I’m agender and I’m confident I’m agender because I’m always a tad confused when someone refers to me as my assigned-at-birth/default gender. It just doesn’t click for me. No dysphoria, just confusion and a half beat of “oh! They mean me!”

I had a co-worker tell me that if I was a Republican before I was 30 I was heartless and if I was a Democrat after 30 I was brainless. I was 20-something at the time.

SLPT: get prescribed bigger pills. My twice a day horse pills come in an impressively large bottle.

Like that kayaking camping group that came back late March 2020 and had knowledge of COVID suddenly thrust upon them? That sounds lovely.

Has he declared his pronouns anywhere or have we all just rudely assumed them and he’s been too shy/nervous to correct us?

Clearly people born with a cleft pallette aren’t human to them. Which is kind of a weird thing to say and believe.

My queer FB friends have been moving to Bluesky, which is frustrating because I’ve been on Mastodon for a year. But, whatever. I can deal with two accounts.

My college ID used to be my social security number, so maybe it was something like that? Iirc that’s no longer allowed in the US.

I would not want to try and explain “intersex” to some of my high school classmates (or my brother TBH). “You mean my kid was born a slur?”

Maybe Kentucky has changed in the past few decades, but I doubt it.

I avoid the self-checkout at the local target because they display a video feed of you using it with a distressingly bright blinky light. It’s just sensory overload and I don’t need that in my life.

I’m sorry and I’m glad he wasn’t majorly injured.

Yeah, there’s also the confusion of not having literally seen or felt the kid being crushed, so chastising myself that it shouldn’t have been that traumatic. It took me years to accept that just hearing something can also be witnessing it.

Potato: the traditional ADHD houseplant. (Reminds me, I should see if any of my bag of potatoes have volunteered to be planted/have sprouted yet)

I (aurally) witnessed a kindergartener get run over by her school bus. I was on a different bus and our bus drivers were talking over the radio, then there was this ungodly wailing from the other bus. The other bus driver just kept screaming “I killed her, I killed her”.

Turns out the little girl barely missed the bus, ran alongside it to catch up, tripped, and fell under the wheels of the bus.

Once we got to high school, students on the killing bus were offered counseling. I, not being on the killing bus, didn’t talk to anyone about it until I went to therapy decades later.

Yellow school buses freak me out still, for that and abuse reasons.

Human Rights Watch was pretty concerned about prematurely assigning gender to intersex children, back in 2017. I expect there’s more regional variation in this than you’d think.

Samesies. Those darn intrusive thoughts!

That background is a mess. Why so many lines intersecting his right side? Is there any symbolism to that painting?

Red heads have different pain tolerance from normal people. That’s just basic biology. It’s not fair to make them compete with normal people. /s

Edit: nothing wrong with redheads, mind. My best friend is a strawberry blond.

TBH, I think Siegfried and Joy have elevated the trick to an art form. (Link is to a very short video example)

Similarly fuzzy! I think they mostly came from the “Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria” region of Poland. Some definitely have “Galicia” on their earlier census records, then later records for the same relatives say Poland. Other relatives waffle between Poland and Russia. t National borders are so fuzzy.

The other side of the family is from Appalachia since the 1800s, but sometimes can’t decide if they’re born in TN or KY because they were from a disputed region.