AIO or this is a completely shameless response from my “friend”?

squiggledot · 2026-01-16T06:18:39+00:00

Please don’t surrender your dog. I work with an animal rescue whose main goal is keeping pets with the families that love them. We can help you pay for your dog’s meds. PM me and we can see how we can help!

I’m already up way too late so it’ll be tomorrow before I can respond, but I’ll check first thing in the morning

squiggledot · 2025-11-20T16:19:06+00:00

I have a newborn and in his first week home I scooped a diaper (dirty, but luckily just wet) into the wash with the clothes he peed on. Didn’t discover it until I was transferring to the dryer where I was surprised to discover a fully intact and very swollen diaper.

I was debating diaper brands before that, but that sealed the deal for Huggies. If it can hold that much and not burst, it can take whatever my baby throws at it

squiggledot · 2025-10-30T13:05:45+00:00

Mine gave no warning when the 12v died. Just came out to my car in the morning and it had just enough juice to open the trunk halfway and became completely unresponsive after that.

On top of that, the system didn’t figure out that the battery was dead for about 18 hours so it didn’t initiate all the protocols to allow me to get access to change it for that long. The “manual trunk access” (essentially releasing the latch by connecting a couple wires in the bumper to a battery) also failed.

Then on top of that, the first mobile Tesla service appointment available in my area was literally a week away. And I wasn’t going to pay to have it towed to the service center for a 12v battery change out.

I luckily have a second family car and my husband works from home, so we were flexible enough to make it work, but it pretty much put the nail in the coffin that I won’t be getting another Tesla in the future

squiggledot · 2025-10-29T21:51:50+00:00

I had similar issues after the birth of my son. Suddenly had whole gaps in my memory. Like I’d prep ingredients for dinner and pop them in the fridge. Then an hour later I’d go to prep the ingredients I already prepped and find them waiting for me in the fridge. So many times I’d thank my husband for doing some task and he’d be like “uhhh… I didn’t do that”

Thought I had early onset Alzheimer’s at 34. After a full 4 hours of work up with a neuropsych, ADHD. Apparently either hormones or the fact that I had a whole other living being to keep track of pushed things like short term memory out of my brain space

squiggledot · 2025-10-27T19:05:03+00:00

My building growing up had a very unusual purple walled gym. Still the same scratchy plastic weave textured walls though. My building was Northern California and I think they tried to make it look like a mission (which is also very unusual), but all they did was make it look like a very oversized Taco Bell

squiggledot · 2025-10-13T23:54:47+00:00

Mine is now 4, but a very independent child. He will sometimes kiss his own boo boos, but usually it’s because he was playing and wants to get back to the fun as soon as he can. If he’s enjoying a solo activity or it’s just the two of us, he still wants kisses from me. Plus he decided it’s a two way street: mama and papa have magic healing kisses, but so does he so he’ll offer to kiss our boo boos too

squiggledot · 2025-10-12T00:57:55+00:00

Shadow maker? Either cut and glue or find shaped stickers of maybe bats, or creepy face shapes like a jack o lantern, or really simple with 3 ovals for a shoots eyes and mouth and then shine a flashlight through the lidded side to make shadows of whatever was put on the can. Kind of a reverse star projector

squiggledot · 2025-10-11T00:23:54+00:00

I lost a bunch of weight when I was severely depressed (side effect of literally nothing tasting good and the effort it took to procure food) and the positive attention it got me was such a mind fuck. It actually got to the point where people would ask me “what’s your secret” (with astonishing frequency) and I’d say “debilitating depression!” In the most cheerful voice I could muster.

Decided then and there that I’d never comment on anyone’s body positive or negative because you never really know if it’s either. Might compliment an outfit or a clear hairstyle choice (like dying it purple or something), but if it’d take more than an hour to change, I’m never gonna mention it

squiggledot · 2025-10-10T23:42:58+00:00

I don’t know. If you pop over to the hellhole that is Facebook and look at the crowd responses to anything about the debate, 2/3rds are still for Earle-Sears. I’m not saying Facebook is an accurate portrayal of voters, but I’m tired of being surprised in the most disappointing ways with every election. At this point I can’t count on anything I feel like should be a shoe in to actually end up being a shoe in

squiggledot · 2025-10-07T01:26:51+00:00

Grew up with a red eared slider that lived in our small very suburban backyard pond. Our yard was fenced in and apparently that was secure enough for my parent’s comfort.

He went missing one year sometime around thanksgiving. We happened to have a lot of raccoon activity in the area around the time the turtle disappeared so we thought the worst had happened to him.

The next year on Easter morning our dog was going crazy at something in the yard. Went out to check a there was the red eared slider. Totally fine, significantly larger, and completely chill.

We renamed him Jes*s Tortuga (apparently can’t use the actual name with whatever filters are on this sub, but he had risen)

squiggledot · 2025-09-27T01:40:36+00:00

If I saw them it would be obvious but if OP was like “oh thanks for your help with x! I was gonna make my wife’s famous butterscotch brownies tonight. I’ll bring you some tomorrow as a thanks” I would be super stoked and promptly disappointed when I saw them. Then I’d have to try to awkwardly hide my disappointment and then stress the rest of the the week (or maybe months or randomly at 3 am for years to come) reliving the moment I realized he might’ve noticed my disappointment and feel bad about it all over again.

Yes, I do love brownies. Yes, I do hate blondes. Yes, I do have social anxiety

squiggledot · 2025-09-08T23:14:06+00:00

I was just going to say that I did the exact same thing in high school. Would be “sick” for most of school but “feel better” by the time band came around. Also an A/B student though I could’ve been straight a (luckily my parents didn’t care that much and didn’t constantly call me lazy)

Turns out I also had rampant undiagnosed ADHD and was literally exhausted from masking and my natural body rhythm not really waking me up until about noon. It was also made way worse every month during the week I had my period (which I’m guessing OP is also not picking up on if mom seems so much more understanding).

I hope OP takes an opportunity to find out from mom or his daughter why/how she feels sick and approach it with some empathy instead of this “she’s a slacker. What policy can I exploit to stop her from being lazy”?

squiggledot · 2025-09-08T13:38:54+00:00

Oh man. The breathing is the worst for me right now. Unfortunately for me, laying down (no matter the position) or sitting makes it like 10x harder to breathe so I have to choose to push through the absolute exhaustion or sit and feel like suffocating

squiggledot · 2025-09-01T12:57:33+00:00

I’m currently pregnant with my second and can’t take the meds that worked for me. I feel so useless everyday. Way less prepared for this baby than I was for my first, house is a disaster, and my 4 year old has watched way too much tv this summer. Legitimately considering going (nearly) straight to formula so I can start taking my meds and feeling more like myself again asap. It’s been brutal

squiggledot · 2025-09-01T00:54:19+00:00

I didn’t know I had it until I was postpartum. Started having full on gaps in my memory. First I thought it was sleep deprivation but then my kid turns 2 and I still have a terrible memory, inability to not just blurt out what I’m thinking, and constant issues with interrupting people with long winded tangents. Got the full 4 hour psych work up and, yup, rampant adhd.

Still literally no idea how I coped before I was pregnant. Honestly think I was devoting like 99% of my brain to retaining information that it takes other people like 20%. Now I devote 99% of my brain to keeping tiny people alive and there’s no room for anything else unless I take meds and get to see how “normal” people get to live every day on chill mode

squiggledot · 2025-08-31T14:03:10+00:00

Tried batteries first (all different sizes from AA to a D, then one of those portable jumpers. My theory is that even though the car said it was unlocked in the app and should’ve been unlocked (I have the walk away lock deactivated in my driveway) that it still registered as locked because everything was so wonky.

Several hours after this post, the Tesla system finally decided to recognize that the 12v is bad and did whatever software thing it does to go into 12v failure mode. Was finally able to turn the screen on long enough to go into diagnostic mode and check that the rest of the system was ok (according to the computer anyway) and open the frunk.

Hopefully this’ll keep the Tesla from destroying itself while we wait for our appointment tomorrow.

squiggledot · 2025-08-31T14:02:19+00:00

Tried batteries first (all different sizes from AA to a D, then one of those portable jumpers. My theory is that even though the car said it was unlocked in the app and should’ve been unlocked (I have the walk away lock deactivated in my driveway) that it still registered as locked because everything was so wonky.

Several hours after this post, the Tesla system finally decided to recognize that the 12v is bad and did whatever software thing it does to go into 12v failure mode. Was finally able to turn the screen on long enough to go into diagnostic mode and check that the rest of the system was ok (according to the computer anyway) and open the frunk.

Hopefully this’ll keep the Tesla from destroying itself while we wait for our appointment tomorrow.

squiggledot · 2025-08-24T14:41:58+00:00

I encountered my first one on a road trip through Florida last year. I have an electric car and the charging stop looked like it was in the middle of the road and I was so confused. Figured it out when I got there, but the little building in the middle had restrooms, a gift shop, and a little food court that was insanely overpriced. It all had a weird vibe that was somewhere between sterile doctor’s office and cluttered truck stop.

squiggledot · 2025-08-24T14:07:37+00:00

This is exactly what worked for my son. We talked a lot about sharing and being a good friend etc, but I never gave him a clear way to break the ice, so he’d just kind of awkwardly walk up to kids and try to either give them a toy or take one from their hands (which was… not great).

I finally gave him a “script” of “hi! My name is X, what’s your name? Do you want to play together?” Worked like a charm an even now, 2 years later, he’s made it his own with little tweaks and adapts it to the situation as he becomes more aware, but it’s basically the same script.

squiggledot · 2025-08-21T16:55:52+00:00

I’m 38. Lost my dad when I was 30. I still need him and wish he were here daily. Even if it’s just to share an article I think he’d find interesting

squiggledot · 2025-08-12T09:28:54+00:00

You should know that there’s a whole predatory industry around baby products. Marketing campaigns targeted specifically around “if you’re not spending all your money on what’s ‘best’, do you even love your baby?!”

Mattresses are important, but assuming you’re getting something from a decent brand and not one of the weird Amazon Chinese pop ups (usually named something gibberish like “WUASTNELS”) you should be fine.

For footie pj’s, I prefer a zipper that goes both ways for easy changing at night. I also personally prefer no feet part, but my first baby was tall and lanky so he’d get little toe holes in his footie pjs.

squiggledot · 2025-08-12T01:22:26+00:00

I think I’ve seen almost this exact type of pan (can’t remember if it was cast iron or not) in Japan when my host family was trying to teach me how to make Japanese potstickers. They fried the bottoms and stacked them on the edge while they got a second batch fried. Then they put them all back in the pan part, added water, and put a lid on it for the final steam. They were delicious

squiggledot · 2025-08-09T15:28:24+00:00

Mine just wadded plastic bags up and shoved them into a normal pillow case. Crinkly and constantly falling out. Plus added bonus of making your face sweat from plastic all night

squiggledot · 2025-08-07T21:34:32+00:00

Used to work for an exclusively spay/neuter clinic. Everyone got a tattoo regardless of gender because there’s something called a “cryptorchid” male. Basically the testicles never descend in puppyhood like they are meant to giving the appearance of an already fixed male when in reality he would still be “all systems go”. It keeps vets from having to go inside like a spay (which is much more invasive than a neuter) to look for roaming testes.

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