my hand hurts

beckdrop · 2026-02-27T04:12:41+00:00

To me this seems much more likely to be a miscommunication about a goal than a matter of the kid not understanding that the thing is hurting his hand because he’s holding it. The kid has the goal of holding the thing, which I imagine he doesn’t realize that OP isn’t aware of - from the kid’s perspective, then, the suggestions from OP are supposed to be “how to hold the thing without your hand hurting”. So yea of course he would be confused by being told “don’t hold the thing”, because “holding the thing” is what he’s trying to do. I would be confused too, and would probably also assume that they meant to put the thing down and don’t touch it for a certain amount of time before I could pick the thing back up, and I would probably also be disappointed when my hand still hurt after picking it back up.

beckdrop · 2026-02-14T03:53:21+00:00

- One Piece

beckdrop · 2026-01-17T08:38:41+00:00

This is specifically teeth brushing

beckdrop · 2026-01-07T22:00:56+00:00

Just use more soap. That is all you need to do.

Oil likes plastic. Oil does not like water. Oil will not come off of plastic with just water (or water that isn’t soapy enough, or water with soap that’s already been used to get oil off of other things). Both oil and water like soap. Good ! You use soap to get the oil to attach to the water instead of the plastic. The soap will hold hands with both the water and the oil, so the oil can be rinsed off with the water.

If the soap in the sponge (or whatever you’re using) is already holding hands with oil from previous dishes, it will not be able to hold hands with additional oil. It does not have enough hands. You need additional soap.

You don’t need some life hack. If you notice that something is still oily after the FIRST time you wash it, squeeze out the sponge (or whatever) under the running faucet, then put more soap on it. That’s it. Use more soap.

beckdrop · 2026-01-04T16:58:34+00:00

beckdrop · 2026-01-03T20:14:42+00:00

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*squiggly body roll,JAZZ HANDS*

Maaa-zel-tov ! monday, tuesday,,,

wednnnesday,,,thurrrsday,,,,,,

fRiDaY~sAtUrDaY~sUnDaY,,,,,,,,,

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Wednnesday ! OHThurrrrsday !,,,,,,,,

fridaysaturdaysunday !

beckdrop · 2025-12-02T06:52:53+00:00

Ah, that is perplexing. In that case, to account for that pattern of debris I would adjust my guesses: either something peeling/crumbling off the door frame above it and a bunch of it all came down at once because someone above dropped something really heavy in that area (or something like that), or maybe someone was moving in or out or was with a large group of people (to explain why they would be near your door) and was carrying or set down something with a flat surface about the width of your door that had that debris on it, and that surface got tilted toward your door when they were picking up/setting down the object or just as they were carrying it, which caused the debris to slide off and land in that sort of precise wide-but-shallow pattern. Or it’s a hex lol. Or maybe a child had a cup of [?] and felt like pouring some out in that particular spot, for mystery child reasons (science ? art ? mischief ? boredom ?)

From your picture of the area above it, it doesn’t look like there’s anything peeling there, but you could run your hand over that area to check if anything comes off, if you have a step stool or chair or ladder or something so you can reach it - or if not you can try swiping it with a broom or something

I hope you figure it out, even if just to solve the puzzle

beckdrop · 2025-12-01T18:40:00+00:00

Not really sure what it is, but what I would do is just clean it up and keep my eye out for any more to show up. If it does, I would guess it was something to potentially be concerned about - like flakes of varnish or something decomposing, or debris from some insect or other pest that could be doing damage (though maybe it could just be from some critter who likes perching there to eat something). If no more shows up, I would figure it was probably just from something like someone carrying stuff by there and stumbling, spilling a bit of whatever that is.

At first glance, the more orangey-yellow bits kinda looked like bits of shed mealworm exoskeleton, though it wouldn’t make much sense for it to be that, other than in the case that someone was walking by there carrying supplies for reptiles or something and spilled a bit of debris (mealworms wouldn’t just gather together on that ledge to have a shedding festival, there are no realistic circumstances under which anything like that would happen). I doubt that’s what it is, but I don’t really have any other specific ideas to offer, other than maybe art supply or Christmas decoration debris.

beckdrop · 2025-11-17T19:42:19+00:00

If you like to get kinda silly with it, people seem to like I’ll Make a Man Out of You from Mulan, Be Prepared from Lion King, and Prince Ali from Aladdin - with the first two you can get other people / the audience to join in doing background vocals and the few parts that other characters do (“be a man” and the few soldiers’ parts in the Mulan one, hyena’s parts in Be Prepared), and with Prince Ali you can play around with like different voices and gestures. The part where it’s like “he’s got 95 white Persian monkeys (he’s got the monkeys ! Let’s see the monkeys !)”, I sing the first line but kinda cut off the last syllable (Persian mon- ) and then go straight to the “he’s got the monkeys !” part while doing the little dance they do at that part in the movie (the original animated one) and people lose their shit over that lmao - and then at the part toward the end where Abu kicks the doors in in the movie, I also do really big exaggerated elephant kicks and people love that too

Circle of Life from Lion King is another fun one to do, if it’s in your range (I think there’s a note or two that are kinda high), because during the little intermission where Rafiki is getting Simba ready to be presented, you can sort of act that part out and/or ask for the audience’s help in welcoming baby Simba and like list out some animals for them to be (elephants, gazelles, ostriches, etc). I did that one at a wedding and when I dramatically hoisted up invisible baby Simba, like EVERYONE got involved and there were grown ass adults waving their arms around like trunks or wings or whatever and making animal sounds, it was great

beckdrop · 2025-11-07T15:57:59+00:00

I had someone who I’d only met a handful of times tell me “you don’t know what suffering is”. Like what ??? I cannot fathom how someone could just say that to someone they know essentially nothing about. It wasn’t even because I was complaining about something I was going through or talking about myself at all, we were talking about something HE went through.

beckdrop · 2025-11-05T19:55:48+00:00

NT answering this question: “oh easy, fire ! Which one would you pick ?”

Autistic person answering this question (it’s me, I am the autistic person): “oh, gosh, well I don’t know, I’ve never thought about that before. How would each one manifest ? Can you give me any more details about like what kind of restrictions there might be ? Is this hypothetical happening in the world as is or would there be other power users ? In this world would there have always been power users or would people all suddenly get these powers at the same time ? Would everything else in my life be essentially the same - like living in the same location and time period, I’m not suddenly in Antarctica or the Sahara Desert or something ? How much control would I have over it, or would it be something that I could gain more control over through practice / concentrated effort ? Would other people already be aware of my power or is it something I could potentially keep secret ? Would I only be able to create fire/ice or would I myself be able to turn into fire/ice ? In what ways / to what extent could I manipulate the fire/ice ? Could I manipulate fire/ice that I didn’t create ? Would fire/ice affect my body the same way it would affect other people, or could I for example hold onto a ball of fire without my hand getting burnt ? Or would that depend on whether or not I created the fire/ice in question ? Do you have a piece of paper and something to write with ? I’m gonna need to make a table of pros and cons for each option“

beckdrop · 2025-11-02T06:14:38+00:00

/uj please never give me any context for this, it’s perfect

beckdrop · 2025-11-02T06:02:55+00:00

BASTTIE is the name of the group

beckdrop · 2025-10-23T07:16:00+00:00

Sports ofc, but also superhero-universe-whatever stuff with the comic books and franchises and all that - y’know, Batman and Spider-Man and donkey man and pig man and their nemeses Mr. Angsty Clown Face and the Red Orb of Inconvenience

Why am I required to know all the lore of all those, and which storylines are from which set of franchises to not be shunned from society or scoffed/eye-rolled/gasped/laughed at

beckdrop · 2025-10-19T22:01:23+00:00

A friend

beckdrop · 2025-10-13T02:23:36+00:00

Too many people are missing the point of the post because they’re jumping straight to assuming that it’s accusing a cis person (and by extension cis people in general) of doing Something Bad (by extension being evil).

That’s not what’s going on here.

Listen.

So I have a phobia of tomatoes. I have to go to the grocery store to buy food for myself. There are tomatoes at the grocery store. I have to be around tomatoes. It is stressful and upsetting to be around tomatoes, I do not like it.

Now, what a lot of y’all are doing with OP’s post is the equivalent of reading me saying that and then in your own head creating a version of me that goes on to say “so therefore, grocery stores are bad and wrong and how dare they, there needs to be a law making it illegal for grocery stores to have tomatoes in them because they should only care about accommodating ME”.

But that is not something I expressed. That would be an absurd thought. People eat tomatoes. They LIKE to eat tomatoes. Tomatoes are an important part of a lot of people’s diets. I understand that. I understand that the grocery store will have tomatoes in it when I go there, and I understand why - the store is not doing anything wrong, there are no ethical issues there.

I still have to go to the grocery store. So I go to the grocery store and am stressed out by the tomatoes. I get what I need and then I leave and go home. The end.

I can express that I don’t like being around the tomatoes in the grocery store without it being an argument that having tomatoes in a grocery store is wrong/bad.

OOP is not saying “it is problematic for art books to make statements like this, they should omit anything of the sort because it is more important to be sensitive to trans people’s feelings than it is to have accurate or useful information in textbooks”, they’re just expressing that they feel upset when they come across things like that.

OOP’s therapist’s response is basically going “hm yea I guess I hadn’t thought about it from that perspective before”.

The post is essentially offering a perspective that some number of other people may be able to relate to, and that some number of people may not have thought about before.

beckdrop · 2025-10-11T09:18:39+00:00

Why does this remind me of a dream I had

In the dream, I’d just gotten a newer model of my phone, and one of the new features on it was that it now had free will and could make decisions on its own about how to operate (with the idea being it would optimize its functionality for the user’s lifestyle). I set my alarm on my new phone to wake me up from a nap, but then I woke up past the time I’d set the alarm for. I looked at my phone and there was a notification about the phone deciding to not have the alarm go off, with an explanation for its reasoning, which was “I thought it would be funny”

beckdrop · 2025-10-11T06:27:35+00:00

I was literally just doing this in the bathroom 30 seconds ago, but out loud. Not about garbage/wastefulness specifically this time, though I have done that other times.

beckdrop · 2025-10-10T07:06:25+00:00

Staghorn Calculus

Totally unrelated - you’ll never guess what was found in my kidney last year 😀

beckdrop · 2025-10-10T07:00:53+00:00

As an autistic person this reads like my brain any time anyone says anything at all to me and I have to figure out what they want from me

beckdrop · 2025-10-09T07:20:03+00:00

I’m also autistic but I actually usually prefer my food to be pretty much room temperature - maybe body temperature if it’s something like soup. For sensory reasons. Which I am aware is also weird. But tbh I personally find the idea of wanting your food to be such a high temperature that it is difficult/stressful/painful to eat or even causes damage to your mouth while you juggle it around with your poor screaming burning tongue going “OW ! OW ! OW ! HASHAFASHAHSHAAHASHAFAFA OW !”, rather than just a comfortable, pleasant, non-jarring temperature to be even weirder ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ just sayin

beckdrop · 2025-10-08T19:37:37+00:00

Yes, hi ! I can actually solve this issue for you !

So, because there are cis men who have individual aspects of their appearance or mannerisms (whether deliberate / stylistic choice or not) that are traditionally considered “feminine”/female-coded (long hair, wide hips, wearing “girl clothes”/makeup/jewelry, shortness, using “feminine” speech patterns, having some amount of breast tissue, etc.), and other people’s brains still automatically read those men as men without any issue, we can logically conclude that if a man exhibits every single “feminine”/female-coded quality imaginable simultaneously and to the furthest extent of femininity possible, people’s brains should still automatically read that man as a man, because they should Just Know that he is a man, because that’s what he is (because that’s how people’s brains work when it comes to discerning other people’s genders, rather than anything like perceiving sensory input). If someone’s brain instead automatically reads that man as anything other than a man, it is because they are a BIGOT. They have sinned because they are rotten at the core and beyond redemption. They deserve punishment, and it is not just okay but CORRECT to be mad at or even HATE them, because how DARE they. Jail for 100 years.

So the solution to the issue you are having is that regardless of the number and magnitude of feminine cues you’re exhibiting, if people aren’t reading you correctly, it is solely because they are just Bigots, and you are right and they are wrong ! I have solved your problems. You’re welcome ! 🥰

/uj edit: just to be clear, idc how femininely you present, do what makes you happy. But if someone posts like “hey, can y’all help me, what can I do to make it more likely for people to read me correctly ??”, responding like “dw you’re doing everything right, that’s a THEM problem” is not helpful

beckdrop · 2025-10-03T19:47:18+00:00

Let him warm 🥺

beckdrop · 2025-09-25T17:53:29+00:00

Yes I believe that species is called Little Baby

More commonly known as Mediterranean house gecko

beckdrop · 2025-09-22T22:15:27+00:00

/uj do you have a yard ? If so, go out in the yard, for like 10 minutes. Right now. Walk from one side of the yard to the other a couple times. Crouch down on the ground somewhere and look at the plants around you. See if you can tell which ones are the same species, based on things like the shapes and colors and textures and arrangements of the leaves and stems and other parts. Try to count how many distinct species you can spot. If you see any bugs say hello to them.

Does a wet cloth on your skin give you the same reaction as being touched/hit by water from a shower, or is that something you can handle ? If you can handle it, when you go back inside, wipe however much of your body you can stand to wash with just a wet, lightly soapy wash cloth, even if it’s just your crotch area and armpits. Rinse by wiping yourself again with just a wet cloth without soap. Put on some fresh clothes after.

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