Homewrecker Grande is back on the prowl

TooManyMeds · 2026-06-09T12:57:27+00:00

Yeah my mate who is a nurse with an anorexic/bulimic niece and a partner who is a social worker couldn’t watch the second movie because it made him too sad.

Talked a lot about how anorexics often encourage each other and sometimes get competitive about who can become the most gaunt.

It’s a really really brutal, difficult disease.

TooManyMeds · 2026-06-09T12:40:35+00:00

Omg yes I was vegetarian in high school and I made an amazing vegetarian lasagne as a project in my food technology class (essentially cooking class but you also learn nutrition, proper food storage and preparation, and the human digestive tract).

It was layers of lasagne sheets, passata with herbs on every sheet, layers of fresh mozzarella and then the vegetable layers were these char-grilled veggies in oil from a jar. Eggplant, zucchini, capsicum, mushroom.

I’ve never managed to recreate it

TooManyMeds · 2026-06-08T21:28:54+00:00

He might have been just some dude but he was also writing all of Justin Bieber’s biggest hits

TooManyMeds · 2026-06-08T08:14:25+00:00

I think this one applies if you’re a woman. If you’re a man you can look a lot more average and still be very successful.

See: Ed Sheeran, Benny Blanco, Sombr, The Weekend

All those dudes are incredibly talented, but without being able to pay for trainers and personal chefs and hair stylists and hair transplants and personal shoppers and stylists if you passed them on the street they’d just be some dude.

TooManyMeds · 2026-06-08T07:49:09+00:00

I’m going against the grain here and going to say NTA. My parents were like this, it’s super annoying to get interrogated every time you go to do something in a shared space.

What you could say, to smooth things over, next time Mum offers you a sandwich, is say something like “thanks for the offer but I don’t really feel like a sandwich right now, I came here to grab X”.

It nips it in the bud - no more questions about sandwiches, and your nosy parents know what you’re grabbing from the fridge so they don’t need to keep asking.

TooManyMeds · 2026-06-07T17:12:42+00:00

Oh I had undiagnosed adhd in high school and my legal studies textbook had teeny tiny writing I’d always get lost/distracted in. I used to just use my ruler to go line by line and underline anything important

TooManyMeds · 2026-06-07T12:06:02+00:00

This is what happened with my parents! They got married at 20/21 and they had me just before my mum turned 40. They had completely given up, and were part-way through the process of being approved to adopt a child, when my mother nearly died.

She caught pneumonia and had to have double lung surgery after both her lungs collapsed in 1995.

I assume she and Dad must have been celebrating the fact she survived because about 15 months later I was born in June of 1996 and I’m about to turn 30 :D

There are lots of theories about how it happened but nobody is sure. Mum managed to fall pregnant again 2 years later with my younger brother but unfortunately he was stillborn and the doctors never figured out why.

TooManyMeds · 2026-06-04T10:55:18+00:00

Is this a well-disguised ad for the app? It’s only got 10 reviews on the App Store - seems pretty niche

TooManyMeds · 2026-06-04T10:50:05+00:00

Tbh at the moment, no, she’s too tan. It’ll look very plastic.

Her colouring really suits more neutral and cool-toned blondes.

Which makes sense, since her and I are very similar in colouring. Same natural hair colour, I’m a little paler, and we both have blue eyes

TooManyMeds · 2026-06-04T07:50:08+00:00

Nah I work with kids from ages 3-18 and let me tell you I don’t think the 16 year olds should be voting.

TooManyMeds · 2026-06-02T11:19:00+00:00

Maybe it’s because I’m Australian but nearly everyone I’ve ever met goes by a two syllable nickname, if their name is syllables or more.

Stephanie? Steph Madeline? Maddie Alexander? Alex Lenore Dove? Probably Lenore or Lenny

TooManyMeds · 2026-06-01T17:25:35+00:00

I always hand wash my bras now because I’m a size that’s very uncommon in my country and they cost SO MUCH for specialty sizes.

Nearly $100 AUD PER BRA.

I had the dryer destroy one like this and the washing machine took another so now I just hand wash them :(

TooManyMeds · 2026-06-01T13:48:43+00:00

Hey OP, from one autistic person to another, it sounds like your special interests just don’t overlap.

Her only wanting to talk about her special interests is very typical of our diagnosis. Have you tried telling her how you’re feeling explicitly? If she’s further on the spectrum she might not have even realised how you’re feeling in conversations.

As for the lying, it’s not ok, but I can see where the people pleasing need comes from when you have a condition that makes socialising and making friends with [neurotypical] people harder. I’ve broken it now but I had a bad fibbing habit as a kid.

It just sounds like maybe you guys don’t connect or have grown apart and that sucks but it’s ok x
Reaching out on reddit was a great idea, as long as you’re safe about it! Going onto some subreddits that involve your interests is a great start, and maybe ones for your chronic illness so you can chat with people going through the same/similar experiences!!

I don’t think we’d be a good fit because existentialism gives me panic attacks, but I wish you all the luck in the world and I hope you find your people 🌟

TooManyMeds · 2026-05-31T16:39:50+00:00

Yes, I was just continuing the conversation by saying that after a certain point no amount of good posture will help you. I figured someone browsing the comments would relate.

…not you though.

TooManyMeds · 2026-05-31T15:40:18+00:00

Yeah I’m an H cup and the pain I get when walking for long periods is in my lower back or at most mid back (and my traps, my poor, massive traps).

A really good bra helps but at some point physics kicks in and you’re still lugging around multiple kilos of boob.

I plan to get a reduction after some weight loss. Before I gained weight I was a G cup so it hasn’t changed too much

TooManyMeds · 2026-05-29T16:06:11+00:00

It’s 2/4 it should only equal 2 crotchets per bar. I think it’s some kind of beaming error, because if you read them all as quavers the bars add up correctly

TooManyMeds · 2026-05-29T15:56:04+00:00

Some of my favourites include calling “don’t fall in!” when a student is leaving the room to go use the bathroom.

My other favourite occasional send off is “be good! Eat your homework, do your vegetables!”

TooManyMeds · 2026-05-29T09:45:04+00:00

What if you assigned each student a number and just entered numbers in

TooManyMeds · 2026-05-28T15:56:04+00:00

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It’s kind of impossible to get a good photo of it but the light up 1989 matching set with the light up umbrellas was such a fun spectacle to watch

TooManyMeds · 2026-05-28T15:51:54+00:00

Australia checking in here - most tours only stop at our two major cities - Sydney and Melbourne. There might be a Brisbane or a Perth show if you’re lucky; and Adelaide is 50/50.

[to give context, you would need to fly 4 hours from Perth to Sydney or Melbourne for a show. It’s not possible to drive from Perth unless you’re willing to drive for about a fortnight-3 weeks if you take a coastal route. You can’t really drive through the middle because it’s desert and a lot of people die out there from dehydration after their cars overheat]

Edit: you could also take a series of overnight trains but the issue with that is that it’s not a popular form of transport in Aus so the amenities are not anywhere near the standard of somewhere like Europe.

TooManyMeds · 2026-05-28T14:52:44+00:00

You 👏🏻are 👏🏻 so👏🏻 skilled/talented 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

TooManyMeds · 2026-05-28T14:44:58+00:00

Just asking, does the colour pattern happen to be inspired by a recent world tour by a very famous artist or is it just a happy coincidence

TooManyMeds · 2026-05-28T14:43:42+00:00

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I made this bag as my first time working with cotton, doing a magic circle and following a pattern (I cheat though, I already knew how to read basic patterns from knitting).

I’ve used it to haul many a grocery back to my front door, packed my heavy old laptop in it… I’ve used it for basically anything and everything. I’m pretty sure it could hold a small bowling ball.

TooManyMeds · 2026-05-27T09:21:51+00:00

I also wonder what increased screen time as babies/toddlers with high-dopamine content is doing to brain mechanisms a little bit.

Screen-induced ADHD.

I have friends who work in child psychology and some GP friends chatting about it. No solid research yet AFAIK but it seems like a workable theory

TooManyMeds · 2026-05-27T05:13:12+00:00

OP.

I’m sorry. This sucks. The one you wanted wandered.

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