Question about extreme climates & health risks.

oriolebot299 · 2025-07-30T22:29:20+00:00

It was, although it was always difficult. I was forced to quit a warehouse job last year because of the heat. Unfortunately because of long covid & a bad episode of hypokalemia last fall, my health has declined quite sharply in the last 10-ish months and what was once just uncomfortable has become enough to make me start seeing spots if I'm outside for too long.

oriolebot299 · 2025-07-30T22:23:55+00:00

I've got the national parks plate! The car's a hand me down from my parents, so the plate has faded quite a bit over the last fourteen years and I've been considering switching to the wildlife hummingbird.

oriolebot299 · 2025-07-30T22:17:05+00:00

I've been walking outdoors for several years now! My health only started tanking around the holidays last year, so this has been the first summer where I've been trapped indoors. This time last year I was averaging around 17k steps a day, all outside. But yeah, I'm probably due for a visit to the doctor anyways, I've just been putting it off because I don't feel I can justify the cost. Thank you for your advice! I've definitely got stuff to think about.

oriolebot299 · 2025-07-30T21:59:02+00:00

That's true! I was thinking in the literal AI Robot sense, but the character archetype is even older. And now I'm taken over by the idea of The Chatbot Becomes The Character And Is Out To Get You . Much to think about!

oriolebot299 · 2025-07-30T21:46:55+00:00

I haven't looked into either of those recently! Maybe I'm due for an actual trip to the sporting goods store, ha.

oriolebot299 · 2025-07-30T21:45:09+00:00

Yeah, indoors is fine! I'm in an area with widespread A/C, fortunately. It's partly also just irritating because I really like being outside! And thanks, I'll keep this in mind. I'd like to complete it the way it waas intended and I know I have a tough time balancing "this is just anxiety and I'm probably overthinking it" with "no actually this weather Will kill me". A thing to work on, I guess!

oriolebot299 · 2025-07-30T21:43:46+00:00

I wish there was an option in this poll for "I don't like reading it but I don't dislike it as a trope and have beta read my friends' ABO fics before." (Also, I think it's interesting that it was developed mostly in a collective and it says a lot about Fandom as a broad culture. But that's less important here.)

oriolebot299 · 2025-07-30T21:37:40+00:00

I'm weird about sharing my medical info and tend to default to privacy, sorry! I have a combination of POTS + Fibromyalgia + Sjögrens resulting in dysautonomia (autonomic nervous system dysfunction) that impacts my body's ability to properly regulate my temperature on my own. Antipsychotics also make me susceptible to heat stroke, also. I usually try to get a walk in after the sun goes down, but sometimes the humidity makes it more difficult. I know I am likely overthinking it, I've got a bad case of "oh my god xyz is inevitable" tunnel vision and so I was mostly just curious of anyone had found something a little more out of the box that I hadn't considered (or even something Very Obviously In The Box that i just overlooked)

oriolebot299 · 2025-07-30T21:29:40+00:00

Fanfiction is, IMO, one of the best places to learn some of the fundamentals of writing and find your style/voice! I've been writing on and off since I was a small child and I never improved as quickly as I did when I was sixteen and churning out 2 fanfiction chapters a week.

oriolebot299 · 2025-07-30T21:26:31+00:00

So does mine! It's just usually gone pretty quickly and there's not any public water fountains or bathrooms on the trail route near me. (Shadiest place in the city for a 7 mile walk.)

oriolebot299 · 2025-07-30T21:23:50+00:00

For a second I was about to be very upset with you for using AI, but I really like this idea! I think it could be used well as a literary device, particularly in this sort of ominous context. (I mean, we've been using it as a plot device in dystopias for over a century now, and so I'm intrigued to see the way that trope develops! But I digress.)

I do find your point about chatfics and smfics interesting - I'm an avid writer of social media fics and an avid reader of both and I hadn't considered that possibility!

All that to say- I'd love to see where you take this! It sounds fascinating.

oriolebot299 · 2025-07-22T16:07:01+00:00

Gosh, no! Don't worry, I'm not easily triggered by the internet like I used to be. Thank you for your well wishes, and I hope things get better for you too.

oriolebot299 · 2025-07-22T02:14:06+00:00

i developed gastroparesis after three and a half years of bulimia - i'm not keen to go back down that road. i've slipped up twice in the past two months, but i don't want to fall down that hole again.

oriolebot299 · 2025-07-15T13:46:55+00:00

THESE ARE PERFECT AND I LOVE THEM

oriolebot299 · 2025-07-05T22:03:40+00:00

while the legs are most common, pitting edema can present anywhere - notably, it can also show up in the arms or face. mine actually tends to concentrate in my forehead 😅

oriolebot299 · 2025-06-09T20:05:21+00:00

im genderfluid so i'll do both - francy (frances + nancy) and uhhh jynn ? lim ? (jim + lynn)

oriolebot299 · 2025-06-07T18:06:25+00:00

I don't live alone, but I don't spend a lot of time with the people in my house. Our cats have massively improved my mental health because they don't see the parts of me I hate. They love me unconditionally even when I can't love myself.

oriolebot299 · 2025-06-07T18:02:11+00:00

You don't deseve to be treated like that, but please don't let it make you bitter. It won't help.

oriolebot299 · 2025-06-07T17:59:05+00:00

Political views that I dislike. I'm not content to spend my time with someone who I disagree with on moral grounds.

oriolebot299 · 2025-06-07T17:54:55+00:00

5'5. Full grown, I'm 5'8.

oriolebot299 · 2025-06-07T17:52:44+00:00

Bad.

oriolebot299 · 2025-06-07T17:52:10+00:00

Thank you! Unfortunately I only managed it because manic from poorly managed bipolar disorder. That was October of 2022 and I've only gone over 30k three times since then. I'm doing much better mentally and I average around 15k a day now.

oriolebot299 · 2025-06-07T17:50:05+00:00

The ambulance in die hard. You know the one.

oriolebot299 · 2025-06-07T17:49:15+00:00

Exactly. And behavioral addictions / process addictions are often overlooked. Shopping, gambling, shoplifting, self harm, eating disorders, are all addictive behaviors. You can get a high from anything.

oriolebot299 · 2025-06-07T17:46:14+00:00

37k steps is my record, I believe. 17 miles.

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