What's on your mind right now?
I know that feeling quite well, in a realistic manner
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I'm an extremely vulnerable person. Vulnerability and emotion are very closely linked.
it's perfectly okay to get angry. emotions aren't right or wrong. they just are. there are good and not-so-good ways of expressing anger. saying, "i get angry when you hug me without warning," is great. calling someone insensitive or a jerk or hitting them is not great. the silent treatment is also unproductive and unnecessarily hurtful.
Boo is so cute. ![]()
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dragonsanddemons
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Thank you for the commiseration, Kuraudo777, cathylynn, and kazanscube. It does help to be reminded that I'm not the only one who doesn't need near as much social interaction as the average person. It's just frustrating when I keep having therapists, even, insisting that all I need to cure my depression is more social interaction/close relationships. At least I'm done with the intensive outpatient program I was doing, where the instructor was trying to push that on me.
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Yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage. For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Outsider"
Your sincerely welcome as, I do as best as I can for, I'm constantly having my mom wanting me to meet people, yeah but, A- i'm not a teenager anymore, so that goes out the window
B- I tend to live in an area which is not culturally diverse, filled with denizens of the damned symbolically speaking.
C-I'm no nutty university student wherein; you will not find me situated at any gin mill or some other social gathering site.
Honestly, I find more comfort among people whom enjoy can talk about a myriad of things without being condescending or belittling, as well being around persons who don't have adverse behavior patterns.
I will continue to say things that help you in some way, even if it's just some peaceful words dragonanddemeons
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I'm an extremely vulnerable person. Vulnerability and emotion are very closely linked.
What is the maximum amount of water that I could drink without fluid intoxication, vomiting, unpaid medical bills, anything drastic happening, or stretching my stomach (the way competitive eating contest )?
Doctor Benjamin Spock, child care
Spoiled upper respiratory class brat
Prescription windshield
Waterslide
Going all the way over, on a swing
How to feel less emotionally repressed and fragile
Occupational therapy
Speech therapy
Applied behavioral analyst
Nothing to do today
No plans for the rest of my " life"
Only three more counseling sessions
Then the insurance stops paying for counseling
Goals
None
Lazy
Fear of failure
Today the security guard at the community college had the nerve to tell me "hey young man,. Go that way". But I had not done anything wrong, or done anything at all
He pointed to the door
He was not emotional
Should have argued
Because I am an alumni
Student ID
But too tired
Annoying
It's the concept
As usual precious lil "people" can just flap their trap a couple of times
and I get a major inconvenience
Because I was trying to go to the bathroom
On the weekends there are not many public bathrooms nearby
Trying and failing to move forward in the "life"
Failure failure failure
I'm afraid that what I truly am is the stereotypical "Robot" that people said autism is, emotionless, don't care about anything, and selfish.
I'm rarely angry, sad, happy, excited, etc, most of the time I'm just there and seem emotionless. When I talk to people and they tell me something, I really just want to say "I don't care". When I do things I never know why I do them, it seems like I only do things because people told me that's what I'm suppose to do(such as going to college.)
If I give somebody something, did I do it because I care or because they asked for it? Whenever I think about my life, future, goals, what I want...it's just blank and I want to just say "I don't care."
What if I truly am just an emotionless robot who doesn't care? I feel like I'm an android from Detroit: Become Human except I can't break the barrier to my programming(whatever that might be.) or I can't recognize if I broke it or not. The only emotion I know is fear...
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Autism is a disorder not a personality trait!
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
and Wisdom to know the difference."
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Doctor Benjamin Spock, child care
Spoiled upper respiratory class brat
Prescription windshield
Waterslide
Going all the way over, on a swing
How to feel less emotionally repressed and fragile
Occupational therapy
Speech therapy
Applied behavioral analyst
Nothing to do today
No plans for the rest of my " life"
Only three more counseling sessions
Then the insurance stops paying for counseling
Goals
None
Lazy
Fear of failure
Today the security guard at the community college had the nerve to tell me "hey young man,. Go that way". But I had not done anything wrong, or done anything at all
He pointed to the door
He was not emotional
Should have argued
Because I am an alumni
Student ID
But too tired
Annoying
It's the concept
As usual precious lil "people" can just flap their trap a couple of times
Because I was trying to go to the bathroom
On the weekends there are not many public bathrooms nearby
Trying and failing to move forward in the "life"
Failure failure failure
the only one of those i know the answer to is that it takes about 18 gallons per day to get water intoxication. your kidneys are generally great at handling water.
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Age: 36
Gender: Male
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Location: Portland, Oregon
no hope left
just gorged. went way over. past two and a half weeks, gorged, every single day. one to seven extra servings per day. today was much more than seven extra servings. feel bloated. but enjoyed it.
thus far, scale indicates zero weight gain. suspect scale malfunction. some diseases cause appetite increase/weight loss. diabetes, osteoporosis. finished menopause at age 33, early. and diet not high in calcium, protein, vitamin d.
past two and a half weeks, felt heavier (proprioception). but that could be mistaken.
do not know how to measure if scale is accurate. that is the only digital scale that i have access to.
anal retentive, obsessive compulsive
nutrition foods cost $$ and take time, energy, and skill to cook.
usually i only gorge when something is bothering me. getting on my nerves. plenty of things are always bothering me, but nothing new.
feel like giving up. even wasting one to two daily hours, max, in the library on the computer, applying for jobs, is stressing me out and making me want to gorge.
4 serving naan, 4 serving tortilla, 1 rice roller (plus 4b)
two yogurt (minus "L")
two serving fish (plus T)
one and a half serving chocolate (plus half "s")
plus two pear, plus two serving broccoli/celery/snow peas (plus four)
(plus 8 and a half servings). cold f**k. that's by far the most i have eaten in one day, since around age 24 or so. paranoid of weight gain. fear menstruation.
my body naturally is not smart, attractive, or skinny. any attempts to make it otherwise, are a constant battle against nature. waste a lot of energy, to get the slightest result. with plenty of strong side effects.
everything is useless and meaningless and stupid.
wish i was a skinny smart handsome cisgender white man like mister redelings s**t.
some child told me i "walk funny". (correct). but why does it matter to him? some precious lil "people" talk too much and too loud and there are way too many of them.
simpletons.
but i don't defend myself b/c you don't know who has a gun.
"life". is. stupid.
past one year, walked sixty one to eighty six miles per week. measured on a map to three significant figures. digits. not a guess, approximation, or exaggeration.
i can't even do the easiest thing, in the best situation. how am i going to do hard things in worse situations?
i am such a special snowflake.
structural engineering, autism, homophobia, clinical depression, my precious lil "parents" destroyed my "life".
and i am 35 years old and there is no hope left. (or only a negligible amount.)
my heart feels emotionally stifled and blocked.
could use counseling.
but the counselor just says "uh huh, uh huh uh huh", "what", "unfortunate", "sorry", "most people", "help", "hurt". she is such a simpleton. just like almost everyone else. it takes a lot of time and energy to phrase my thoughts in words. my thoughts are so weird and complex.
the counselor had the nerve to tell me " ' mad' is slang for 'angry' ".
wtf?
the counselor made it sound like, i was correcting her grammar.
the word "ret*d" used to be the official term. later, "ret*d" became a playground insult.
right now, there are other politically correct words to refer to "ret*d".
when today's politically correct euphemisms become playground insults, then there will be different euphemisms.
the euphemisms are just words. collections of letters and sounds. they have no magic, mystery or inherent meaning.
but keeping up with the euphemisms shows your competence and attitude. especially for on duty professionals, in that field. for example, the psychotherapist.
and i had to go all the way to the Recycling Center to get the dictionary to show the counselor. the library's dictionaries can't be checked out and i did not know where else to get a dictionary.
the counselor did not believe me when i told her that "mad" did not mean "angry" in the dictionary. the counselor could have just looked it up on the phone. (or is that against HIPAA).
and i had to waste all that time and energy, just for one precious lil "person" and one word. but there are plenty of words and over seven billion precious lil "people". and she did not say "thank you for
helping
me. anger is just an emotion, not an event or catastrophe. happiness is not superior to anger. what a sophisticated and wise perspective you have. to think - i have been psychoanalyzing clients since before you were born, and not once has a client told me that 'mad' does not mean 'angry'."
maybe she should get her counseling license revoked for incompetence.
she still acted like she was doing me a personal favor by saying "angry" instead of "mad". wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong.
" ' mad' has a negative connotation for you. "
not "for you". in the dictionary.
it reminded me of how, 12 years ago and five hundred miles away, a civil engineer that i had a crush on, had the nerve to tell me off when i told him i was trans (not cisgender). he yelled at me , out of control. later when he calmed down he said "you want me to call you (male name)"? "ok".
wrong wrong wrong.
he made it sound like a personal favor.
that was not a personal favor
if you want to do me a personal favor, please do. but that is not a personal favor.
it makes me wanna puke. it makes my stomach and heart and head hrrt just thinking about it.
he thought "gender" and "sex" were the same.
she thought "mad" and "angry" were the same.
he was a civil engineer, fifty years old. great personality, handsome, skinny, and appeared nice and normal.
she is a psychotherapist, sixty years old, appears nice and normal. masters degree in psychology.
while i am just a slobbering idiot. a public nuisance.
and i correctly told him the difference between "gender" and "sex" and he did not believe me.
and i correctly told her the dfference between "mad" and "angry" and she did not believe me.
f**k mister redelings.
f**k jeanne courtney.
makes me feel like "trust versus mistrust".
both ass holes appeared as trustworthy as precious lil "people" can get. but they were not trustworthy.
makes me feel more introverted, withdrawn, reserved, edgy, uptight, hateful, annoyed, autistic, disturbed, dissociated, distraught, apathetic.
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