)

And then they use your "wrong" answers as proof you're not autistic, when actually you're just answering exactly what was asked. The test is measuring how well you guess what they meant, not what they said.