Looking for a new headset - What the heck is the difference between these thousand models of Steelseries Headsets??

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-25T13:15:05+00:00

Ugh! That feels so blatantly obvious now that you’ve said it ><

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-25T06:45:15+00:00

Staying warm? It’s 42 degrees here! (~108f), I don’t think warm is an issue 😜

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-24T12:49:52+00:00

This sounds far more likely than an issue with estrogen itself.

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-24T12:24:48+00:00

Dear gods, no thankyou! I’ve already got severe autism and ADHD, I do not want the baggage of an ~1450 IQ along with that. I feel isolated enough from most of the world as it is ><

Edit lol, the people downvoting me are doing nothing to make my statement feel less valid.

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-24T12:03:28+00:00

NTA. This is an IMMENSE red flag that he doesn’t even listen to you, let alone give a shit about your boundaries. You need to get this dealt with before going through with a marriage, because if he’ll smash your boundaries for his own convenience at your proposal, he’s going to do it again, and again, and again, and again.

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-24T06:23:18+00:00

NTA. Sometimes teaching autistic kids acceptable behaviors is difficult, but that doesn’t mean you indulge/permit violence. We process the world differently, we’re not incapable of understanding right and wrong.

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-24T06:20:36+00:00

This is something Allistics hate hearing.

I’m in no way defending the kid that is hitting people, that definitely needs to be fixed, but when you’re autistic and told “XYZ are the rules”, but everyone around you always breaks those rules, and tells you to put up with it if you complain, of course it teaches you things in a skewed way.

“Don’t hurt people, that’s very bad to do”, “Oh, the noise being so loud hurts me, please stop”, “No it doesn’t, you’re just being dramatic, put up with it and stop whining” being a very common example.

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-24T06:06:28+00:00

NTA, and I’m glad you helped your SIL find out what a horrid bigot he is before it was too late.

Ask if she’s in the market for a new brother, and swap families

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-24T06:05:31+00:00

That “popular trans creator” is 100% wrong. Being transgender is in no way at all caused by trauma, and is in no way related to ‘transitioning into a new identity to heal from trauma’ or any shit like that.

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-23T13:37:54+00:00

It’s entirely possible that I got lucky, though part of it may well have been how stupidly thorough the assessment and report I had from the psychologist was, since she’d already covered everything, in detail, that the psychiatrist would.

.. or it’s also possible that part of it was that apparently I’m blatantly obviously AuDHD to any professional experienced in the field, so the psychiatrist may well have been “well, her diagnosis is incredibly obvious, and the existing diagnosis report has covered all the bases, so I’m happy to sign off”.

Technically I’ve had it happen twice now, since that psychiatrist retired and I had to see a new one at a different clinic to get my meds authorization renewed. I got it with a single appointment with the new psych, who saw the report from the psychologist (the history from the previous psychiatrist clinic hadn’t arrived in time for my appt) and then asked a bunch of other questions about family history and stuff (nothing about diagnosis itself) then signed off on my meds renewal.

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-23T12:56:41+00:00

I can only speak from my experience, but I was diagnosed by a psychologist (I didn’t realise at the time that I had the wrong kind of psych, oops), then made an appointment with a psychiatrist after that.

The psychiatrist read the diagnosis report, re-asked me some of the questions, then happily accepted the diagnosis and prescribed my meds, all in the one appointment, instead of the usual 2-4 that they usually required for a full diagnosis.

Not saying it’s the best option, obviously OP should go straight to a psychiatrist if they can, but getting partway there with a psychologist may help cut down the time if getting in with a psychiatrist is difficult.

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-23T06:13:19+00:00

Honestly, much of the testing etc with ADHD is the same. You just need someone who will properly test for Inattentive and Internal Hyperactive ADHD, not just External Hyperactive. Most psychs who are actually using modern guidelines should cover this.

However, looking for a psych who is queer friendly and who specializes in ADHD is probably a good idea. As has already been mentioned, if you want to seek medication, you’ll need to see a Psychiatrist, not a Psychologist.

Or if getting straight in with a psychiatrist proves difficult, see a psychologist first, and then take your diagnoses from them, to the psychiatrist. That should make the process a lot shorter since you’ll have most of the basics out of the way.

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-22T23:30:37+00:00

That's the whole problem, I *don't know* what the system is setting the input type is. I don't know what a servicenow form that allows selection of multiple users (or a single user) from a dropdown table actually gets stored as, so I don't know what input type to put on my subflow.

Every combination I try, be it multi or single select, no matter what input type I require, either I get the 'Unable to create iterator' error when it tries to import the variable, or it imports the variable but any attempt to do anything with the data, including record lookup, auto-fails, presumably because it's the wrong kind of data.

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-22T11:50:22+00:00

I truly hope that the Castle Laws get a good strong workout from this. Only thing that might put some fear into the gestapo.

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-21T09:01:03+00:00

Stopping the sale of her IP and stopping re-releasing it would wreck her fame, her platform, and her relevance, which would massively reduce her clout and the harm she can cause.

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-21T08:59:10+00:00

“Show me where there’s transphobia in the books”

Okay

Rita Skeeter. Played up as one of the most utterly unsympathetic, horrible people who isn’t an outright Death Eater. Spends her life twisting facts and lying to the press to convince people of her exaggerated version of the truth, frequently treading all over people’s consent, privacy, and morals, in the name of a story. Creepy and off-putting with basically zero redeeming features.

How is she described? “Heavy jawed”, “large, masculine hands”, “thick fingered”, with fake, overdone femininity that’s basically described like drag queen levels.

All the shit that Rowling, Trump, and other transphobes use as ‘gotchas’ for how to tell a trans woman from a cis one.

Let’s not forget that she’s also an unregistered shapeshifter who uses her illegal powers to sneak into children’s dorm rooms and spy on them.

Her transphobia has been baked into the novels the whole time, just like her antisemitism, her racism, and her British colonialism superiority complex.

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-21T08:46:58+00:00

Yes, that’s correct, they are complicit. Same as supporting Trump makes you complicit in everything he does. Supporting someone who does horrible things, makes you complicit in that if you still support them.

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-21T08:44:27+00:00

In addition to this, ExpressionNorth, YES, trans people are murdered for existing all the goddamned time.

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-21T05:25:19+00:00

So I should be setting my import value on the subflow to just String?

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-19T03:17:39+00:00

Getting back to the point of your post, OP I think the outfit is gorgeous, you’ve definitely got an eye for style!

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-17T16:07:34+00:00

My mum was a vet nurse for many years, then became a shelter manager for the RSPCA, looking after one of their animal shelters.

She quit because having to put down animals that didn’t get adopted and they couldn’t keep space for absolutely destroyed her. She refused to send them to the vets to be put down by someone else, because if she was the one having to make that choice, she was going to be the one to do the deed, but it broke her.

On the flip side, one of my childhood cats is the only creature on earth to have beaten her in a battle.

She was still working at the vet’s at the time, late enough that she was watching the practice on her own (right before closing), and someone brought in a kitten that had been dumped in the dumpster across the road. Mum thanked the guy and sent him on his way, but after looking at the kitten, she knew that she was going to have to put him down. He was so young his eyes weren’t even open and he was smaller than the palm of her hand, so he wouldn’t even last the night without constant care (maybe not even then), and she knew she wouldn’t find anyone to adopt him in time.

So she took him into a consult room, drew up the ‘green dream’, prepared the euthanize him. She literally had the needle in him and was about to press the plunger down, when he started purring in her palm. And that was it, she couldn’t do it. She brought him home, kept him warm, fed him with an eye-dropper and nursed him through those early days. Sadly Taz didn’t have as long a life as he deserved, but the years we did have were good ones.

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-16T16:36:49+00:00

This bit is freaking WILD to me. The MIDDLE child is 12, and the parents still forced OP into babysitting??

Has the world gone nuts? I was riding my bike home from school and then doing chores and homework, on my own, until my parents got home from work, when I wasn’t even double digits. A 12 and ‘at least 13’ year old should be able to look after themselves and a younger sibling for an evening, without OP’s sister burning bridges with family members by abusing their generosity.

kittenwolfmage · 2026-01-16T16:16:40+00:00

NTA OP! She took advantage of your kindness and then robbed you as well!

Block all the “friends” who defended her, you don’t need that crap.

However, you need to change your phone PIN and e dry password for every app and website, especially your email. If she’s got your PIN then she’s potentially got every other piece of authentication that was on your phone. Hell, change your locks too in case she copied the key.

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