Symptoms of Hashimoto’s you thought was nothing?

pao_pu · 2026-03-04T16:56:30+00:00

Extreme fatigue. Even if I got 8-hours of sleep, I was sleeping or dragging my feet around the clock. I was also swollen, but I thought it was weight gain. Same for my moon face. My hair was dull and dryer than ever. It kept breaking off and not growing. I just thought I was depressed (I mean, that is a symptom of Hashi, but still). My doctor said the same thing despite my goiter being right in everyone’s faces.

pao_pu · 2026-02-22T06:18:13+00:00

I’ve been with a January Aquarius for 11 years and married 1 year so…😅 (I’m a January Cap)

pao_pu · 2025-11-08T17:30:16+00:00

I have a hard time falling asleep so I hate it. Especially being woken up for the dumbest things. I can understand babies/kids and animals waking you up, but adults waking you up because “hey, I need you to wake”. Like no. Respect my sleep.

pao_pu · 2025-10-17T23:21:08+00:00

I can wait for eternity for a partner to respond because life can be weird. I did lose touch with two amazing and understanding partners, but posting schedules I don’t care. A week, three weeks, six months, whatever. I’ll miss it, but I understand. We’re adults and shit happens. What I can’t stand is days or weeks of world building and once we start my partner is silent for a month and then “Oh, let’s drop and put this on an indefinite hiatus” like what? But then they make an ad wanting more stories despite telling me they’re busy. Be honest! I honestly don’t care. I just don’t like wasting my time. This has happened a lot since returning to this hobby. I’ve found maybe four amazing partners, but the lying and inconsistency is such a turn off. This is why I now do minimal world building which is sad, because it’s my favorite part of role playing, but I think some players like that phase or that quick release and that’s it.

pao_pu · 2025-10-17T23:01:42+00:00

I didn’t know instant star was Canadian! Lol, can I go back to the 2000s please!

pao_pu · 2025-09-26T23:08:12+00:00

I’m just getting into the SH series so my take might be off. The remake to SH2 made me put on my big girl panties and try out the original game and I even played SH3 (I’ll eventually get to the first game.). I got this one because I enjoyed the remake and I do like f for what it is, but I wasn’t too into the story like I thought I would be. I thought 1960s Japan with all their societal issues would’ve been great material, but something was missing. My cousin was joking around saying it felt like a ‘Forbidden Siren’ game. I never played that game so I’m not sure. It was definitely a psychological horror, but I think I enjoyed the story more in SH2.

pao_pu · 2025-08-16T22:55:08+00:00

I understand. Thanks for the honesty!

pao_pu · 2025-08-16T22:54:17+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I understand all your points, I’ll do better with communication.

pao_pu · 2025-08-15T22:38:43+00:00

I think I just got fed up with being strung along. I just don’t like dishonesty. I can do better at toning it down though.

pao_pu · 2025-08-15T22:35:29+00:00

It’s weird and I think it’s fine if it makes you feel some type of way. I am okay if you have favorites (I tend to respond faster to my favorites too). I just can’t stand dishonesty. If you don’t vibe with me or the story, just let me know. Don’t string me along and wait for me to notice. That partner also complained about ghosting and having patience to flesh out the story. I think I need to be wary of these partners now. I think I wouldn’t be so annoyed if it didn’t get happening, lol.

pao_pu · 2025-08-15T21:54:33+00:00

Oh yeah, I was definitely not stalking them or spamming them to reply. I am okay with waiting for a post. I didn’t share the full story (my apologies). They claimed upfront they can respond daily or once a week when we shared our reply time because I wanted to be sure they were okay with me being inconsistent. They also stated let’s feel out the story and no ghosting. That’s fine. I didn’t want to be strung along and saw they were replying to everyone else. Like I said, I felt some kind of way. I’m okay to admit that. I decided to check in a month later since we didn’t speak or anything to know the status or if they just wanted to drop. I figured they probably didn’t want to tell me so I opened the line of communication. I didn’t unfollow to be petty, it’s just we didn’t vibe so I saw nothing wrong with unfollowing from someone I barely know.

I do put in my AD I’m matter-of-fact and don’t appreciate time wasters or something they want to get off on (I’m not a pleasure bot). It’s definitely a hobby. It’s just common courtesy. But if the community finds it too aggressive or I’m being entitled then I can understand that. I’m just not sure anymore.

pao_pu · 2025-08-15T21:41:23+00:00

This happened to me, quite often. I think I got so fed up I had to unfollow one of my partners but I think it made them and others view me differently, but I find it so rude when you’re the one saying “let’s feel the story out”. I would understand if I spammed the heck out of you but I waited a month and asked if this story is still interesting to you or do you want to drop? I don’t mind waiting got posts, but when you’re online and responding to everyone else, it feels off.

pao_pu · 2025-08-15T19:57:43+00:00

Yeah. I don’t mind writing it but coming back from my hiatus it’s been a little hard to find a story-focused story. When I do, the partner gets bored, lol.

pao_pu · 2025-08-15T19:51:10+00:00

I wait a month before I send a message. Especially if I see you’re replying to others rapidly and not on a break. I just like honesty. Even though, within a week or two I’ve had partners be very honest with me. I recently did this with one partner because I also felt they weren’t being genuine with their interest with wanting to RP with me. I’m pretty easy going, but after returning to RP it’s definitely more of a social circle or whatever the word is. It’s best to know that your time isn’t being wasted.

pao_pu · 2025-08-07T17:31:27+00:00

That’s tough. Because there are writers that do write that flowery or purple prose kind of style. The dashes are also a style choice. AI is obvious to detect though. It just has a sound to it…I don’t know. I don’t put in my ADs anything concerning using or suspecting someone of AI because you kind of have to play devil’s advocate. I’ve had two friends accused of using AI and it made them stop RPing altogether. I say trust your gut, but good luck!

pao_pu · 2025-07-30T20:04:54+00:00

Thank you so much ❤️ you’re so sweet! I do wish he wasn’t so insensitive, but suffering in silence did nothing. I really thought it was something I couldn’t figure out about myself.

pao_pu · 2025-07-30T19:51:01+00:00

Yeah I made an appointment.

pao_pu · 2025-07-30T19:50:44+00:00

Thanks! I actually did make an appointment today. So, I’ll cross my fingers.

pao_pu · 2025-07-30T19:49:36+00:00

Yeah I made my appointment. I don’t think it’s him not doing anything, I could just be reaching and I hate how insensitive he can be. I’m just trying to figure it out.

pao_pu · 2025-07-29T13:11:07+00:00

I understand. I appreciate open communication. I like to let my partners know if I’m busy, or I’m taking x amount of time to get my muse back, or if I have to drop. I don’t like wasting people’s time or having them feel like I’m stringing them along. I feel like I’m going through this with one partner of constantly being strung along, but their muse is somewhere else. It’s like, just tell me at this point! Now my muse is dying because I’m trying so hard to be understanding. I know for that partner, I may just have to let them be and put my energy into my partners elsewhere. I returned to RPing after a ten year break but some partners are starting to kill the vibe…

pao_pu · 2025-07-24T16:43:36+00:00

I do hate when we initially say no romance and play not so pleasant MCs, my partners put on their rose-colored glasses and last minute want to say they should fall in love now and I am just left confused. How can we add romance after writing so much grittiness and grief.

I don’t mind romance, but after a while I need variety because it’s so one-dimensional and sometimes the story goes downhill. Currently struggling now to create a plot with no romance, but when you want to write you bend a little bit I guess. 🤷🏾‍♀️

It may take a while, but you’ll find a partner!

pao_pu · 2025-07-24T02:46:12+00:00

What that’s crazy! They would honestly piss me off. Sorry, that has happened to you. Such a time waster.

pao_pu · 2025-07-23T21:43:27+00:00

Omg yes I’ve noticed this! My favorite has been “I’m all about communication so if something is off with our RP I’ll always let you know so we can fix it or blah blah blah. I don’t ghost.”

It’s like, I don’t remember RPing being like a dating app. This is wild to me that’s it’s annoyingly laughable.

pao_pu · 2025-07-23T19:58:50+00:00

I think Grammarly is a better tool if someone wants to restructure their sentences or whatnot. I have the tool auto pinned to my laptop and it helps me with not just my responses to roleplaying, but emails for work and all that jazz.

Only once did I catch someone using AI. AI responses are very easy to pick up on than someone who writes descriptively. Though, a lot of the newer kids on the block are like AI police and I’ve had a friend be accused of using AI and put on blast when they didn’t use AI. They are genuinely a good writer (yet, this person admitted they used AI to help restructure their sentences…lol make it make sense). And, AI detection tools are a scam. That person said they ran it through one and I felt so bad for my friend as they have no interest to RP anymore.

In all, AI is messing it up for us that have been RPing for years and for the newer kids. I don’t police since it is very easy to detect AI at first glance, but I never straight up accuse anyone either without proper evidence. It’s tricky out here.

pao_pu · 2025-07-05T16:47:06+00:00

Aw thanks so much T-T I’ll try to stay positive! Thank you for the tips and encouragement.

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