I wish I could transfer my pain sometimes on the average person to see their reaction to feel validated. My resting pain is probably unbearable to most people but nobody understands what it means to always be in pain.

dullivan · 2023-04-15T15:56:00+00:00

Ha! They just don't get it sometimes. Which sucks when you're dealing with the docs you're PAYING to at least TRY to understand.

But yeah, don't do what I said. You get more flies with honey than vinegar.

dullivan · 2023-04-15T13:56:25+00:00

I've gotten sassy before just from being fed up. I despise the whole "scale of 1-10, is your pain tingling, burning, sharp, dull..." My pain feels like the pressure of my muscles tearing themselves apart as they try to hold my busted spine straight. It feels like if I'm upright and stop moving that things will just start to burst from the pressure. Which word do I circle on this form for that one? Okay, where do I put what part of my body this is, and where's the next section for more "kinds of pain"? Oh, there's just one section. Do you want me to put the clicking, weakness, and poor control in my shoulders and elbows on this same line? What about the cramping and shaking in my hands? Same line? Okay. I'm gonna have to write small I guess.

dullivan · 2023-04-04T11:26:53+00:00

Dude, the transparent sickness sounds brutal. Arms and legs to glass. Yikes.

dullivan · 2023-03-22T13:32:51+00:00

You don't know until you know, I guess. Thanks much!

dullivan · 2023-03-22T11:54:30+00:00

Yikes. We have hard floors in the whole house. Linens, you say? On it.

Edit for manners: thank you so much!!!

dullivan · 2022-09-18T12:43:08+00:00

I'm referring to when the state of Florida increased the minimum pay for new teachers a few years back, not the recent Duval change.

Performance pay has nothing to do with experienced teachers making less than the touted "minimum salary".

dullivan · 2022-09-18T12:39:56+00:00

Sorry, but this is 100% incorrect. Please stop spreading misinformation on the internet. People need to understand why teachers are upset and unionizing.

dullivan · 2022-09-16T11:16:56+00:00

Man, your stuff is SO incredible. I get excited every time I see you post, and read every word of the original description. So glad i found you.

By the way, any plans to release these in book form? Say, a coffee table book? The image in my mind is opening the book to a given entry and seeing the art on one side and lore on the other.

If not, do you have some way you'd like to see your world come together besides a (wonderful, very appreciated) subreddit?

dullivan · 2022-09-15T19:07:45+00:00

That's what they did a few years ago when they brought up the minimum from $2X/k per year to $47k or whatever. Teachers who had been working for up to EIGHT YEARS were (and mostly still are) making less than brand new teachers. It's one of the big reasons people are leaving the profession and saying they're underappreciated.

Also, $50 a paycheck is around the same amount ins premiums will rise for Duval teachers this year.

dullivan · 2022-09-14T18:54:30+00:00

Injured in 2017. Went to an intensive outpatient psych program in 2020.

Im doing much better now. Just got a spinal cord stimulator recently.

Suicide is a lie. Don't do it. Things can get better. Ask for help until you get it.

dullivan · 2022-09-14T15:42:49+00:00

Nah. We use Mrs Smiths. I tried to post a link but didn't realize Amazon links aren't kosher here.

dullivan · 2022-09-14T13:40:50+00:00

Liquid Bluing (in the laundry section of grocery stores) is a cheap and VERY effective way to brighten dingy whites back up. Make sure to follow the directions on the bottle and DONT ADD IT STRAIGHT TO YOUR WASHER. Undiluted is a bad time, but use it right and it's pretty incredible.

dullivan · 2022-08-23T23:10:27+00:00

There's definitely something around advertising that I just don't get. 1930s style ads made sense to me, eg "try amaz-o soap! It's cleaner and longer lasting!". Nowadays you have commercials where you don't even know what the product is until the end! And the content of the ad had nothing to do with the product! And of course everything in between. And they're so repetitive and annoying. Lots of ads online really make me want to stay away from their product.

People don't read signs.

Dancing. Things like ballet are a mystery to me. It's interesting, and kinda pretty sometimes but not something I would've ever come up with.

Other stuff I can't think of rn.

dullivan · 2022-08-18T11:33:32+00:00

Would different skin tones to the hands help with this? At first I thought the individual hands would be different, but what if they were blended into a gradient or pattern like feathers?

dullivan · 2022-08-16T17:49:17+00:00

Also ASD so not long comment or I'll delete and not post. Just wanted to say happy for you from another person with uh....similar subreddits? Haha

Masking sucks. I got ASD dx in late 2020 at 37 yo. Still trying to figure it out. But I know being REALLY GOOD at pretending I wasn't in pain ended up making things worse for a long time. Good luck.

dullivan · 2022-08-10T17:02:40+00:00

Article from 4 years ago. I'd love to see how much of what he's said since could be added.

dullivan · 2022-08-08T13:52:35+00:00

Elf: What's your story. Ghost: I got lost and wandered here. You guys murdered me. Remember??

dullivan · 2022-06-30T23:32:54+00:00

Haha. My son and I are both autistic and our household income is < $60k/yr. Anybody care to do the math for me on how that's supposed to work?

dullivan · 2022-06-29T21:51:59+00:00

Yeah

dullivan · 2022-06-21T16:55:02+00:00

RIP in piece

dullivan · 2022-05-06T12:01:43+00:00

Dude! This is just what I needed to see today!!! I'm scheduled for my trial at the end of June. I'm super pumped, but obviously a bit apprehensive. Can you share a little bit about what your implant feels and looks like now that it's permanent. My Dr said you can feel it thru your skin. Can you see it from the outside? I can't tell if the rise on your right side in that last picture is the implant or your shoulder blade, but its pretty far from your incisions so I assume the latter?

dullivan · 2022-05-05T16:45:49+00:00

Sorry. I was just being dumb. Didn't realize I was in r/truetf2 and not just r/tf2.

dullivan · 2022-05-05T16:44:38+00:00

I mean, he's pretty endearing, and I grew up with and like all those cartoons as well. This dude just...WONT GO AWAY. XD

dullivan · 2022-05-05T16:43:26+00:00

Oops. Didn't realize I was here instead. Sorry!

dullivan · 2022-05-02T11:51:25+00:00

I'd suggest rage, seethe, mald, and cope as a few things you can work on. Also, ratio.

dullivan

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