I wouldn’t call it pathetic. Firstly because it’s an unempathetic and unhelpful response. I’m in my early 30s and it’s unlikely I’ll ever be not experiencing negative aspects of my parental situation. I was forced to learn to cope with it, I’ve done a lot of work on it, and I’ll likely continue to do work on it. The fact is that parents are one of the strongest, longest, and most culturally enforced bonds we have. They can be enduring and deep sources of new issues that can crop up through life. Furthermore they’re a relationship that we are supposed to reevaluate and reinterpret at every stage of life. I haven’t had parents in a long time and I’m still doing that as part of my continual growth and maturity.

Like yeah, at times it can feel weird and immature for me to see people my age beating themselves up for parental approval, but then I think about what it took for me not to, and how long after that I wanted nothing more. Who am I to judge their path?

So long as we include Hokkaido in North America that’s good by me

If India is a continent then so is Somalia! And Arabia, but for some reason Arabia being it’s own continent feels kinda right considering it really feels like neither Eurasia nor Africa, just a large mass between them

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That definition however does some weird things like saying that Tokyo and parts of Siberia are in North America, but Panama and Los Angeles aren’t.

A continent is mostly just a social convention for a bigass geographic and geological structure that is above sea level and largely geologically and culturally separated. North and South America are connected by a land bridge, but that’s really recent in evolutionary time and it’s a real pain in the ass to cross. Europe and Asia are historically separated by the Ural mountains, but it’s hard to look at them in modern day and say “these are two distinct landmasses” especially if you’re saying India isn’t, but historically getting from Europe to what’s worth going to in Asia has involved crossing the Mediterranean much like getting to Africa or sailing around Africa in the early modern period. Australia is a giant landmass with not much else around as is Antarctica.

If the ice weren’t there a lot of the other continents would also be below sea level

Yeah, therapy sometimes is about rehashing things, usually because you either took bad lessons from it, never really moved on from it, or something similar, but the goal is to move to a point where the bad things that happened to you are no longer destructively impacting your life.

I think a lot of people think therapy is more about telling you how it’s not your fault and how horrible it is that things happened to you, and yeah that happens, but so much more often it’s stuff like being given homework to practice setting and holding boundaries, and evaluating why you feel the way you feel about things.

Skill issue.

But for real I run in circles with a lot of polyamory and have been open from the start of my relationship with my wife that I wasn’t interested in monogamy (she wasn’t either)

How fast can it do it?

Well now I’m wondering why an asexual isn’t respecting my boundaries, especially one who hangs out in different sorts of venues from me

The former is scary too, it’s just scary in a “why will you not take no for an answer‽” way

I was only mildly feeling it, but yeah that sounds like what a lot too much would feel like. Definitely interesting feeling, I get why people might reach that point for the novelty. Kinda like a weed body high with a clearish mind from what I remember

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Well as a matter of course cops look for drugs. Even when the resident called them for completely unrelated reasons

People gotta get punker and accept the glory of the work boot as an everyday shoe

If unflavored sugar pills taste bad then estradiol tastes weirdly good. I’d just assumed it was the sugar

Oh fuck beer with dxm would taste awful and feel so weird.

I accidentally had a bit too much dxm attempting to be functional enough to work. Wild experience

I still don’t understand them not just making a tribe of loved equals for a bunker. Power rots the mind and soul

One of the great things about the steam deck much like Linux is that it won’t stop you just because something is stupid and a bad idea.

Weird