I should have realized it when I was experimenting with friends but I had my first real inkling at 13. Tried opening up to someone who said “ew” which scared me into full denial for a good long time.

I worked retail for over a decade.

Works for Master’s too. Until they show up and say “what if we did…” and expand your scope again.

That’s so funny because I have to give a nebulizer to my grandma sometimes and we both hate the sound 🤣. It’s so loud!

No judgment, I just didn’t realize people found it soothing.

Yep. Sounds about right! Sucks, I’m sorry.

Not OP but I was diagnosed by being sent to a sleep specialist. I complained of fatigue to my PCP so they checked me for sleep apnea and during the initial meeting I described my schedule and what is typical for me. At the end of the questioning I said “yeah, I’ve suspected I have a sleep disorder or something” and she said “you definitely have delayed sleep phase disorder” and BOOM it was in my chart.

Easiest diagnosis ever. It helps if you keep a sleep log for a little bit. I can’t guarantee the ease of your diagnosis but mine was just being honest instead of lying and pretending to have a normal day walker schedule.

Me too!

Question: does your schedule slowly morph and change over time or does it stay consistent?

Because I think I have non-24 on top of it and I was wondering if it was part of the normal symptoms or not.

Wait for real?

Yep. Numbing the thoughts away with constant input helps the body gain the upper hand and let me go to sleep.

I made a geologic map of this one area.

Congratulations! I’m so impressed by your work and meme ethic!

I had surgery today and couldn’t pick up my meds at the pharmacy because my insurance uses AWS somewhere in the billing process. We had to pay out of pocket and pray we get reimbursed because they’re expensive. This took 6 phone calls to find out and overall, sucked. I didn’t think AWS going down could affect my damn insurance.

Kinda.

Mostly no but high school bullshit pops up every now and then. Just lame drama. It’s usually one person who is known to “be that way” and starts petty conflicts, or is overly controlling and not collaborative, takes everything as a personal attack on their authority, spreads gossip, whatever. It feels like high school when all I want to do is do the work and go home.

I’ve had at least one at every workplace I’ve ever had. In wildly different industries.

The strategy of ignoring them like you would in high school doesn’t work because you have to work with this person so it’s about creating paper trails, CYA files, minimizing interactions, and otherwise just dealing with frustration.

Don’t they just jack up the prices in the 60 days prior so they can show “discounts” which is just the regular price or even higher?

Edit: oops this meant to be a reply. Anyway yeah put groceries on sale.

Yes! It was a huge deal. It was mind bogglingly cool at the time.

Open a free brokerage account now and buy an index fund. Only index funds and even if it is $20 or $4 a month keep investing in index funds. Fidelity has several with no fees. Google what an index fund is. Don’t ever gamble on a regular stock, it’s basically gambling and not worth it.

I thought I was too poor for the “stock market” but I was an idiot and now I’m a much older still-broke idiot who is never going to get to retire.

Also start saving for retirement now. Open a Roth IRA and fill it with index funds.

I know this sounds ridiculous and stupid and not fun but seriously preparing for your financial future is the best thing you can possibly do for yourself. I wish I had.

Don’t be me kids.

Huh. They didn’t give my partner a choice when they got a colonoscopy.

So my partner literally had a colonoscopy this week.

I don’t know how to do spoiler tags and they often don’t work on my app anyway so WARNING: GROSS.

You drink a special laxative and chew these special pills to empty everything out and, critically, you know when you’re clean when your poop comes out identical to pee. Translucent yellow liquid. The instructions have a color chart and everything.

Uh oh!

If I’m right you are late 30s to early 40s. Either Elder Millenial or the last vestiges of Gen X. A Xennial if you will.

What?!