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the moon is a lesbian and she hates terfs

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don’t!!! fake!!!! your!!!! interests!!!! to!!!! make!!!! someone!!!! like!!!!! you!!!!

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The other day I told a friend of mine that I never forget to take my ADHD meds because I fucking love my ADHD meds. I'm in my late 30s, I didn't finally get a diagnosis and meds until less than two years ago, and they have changed my entire life.

And he raised his eyebrow at me. We'd been discussing addictive medications a few minutes before, like the Tramadol I finally got from the pain specialist to take once a week or so to give me a break from my chronic pain, so I reassured him that methylpenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) is not addictive (at least not in people with ADHD).

His response? To raise his eyebrow even harder and say "Well it sure SOUNDS like it's addictive!"

And I had to explain to this man - who works in a healthcare related job by the way - that just because medication makes you feel good and helps you, just because you look forward to taking it, that doesn't make it addictive or dangerous. And he wasn't convinced.

The simple fact that I was excited to take a daily pill that has literally changed my life, after decades of fighting to get that medication, made him think I shouldn't be taking it so often. That it must inherently be dangerous.

I'm not even in America, but I'm pretty sure this attitude began there and then spread over here to Europe. This Puritan idea of "if something feels good, you must beware of it. Pleasure is dangerous, it is sinful, it is addiction, it is evil."

I know too many people who subconsciously believe that pleasure = addictive = dangerous = bad. Joy is a slippery slope to hell.

So here is your reminder for today that you don't need to be afraid of feeling good. If something improves your life, use it. Even if it is addictive - learn what that addiction means, whether the addiction is inherently dangerous or not, and whether the benefits outweigh the drawbacks and risks.

My ADHD meds are, in fact, not addictive. But I will take them every day because they make my life orders of magnitude easier. I will enjoy them every time I take them.

My tramadol is addictive. I will still take it. I will keep it on a schedule to avoid becoming addicted, primarily because addiction in this case would mean reduced effectiveness. But I am not afraid of my painkillers. They are life changing.

Take your meds, everyone. Don't let anyone scare you away from doing something that improves your life.

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my friend told me last night that he gets girls to come back to his place by telling them “oh i can’t wait to go home and have some stew” and “i’m so hungry, good thing i have stew at home” and it’s worked every time

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william the conqueror: i shall take england for normandy and become its king

william the concurrer: i agree

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I've rarely seen a more validating sentence in my entire life.

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One time I thought someone I knew casually was gay, not for the reasons most people do (he's quiet and nice) but because I knew he was reading a book about gay culture and identity in pre-war Berlin. But then it turned out he was just intellectually curious.

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I’m an atheist. I despise evangelical christians. That said, if more christians were like this guy, I imagine there would be a lot less misery in the world.

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girl can i she/them titties

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my seventeenth birthday is in a few weeks…and I’m actually kind of sad…i really like being sixteen

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no language should be mocked other than french

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This is a cute secret that I cannot ever tell IRL for reasons I will get into. About a month ago, I did some science presentations for 4th graders at a school one of my parents teaches at. I spent about 1 hour with 5 different classes and taught them some cool science shit, and the kids all LOVED it, now, fast forward to after the holiday break. I get emails from the teachers, and my parent brings home a fat legal envelope full of letters and cards and notes from the kids.

now here's the secret part. I sit down to read them, and I got no less than 3 little kids who basically wrote me love letters. I guess I'm the first gnc person they've ever seen, and all three of them emphasize how I'm "so cool" and "beautiful" and it's just so cute and funny! idk if I cracked some eggs or am a gay awakening but 1) I'm flattered by it and 2) I am so so glad these kids wrote me physical notes that were sealed. This is a religious school, I went through the same system and when I was 9, I got in massive shit for writing a similar style of letter to a same-gender best friend. Obv. I won't talk about this irl because I don't want to out these kids, but it makes me so happy to know that I could be the visible queer person I never would have seen as a child.

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