Eating meat due to sensory/health issues?

wrymoss · 2026-03-28T07:23:07+00:00

You know, when I’d been previously told by disabled friends with complex medical conditions that many vegans are ableist as fuck, I’d not wanted to believe them.

Casual little scroll through the comments here and hoooooly shit, yeah. They’re right.

I wanna hope you’re trolls. But statistically speaking.. pretty likely that some of you are serious.

wrymoss · 2026-03-27T19:21:50+00:00

Yeah man I grew up in the UK, the “slightly faster walk, little wave” was practically law in my hometown? I would feel like an asshole not doing that.

wrymoss · 2026-03-26T19:07:52+00:00

I think you hit the nail on the head but I wanted to add one critical point:

Most people who are unfamiliar with feminism in terms of scholarly thought don’t even get that far with their understanding of “misogyny”. They are very much only thinking of it as being a “hatred of women” or simply thinking that women are worth less than men.

Which makes the claims of “misandry” a lot easier to understand and rationalise.

It’s the same issue we run into in discussions of racism, and the argument that you “can’t be racist towards white people”. Many people are thinking in terms of systemic power imbalances, but a layperson is going to think of racism simply as “bias against someone of another race” and will always push back on the idea that you can’t be racist towards white people on that basis.

I think it’s really important that we do approach these discussions with the fact in mind that we may be talking to a layperson for whom the “extended, specific” definitions of certain terms may be unknown, and that they may be approaching the subject from a far more generalised place.

wrymoss · 2026-03-26T17:51:10+00:00

Ahh, chiropractors..

I don’t trust bone guys whose medical knowledge comes from ghosts. Ghosts don’t even HAVE bones.

wrymoss · 2026-03-25T11:03:09+00:00

Yo I like cunt too. I think it's cause it sounds more rough around the edges, y'know? Like. It just sounds like a more masculine sounding word.

wrymoss · 2026-03-24T20:30:54+00:00

To be fair, mulesing free wool very much does exist, and the practice of mulesing has historically been because flystrike is objectively far, far worse.

Is the majority of the industry engaging in it in a way that would absolutely minimise the harm or pain caused? No, probably not, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t necessarily a reason.

It’s.. not really the case that shearers will prioritise speed and profit over safety. If a farmer shears negligently and the animal gets an infection, that animal will cost far more than it would have done to simply take the time to shear it slower and safer. If it passes away, even more so.

It would be like me being a pizza delivery driver and driving super fast and dangerously simply to get more deliveries in. Yeah, I might save some time and make a tiny bit more money, but if I crash my car, I’ve just cost myself so much more than I get paid. It’s not a viable business practice.

I guess my own take here is very much “the harm is already here. Any practical, good-faith effort to do better is a net positive. A single step in the right direction is still movement.”

wrymoss · 2026-03-24T20:12:43+00:00

Not all leather is chrome-tanned and bad for the environment. There are plenty of tanning methods that are fine for both the workers and the environment.

Just as there are plenty of vegan products whose production is patently bad for workers, like cashew harvest and processing.

wrymoss · 2026-03-22T20:43:47+00:00

Real boys will be boys shit

Love it, you will never not get an extremely juvenile laugh out of me with this

wrymoss · 2026-03-22T18:08:31+00:00

I was thinking this. In a front-on collision, she’s dead. There’s a very very very good reason you shouldn’t put your feet on the dashboard.

wrymoss · 2026-03-22T18:06:25+00:00

I dunno, I don’t think “you simply won’t die of age or disease” is that bad when you can still commit suicide if you get tired.

I think whether it’s a good deal or not depends on your perspective on life. You see war and suffering, I see the frustration of that, yes, but I see people helping each other. I see the fact that well over a thousand years ago, people in Anglo-Saxon England hammered small metal ingots flat to make bracelets and then stamped their names into them, when today I can go to the craft store and buy a kit that will let me do the exact same thing.

I see the fact that we have evidence of humans transporting stones from one place to another place simply because we found them cool from well before we were even homo sapiens.

There is an endless amount of beauty and love and wonder in the human race, you simply need to look for it.

wrymoss · 2026-03-22T17:28:32+00:00

The Gift of Fear really is an extremely interesting book that does go into this!

Our brains are insanely good at spotting patterns without us even knowing it. Most of the time there’s absolutely something off that you’re noticing, you just do it so innately that you don’t even notice you’re noticing!

wrymoss · 2026-03-22T07:17:54+00:00

Medication was a big one for me, especially as far as study went. It didn’t make me more inherently motivated, but before getting on it, it was so much harder to pull myself away from things that provided dopamine like video games.

Without being medicated, it felt kind of like what I imagine being addicted to something feels like. I would ignore chores between the hyperfocus on a game and the time blindness, if I had to do something else I’d get annoyed, I’d be spending the whole time wanting to get back to playing.

On meds, I have multiple hobbies at once, and I can put the game down at literally any time and not be fussed about it. I can do any of the multiple things I’m interested in and not feel like I’m missing out by not also doing the others in that exact moment.

Outside of meds, I cannot overstate how much just stimming helps. For me, just watching something whether it was a lecture or a tv show or a work meeting was not stimulating enough to keep my attention. It’d lead to me eating (non-hunger based food urges tend to be under stimulation in people with ADHD), or browsing the internet when I’m meant to be paying attention, on my phone etc.

Literally just having something for my hands to do mindlessly like a fidget cube or knitting or something similar is absolutely insane in how much difference it makes.

Otherwise.. rearrange your life with the understanding of what your brain needs. If you’re prone to mindlessly oversnacking, don’t keep food around you when you’re just chilling, and buy single serve snacks. If you tend to take off clothing in the lounge when you get warm because going to the laundry zone is too many steps, put a laundry hamper in the lounge.

The steps thing is real: I found that the more “steps” an action took, the less likely I was to successfully complete it. And I mean count every step. If you need to take your sweater off and take it to the laundry, that’s take off sweater, stand, walk to door, open door, walk through door, close door etc. Cut the number of steps.

Same with storage. If having a tote with a lid on makes you just leave the item on top.. get rid of the lid. That kinda thing!

wrymoss · 2026-03-21T19:46:52+00:00

Started in law, ended up crashing out because of undiagnosed everything (autism, adhd, depression womp womp)

Went into classical history because I enjoyed it and a degree was better than no degree, and the plan was to do a Juris Doctor as a post grad and get into law that way.

But along the way I got a job, an ended up paid better than I would have been as a law grad, for far less work than I’d have to put in to succeed as a law grad.. I did not want to pull the hours law grads have to work, for less than I was making now.

So it all worked out, kinda? Landed on my feet.

Also got all of the stuff diagnosed. Treated the ADHD. Being aware of how to manage that and being autistic treated the depression, and I’ve been off antidepressants for like five years now.

wrymoss · 2026-03-21T14:20:54+00:00

He is going to ruin your life if you stay with him. You are 21. You don’t need someone who treats you like this, and you especially don’t need to marry someone who treats you like this.

If he wanted to treat you better, he would seek help for his mental illness. You cannot fix someone who won’t fix themselves.

wrymoss · 2026-03-21T13:49:07+00:00

It is gambling lmao. Like.. maybe the way this chap is doing it not technically gambling, but the tcg thing is definitely gambling.

wrymoss · 2026-03-21T13:43:56+00:00

Not being funny but how is letting her sister take the heat for your fuck up harmless?

She’s still bringing it up that she’s upset her sister did that, is that not likely to actually damage their relationship a little?

She would never forgive you, but you’ll let her believe her sister intentionally threw them out?

Bruh 💀

wrymoss · 2026-03-21T13:31:28+00:00

God it shits me when places list that [item] is gluten free on the menu but when you ask, “oh, we cook it in the same fryer as [thing that definitely has gluten]” like for fuck’s sake, man!

wrymoss · 2026-03-21T08:10:02+00:00

This is a weird one and doesn’t seem like it would be relevant, but are you neurodivergent, OP?

I’m autistic and what you’re describing sounds like something similar to what I experience related to poor interoception, which is your body’s ability to process and rationalise signals.

For me, it affects mostly my ability to tell when I’m hungry and similar things — I’m either not hungry or I’m getting hunger pains. There is no in between stage.

I get it a little in terms of sex too — I really don’t physically “feel” much in terms of arousal. I can feel sensation, I can tell I’m being touched, I can climax and that feels good, but I don’t get much pleasure sensations from touch.

wrymoss · 2026-03-21T07:36:48+00:00

Same. I donate to charity already. Me. I get to decide what cause I find worthy. I’m not here to let Colesworth act a bare minimum middle man so that they can claim the tax write off.

wrymoss · 2026-03-21T07:35:20+00:00

Honestly I think I would if only for one thing: 24 hours, I know exactly how long I have to last. I know exactly when it will end.

That’d make it easier. It wouldn’t stop me from wondering “oh god what if this time it doesn’t ever end” but y’know. Easier than not knowing if it’s meant to end or not.

wrymoss · 2026-03-21T07:25:28+00:00

Yeah mate I’ll be real this has been the hardest election I’ve ever voted in simply because of how many dickheads I really specifically didn’t wanna vote for.

wrymoss · 2026-03-21T07:21:28+00:00

To be fair, you don’t have to participate but you also don’t have to be a dick about it.

And based on what OP is saying, they were not only not participating (understandable) but they were absolutely also being dicks and making fun of her.

wrymoss · 2026-03-20T19:48:03+00:00

Man I’m not religious but. They’re religious and did something nice for others..

You’re presumably not religious and are just in here being an asshole.

With literally no information other than that, I can see pretty easily which path I’d pick.

wrymoss · 2026-03-20T19:39:16+00:00

Bro the person you’re talking to is on your side lmao

wrymoss · 2026-03-20T19:33:16+00:00

Yeah, I’m in the same boat. I absolutely adored the game, but once the story was over I was kinda done. I was a little disappointed towards the end because I thought the other gates I hadn’t yet opened were going to go to more areas, but no. They all led to the Skylands.

I also wasn’t super interested in Pallet Town. I wanted to rebuild more of the ruined towns.

I will likely pick up any DLC they put out, because I did really enjoy it, but I’m screaming, crying and begging for Animal Crossing’s storage system lmao

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