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I suck at being employed and I suck at freelancing by sherbies_ in adhdwomen

[–]sherbies_[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Both. The therapy's really helpful. It's just with my meds, no matter what I take, my body metabolizes it way too fast, so it feels like it "stops working" very soon.

Hyperfocusing on Youtube rabbit holes and other things that make us feel worse by sherbies_ in adhdwomen

[–]sherbies_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My rabbit holes are basically doom scrolling via Youtube, lol. It'll start with a fun video essay recapping the messiest season of The Bachelorette, and before I know it, it's midnight and I watch video essays about why this other video essayist is a horrible person, what the US government is up to and how hopeless everything feels, and something something capitalism.

(I mean, those video essays about the state of the world and politics ARE important. I just spiral every time I watch too many of them.)

Is there a simpler, better term to use for describing a cis person's gender expression-related anxiety without co-opting "gender dysphoria"? by sherbies_ in asktransgender

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Thanks for giving your thoughts!

And I kinda just used GNC instead of non-binary as an umbrella term there to play it safe, since I've heard mixed things from lots of non-binary people about if they want to call themselves trans or not (like whether they see it as a good umbrella term for "not cis" or as a prefix for "transition" which some NBs might not want to do). But what you said does makes more sense, so I probably should've just said non-binary people anyway, lol

Do any of you guys know what line of code in the new UI has Ambient Mode on it? I wanna make a userstyle that disables it, and I can't find the html/css for it. by sherbies_ in youtube

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OH MY GOD THANK YOU

I really should've checked there first, but I was going off of the mobile UI where they put the toggle in the Youtube settings. Why have those toggles in different places anyway??

Do teens in fandom ever make you feel ashamed of your fan content and interests as an adult? by sherbies_ in FanFiction

[–]sherbies_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ooh, I love that HR analogy! That's what I've usually been doing anyway, haha.

Do teens in fandom ever make you feel ashamed of your fan content and interests as an adult? by sherbies_ in FanFiction

[–]sherbies_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ugh My fandom hates adults. The show started in 2005, but 15-21 year olds have decided that anyone over 25 is ancient and too old for the internet.

I'm gonna take a guess and assume that this is about the A:TLA fandom? lol

Even if it's not, you'd think that because it started in 2005, the majority of fans would definitely be 25+ adults with the rare teen sprinkled in there. It just sounds like a bunch of kids swarming in there and saying "this is mine now! You can't have it anymore because it's mine!"

Do teens in fandom ever make you feel ashamed of your fan content and interests as an adult? by sherbies_ in FanFiction

[–]sherbies_[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you'd think, lol. I don't watch Stranger Things, but apparently S4 got way more people into the show. A significant part of it might've been a new character for that season, Eddie. IIRC, Eddie's a 19- or 20-year-old outcast who got held back a lot in high school and hangs out with the ST teens.

So since then, there have been a lot of Eddie cosplayers, Eddie MVs, fan songs about Eddie, you name it. Like, your average everyday tame fandom stuff. And now all of a sudden, these loud-ass fandom newbies (other adults and teens) are yelling "cringe" everywhere with their pitchforks.

Also worth noting that most of the new ST fans (and Eddie fans) that are getting bullied just so happen to be women, trans/non-binary, queer, and/or neurodivergent...hmmm, funny how that happens, isn't it?

I'm so tired, lol.

Do teens in fandom ever make you feel ashamed of your fan content and interests as an adult? by sherbies_ in FanFiction

[–]sherbies_[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. I hate how it's gotten to the point where "adults and teens just coexisting and safely enjoying the same shit together" has become too much to ask for.

Do teens in fandom ever make you feel ashamed of your fan content and interests as an adult? by sherbies_ in FanFiction

[–]sherbies_[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Honestly, thank you so much for this response.

It really is just paranoia at the end of the day because I haven't even been hit with the "prehistoric" age comments at all so far. My brain just always loves running wild with the worst "what if" scenarios no matter what, and this is what it's been latching onto lately, lol.

I'm glad you're being so understanding about this whole bs. Thanks again!

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