#AAAHH!!! My Wallet April

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torpid barn
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mature money management may

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....sounds corporate

twin shard
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mandatory money management mincorporated

north beacon
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Money Management May

torpid barn
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m m m m

north beacon
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Mmmmmm

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haha

torpid barn
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tama mailn't may MimiDerp

lofty raft
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Mdon't Mbuy Mtamas May

quasi holly
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multilevel marketing may

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do u guys wanna buy some knives from me

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and ur parents 2

lofty raft
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I have to buy my parents back from you? You can have em

quasi holly
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💀

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that mlm knives thing was just in my area ig lol

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but there were definitely a few summers where random acquaintances tried to get me to put them on the phone with my parents to get them to buy knives 💀

twin shard
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that sounds so threatening out of context 😭

lofty raft
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nah, cutco is everywhere

twin shard
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i've only encountered amway

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OH and avon

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we used to get avon flyers shoved in our mailbox so i remember browsing them as a kid

tropic grove
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I remember my mom used to get this shower gel from a woman at her work that sold Avon called Flannel Pajamas. Totally forgot about that until now, it was a big favourite of ours!

maiden lodge
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We are so good at names

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Avon isn't too bad their products are good at least

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The knives are lame lmao

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I had a perfume from.avon for awhile called haiku I really loved the bottle looked like a little hut

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I worked at pharmacies in walmart and Meijer and there were every so often COME SEE OUR KNIFE DEMO WOW IT CUTS TOMATOES

harsh violet
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and yes he tried to get all of us to buy knives, and when none of us did he realized how much that job sucked!

lusty crater
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I just saw a lot at a cheap price, but I promised myself to save money...

loud tiger
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Will this be happening for May as well? Could do with the encouragement to not spend on non-budgeted items when I’m saving up & the first month of trying for a baby begins!

lofty raft
fallen pelican
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Miraculous Money Saving May

obsidian quarry
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MAAAAAH! My Mallet May

maiden lodge
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I'm really a fan of Tama mailnt may lmao

eager orbit
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Money Manager May 💸

lusty crater
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Wy Mallet way (?)

loud tiger
torpid barn
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it took a lot of brainstorming (sleep deprivation) to get to that

maiden lodge
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You're welcome I'd like to use it lmao

harsh violet
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(no offense to the other...beautiful entries cough)

obsidian quarry
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my entry is objectively good

maiden lodge
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We have all the way until Monday to decide lmao

lofty raft
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lmao I took my cat to the vet and just lost another big portion of my paycheck

can't imagine not giving a special needs animal proper care but heck if it isn't expensive. gonna need to hold off on tamas until next year at this rate

harsh violet
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i'm kind of glad i don't have pets. they're a major liability and i'm always afraid something bad will happen to them

lofty raft
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I could never not have pets but phew...I've had some bad luck with mine. My boy cat has some sort of autoimmune thing we can't tack down and now identified a thyroid issue, my girl cat has trouble with some [CENSORED BODY PART] glands that get infected for some unknown reason

knotty viper
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Oh I feel that for sure, I have a 17 year old cat and his needs have drastically increased as he's gotten older

lofty raft
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I hate seeing them uncomfortable so I'm like...drop everything immediately and take them to the vet if I even SUSPECT something

harsh violet
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oh noo, poor kitties! they are in loving hands ❤️ and i hope your sick one gets better very soon

lofty raft
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thank you! I'm sure he will be fine. He's just gonna be on meds for the rest of his life

harsh violet
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oh yeah, my mom has a dog and you just know when he's feeling puny. he looks so sad! thankfully he usually just needs to throw up (lol), and once he does he's fine

lofty raft
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dog mood

knotty viper
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Yeah my cat is mostly doing good, it's just the reality of having an elderly pet

harsh violet
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and hey that's just like a lot of humans, gotta have our function pills, hehe

lofty raft
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I hope many happy healthy years for your kitty, RJ!

harsh violet
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^^^

knotty viper
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I hope so too, he's my childhood cat

harsh violet
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ohh he's quite special then

lofty raft
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all my childhood pets passed. I had a snake that lived to be 28 and my childhood dog lived to be 17. Childhood pets are so special

harsh violet
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whoa, 28 year old snake! and that's so old for a dog too

eager orbit
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Im looking after my family dogs right now, and Barney is 11 now. I still adore him, it makes me kinda sad to see him old and struggling with things though!

knotty viper
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Yeah, I got my cat when I was 8 and I turn 26 this year so he's been there a lot of my life

harsh violet
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my lovebird was around 18 when he died. such a goofy and loving little guy (at least...i'm 95% sure he was a he. only because he never laid any eggs)

knotty viper
harsh violet
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awww

eager orbit
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We've had barney for over half my life now, we've nearly lost him so many times. Like, he had very bad kennel cough as a puppy. Then he got lost/stolen, we found him locked in the back of a restaurant. Then he had a slipped disk in his spine, had to have major spinal surgery. Recently they found cancer in his foot, he had a surgery and amazingly they were able to remove all the cancer without amputating (which we wouldn't have gone through with)
And he's only got 1 eye left lol. We call him the Walking Vet Bill

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I was walking him the other day and he tried to dart in front of a car to get a piece of sandwich in the road. I had the lead tight enough so he was completely safe, but I was like "REALLY? You've survived so much, and you want to throw it all away for a sandwich?!!" lol

harsh violet
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oh wow! he's been through so much D: again lucky to have such a dedicated family ❤️

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LOL

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samdwimch 👁️ 👄 👁️

eager orbit
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Only 1 place will let us insure him now, and his insurance is craaazy money. But he's worth it for sure

harsh violet
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pfff

eager orbit
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(Thankfully my parents take care of all his vet stuff, there's absolutely no way I could afford it ahah)

knotty viper
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This is my old boy

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He will be 18 in August

harsh violet
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awww cute ol' man!

knotty viper
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We have a second orange cat who's a lot younger, she likes to try to tease him but she's usually pretty gentle around him

eager orbit
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I had a lil photoshoot with Barney and Darcy in the park today! I wanted to update my lock screens with newer photos of them

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eager orbit
harsh violet
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cute dawgs too!

eager orbit
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I'm biased, but I do think they're the best dogs in the world lol

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Although my parents let Darcys whiskers grow out way too much, and she looked like a grumpy old man. I was like "ill look after them for the week, but im cutting darcys whiskers"

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harsh violet
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my old lovebird mr peepers, doing his favorite hobby...shredding paper

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eager orbit
knotty viper
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Aww

harsh violet
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you can tell he's old there because some of his feathers were discoloring

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he loved to crawl into pockets and stuff. snuggliest pet i ever had!

eager orbit
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He looks super soft

harsh violet
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oh, long sleeves too

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he really was :D and he'd practically melt if you pet his beak and head

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it's good to reminisce about the joys of having pets, and one of the reasons we have money is so we can care for our dependents, be they human or pet

torpid barn
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brutal day, lost equipment that cost me a lot of money. i have no idea if the store is going to care enough to give me a replacement, cos I just lost the entire thing, the same day I purchased it.

ADHD is fun 🤪

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guess it's good that i didnt buy any extra vpets or anything...just, eugh 😒

harsh violet
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oh nooo i hope you're able to find it or otherwise get a replacement

torpid barn
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yeah the province that I live is useless with lost items. The bus system I use was like "Can't help you, call tomorrow" and it was a completely new mouse, so someone would've stolen it by now.

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If I cant convince an employee tomorrow in the morning that I just want a replacement of that item, then its goodbye to 60$ and im just so tired 🥲

harsh violet
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it's ok, just do what you can and try not to beat yourself up ❤️ these things happen to the best of us!

torpid barn
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guess so. I appreciate it :)

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yeah its hard not to feel guilty. I was raised by a family who doesn't believe ADHD is Real, and it's just "Being Childish" so I get no empathy from anyone IRL lol

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just hoping i can recover that money eventually. i have no stable income so its hard

harsh violet
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ah yeah my beau feels similarly (he has adhd and his mom just thinks he's lazy). you're not alone. just gotta keep taking things one day at a time

eager orbit
north beacon
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and still never been medicated because I was trying to conceive/now preg 🤪

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and it's stupidly hard in Australia

knotty viper
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I'm a girl so it was always just brushed off as anxiety

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It took me pretty much having a mental breakdown to finally get diagnosed

north beacon
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yeah! I got diagnosed with anxiety and depression all my life, so frustrating, I only got worse

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the adhd is so strong in my mum though and she'd never admit it 😂

knotty viper
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Same with my dad lol

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I'm sure that's where I got it from

north beacon
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strangely my brother got diagnosed recently too and he says it's from dad, half brother, diff mum

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I see some things but I'm not 100% convinced

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but eh their generations aren't interested anyway

torpid barn
knotty viper
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Yup

north beacon
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100%

knotty viper
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After I got diagnosed even my parents looked back on so many things I did as a kid and were like "oh yeah that explains it"

torpid barn
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yeah i have those moments of "oh that explains a lot" lol

"what do you mean someone shouldn't be craving 3 meals and basically nothing else for a decade"

north beacon
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I call them my derp moments 😅 I don't honestly beat myself up about them as much as I used to (yeah I was a bit emotional with the big spend yesterday but didnt hate myself like I would in the past). It helps so much to vent about it tho! Have less of it cooped up internally taking up that precious mental space lol

knotty viper
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A big one for me as a kid was reading books I liked over and over and over, same with movies

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I still do that lol

north beacon
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same! I still have all my comfort books and movies

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they're more like mini therapy now lol

knotty viper
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And songs, I will get stuck in loops of listening to the same song for hours

north beacon
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Yess

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I'm super missing nitro now so I can add all my fave reactions 😂 I had it for years but removed a few subs to cut costs

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That's worth a PSA for my fellow ADHD'ers - don't forget to review your random subscriptions on paypal/google play 😅

ancient parrot
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Also, we talking about ADHD deniers?

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My mom frequently pulls the "you're just like your father" (unfortunately, not complete with a jersey accent) on me and my dad despite the fact that we all have varying levels of ADHD and that she herself knows what happens when you power thru till you can't anymore

knotty viper
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My parents are mostly good but my mom still uses functioning labels and has told me I'm "not autistic enough" for it to be considered a disability

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Even though it impacts most things in my life

ancient parrot
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Generally if it's impacting you, it's a disability lol

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I mean like, legally speaking, I ain't disabled to the point of getting government assistance, but it's definitely something that I openly disclose since many people are under the impression that I am not trying to do better at all

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You are trying

torpid barn
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the worst ones have been social workers.
I swear off social workers now, they have actively made my life so much worse

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"you just might be a busybee :)"

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"you should use your PTSD for your drawings :)"

twin shard
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ough eugh

ancient parrot
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Well that's disgusting :)

twin shard
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i've had bad luck with social workers as well

north beacon
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I had a colleague who's studying to become a psychologist say to me, when I described my lived experience and used the ND label, "actually, there's no such thing as neurodivergent"

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I feel sorry for all his future invalidated patients.

torpid barn
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spent several months with a psychiatrist who called me "stubborn" when I was, in retrospect, suffering from PTSD flashbacks daily. I've been given nonstop prescriptions of medication that would worsen all of my symptoms, because doctors do not care about patients.

That garbage psych has since passed away. I wish I could've told him how much he worsened my life for years

ancient parrot
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I worry a lot that my desire to know people better and be able to help isn't correct (I had planned to eventually go back to school for social work, part of why I wanted to is b.c I keep bumping into people who just dump? And I don't know what to do to help??)

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We can still dig him up

torpid barn
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I dealt with a lot of stuff that I don't think is OK to share here, and then that dumb psych decided "okay, you have Social Communication Disorder". Because I did not get along with bad, toxic people. Like that's the level that people refuse to acknowledge certain conditions or disorders.

ancient parrot
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We dig him up and feed him to seagulls

north beacon
ancient parrot
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Seagulls will eat almost anything if they think it might be food

north beacon
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even when I studied psychology, our 1st year professor admitted many psychs she knew had their own disorders etc

ancient parrot
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Yeah, I got told that's how many people get into it lol

torpid barn
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lol, yeah what can you do. I've had to say "thank you for your help :)" to several doctors who have not helped me whatsoever. I have lost trust in most medical professionals, even if I know logically that they can't (probably) be all bad.

north beacon
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They have a much better drive and reason to do it

torpid barn
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  • losing hair from stress and poor sleep, unsure what's causing it, nothing fixes it
  • "just cut it short if it bothers you"

that type of advice from "professionals".

ancient parrot
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I don't want to necessarily work as a therapist, I just don't feel okay with leaving people be(?) When they've let me know too much(???)

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Secret therapy

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Also that's a huge bruh

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I'd like to not lose my hair, you so called reputable medical professional

torpid barn
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She has since retired. 😅
which is for the best, seemed like a very tired person.

ancient parrot
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Having 0 hair v much extra distressing if I was worried about it, tf

torpid barn
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Appointments I'd have to wait 6 months for, they'd end up being 10 minutes or less.

north beacon
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as long as you don't burn yourself out when you haven't got much juice yourself (self care) and know where to direct them when things sound dangerous, it's all good. You'd be a great therapist and should aim for that goal if it's your passion

ancient parrot
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Bruh that reminds me of that Bob newhart stop it clip

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"just stop it" b i t c h

torpid barn
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There's a certain amount of distancing and self-questioning I want medical professionals to have. It feels like I have to calculate how I need to respond based on how the doctor acts as a human being, just to get answers.

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By no means do I want to say "doctors are useless" because they do a lot of important work. But it really does feel like they get so burnt out or are so focused on feeling like they're "in the right" that they ignore their own patients' needs.

ancient parrot
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That's fair

north beacon
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There's a big discrepancy in knowledge and education in healthcare providers in Aus. You really have to shop around

torpid barn
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I think that's why the struggle to get any sort of ADHD diagnosis was so frustrating, because what I knew were very obvious signs, they kept interpreting as stupid stuff, just so that they didn't have to admit that they were in the wrong.

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Yes medical shopping is extremely tiring

north beacon
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I shopped around til I got the right psych when I had severe depression - before I had adhd diag (she wasnt trained in adhd anyway). But it's kinda like going on a date, there has to be a certain level of chemistry, a connection. Or it just won't work

twin shard
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reminds me of the time i walked myself to the ER during a mental health crisis
the attending doc asked "have you tried aerobics for your anxiety?" :)))

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i thought the world wasn't real but ok

torpid barn
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Ah yeah the "are you ill? lose weight first" ad nauseum until you have to flip out at someone

ancient parrot
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I got lucky and have a sibling who got a worse(?) diagnosis early on so I got caught as a bystander lol

north beacon
torpid barn
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Just, if you're going to be so self-centered and worried about how you look as a human being, do not become a medical professional. It should not be about the doctor's feelings.

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I'm so tired

ancient parrot
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I have a friend who has PCOS and a very bad foot/leg problem and if one more doctor tells her to lose weight before they'll do anything I'm going to eviscerate them

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The doc

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Not the friend

twin shard
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funny thing is, it later turned out that my breakdown was caused by the anti-anxiety meds themselves

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turns out it's not an uncommon side-effect of those meds to just Do That to some ppl

torpid barn
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I've had a similar experience 😓
They put me on antipsychotics and it made everything worse for several months

north beacon
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Standard for PCOS because their template is basically "those who manage their weight suffer less symptoms". Which tbf is why I've never had extreme symptoms with it, but it's honestly not that cut and dry. Many people with PCOS have multiple comorbidities

ancient parrot
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Like, you want her to lose weight when she's physically incapable of it rn, w a t

torpid barn
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patients should not have to feel like they need to lash out and yell at a doctor to be taken seriously...

ancient parrot
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Only times when she's been able to lose weight it's been thru real bad dieting habits, so keeping it off is just, no

torpid barn
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I just have to manage everything on my own nowadays, its less expensive to do that too. Losing trust with the medical system is really damaging.*

  • (This is not me saying "do not trust your doctors". This is just how I live my life nowadays, and I don't even like having to be this paranoid about doctors.)
ancient parrot
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Sometimes lashing out just gets "hysterical???" Written in the very permanent medical file and that's pretty horrid considering that with electronic filing, it's hard to lose a file

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I just

twin shard
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yep i've had that happen as well but with "hypochondria"

north beacon
ancient parrot
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I sometimes want to shake medical professionals like how I'm not supposed to shake the babies

twin shard
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my (real) chronic health issues have understandably caused me to become hyperaware of new symptoms and gave me a lot of anxiety, the anxiety itself mimicking a lot of symptoms and playing tricks on my brain

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so y'know of course a doc saw that and went "ah yep must be faking"

ancient parrot
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Hate that for you

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Hate that sm

twin shard
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just completely ignoring how health anxiety/hypochondria is very often a direct result of undiagnosed real issues

ancient parrot
torpid barn
twin shard
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same, exactly that

north beacon
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Yep!

twin shard
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it feels like in order to get any help i have to already know the exact diagnosis i'm looking for (but not show it), present a certain way and check all the doc's random boxes

north beacon
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I heard something the other day that it's so hard to get taken seriously in Aus rn for diagnosis, when some parents take their kids in for the test, they take them in at their lowest point and literally make them suffer a bit with some of their triggers/sensitivities beforehand so it's clear how much they struggle

ancient parrot
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Paying and playing to exist feels like a ride I didn't sign up for

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Also, yeah, my gf and some of our friends have done this for themselves

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"please dear god, what will it take for you to diagnose me with POTS and give me the damn midodrine???? What if I take three shots of espresso and faint in front of you on the table???????"

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A very real convo gf had w herself one of the times I volunteered to drive her to the heart doc

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Was like maybe don't do that and she chirped "too late <3" back at me

twin shard
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i wish more doc visits played out like dentist vists
i think i have a cavity > x-ray > cavity confirmed > "ok yeah let's treat it"

instead of the whole "what led you to believe you have a cavity? have you tried keeping your mind off it? you're too young/look too healthy to have a cavity"

torpid barn
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"Have you tried mindfulness to get rid of the cavity"

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if a doctor tells me to be mindful one more time I will explode on the spot

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the only upside is that when I can scare my doctors to the point that they listen its kinda funny. but thats only happened like, twice

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or "you're just looking to tell the entire world that you have a cavity. you don't actually have a cavity. do you just listen to people on the Internet and trust everything they say?"

north beacon
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I have this bad habit of only booking in for mental health when I've reached rock bottom and I'm literally crying my heart out when I book the appt. Then it takes so long for the appt, that I've recovered enough to sound sane, I start masking by default, so I don't come across as struggling

twin shard
torpid barn
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😆 oh no that gave me memories to being told "well everyone can multitask"

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like okay madam I'm sure everyone needs music, a vpet, a tv, and a social media they can scroll through to workout.

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for 10 minutes. without getting too bored.

north beacon
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been needing that at work lately xD I like my job but I cant control those lowwww dopamine moments that make me reach for my phone every 5 mins

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either have to have a half-interesting documentary in the background or some tamas or something, so I can actually focus.. oddly

twin shard
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if i do not have at least 3 sources of stimuli on my desk i will explode and burn a hole in the ground

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tonight i have a jerma stream playing in the bg + discord open (sometimes replaced with one of my countless open tabs) + akai beepin angrily + my switch which i'm playing while following a guide book

torpid barn
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"mildly interesting" videos or documentaries in the background is the only reason ive managed to hold onto any freelance work lmao

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audio-only podcasts is too little. i need the funky colors slightly showing on one screen

north beacon
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lifesaver hey

twin shard
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same lmao jerma streams got me through college

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online classes are pure hell

north beacon
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and wfh is the only way I've been able to hold down a full time job for the first time in my life, past 3 years, so proud of myself haha

twin shard
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i love em cause i don't have to leave my room but that also means that Nothing gets done

north beacon
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so much easier to manage alllll the whacky symptoms from my disorders lol

twin shard
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i'm the exact combination of ND soup to need a Very Strict Routine to function but i also absolutely will NOT follow it out of executive dysfunction

north beacon
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hahaha yess

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well, I'm a lot better now with many years of simplifying tasks and fine tuning things to be adhd-friendly.. but man, it's not easy. I spent so many years in untidyness and disorganisation and CONSTANTLY grumpy about it because I need structure and actually hate the mess/disorganisation

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but didn't have the exec function to do the things

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was a vicious cycle

ancient parrot
# twin shard i wish more doc visits played out like dentist vists i think i have a cavity > x...

Weirdly enough, dentists have been some of the most sympathetic ppl regarding the depression and anxiety tax (I admitted that it's a struggle to remember to brush my teeth and the technician cleaning my teeth was like "welp, you're trying and you're here" and went out of her way to give the dentist a heads up about it and they both tried to help me figure out options/habits while trying to make sure I didn't feel bad about it)

twin shard
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yep that's been my experience as well

ancient parrot
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(also I think they put it in my chart? The time after that/last time I went they were also very positive and mindful, it was wild)

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I've literally never felt so seen and understood in a doctor's office lol

twin shard
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i have a friend who's a dental nurse and she's like the most understanding person dentistry-wise that i've ever come across

ancient parrot
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Dang

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Part of me wants to know why but the rest of me is afraid to find out it's to do with teeth being luxury bones

twin shard
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very true

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i hate how having teeth and eyes is a luxury

ancient parrot
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Only some parts of the body are rights and the rest are privileges Sad_Boi_Hours

maiden lodge
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May you buy less tamas may

twin shard
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maybe monetary mimitchi may

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harsh violet
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ooo

eager orbit
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Yessss mimitchi! I'm pretty sure I have that mimitchi card as well. I should get her out for moral support

torpid barn
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good morning
have to go back to walmart and see what the employees can do to get me back my item... youngdorosad

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i dread canadian passive aggression already

eager orbit
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Money Mimitchi is here for all of us 😔

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torpid barn
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mimitchi my beloved

north beacon
torpid barn
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that custom shell is super fun

north beacon
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it does bring me a lot of joy 😊

torpid barn
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gonna bring my keitai akai duo as a distraction, if nothing else my vpets will have money MimiDerp

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oh hey it's the last day of AAAA my wallet

north beacon
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a solid strategy

torpid barn
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well if we're just talking about vpets, i did good this month lol

will try to join next month's chat as well ufotchi

eager orbit
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Mimitchi blessed my V2 I was running for the Big Bank Hatch 💖 and now we have 9999gp. Coincidence? I think not

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torpid barn
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I had left my item on the checkout trayyyyyyyy
they found ittttttttt

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✨MimiDerp ✨

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thank u mimitchi for ur good luck

harsh violet
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WHAAAAAATTTTTTT

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that's such a relief! like i feel the 2nd hand relief so hard rn haha

torpid barn
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yeah!! they have this lost purchases section and my equipment was in one of those baskets

the anxiety relief was insane 😭

knotty viper
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Oh thank goodness, I'm glad you got it back

torpid barn
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thank you both! weeptchihappy

harsh violet
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as good as it is to try to detach yourself from such losses, it's still hard to ignore the relief if you get it back :D

molten zealot
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Browsing art supplies websites on a Sunday 💸💸

harsh violet
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threatening ruler noises no shopping on sunday! 📏

maiden lodge
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It's settled Mimitchis Money Manager May

knotty viper
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Mametchi is watching all of you, do not disappoint him

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maiden lodge
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mood1996says I smelled somebody buying tamas in hwre

lofty raft
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I WAS JUST LOOKING. FOR SCIENCE.

knotty viper
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He sees

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twin shard
torpid barn
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legitimately the last day of april and i caught myself looking at listings