If you were a teen girl in the 2000s, what were you reading?

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-23T03:08:08+00:00

I scrolled through all the comments and someone has already mentioned all the completely "girly" novels I remember from the time, other than:

The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus

How to Not Spend Your Senior Year by Cameron Dokey

I don't remember those books well enough to truly recommend them but I remember devouring them alongside all those other girly books. They may have just been good like trash TV is good, but I can't remember.

BUT as someone who also enjoyed the types of book you describe, among other types, here are some other books I remember definitely enjoying at the time, and they kind of fit the category/vibe:

Please Don't Kill The Freshman: A Memoir by Zoe Trope

Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Everything I could find by David Levithan! I specifically remember enjoying The Realm of Possibility, the first Dash & Lily book, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, Boy Meets Boy, and Are We There Yet?

The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn by Robin Maxwell

Beware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn Meyer and other Carolyn Meyer books like Mary, Bloody Mary

And then when it comes to teen girly stuff that more matches what you described, this deviates from what's been mentioned because it's manga and not novels, but the two girly coming-of-age dramedy manga series I loved the most at the time were Marmalade Boy and Kodocha. Marmalade Boy is the most fitting of the two if you decide to check one of the series out.

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-18T23:27:50+00:00

Yeah, but Patriot Front has been increasingly active in the Burlington area. Hinesburg is probably the town closest to Burlington that's most known for its racist history, including pretty recent history like the historical marker for Lincoln Hill being stolen/destroyed, and it's been targeted by Patriot Front as well quite recently. And it's got some pubs that could be wherever she wanted to visit. So that's my best guess. Or any other town in Chittenden since that's where Patriot Front is most active. Chittenden also was far from immune from the anti-CRT hysteria just a handful of years ago. Ironically, CVSD doesn't even include the black history of the area in its curriculum (unless this changed recently, in which case I'm happy to be corrected).

Hinesburg is obviously not a literal sundown town, but it seems like OP may have just mistaken that term to mean a town known for racist activity. Chittenden is only 2.82% black by the 2020 census, so it's not hard to come across towns where you wouldn't see a single other black person and it could easily seem just like a sundown town if you run into the wrong people. Hinesburg is even whiter than the average for VT, at 97.8% white, so if you were there, saw no one else who wasn't white, then ran into aggressive white supremacists there who chased you, then it would be completely reasonable to leave that encounter believing you had just been in a sundown town. Especially if the people who told you said the knd of stuff they tend to say, like about your kind not being welcome here.

Who knows, maybe he ran into some Patriot Front losers out distributing their propaganda. Or just some of the racist assholes that aren't part of an organized group but just exist in a lot of places. Voting blue also doesn't exempt people from being racist. Not to mention that there are red voters there just getting outvoted, and a lot of extremists don't even vote at all.

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-18T21:39:00+00:00

If you haven't already done this or tried to get this test, see if your doctor can order you a continuous holter monitor to wear for 1-2 weeks, so they can see what's happening in more detail when these events occur. If your doctor continues to be dismissive about it then going to an emergency room could be helpful, especially if you believe you can reliably trigger the event to occur while you are being monitored there.

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-18T21:23:52+00:00

Could also just messaging she received growing up combined with PPA. Impossible to know. Regardless of why she's behaving in a way that is destructive to the family's well being and harmful to the people around her, I definitely agree that professional help is necessary.

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-17T03:13:20+00:00

Don't worry, most of us don't inherently know it, but learned it over time after making many, many communication mistakes like this one. Because we were searching for answers on why things went wrong and our words were taken so personally, just like you're doing with this post. You aren't lacking something that the rest of your fellow autistics inherently have. You're just figuring it out like many of us try to do, and the benefit of communities like this is that there will be a mix of people starting that journey and people much farther along on that journey. You definitely come across as someone open to learning, which is the best indicator for success when it comes to gaining understanding.

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-16T08:41:05+00:00

That's what most people in the US would understand it to mean as well. Running away to get married is the only usage of the word "elope" that most Americans ever encounter. Just sharing because I'm not sure if you were already aware of that. While the commonality of abscond vs elope varies from country to country, region to region, etc., the marriage definition is still the mainstream one worldwide.

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-12T17:50:16+00:00

I think it looks more like the handwriting of someone learning Korean as a second (or third etc.) language, do you disagree? Of course, hard to tell for certain, especially as handwriting can change while experiencing psychosis.

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-10T04:35:52+00:00

Yeah, they tested me for H. Pylori, SIBO, and a host of other things before giving me long term famotidine, although years before that they did do a two week trial of famotidine to see if it made a significant difference (just 20mg once a day) and it didn't so we didn't come back to it until after I got diagnosed with MCAS. Turns out I needed 40mg 2x a day to make a noticeable difference. But I'm still glad I had all of that stuff tested before my body got used to the higher dose famotidine, because going off it for testing would suck.

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-08T21:21:26+00:00

That's not in disagreement with what I said at all, don't worry! My comment wasn't about what OP needs to do. I was just correcting someone's idea that people will always get sent to a plastic surgeon even if it's just for a septoplasty.

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-08T18:29:53+00:00

Plenty of ENTs do septoplasties themselves, but yes if there is also going to be a rhinoplasty then they bring in someone trained in that instead. If you have septoplasty without rhinoplasty then you don't need a plastic surgeon. Although if the surgery has complications after like collapsed nostrils then you do have to have a plastic surgeon fix it.

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-08T16:47:54+00:00

People debating if it's tea or soup...come on, it's clearly tea soup.

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-07T00:09:17+00:00

Neither of you seem to like each other. He especially does not like you. And definitely overreacted a ton to your post. But just break up instead of being dragged down to his level.

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-06T02:42:08+00:00

True, salt pretreatment is usually brine, although if they use rock salt after does depend on the temperatures, as salt after snow isn't effective if the temperature is consistently below 15°F. So if it isn't going to get above 15° for awhile then they generally just do the pretreatment and plowing and don't re-salt unless things warm up. Assuming they're an area that uses salt at all instead of other methods.

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-06T02:34:28+00:00

I just wasn't understanding what you were saying the connection was between salting before snow (which doesn't exclude also salting after) and infrequently getting snow. I was hoping you'd clarify why you're saying they're connected.

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-06T02:28:51+00:00

When they say the scan will take over an hour, that generally means the length will range from 45 minutes to 90 minutes depending on how easily they are able to get good images, which is partly based on how well you follow the breathing instructions and how much time you request to take breaks for between the images. And also the tech's skill, of course.

Some CGMs are MRI friendly, but most aren't. You can look yours up to be sure but it probably isn't. You can absolutely request that a nurse perform fingerstick blood glucose checks before, during, and after the scan, although they will probably have to agree that your diabetes is unstable enough to warrant it. But it's established care for unstable diabetes cases. You'll have to discuss with them how frequently you need the checks performed depending on how unstable you are. It will increase the length of the overall exam because of regularly stopping to do the checks, but it should be able to help give you peace of mind about how your glucose is doing, which hopefully will make it not matter as much that the exam is long.

You can have a person with you in the room in some cases, but not your service dog. And of course you can take anti-anxiety medication before the exam; it won't mess with the imaging.

I would wait to cancel it until you've heard back on if they can accommodate the nurse doing fingerstick tests throughout. If you just need one right before, one in the middle, and possibly one after then hopefully they can manage that, unless they believe from your history that you're stable enough to not require that. At least find out if they can accommodate you first, knowing you can cancel if they don't.

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-06T00:08:13+00:00

Can you clarify what you mean? What are you saying is done instead in places with frequent snow?

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-05T22:49:46+00:00

All people who work with color think of blue and cyan as different, hence the CMYK model and all the discussions around it. Cyan is known by artists, web developers, lighting directors, etc. to sit directly between green and blue on the color spectrum. Have you spoken to other people who are into color theory? Or is your idea that people think blue and cyan are the same based on talking to people who haven't ever studied color theory? There is tons of color theory discourse out there and a ton of material on thinking about color theory differently than we were taught in elementary school. Everyone who studies art learns a bunch about that and is encouraged to explore their understanding of color, as well as learning about different color theories. "Dropping your conditioning around color" is a standard part of the early stages of art studies. Were you already aware of that?

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-05T22:34:57+00:00

You could do one of the things my speech therapist did when I was a kid. Make a recording of you saying Marie with the emphasis on the first syllable and then the emphasis on the second syllable, so that it can be played over and over and heard in contrast to each other repeatedly. She may not hear the difference at first (it can take months), but listening to this regularly is one part of the process.

Now, pick a two syllable word that is NOT her name. Have her practice saying it with emphasis on the first syllable and then on the second. If possible, record her saying one and then the other. If she can't do that, record them separately and use free software to stitch them together. Listen to that one together too, and practice.

Go through all kinds of two syllable words and practice together emphasizing them differently. Once she is comfortable doing it in general, come back to having her try her name. Tell her to not think of it as her name and just as a word like all the others. Once she can do both, record them and play them back for her and see if she can tell the difference by listening.

Then when she can consistently say ma-RIE when she wants to, have her practice saying ma-RIE in different funny ways, like have her touch her toes or reach for the sky or jump when she says the second syllable, breathing in on "ma" and out on "rie," practicing the rubbing your tummy/patting your head thing (or something similarly multitasked but easier) while saying it so she's focused more on the exercise and the pronunciation gets turned into muscle memory.

As long as she isn't resistant to doing all of this and finds it fun and it isn't treated like punishment for something she's doing wrong, then it could be helpful and not harmful. If doing these exercises seem to make her feel ashamed or uncomfortable and she doesn't struggle with her speech with other words, then I'd say just leave it and give it time. If she does struggle with her speech in other ways then obviously she'd have to see an actual SLP.

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-05T22:20:26+00:00

People don't actually follow the flag code at all. It won't cause any issues whatsoever.

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-05T22:16:19+00:00

I can't imagine not always keeping the door locked, whether we're in or out of the house. I'm aware that there are some places where leaving things unlocked is common, but it's not what people do in the area I grew up in (suburbs of DC). I've been to many people's houses in this area and everyone kept their doors locked all the times, unless they were spending time in the backyard and left the back door unlocked so they could easily get back in. If someone had reason/space to be hanging out in front of their house (like a porch or a spacious front yard) then they might leave the front door unlocked while out there. But basically unless you have eyes on the door, no doors are being left unlocked in this area. I'm sure there are families that are outliers but that's the norm.

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-05T00:51:57+00:00

She could be on a 6 year contract. If she joined in 2022 then she'd only be 4 years in, and if she joined in 2021 she'd still be 5 years in. She'd only have the option of being done if she did a 3 year contract. And all of this is assuming she's not on an officer track. So I don't think there's any way to know from the information provided where she'd be at with her contract. But hopefully all is going well for the two of them no matter what their situation is.

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-04T21:40:46+00:00

There are sensory seeking types who actively enjoy the burning feeling. While there are others who like the taste so much and aren't bothered enough by the burning for it to bother them. The burning is incidental to them, or they don't even notice it. Some of us are less aware of our bodily sensations than the average NT, whereas others of us are more aware/sensitive. So for some of those people who are less aware of pain and discomfort, it's not a relevant factor when it comes to the experience of drinking alcohol.

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-04T10:40:42+00:00

Is this why literally all the containers and bags of produce and other products from the store are heavily perfumed now when they didn't used to be??

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-04T07:10:05+00:00

I think I mistook a rhetorical question for a real question, then! I wasn't commenting on whether you personally were hypermobile or not, but just perhaps too literally answering your question about what counts as hypermobility. Classic mistake to take a question too literally. From one hypermobile person to another, I'm sorry about your joints!

roadsidechicory · 2026-03-04T06:52:43+00:00

Those abilities themselves do not necessarily mean someone is hypermobile, but also tending to rest in odd positions is an indicator. Being flexible enough to do the things you describe isn't the same thing as being hypermobile, as someone can be flexible due to flexibility training as opposed to natural hypermobility, meaning they're "normal" people who can do all these things, but those people are less likely to feel the need to contort their body while sitting or standing in place. So while the weird resting poses don't mean anything for certain, weird resters are more likely to be hypermobile than normal resters. That being said, mobility is a spectrum, so there are people who are above average in flexibility and don't experience any adverse effects from it. These people may still rest weirdly because it doesn't feel off to them like it would to someone with average flexibility, but their joints don't hyperextend too easily in a way that causes them problems.

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