I’m using my phone data because my internet got turned off today, I haven’t eaten since lunch yesterday (mostly depression, not lack of food in the place), my wife is angry about money because I still haven’t found a job, my plans for the holidays are all but gone, and I have no medications or therapists available in the next 6months to help.
I usually enjoy TPM memes but this just isn’t it.
I do now realize what community I’m in, though. I wish you well.
I’m sorry to hear that and hope things pick up for you soon. Depression can turn your day-to-day into an unpleasant fog, compounding the difficulty of trying to problem-solve stuff that’s right in front of you, much less more complicated life stuff. It’s important to give yourself grace and patience while working to make incremental improvements. I hope you find your way through it, friend. It’s always hard, but always possible.
This sounds less like mental health issues and more like society has failed you. Society can make it difficult to find a job and then punish and ridicule you for not having one. It’s a completely absurd situation that lots of people are in including me. Even people with jobs struggle to make ends meet in the current economic climate and it in no way their fault.
Not sure why you’re getting down votes, I agree totally. I mostly only follow space, sports, and video game news on there. It’s a great site for communication
I was taught to put my tongue* on the roof of my mouth and even had braces specifically to make me do that? Am I going mad? Is my life a lie? Is this just fantasy, caught in a landslide
Having your tongue against the roof of your mouth at rest is 100% the “correct” way to store your tongue. This actually influences how your teeth, jaw, and facial bones grow
That’s exactly what I was thinking. My tongue rests on the roof of my mouth, to pull it back takes more effort. In fact, as I open my mouth my tongue sticks to the roof a little, then pops away - there’s like a vacuum seal holding it there, effortlessly.
I heard it has to do with what your primary language is. Different languages have different default mouth positions and so speakers of different languages end up with different muscles developed over time.
Yes. I took Mandarin for a while and would practice at my favorite Chinese restaurants in town with the staff. They all remarked on how they keep their tongue on the bottom of their mouth. One older woman actually said it went back to Confucianism, and how that was better for the electrical circuit of the body, or something.
Yeah, those poor 90’s kids were dealing with some unacknowledged or untreated intergenerational trauma, parenting, a cycle which they’ve been working on breaking. It’s really hard to have emotional regulation and not take out your feelings on someone else when you have no pre frontal cortex development, yet, and you’ve never had that exampled for you, by parents. Not having a go at you, at all, or refuting you, your statement is entirely true, they (we) were assholes at times. I just find the second half to that story hugely uplifting.
What’s this rule that only 2 kids can sit with you. And that’s on a birthday. Best case scenario for non-birthdays is you sit with one other kid, but more likely it’s eating alone.
If parents can eat with you on your birthday, it’s probably elementary school, and the kids probably typically sit with their class. If a parent shows up for a birthday lunch, they probably sit them at a separate 4-top from the whole class, so they can pick 2 other students to sit with the kid and their parent.
In my kids elementary school, we just sat at the long table with the whole class, but I could imagine that scenario if the kid/parent sat at a different table. If you didn’t specify a couple of kids and left it as a free-for-all, there would be chaos.
But seriously, the pavement can get so hot in some places (e.g. southwest US) that it can burn a dog’s paws (or humans, if they fall on the sidewalk or street on a really hot day and can’t get up quickly - people have been hospitalized for it).
My 3 yo told me tonight when I had her pacifier that it wasn’t for me, only for her and her little brother not mommy and daddy. Then I said what about the dog? And she told me the dog doesn’t like a paci because she doesn’t have big lips.
Aww. Bless your innocent heart. They never shut up.
Also there’s such a huge difference between 3 years and zero days versus 3 years and 10 months for example. They’re just vastly different humans from a cognitive and vocabulary perspective.
By 3, my daughter was having full conversations. She made plenty of minor mistakes, but was using full adult like sentences. She was often more quiet around other people, but in private, she wouldn’t shut up.
I think my daughter even used similar sentences, she still has a tendency to chatter to herself, when alone.
My <2 year old scared the shit out of me when he started doing voices for his stuffed animals. Nothing gets you out of bed faster than hearing your kid say over the baby monitor, “night night,” and then a different voice say, “night night baby.”
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