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Thank you all, i needed further explanation - And i do find it might help me!
I need to remember this when I find myself spending the drive to work enacting angry arguments in my head, Instead of listening to a podcast or something that I actually enjoy.
Scheduling a 6 month reminder. Do you hate your life, or are you just in need of enrichment?
T-minus who the fuck knows how many hours until Penny Beach Trip 2K26 cause you know her ass is gonna be up at the crack of dawn devil whispering about "I wanna go to da BEEEEEECH"
Pray for us
She literally vibrated herself to sleep. The goals for this year are as follows (mostly dictated to me by Penny)
1. Catch our own fish
2. Cook that fish
3. Eat that fish, preferably in a sandwhich
4. Find a treasure
5. Eat a coconut
6. Sand
7. Catch penny BEFORE she crashes any proposals this time(this is a mom and dad goal)
In fair North Carolina we lay our scene, tiny feet slap against the vinyl flooring as they race down the hall way at the ass crack of dawn, a small but powerful voice screeching "ITS BEACH DAY!!!"
Okay 2 donuts and a breakfast sandwhich later and NOW we're really on our way to the beach. We're bring Boomer this time as well which Penny Rose thinks is HILARIOUS. We've been in the car maybe 25 minutes and I've already been asked "What is Boomer up to?" Approximately 572 times
Questions answered thus far:
1. Why is frog? (Fog)
2. Why do mommy and daddy not control the frog?
3. Why is the weather different here then at the beach?
4. Why does it take so long to get to the beach?
5. Why can't penny drive to the beach?
6. Why can't we use fans to blow the frog away?
7. Why are Grampy and cozy not in the car with us to go to the beach?
8. Where is the beach?
9. Will it be sunny or froggy at the beach?
10. What was the noise?
Along with countless others. You could not imagine the google search tabs I have open right now. I am the Hank Green of this car.
I called Cool Ranch Doritos Gamer Fuel ONE TIME and now every time we step foot into a gas station Penny shouts "I NEED GAMER FUEL!"
It is not the warmest beach day, frankly it's a little cold. Has this stopped penny rose? Never- .5 seconds in and she's face down in the ocean screaming
Oop time for shells
Penny has created a new concoction
Grilled cheese sandwhich with strawberries and blueberries right on it. Right on the ding dang sandwich. She has attempted to get everyone to try it. Her father and I are the only ones who have been brave enough.
My husbands review: "I don't know if these are the best flavors but they are for sure the most flavors"
Penny, at the tippy top of her lungs
HEY MAMA LOOK THIS SHELL IS BLACK LIKE YOU!!!!
(The words she is looking for is goth but I got the picture)
Oh by the way we got Penny a Camp Snap so she's also documenting her own journey I can't wait to see the photos
We must feed the beastie again lest she become "a fussy monster" as she refers to herself
This bougie ass child , for dinner, Penny has tried:
Chipotle cream chicken (thumbs up)
Lobster bisque (ate most of the bowl)
Mahi Mahi ( liked this a lot)
Crab stuffed flounder ( asked for 2 more bites)
Chicken club (did not like, bacon too "gushy" in her words)
Bow tie Alfredo (acceptable, not her favorite)
Penny gave a bunch of flowers she picked to a random woman on the beach and then took her photo so that's how we're ending our day over here
She some how ended up in the bed ON TOP of me and then woke up at 6:30 AM - downed 2 bowls of cereal and half a bagel and sprinted into the ocean (with a very sleepy dad trailing behind her)
Her poor grandparents did not believe us until they saw her Naruto running town the beach as the sun rose
Tried to get on a strangers surf board and while the lady was very kind and going to teach her we did have to have a conversation about boundaries
Brought me a shell with a whole ass lil guy in it. A FRIEND she exclaims. We explain that we can't take friends from their homes, that would be like an alien plucking her from the earth. AN ADVENTURE! She counters, but understands that we must gently put him back in the sea in wist he came. "I'm sorry for the adventure friend" she says with a small kiss to the clam who is sent back to the ocean.
Penny made a friend at dinner. They're doing summersaults while we wait for our food.
Penny: what's that
Me: (not thinking, making a horrible mistake) kinda looks like sea grapes!
Penny ( immediately goes to eat said maybe sea grapes)
Me: Penny no you can't eat them
Penny: ... why? They're grapes
Me: (hot and exhausted) they came from the OCEAN!
Penny: .... fish come from the ocean and we eat them?
Me: Penny just put it down, I'll get you some Cheetos, deal?
Penny: alright fine deal.
Penny got to order her own bagel this morning. She chose a chocolate chip bagel with honey walnut cream cheese. She rates this a 11/10
The spoils
A collection of photos from Penny Rose herself for you!
Tried a scallop for dinner
"This tastes very good but is very gooshy so one bite is enough"
Pizza at 9:30 pm cause a tiny voice in the darkness said "my tummy is so empty again" 😂
6:00 AM, from the edge of the bed in the shadows
"The sun is coming up - so if you could just open your eyes we could start the day please?"
When we attempted the "don't move and maybe she won't notice us" tactic she crawled into the bed like something out of a horror movie and just stated louder " I SAID THE SUN IS COMING UP SO IF U COULD JUST OPEN YOUR EYES WE COULD START THE DAY PUH-LEASE!!"
i think if i asked peter thiel for 500 million dollars, and told him that my business plan was to spend 499 million of that on oil futures, and the remaining 1 million ordering the entire stock of pizza, burgers, fries, shakes, jamba juices, schitzels, fucking wetzels pretzels, the whole lot, within 50 miles of the pentagon, just to see if i could blow up the pentagon pizza index enough to move global oil markets 0.2% and recoup my losses... i think that if i asked him that, in those exact words, he would give me 1 billion dollars just to see if i could do it twice. and i would try. god forgive me i would try.
this is less about being smart and more about having some small pearl of evil lodged in the center of your being. you lack the evil pearl. thats okay. not all of us can be descendants of wicked oyster men.
UC or ER?
HONESTLY THOUGH
THIS IS BOTH ACCURATE AND EFFECTIVE
Urgent Care is for your "Oh no!" accidents.
Emergency Care is for your "Oh fuck!" accidents.
yeah okay ill reblog that!
I’m not Christian, I don’t go to church anymore, and my pastor died, but when he was alive I’d sometimes go to his sermons and I remember one time he said “it feels good to hate, but we know that it isn’t allowed, so when we’re told that we’re allowed to hate someone we get so excited that we forget we’re supposed to love”, and if my humble atheist ass might borrow some church talk I’d like to perhaps submit that
Anyhow sometimes on the day to day I feel disgust or revulsion and I have to ask myself “is this a danger to anyone at all or am I just looking for something I’m allowed to hate” and a solid 98/100 times it’s the latter so once again thank you pastor D
Some more sweet bangers from Pastor D
Following the rules of the church are less important than following the attitudes Jesus exemplified [in a debate about if it would be okay to break traditional rules and give the leftover loaf of communion bread to a hungry and poor attendee]
Don’t get so caught up in observing ceremonies and following traditions that you forget why they started to begin with
The words you use aren’t as important as what you mean when you use them [new kid was somehow wildly confused about his name and started respectfully calling him Batman]
You might like the teaching story that I heard often from my dad -
Two monks from a strict order that prohibits even *looking* at a woman are on a pilgrimage
Along the way they have to cross a small river
A woman is also trying to cross but is clearly struggling to find a safe place to wade in
One monk decides to help and carries her through the water and sets her down on the other side where she goes off on her own to wherever it is she's going
After a while walking in grumpy silence the second monk breaks and starts berating the first for breaking his vows! And so casually! The first monk says "I picked her up, I put her down, *you* are still carrying her.
My dad liked the idea that the rule exists to teach you something - and if you learn it, you don't need the rule - and if you don't learn it, the rule is doing you no good
I like this one!
if you’re having a bad day, here’s a cute little marching band
It just keeps going and getting better. *^^*
Me two minutes ago: “cry with joy? an animation of cats playing instruments made someone cry with joy?”
Me now: (sobs into a tissue) “OH MY GOD THAT ONE IS PLAYING TWO RECORDERS AT THE SAME TIME” (blows nose)
CAT PARADE IS BACK
cat parade on 1,105 days left
CAT PARADE IS BACK!
come get your stars everyone
Paternalism, writ large.
EITHER this is not the whole story (missing important details if not entirely fabricated)
Or this is a slam dunk lawsuit for retaliatory firing. Workplace harassment is actionable, and reporting misconduct is a protected activity. Firing someone in response (even if you give a fake reason, it's easy to show the obvious connection) is a very fast way to spend a ton of money on lawyers and settlement.
This woman should spend the next few days lawyer shopping and making sure she has as much documentation as possible.
Having an adventurous eater is all fun and games until you're arguing with a nearly 5 year old about why she can't eat the raw pecans out of your yard and yes Penny that will make you sick and no its not just like the inside nuts, Penny can you please not argue with Mommy on this one please I'll get you some cheese its PUT IT DOWN!
My neighbors think I'm insane
Every day after school Penny offers me a "sandwich" which is just a cheese it, a grape a cheese cube a strawberry slice and then another cheese it stacked together and every day i say oh no thank you and without fail she then shoves the entire thing in her mouth
a different student emailed me 17hrs before the essay deadline to ask whether it's necessary to include cited scholarship. in class I explicitly said yes it is while sharing the rubric we use for marking and pointing out on the projector the fact that the rubric has a whole column for evaluating how well they engage with scholarship. I had them practice identifying which claims require primary vs secondary sources to support. the lectures also said clearly that scholarship is necessary. the syllabus says it too, right next to where it has the essay prompts that have been available to the students this whole semester. you are nearly 20 years old and got accepted to a top university, so tell me, is this stupidity or just laziness?
The general public is constantly being reinforced that paying attention to details is for suckers. So now we have adults that need the IT department to read the directions to them. 15 warnings on anything remotely risky because 1 warning will be ignored. Constant repetition of anything remotely important. Because in most scenarios when someone ignores all of those repetitions and bungles on like an ignorant fool, we're expected to cater to them lest we be intolerant or unaccepting of whatever pathology they'd like to blame instead of their own lack of effort.
When nobody is held accountable for ignorance, the message we send is ignorance must not be that bad.
THIS HORRIBLE CHILD.
She was inconsolable on the way home, terrified of the car and of storms, driving home in a thunderstorm with tornado sirens, crying, covered in ultrasound goop, and absolutely reeking of fear and piss.
She came inside, walked out of the carrier with total calm, and went straight to her bowl and demanded dinner like nothing ever happened.
Face of a cat who just cost you $400 and wishes she could flip you off.
Ah. She found a way.
This reminds me of the last time my Bioux came home from the emergency vet. (He's gone seven whole months without a seizure now, thanks to twice-daily Keppra.) He was furious as we drove home, because he a) hates the vet and b) had been sedated and was still waking up, so everything was strange and gravity was the wrong direction.
When we got home I opened his carrier and he staggered out and started wobbling around the house, and seemed to be doing well, so I left him to his own devices for a moment while I put his new medications in the fridge, but turned back around when I heard chewing.
He had managed, in his intoxicated state, to open the cupboard with the cat food in it, and bury himself face-first in a 25-pound bag of cat food, where he was happily munching away, barely taking time to breathe.
Holy shit what a champion! Drunk lad of all time!
Hang on - this picture clearly shows a burning WARSHIP of some variety. As in, this was not a merchant ship, it was a naval vessel. Are we honestly claiming that the Iranian navy sends it ships to sea without armament? Seriously?!?
This "Unarmed" ship was actually armed with the sort of missles than can sink large shipping boats and military craft alike from miles away. And guess what sits just south of Sri Lanka? A major shipping channel.
This was a combat vessel, underway towards enemy forces and civilian ships. Any competent Capitan would not have set out to sea from India in the first place, and would have avoided sailing directly towards an overwhelming force against whom they have openly declared war for 47 years.
This is not something you do after your government has made retaliatory airstrikes against civilian targets in the past 48 hours. Once Iranian drones hit neutral airports, they lost the ability to claim innocence near foreign territory.
Ma'am thank you for doing the conservation research and work. You are an inspiration to all aspiring scientists, and what Mr Rogers meant when he said look for the helpers.
Do you have any advice on navigating school, work, friendships, and life as an autistic person?
Here are my biggest pieces of advice:
1) Listen to your body, recognize patterns, and give yourself extra time for burnout. If you are autistic, you’ll get burned out eventually. You know you better than anyone else, so look back and see when you typically get burned out, and schedule in extra time for that. For example, I know after Anime cons my battery is at 0 from all of the social interactions, so I always try to take the next day or two off as well.
2) Make sure you get job/school accommodations. Even if you think you won’t use them, get them anyway. Always have a fallback.
3) Don’t put yourself in situations where you know you are going to get upset unless you have to or actually want to. I know I get upset every thanksgiving. To avoid this, I no longer participate.
4) But don’t be afraid to try new things, even if you are worried you might get upset. You might, but you also might not, or more likely, you will find ways to alter the experience in the future to make it more enjoyable.
5) Keep stim toys on your desk at work
6) Make an effort to spend time/keep in contact with the people who want to spend time with you. I know it can be hard, but even just an occasional meme or a trip to the bookstore is helpful. And if you have issues staying in contact, be honest about that.
7) Check your mail. And your email. And your voicemail. I do not do these things but you should.
8) if people think your research is really niche and stupid, ignore them. Study what you like. Become an expert on your niche topic and become more important than them due to your expertise in said niche topic
Also, this
Find yourself a day job where you feel comfortable enough to be openly autistic. And be openly autistic. Masking is tiring, so don’t do that if you don’t have to.
#2 is *INCREDIBLY* important, no matter what flavor of spicey you happen to be.
The accomodation process (Call it a 504, ADA, whatever the legal name is) is the formal method for letting an organization know "I have a disorder".
Why is this important? Because if you don't formally notify them, they can claim later that they didn't know. Don't just tell someone in private and count on them to pass it on to the right people. Put it in writing using the official process and keep a copy. Otherwise, after things go south they can and will play dumb and you won't have anything to show for it.
"Oh, no, we couldn't have fired them because they were _____, we had no idea that was the case!”
"We would never insist on making someone with ______ do that! If only they had told us!"
"How could we have known not to _______? They never informed us it would be an issue!"
Remember this: The legal protections around disability do not magically apply when a doctor hands you a diagnosis. They apply when you tell your school/job/etc. about that diagnosis. They cannot be responsible for something without knowing about it, and it's on you to make sure they know in a documented fashion.
(This is specific to the US, application to the legal structure of your local country, planet, or dimension is not guaranteed)
I can clearly remember the moment I first realised my mother and I were living on completely different planes of existence. I was 7 years old and I came home from my school's first track and field day having placed second or third in every event. the teachers had been making jokes all afternoon about how many times they had to call my name. my friends thought I was cool as shit. my enemies thought I was cool as shit too, come to think of it. I was proud as hell. so I get home with the entire front of my shirt covered in ribbons like I was a military dictator who'd awarded himself every medal, I walk into the kitchen and tell my mum all about my day, and she goes "oh, that must be disappointing not getting any firsts." and I'm like no?? first of all the first place ribbons are red and I don't like red. second of all look at me. there's literally nowhere left on my body for accolades. I am fucking Jacked of All Trades. how could this possibly be a disappointment.
