I guess it’s not my first rodeo, so yeah, you could say I did well, considering how it could’ve turned out. Still, I could live without relatively benign situations driving me up the wall. But thanks for the compliment, I’ll take it!

I should definitely try consulting. I’d say work gets in the way, but honestly, it’s mostly a question of breaking my routine of going to work everyday, not work itself. I’m not pro-job and I think everyone (including me) is dispensable, that the job will be done whether or not I’m there, but choosing something that doesn’t fit into my routine is a big work in progress.

You’re quite right. For me, crying is something I rarely do, mostly because I find the intensity of it hard to manage/control. Not that I’m bottling anything inside, I just find other ways to express myself which I finds easier to deal with. But yeah, we all need an outlet for how we feel, each in our own ways.

I get what you mean. This kind of neurodivergence rarely comes alone, sadly… It can be hard pinpointing where our feelings/reactions come from.

You’re right, but we have to; we can’t let ourselves get disorganised every time something bad happens to us. It’s far too easy to just roll with it and say we can’t help it, but we need to be better than this. I know it’s hard to find the right balance between acknowledging our shortcomings and beating ourselves up over them, though.

Yeah, we all need to release our emotions somehow. It’s just hard to find the right balance between expressing ourselves and letting our feelings run amok.

Your taco nachos look delicious, by the way!

I guess it’s indeed a learning opportunity for me, and also to be able to better support my son when it also happens to him, for different or similar reasons.

Thank you for your comment, it means a lot.

As @CryptoKitten@sh.itjust.works pointed out, the origin of the expression is “au Diable Vauvert”, or “at the Vauvert Devil”. I just read about it, and Vauvert is a castle in France, reputed in the Middle Ages to be the home of the Devil, for one reason or another. It just means “somewhere very far away”.

Never heard about Wabush; is it a regional thing?

You’re absolutely right on both points, I didn’t remember until you mentioned it! Didn’t know Moukmouk was a real thing, though… The more you know!

In Québec, we say “Saint Clin-Clin Des meuh-meuh”; “Saint”, because a lot of towns here are named after a Saint, “Clin-Clin” because of another expression “ti-clin” which means some random person, so “Clin-Clin” means a random Saint, and “des meuh-meuh” because a lot of towns here have some kind of suffix like “des Saults”, or “de Brandon”, so “des meuh-meuh” (like moo-moo) is the sound a cow makes, and I guess it sounds rural or something. Also, when we talk about somewhere very far away, we say “au diable vert” “at the green devil”; not sure about the origin of this expression, though.

Whether or not the rule is fair might be debatable, but in the end, the mods have the final word and they decided that you violated this rule, and then acted accordingly. Either you try to get your ban reversed by contacting them, or you start your own community where the rules are more to your liking. Or you can also move on to other things and let this issue become a non-issue.

Jelly on top, if you use the same knife for both peanut butter and jelly, you’ll mix jelly with the PB in the jar. I know I don’t want that, but to each his own, I guess. PB doesn’t tend to get into the jelly jar as much, in my experience, but again, to each his own.

My experience with Vyvanse isn’t exactly a lack of hunger, but rather struggling to know if I’m hungry or not. I could either overeat, or eat nothing, and it wouldn’t make a difference until later, when I’m either feeling bloated because I ate too much, or feeling dizzy because I skipped lunch. What I found to work well is eating mostly the same thing every dinner; something light, like a sandwich or something. Also, having a big breakfast and a big dinner kinda balances out not eating much at lunch. But aside from hunger-related side effects, I’ve found Vyvanse to be a life-changer for me, after being diagnosed at 37. I’m turning 45 this year, and I’ve been taking 50mg for almost 8 years. It improved my focus, my mood, and my motivation; almost makes me wonder how I made it so far without it!

The quote has been misattributed: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/masturbation-in-space-nasa-warning/

I mean, he could’ve just turned water into wine, just sayin’… And doesn’t wine transubstantiate into His blood, and not vice versa? There’s also a chance that I might be taking all this way too seriously.

I think it’s fairly common to not always pay close attention to the lyrics. Most of the time, you hear a song on the radio, and you can’t always make out what it’s saying, but you’re still able to enjoy the music and the singing melody. Until you pay more attention or you seek out the lyrics, then you’re often surprised about what it’s saying, cause the lyrics weren’t the point when you used to listen to the song. It doesn’t mean that it’s world-changing or anything, but it just takes you by surprise.

Semi-Charmed Life, by Third Eye Blind. Basically, it’s a song about doing meth… Spent almost twenty years just singing the chorus with absolutely no idea what the rest of the lyrics were. Now, it kinda feels weird, ngl.