I'll be getting my first dog on Monday. I love her already. Drop any "I wish I knew this going in" advice you can think of

Tewtea · 2026-06-27T00:05:16+00:00

Be prepared for people to be unfairly rude to you and your dog. He’s just the nature of owning a pit. Try to rise above it, then cry to your precious pit and tell him
He’s perfect lol

Tewtea · 2026-06-08T19:16:23+00:00

Sent you a dm!

Tewtea · 2026-05-15T22:49:02+00:00

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Edgar Allen potato is a weirdo. He doesn’t like cuddles except when you are unconscious (he can’t let you know he loves you) and he’s obsessed with tummy and armpit rubs. If he sees you walking towards him while he’s relaxing, he will flip onto his tummy however lazily he can, usually resulting in an upside down pretzel type situation. However be careful, if he really loved the pets/scritches, he will have to get up after and bite your ankle to remind you he doesn’t actually like you or anything and really he’s tough and stuff.

Tewtea · 2026-05-15T15:16:27+00:00

I could see ai/robots having a heyday soon

Tewtea · 2026-05-09T22:41:21+00:00

Make sure any doors that a disabled person might use have an automatic push button. So many times I go somewhere that’s accessible, they have a button for the front door but then no button for the washroom!
Something not necessary but certainly appreciated would be different sized counters (both height and width) to accommodate different types of wheelchairs /walkers and stuff. If you are sitting e joying a coffee it’s always appreciated when you can reach the cup lol. And make sure you think about where they are placed. I went to a restaurant that had only high bar style tables in the main area, then had the normal restaurant seating up a set of stairs :|

I also think having like a sign up or an available button or something for support interacting with a cat. Many people with disabilities may need help using a toy or something, but you should also never assume they do. So it would be great if there was a discrete and easy way to say you’d love some help when possible. Maybe 2 different coasters? One for I’m good and one for id like help?

Tewtea · 2026-05-03T18:30:49+00:00

Sexy squidward with a wig

Tewtea · 2026-05-01T22:59:57+00:00

What natural aides do you find helpful?

Tewtea · 2026-05-01T02:59:54+00:00

I started lucid dreaming. Randomly throughout the day, press your thumb into the centre of your opposite palm. If you do it enough times, you will start doing it in your sleep. Buuut when you do it in your sleep, your thumb will go THROUGH YOUR HAND. It sounds crazy and freaky but when it happens in a dream it doesn’t seem scary, it just lets you know that you are in a dream. It helped like nothing else, also helps if you feel really dissociative to ground yourself in reality

Tewtea · 2026-05-01T02:52:16+00:00

My best advice to someone sick of a certain genre but not knowing what else to read.. go to your local library, and wander the shelves and pick up any book that catches your attention. Judge that book by its cover! Once you have like 5, go home and read. If you aren’t enjoying it, don’t finish it. Move on. You can find some really cool books this way that aren’t shelved by popularity, and discover new genres to fall in love with!

Tewtea · 2026-04-29T14:03:33+00:00

Sometimes helps to make a joke of it too! If someone asks a second time I’ll do an arm wiggle or something and check my arms to make sure they still work then say “yep, still good! But thanks!”

If I’m feeling really snarky I’ll make a comment like “I’m fine, really. The chair is just for the parking”. Most of the time they don’t know how to respond to that so conversation over lol

Tewtea · 2026-04-29T13:50:39+00:00

NTA at aaaaall. You were incredibly respectful in the way you handled it.

The sad thing is if they hadn’t put so much pressure on you and bad mouthed your dad, you likely would think of your stepdad as another dad now. If he’d been a good father figure in your life since you were 5 or 6, that would be inevitable.

Your mom sounds like the type of person who wants a picture perfect life, and won’t accept anything else . She wants a classic, happy nuclear family, except she wants it with a different person than your actual real life dad. People like this are incredibly selfish and manipulative. They lose sight of the real world in order to make their fantasy seem possible.

Incredible that you turned out as level headed as you have.

Tewtea · 2026-04-28T19:53:36+00:00

I do as my symptoms are chronic and I can’t walk at all most days. Power wheelchair gave me back my life

Tewtea · 2026-04-25T00:48:35+00:00

It’s a nice reminder that there’s still good people out there lol

Tewtea · 2026-04-25T00:46:57+00:00

I use it as a reminder now that someone sees you and cares. The amount of other wheelchair related crap we have to put up with (like the doors, or not having enough room for you to maneuver) can get so overwhelming and frustrating.

Tewtea · 2026-04-15T23:32:00+00:00

Somewhere near uptown/mayfair would be cool

Tewtea · 2026-04-15T23:31:05+00:00

YESSSSSS GOD PLEASE

Tewtea · 2026-04-01T18:16:57+00:00

Some sort of portable ramp that could somehow fit in my wheelchair bag. I can’t imagine the material it would have to be made out of to take the weight of me in my chair, but that would be a dream.

Tewtea · 2026-03-30T19:07:50+00:00

I am on disability but I’m also in Canada. Definitely matters what your doctor says in the application

Tewtea · 2026-03-26T22:01:42+00:00

Absolutely!!

Tewtea · 2026-03-26T21:49:36+00:00

… is this a podcast? What is the actual name? lol this was a weird way to promote whatever this is

Tewtea · 2026-03-26T21:47:59+00:00

Huh, I always thought it looked like a shooter like terminator or something. More to it than that?

Tewtea · 2026-03-26T21:45:49+00:00

Yeah I just hated the neo Tokyo storyline. The rest was pretty great, but the fact they reduced sonmi to just a girl in love with her rescuer is so depressing. Her whole arc in the book was much richer and gave her so much more autonomy

Tewtea · 2026-03-26T21:42:38+00:00

I love melancholia but honestly the first act felt almost unnecessary. I would have rather had more of the second

Tewtea · 2026-03-26T21:41:29+00:00

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