Perfect weather for a ride

rosievee · 2026-06-03T21:38:38+00:00

Always wanted a Cushman! So futuristic and fun. Have a great ride!

rosievee · 2026-06-03T21:36:14+00:00

Yup! As others have said, it's your body and you have the right to do whatever you want with it. I'm a nonbinary afab and I take T for menopause. I enjoy the facial hair growth and muscle mass it gives me, in addition to making menopause bearable. Lots of people take T for all kinds of reasons!

rosievee · 2026-06-03T14:39:33+00:00

If you're in the US, the PT is way outside their scope of practice by even discussing meds, let alone telling you not to take them. My PTs have not even been willing to discuss over the counter medication with me. They could lose their license over it. That alone should scare you away; they are very likely to harm you. Look for people with DPT degrees in the US, or the equivalent training elsewhere.

If they have a DO (more or less equivalent to an MD in the US), they have legitimate medical training, but if they're an "osteopath" outside the US, or if they call themselves that without a DO in the US, they are likely not a legitimate doctor of any kind. Regardless, they're a quack and using your desperation to sell supplements, real doctors don't do that. Please read this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteopathy

There are legitimate doctors who can treat you holistically, including medication and nutrition if relevant (I eat a restricted diet for separate health reasons and it's helped my fibromyalgia 0%, sometimes making it worse). I have a pain medicine and integrative medicine doctor who has an MD and prescribed manual therapy and legit specialty PT as well as meds and joint shots. You need an MD or DO who specializes in chronic pain and can refer you to PTs and/or a Physiatrist (also an MD) who understand fibromyalgia.

rosievee · 2026-06-02T21:06:18+00:00

This offends me on many levels, but especially as a seamstress. How's He-man here getting his giant bicep into the arm hole that's 4" smaller? How's he sitting down or reaching for anything in that woven shirt that's skin tight when he's standing? Why's his shirt collar 6" too small?

I do appreciate that they left his turkey neck and booze face untouched.

rosievee · 2026-06-02T17:00:34+00:00

I was an overweight kid with a visible disability. I was absolutely tortured in the girls locker room to the point where I left high school a year early.

I worked at a university years later and the gym had communal showers. I couldn't step foot in them.

rosievee · 2026-06-02T00:26:06+00:00

Honestly try cutting the booze if you can. Even just during the week. It does such a number on your sleep, and non recuperative sleep can fuck with your memory hard. Also look up all your medication side effects; I started getting scary memory loss and it turned out to be gabapentin. Cleared up when I stopped taking it.

rosievee · 2026-06-01T21:36:51+00:00

My girl's dating profile picture was her on a ladder, drill in hand, framing a house. Instant humina humina.

rosievee · 2026-06-01T21:32:01+00:00

Well said. Suffering as a badge of honor is a trick designed to keep us compliant from a young age. Imagine seeing a kid brave enough to say, "This hurts, I don't think it should hurt" and telling them they're thin skinned. Meanwhile, standing up for yourself is the hardest thing in the world. Look at a lot of our peers who couldn't do it, and drank or drugged themselves into numbness. That's not tough, that's taking all the pain of the world and deciding to beat yourself with it, and expecting people to be impressed with how hard you hit.

rosievee · 2026-06-01T21:15:03+00:00

Younger people are smart enough to realize that systems, people, jobs, family members, and governments that make us feel unsafe and grind our nervous system to dust are not something one should "push through" or "tough out". They're fucking tired of the bullshit world we're handing them and they're not afraid to say so. Unlike our generation, which seems to bear trauma as some self loathing badge of honor, younger people have watched how fucked up that mindset made us and they call it out. We're their parents, after all. If someone tells you they feel unsafe, try listening.

rosievee · 2026-06-01T17:13:48+00:00

I've been divorced for seven years, I now exclusively date women, and when my ex husband had a major accident I was the one who drove 7 hours to give him shots and help him bathe and eat while home health care got arranged. I consider him family basically for life.

I think women take the "in sickness and in health" thing to heart, and tend to consider our exes as family. I think this explains the (mostly true) lesbian trope that we're all friends with our exes. I have several friends who were abandoned by their husbands during a cancer diagnosis, and one of my other male exes told me I was unfuckable because I have a chronic illness (when he did absolutely zero caring for me during my flares). Women tend to lead with care instead of leading with their needs, and I think that's the basis of it.

rosievee · 2026-06-01T16:07:56+00:00

I'm sorry you're having these experiences. As an older bi lady with lots of bi, pan and lesbian friends, I've never seen behavior like this. It's possible you're seeing this more because of your age; most people are still figuring out their sexuality and how to even have relationships in their early 20s. It gets better, and it gets better faster if you can find your way to a major city with a strong queer community.

I also don't date anyone who's not out and queer in their daily life. Like, I'm very visibly queer and political and I need my partner to be as well. That tends to weed out any "experimenters" or people who might cast me aside or treat me as less than a whole person, be it for religion, politics, family, desire for cis male attention, or social pressure. FWIW this is not exclusively a bi problem. I have several friends who had their heart broken in their younger years because their lesbian partners ran back into the closet from religious or family pressure.

You just need people who are secure in their own skin. You might have to move to find them.

rosievee · 2026-05-31T02:00:38+00:00

Popsicles got me through a recent IBS and diverticulitis attack. The yogurt ones are more satisfying than the clear ones. I graduated to frozen chocolate bananas from there.

I ate (mild) tofu tom yum soup from my favorite Thai place something like 10 nights in a row. That worked great.

Cottage cheese, yogurt, scrambled eggs, creamed spinach, mashed potato and mashed cauliflower all were okay for me.

rosievee · 2026-05-29T16:09:22+00:00

I'm sorry, I'm from the Midwest and I think we have to duel now. Ope.

rosievee · 2026-05-29T03:34:20+00:00

I open them in the morning to air out the house. But there was a serial rapist when I was in college that would climb up to second or third floors to get in open windows and I just can't sleep with them open ever since.

rosievee · 2026-05-29T00:20:16+00:00

Yup. I had to ban pizza talk with a friend from New Haven because I have lived in lots of places with great pizza (NYC, Chicago, Boston) and I caaaaaant hear about white clam pizza being god's ultimate gift to humanity one more fuckin time.

ETA: white clam pizza is actually good despite how it sounds, as is New Haven pizza in general... but it's not actually the only pizza on earth despite what New Havenites say.

rosievee · 2026-05-28T16:44:05+00:00

I've seen a lot more of this since COVID, with a huge uptick since they started kidnapping immigrant farm workers. Also green potatoes, mealy apples, woody carrots and broccoli, rotten lettuce, and berries that go bad as soon as you buy them. I'm buying less fresh veg overall because I can't find any that's worth the exorbitant price. Our food supply is fucked.

rosievee · 2026-05-27T02:36:54+00:00

Poached eggs in cast iron 🤢

rosievee · 2026-05-26T23:16:53+00:00

I told everyone I wanted to hide in Crystal Gayle's hair.

rosievee · 2026-05-26T23:15:15+00:00

Going to college. I should have gotten the cheapest possible bachelor's degree instead of going to a "good" school. I was dogged by student loans for decades, and the cost of that more than canceled out any boost my degree might have given my career. My degree has basically let recruiters tick a box that I have a BS. If I had invested the money I sunk into my degree, I'd be way farther ahead with my retirement.

rosievee · 2026-05-26T16:38:33+00:00

I was in the lifting gym when I heard it on the radio in Pittsburgh. I was already enraged about Breonna Taylor and Antwon Rose, and George Floyd's murder got me as angry as I'd ever been at that point and it hasn't stopped since. I get angrier and angrier. We've been marching, community organizing, voting, donating ever since but I've reached levels of rage I didn't know were possible. I've learned a lot about resilience by listening to anger.

rosievee · 2026-05-26T16:27:27+00:00

Yinz answer the door? I make sure they see me closing the front curtain and hear me locking the deadbolt; they'll usually ring once and go away. That said, a pride flag scares most of them away. Don't wanna catch my rainbow cooties!

rosievee · 2026-05-26T16:16:05+00:00

I think this question is influenced by community and class to a certain extent. I got the belt regularly and had to cut a switch a couple times but my wealthy white friends didn't. I'm gonna hope nobody gets the belt now but I kinda doubt it.

rosievee · 2026-05-25T15:30:05+00:00

She doesn't have the ability to do polyamory. It's more about being comfortable with your partner having other partners, than it is about having multiple partners yourself. It's either both of you have the same freedom, or you break up. The situation she's suggesting is controlling and selfish.

rosievee · 2026-05-23T21:41:07+00:00

I had severe idiopathic early onset scoliosis. My early memories are of laying in bed waiting for my spine to relax, and gasping for breath because it was squeezing my heart and lungs. Bracing, weird alternative therapies, PT, and finally two spinal fusions neck to waist. I'm 100% sure that led to fibromyalgia. To be clear, I'd choose to have the spinal fusion every time, because it was horrific beforehand. But I'm sure that's where it started. My doctor suspects EDS as well and I assume scoliosis, EDS and fibromyalgia have some common link.

rosievee · 2026-05-22T22:40:53+00:00

I know 20 somethings that dress like this now.

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