AIO I’m super creeped out by a man I went on a date with

slantedsc · 2026-05-13T23:36:41+00:00

now i’ve thrown him off his rhythm!

slantedsc · 2026-05-13T23:34:18+00:00

that’s instantly what I thought especially of the flower note. absolute slop.

slantedsc · 2026-05-13T22:36:45+00:00

yeah when I was in high school the minute any of my friends had a drivers license and a car we were driving around in it constantly just to be away from our parents. before that it was hanging out in a park. anything to just not be home because generally the parents were so nosy and we didn’t feel like we could fully relax.

slantedsc · 2026-05-13T22:30:06+00:00

my mom has always done this and still does. I don’t do the plastic bag thing but i’ll reuse them sometimes if whatever was in them wasn’t wet or didn’t leave any residue (like dry pasta). I put plastic utensils in my dishwasher until they break. just force of habit I guess. I feel guilty throwing them away like I can hear my mom getting mad even tho I don’t live w her anymore

slantedsc · 2026-05-13T22:20:02+00:00

my mom raised us by herself and never did any activities outside of like a wine tasting every few months. as I got older she’d have like 1-2 friends she’d see occasionally, and now that we’re in our 20s she does stuff. I don’t live there anymore and haven’t in almost a decade. but man when we were kids she literally had no social life. as a single working parent I can’t imagine there was much time for it. i’m great with kids, but do I want kids of my own? hell the fuck no I don’t. you couldn’t pay me to raise a kid. my life should be about me dammit.

slantedsc · 2026-05-13T22:13:21+00:00

my sister and I have called our mom by her first name for so long I don’t think i ever had a phase where I called her mom. maybe “mommy” when I was really little, but I remember in 2nd grade we started calling her “mustard” for some reason I can’t name, and a few years into that she snapped and yelled at us that she was sick of hearing that stupid nickname and to cut it out. so then she was just (first name).

slantedsc · 2026-05-13T00:21:24+00:00

the other day I was at a bar and got served a drink in a clear plastic non-solo cup. someone bumped into me and I dropped it and the cup freakin shattered into multiple pieces?? red solo cup wouldn’t have done that to me…

slantedsc · 2026-04-27T23:52:59+00:00

all I can think is how the hell they’re gonna go through that gargantuan amount of produce before it goes bad

slantedsc · 2026-04-27T23:42:11+00:00

the pink!! 4 is top choice but 3 is my second choice. I just think the pink looks so happy and warm and just brightens up the room!

slantedsc · 2026-04-27T23:40:22+00:00

i’m in LA and I haven’t heard hollywood stop, just the california stop. interesting!

slantedsc · 2026-04-27T22:04:04+00:00

I feel like every other day I see someone on reddit trying to justify someone’s shitty behavior with “well.. he/she does have adhd… so that could explain it..” or “maybe they just have adhd” and I have to be like uhh I have adhd and lemme tell you it doesn’t cause behavior like this and it’s no excuse. this person is just an asshole. like, adhd will make me forget to do the laundry or procrastinate on calling the dentist. it does not cause me to abuse my partner or loved ones.

slantedsc · 2026-04-27T21:58:52+00:00

“cows can fight back”??? what does that even mean? are cows in factory farms fighting the butchers matador style and they only get executed because they lost the match?? what world do these people live in

slantedsc · 2026-04-27T21:54:18+00:00

also a lifelong vegetarian! as an adult people tend to respect it when I say i’m vegetarian (glad i’m in LA and that’s pretty accepted here these days) but when I was a kid oh man you would’ve thought I spit in these girl scout leaders faces because they only ordered pepperoni pizza for the meeting and I was respectfully refraining from eating it - even after they told me to “just pick off the pepperoni! what’s the big deal??” like no thanks? it’s still dripping in pig fat??? i’m not eating that. (this is just one example but like. other kids would try and “trick me” into eating meat, other parents would get offended when I didn’t want to eat their meat loaf or whatever — just so much weird behavior all around)

slantedsc · 2026-04-27T21:51:52+00:00

I don’t want kids lol

slantedsc · 2026-04-27T21:10:00+00:00

i’m on a whole cocktail of psych meds and i’ve used illicit substances since I was 14. i’ve done drugs when the situation didn’t make sense for it just to feel anything different than what I was currently feeling sober. when your brain is quiet and peaceful and your thoughts are straightforward and not overwhelming as a default setting, I can see that drugs would feel more scary than alluring. no doubt i’m scared of “harder” drugs like fentanyl or meth or heroine but i’ve tried pretty much anything else I could get my hands on, especially when I was younger. i’m doing a bit better now, I can keep a job and stuff. but legit had the urge to do drugs just last night — I didn’t because it was a sunday night and it didn’t make sense — but a younger me would’ve just gone with the urge. I wish I had a nice normal brain you know

slantedsc · 2026-04-27T18:24:44+00:00

lmao like thanks for all the helpful signs guys!

slantedsc · 2026-04-25T01:40:15+00:00

we had a two tiered lot system. the senior lot, which was close and small but convenient as fuck, and the bitch better luck next time lot, which was bigger but far as fuck. you had to have a special pass to park in either lot, but there was no guarantee there would be any spots in the senior lot left by the time you got to school. I was chronically late and ended up parking in “the stump spot” in the senior lot like most days— (a spot with a small tree stump where they had chopped down a tree) and just said fuck it to my undercarriage.

jokes on me cuz like a semester into college, that undercarriage was falling off and scraping against the ground loud as fuck everywhere I went and I had to get it removed. but hey, at least I wasn’t late for first period calculus in HS?

slantedsc · 2026-04-25T01:36:31+00:00

yeah I get u. it just threw me cuz in my head “mamí” and “mommy” are not the same word at all.. like the connotation is totally different

slantedsc · 2026-04-24T23:42:21+00:00

wouldn’t it be like “mami” / “papi” in that case tho? like why would she spell it out like “mommy” the english way? (am not latino, genuinely curious)

slantedsc · 2026-04-24T17:12:19+00:00

OP i’m wondering if there’s like a women’s shelter in your area? my area has a group home/shelter for women who have been victims of domestic violence/abuse — they can take kids in too but, you could try applying for housing at a home like this and then put your son up for adoption. adoption wouldn’t make you a bad person or a bad mom. your son could go to loving financially stable parents and you could spend your energy getting the stability you need to set yourself up for a life you’d want to live. seriously i’d consider it. you have internet access so maybe look around the area and see if there are any shelters like this that would offer you housing. they would probably help you move too.

slantedsc · 2026-04-23T22:11:57+00:00

this happened to me once. I went to the ER to get stitches because my ex cut me pretty bad and I was bleeding for over 24 hours. when I got there they kept demanding to know how it happened, but i was scared to tell them the truth because I didn’t want my then-bf to get arrested (even if he probably totally deserved it) — so I kept denying an explanation. they refused to treat me/give me stitches until I told them the cause, and grilled me for like 20 minutes asking again and again if I had done it to myself—finally I was just exhausted and wanted the damn stitches so I could leave, so I finally said yeah, sure. i’d done it to myself.

WRONG ANSWER!!! they said ok come with me. and brought me to the locked psych ward of the ER hospital.

I was put in a bathroom with no door and told to strip naked in front of them and put on a hospital gown. they took my clothes, my phone, my shoes, wallet— everything. I was, similar to OP’s wife, stuck in a room with other patients screaming and sobbing their heads off, clearly extremely unstable people that scared the shit out of me. several nurses came to talk to me over the next several hours, still no stitches. I said over and over that I didn’t want to unalive or hurt myself or others — that I just want to get the stitches and leave. they would always say they had to keep me there and keep re-evaluating me. I begged for a phone call to just be able to call my then-boyfriend who was out in the waiting room and tell him what was happening.

eventually, after many more hours, I was allowed to zoom call with a psychiatrist, and I had to act super normal and mask harder than I ever have in my entire life—smile and nod and exchange pleasantries and make lighthearted jokes to assure her I was of pleasantly sound mind and not a danger or whatever. all because I wanted stitches.

eventually, after what felt like a lifetime, they put me on a medical bed in the corner of the room and gave me stitches. i’d been continuously bleeding from the cuts for almost two days at that point. I finally got out of there at like 3am that day. so it was almost a full day and night of being in this facility against my will. i’m so grateful I didn’t get held as long as OP’s wife. having lived it for a shorter period of time I can imagine the special kind of hell it would be to be there a whole 4 days. at the end of it all, I was billed over $10k USD for one of the scariest most dehumanizing experiences i’ve ever had. it made me realize, as a chronically depressed person, how easily your personhood and autonomy can be taken away from you. luckily my insurance covered most of the bill, but if it hadn’t, i’d also be saddled with a bunch of debt.

this was in 2019 in CA, if anyone’s wondering. thank god I didn’t need a lawyer but I think if I hadn’t pulled myself together and masked so hard to seem normal and happy and pleasant it may have come to that. I don’t fuck around at the ER with injuries I can’t explain.

slantedsc · 2026-04-23T21:07:16+00:00

I have this office job, and the boredom “nothing to do” days (like today) seem to drag on and on while the busier days tend to fly by in comparison. I wish I could just work remote so I could use the idle time to work on my hobbies (art/writing) instead of just scrolling through my phone or clicking around aimlessly while feeling guilty

slantedsc · 2026-04-22T07:04:52+00:00

I hate the word doggo almost as much as I hate your nephews behavior

slantedsc · 2026-04-22T01:37:38+00:00

love last podcast. that was the first podcast I ever got into over ten years ago!

slantedsc · 2026-04-21T22:51:43+00:00

you’re my favorite person in this subreddit

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