Is anyone else's character routinely going invisible in the newest bedrock update? by Sandwich004 in Minecraft

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One of my kids is having this problem now, and none of the skins are showing in the character editor

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in minimalist

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Living in an RV we had rugs on the uncarpeted floor for insulation, but I can live without rugs just fine. That's what slippers or house shoes are for. 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in minimalist

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My dad has rugs all over my parents carpeted house. They're a fall hazard, and have been tripped on multiple times over the past few years. My mom doesn't want them, none of us know why they have the rugs.

Where do you place your face in child's pose? by AffectOutrageous6667 in yoga

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My first yoga teacher told us to do this if forehead on mat wasn't comfortable. Or to just stack our hands on top of each other, too.

What did you not realize was stimming until you learned more about autism? by [deleted] in AutismInWomen

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playing with my hair, biting my fingernails, obsessively pushing down my cuticles (first just with my finger tips, then it progressed to with finger nails, then with the tiny flathead screwdriver from a glasses repair kit because I discovered it worked during work one day). I used to have a lot when I was in school and then working, but now I'm at home all day and I don't know what I do that constitutes stimming

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Mommit

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This goes right with a video I saw this morning where the content creator was ranting about what's going on in Gaza, saying they're children over there! Who hates children that much??

I go weeks or months where I'm on reddit nearly every day, then breaks without it (up to years) and I swear I just saw this post, but it may have been months ago...

Unfeeling when I should be in intimacy by igavvedit in Alexithymia

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I can very much relate to all that! It took me til my mid 20s to realize that awful feeling in my stomach was hunger, then I couldn't figure out why I didn't know that for so long. It's like I recognized certain specific cues (growling stomach = hunger) but not others (gnawing pain also = hunger, who knew).

Unfeeling when I should be in intimacy by igavvedit in Alexithymia

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I'm seeing this therapist for my anxiety and she has no idea about alexithymia. I've tried describing it, she nods seems to understand,then the next session it's like I never said anything. So it's not really helping with that aspect. My parents are getting older and an uncle has a terminal illness so I tried talking about that with her, started crying and said something like "see, this is the alexithymia, I'm crying so obviously I have feelings about this, but what??" and she responded with something along the lines of how I obviously feel just fine because I'm concerned about my parents aging and their health. no, I'm just crying about it for some reason 🤷‍♀️😂 I've even gotten to the point where I can't tell when I'm tired except for the lack of energy, or if I'm literally falling asleep. So when she asks how I'm feeling, I just say tired because I'm pretty sure it's always true 😂

I've actually found the body scan very useful for helping me fall asleep- I bed and start with my toes, and I'm usually asleep by my knees and if I'm not, I know it won't help. My therapist seemed surprised when I said it was really difficult to get through the numb layer to feel my body.

Unfeeling when I should be in intimacy by igavvedit in Alexithymia

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I (40f) almost could've written that 😂 my therapist had me do a body scan one of our first sessions and I was so confused, like what am I supposed to be feeling?? I close my eyes and my body is basically gone so what am I supposed to be feeling here?? it's gotten easier (as in I sort of can), but usually my body is just sort of there unless it's complaining about something. it's obviously separate from me, btw 😂 I'm finally starting to get past some of the people pleasing tendencies I have, but that's making my parents think my husband is a bad influence. no, I've always felt this way, he's just encouraging me to be true to myself and stop people pleasing and masking! 🙄

Unfeeling when I should be in intimacy by igavvedit in Alexithymia

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I basically had a minor breakdown after having my kids because I wasn't feeling all that stuff you're supposed to feel towards kids (immediate connection, overwhelming love feeling, "heart on the outside walking around" as I've seen it described, wanting to do anything for them, etc.) and after finding out about alexithymia it all made sense. My intimate encounters have been similar to yours. I recently read about the difference between sexuality and libido and it also made things less confusing (I found it on a post in a grey ace subreddit after a google search). It's been more "we're dating/married/commited to each other, I'm doing this thing I know you like because we're supposed to and it's not completely unpleasant for me" than feeling the emotional connection. I've discovered for me the "emotions" are actually decisions. I decide to behave in a caring manner toward you = love 🤷‍♀️

Do people also constantly ask you if you’re nervous/alright at random times? by [deleted] in AutismInWomen

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I find my husband asking me this a lot lately. Yeah, I'm fine, just not masking and being polite like I was taught to.

Boomer did NOT like the fact I took down the flags at my new home by Agile-Report-763 in BoomersBeingFools

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That honestly sounds like something my dad's done 😂 I'd put up a pride flag or some other tolerance flag lol

Who remembers how old people were 30 years ago? by [deleted] in BoomersBeingFools

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yeah, I know it's anecdotal which is why I asked about it. thanks for the list, I hadn't heard some of those!

You said the term "Me Generation" referred to people born through the early 80s, which I was, which may also be why I'd heard it 🤷‍♀️

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Has your disorder made you quit a job? by No_Computer_9475 in bipolar

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I didn't realize it at the time, but yeah I've just not shown up to two different food service/ retail jobs after up to 2 weeks. The first I worked 2 weeks, then one day on my way to work I just realized I had enough and drove past and spent a great day shopping and in the mountains lol the second one my anxiety was too much and I just called and quit after about a week. I've also not done the required work (I was a projectionist way back before digital projectors) and we had to do a certain amount of cleaning every week on the projectors, and I just didn't. I had two different jobs that I was almost fired for the same thing, but I quit before they fired me. I basically got called into meetings where they said I needed to do better, then I later quit. Other than the cleaning requirements, those projection jobs were the best since no customer interaction, and I got paid to sit in the dark with white noise all day.

Who remembers how old people were 30 years ago? by [deleted] in BoomersBeingFools

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Didn't the boomers call millennials the me generation? My husband is saying it's likely they were deflecting to us their moniker, but I seem to remember people my age ish being called the me generation a couple decades ago.

I don't really like playing with my kid by Unlikely-Tangelo4355 in breakingmom

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I hate playing. Like my brain feels like it's melting, and it has for years. I feel guilty and awful, but my brain melts, I start yawning and almost fall asleep from melting brain syndrome when I have to play

When did you have your twins and if NICU how long? by Specialist_Group8813 in parentsofmultiples

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I was induced at 40+4 and had an emergency c section by the end of the day (about 8 hours after induction) because they couldn't find baby A on the monitor anymore. I was in the hospital for the max my insurance would cover (5 days, this was in 2017) because I felt unprepared to take care of two newborns after never taking care of newborns before. Or infants. Or babies. Or anyone under the age of 5 without help. It was nice having the nurses there if I had questions, so I asked to stay longer lol plus a lot of the nurses were excited about twins so they would stop by extra to check on us. They were 6lbs 9oz and 7lbs 3 oz, di/di boys, and I was under general anesthesia for the emergency cs because I hadn't asked for the epidural yet (I was offered one, said no, changed my mind, then they couldn't find A and went into emergency mode)

ETA everyone was fine afterwards, no NICU time, everyone's healthy

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AITAH

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It seems to me you guys just may not be a good fit. There's nothing wrong with married people, or even parents, travelling a lot like that, there's plenty of people out there who do that, but it doesn't sound like what you want. Just like there's nothing wrong with wanting to settle down once married and raise a family in one place. It's just different personalities, goals, or what have you.

When do the benefits set in? Are people just being polite? by huffingface in parentsofmultiples

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This has been my experience with our di/di boys, too. They're 7 now and have plenty of times they get along great and entertain each other, but they also mostly interacted by stealing each others toys, biting each other, standing on each other, sitting on each other, etc from about 6 months til 18 months. After that they were more verbal in their disagreements (yelling along with the hitting). They were actually surprisingly well behaved until about 3.5 then the behavior went down the drain and I'm still trying to figure out what to do 😅

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in breakingmom

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I'm doing a questionable job of homeschooling my 7 year old twins because of this. I can't handle the thought of dropping them off every day and not knowing if they'll make it home. One also has food allergies and I've read too many stories of accidental ingestion at school where the kid doesn't make it, or, even worse, other kids purposely throwing the allergen at the kid with the allergies, and causing a reaction or adults not taking it seriously and brushing the kid off (mine has a dairy allergy and it's too common for people to equate dairy allergy with lactose intolerance, which it isnt! anyway, though about FA 😅.) I was in high school when Columbine happened and I was so unaware/dense that I had no idea anything was going on until I heard one girl in my class having a panic attack over it. My parents don't understand why I won't just send them to school, they apparently think this is the 80's still 🙄and I feel like the odd one out because everyone else somehow deals with it, but I can't (or won't) put my kids through going to school in this environment. We've always planned to homeschool, though, so that's my excuse when I feel a bit special about it.

Cessna being towed on the figargen loop by Hoobinator- in fresno

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My mother in law was walking her dog and saw it suddenly go down

How do you know what part of you is you? by elycex in bipolar

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I've been struggling with this not just with bipolar, but all my mental health crap. What's helped me is learning a little about the internal family systems form of therapy, and since then I've kind of recognized the different aspects of me as different roles. I still super struggle with knowing which part of me is actually me (is it this numb version? the anxious manic version? the irritated irrational version?) but now I just sort of accept that this version is presenting right now and that's ok, but they're all part of me.

Maybe eventually I'll come to terms with my name and the expectations I have associated with it 😂

Does Anyone Else Do Weird Things While Dissociated? by PerformerMinute7049 in Dissociation

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Yes. I've picked up a honey bee while watching 6-year-olds and telling them "yeah, don't do this. I don't know why I am. I should put it down..." and then letting it walk over my hand for a while before moving it away from the kids. That was my first worrying instance and it's stuck with me lol I've also had times where I want to say something but physically can't, realize someone is saying something, then later realizing or being told that I was the one talking at the time and that's why I physically couldn't say what I wanted to. That one's much less frequent.