Best posts made by Too Old For This

@faraday I got in so much trouble for reading in class in high school. I spent many a Saturday in the auditorium, or in in-school suspension, because I would constantly be reading novels. Or skipping class altogether. I had senior friends that could get out earlier than I could. Their leaving coincided with one of my most hated classes (SO REPETITIVE OMG), so I would duck out with them and then find out all the cool stuff they were doing in THEIR classes. I learned to play 9-ball in high school so well I took third place in a local competition... one for adults. I learned to ride horses. I played violin, viola, trombone, accoustic guitar, I was in the choir. And each time. EVERY TIME. I would quit about 6 months in because I kept having to wait for everyone else to GET IT. I ran track briefly, and even then I stopped because... man, that circle, though.

I've learned to paint minis, crochet, needlepoint, basic weaving techniques. I build my own pc's, I have coloring books all over the place, I chew through puzzles in a matter of hours. Its... its bad. I keep struggling to find something that will engage. Now I know what it means to be a jack-of-all-trades. I don't have the patience for mastery, so I learn how to do everything.

@insomniac7809 What truly sucks is that all these metrics they run these tests off of? They're based on jobs for a MUCH higher qualification level. So when the question was written, it was intended for someone with a big degree looking to take on a position with a high degree of responsibility and authority. But they c/p them wholesale for shit like phone reps and retail workers.

I am always tempted to write in a response and circle it to the effect of 'B**** I need a job to pay my bills, THAT is the highest goal in life!'

@wretched We get stuff like this offered to us on occasion too. For meeting/exceeding a specific metric or wevs. And I never understand why they think its going to work. Like... guys. Have you seen the foods we bring in for our team potlucks? And you think we're going to squeal and jump around over the shitty pizza you guys buy? I have a teammate who literally has a baked goods side hustle because she loves to bake. My team gets the BEST party foods. You think your 'pizza party' is gonna impress me? My teammate made me a whole ass cheesecake with strawberry topping. Fuck your pizza.

@crawfish She's gorgeous! Really, SUPER well done!

@wretched Stop putting my brain on the internet!!!

@moth I am still boggled and tickled both by the fact that my kids' generation only knows Snoop Dogg as 'that dude that bakes with Martha Stewart' and not 'hardcore rapper that was put on trial for murder while smoking enough weed to kill a blue whale'.

@wretched

Mewster Anderson

Now I want to hit an entire group with the Rocky Mountains they're apparently trying to drag you into a relationship with. I hate people so much... best of luck in that dating pool, man.

@ganymede Admittedly, there are a great many animated series/movies that I refuse to watch because the art style is almost painful for me. But if that is the case, then I will state that I'm sure its a wonderful show BUT I cannot stand the art style they chose to use and will likely give it a pass. I may cite other examples of similar shows/movies that use the same art style that I avoid. But I can guarantee none of them are being avoided for their emotional/mental/story content. There are simply certain art styles that my brain will not move past to get to the story, I will get too hung up on the details of the visuals that are bothering me to be able to get into the story.

But it will be very clear that it is not the story content of the show that is objectionable.

If someone is using an art style as an excuse to not watch a show because they don't want to watch a show made by a girl/about a girl/etc. then I absolutely cannot fault you for your upset and anger.

@ganymede I understand what you're saying, and I don't think you're wrong. But this is where the struggle lies. Part of my neurodivergency is an inability to connect with a story if the medium is off-putting. If my brain has decided that, say, Animaniacs, has a visual style that is repulsive? My brain will do everything it can to send out bad vibes to me to keep me from watching it. (Which is true. I can't watch the new Animaniacs, it triggers feelings of anxiety and anger) The show could have the best message in the world, but it won't matter because MY brain is saying 'this is wrong, this is bad, turn it off turn it off turn it OFF' and it will get progressively worse until I am so physically tense that I will lash out at someone verbally if they approach me. This happened.

So while I appreciate your saying to 'step out of my comfort zone'... sometimes my brain literally will not let me do that. And the attempt will really only make things worse for myself. I need something to be presented in a format that is either non-visual or that is visually appealing to me if I am going to get anything out of it. Not because I'm trying to be stubborn about it, but because my brain will literally overload me with negativity if I try to force it.

I also agree about the throat-punching. I am happily fat. I eat well, I exercise, and I'm still fat. My belly doesn't go away, and I'm okay with that.

@solstice See, and I actually love anime. The artistic stylings used by most actual anime animators is pleasing to me. Its detailed and well-colored, the animation itself is smooth... its when I start seeing like... thick lines of the characters and then colors of the characters OUTSIDE THOSE THICKASS LINES and then they move but I can actually see the individual frames because they cheaped out on drawing the ACTUAL individual frames and really only did every 2nd or 3rd frame so the movement is choppy and uneven... it just... it bothers me SO MUCH.

'We about to m-m-m-mummify yo ass now! trrrrriiiiiiiiiiippp'

@faraday Very fair! I've become super rigid on my clothing requirements the older I get. Only bootleg or wideleg jeans. But I can wear leggings just fine. Which is because I am that odd height that's kinda between 'sizes'... so petite is too short and regular is too long... but I can't stand to have a bunch of stiff denim bunched up at my ankles so the 'normal' cut for jeans drives me nuts. Don't have that issue with leggings, though I get a different issue with them in that the waist is always too high... because fashion says bigger = longer torso?

@greenflashlight I have found over the years that I can be attracted to both men and women, despite my preference for sexual partners being men. I have absolutely been hanging out in public with a boyfriend and pointed to a woman and gone 'godDAMN that woman is hot'... much to their general confusion, because I haven't otherwise ever indicated a desire for women.

That usually spirals into a discussion on how I can find women very attractive without it being my normal proclivity.

It happens! Its not always comfortable or convenient, but you are definitely not alone.

@rinel Thousands, easily. I have, right now, a $40 sports bra in the backseat of my car that never quite made it to the Amazon return location. >.>

@wretched Duuuuuuuuuuuude, this happens SO MUCH. I binged LOKI in like 2 days and had to go back and re-watch stuff because people were talking about things I couldn't remember seeing.

@greenflashlight Nah, there's nothing in particular making it a sad day, it just is.

@greenflashlight I can simplify it right now. Its because the people that have come up with the buzzwords like 'gay agenda' or 'feminazi' have zero concept of actual equality. All they can imagine is the current power structure being inverted. So yes, they absolutely are afraid of straight people being treated like they've been treating the LGBTQIA+ community, because they cannot actually process any other way of existence. It's the same reasoning behind why equality between the sexes gets screamed over so much. They hear 'we want equal rights' and all they can grasp is 'we want to do to you what you have been doing to us'.

Speaking as someone who was just let go from a company two days after being hired in, the day after my employer found out I have CFS, they will find ANY excuse they can for letting you go. In this case, I live in an 'at will' state, so they aren't required to give ANY reason for letting me go. And unless I can prove that there was some sort of discrimination, I have no recourse.

Labor laws protect the corporations, not the workers.

@ganymede Yes but the school system isn't actually set up to prepare children for life after school. It's still set up the way it was originally created, when the 'real world' they were being prepared for was working at a factory or sweatshop. So the things that are prized above education are teaching children to sit quietly, raise their hands when they need something, and not argue with authority figures. As education became 'more important' to the US, standardized testing got thrown in there with the 'be seen, not heard' trifecta, which has helped nobody ever be prepared for the real world. School does not prepare you for the real world (at least not public school), and high school doesn't even prepare you for college. It prepares you to be a cog in a wheel in a giant industrial machine.

Quick note: For sciences in high school... in order of ease of learning/teaching? Physics is generally the easiest. Next is Chemistry. Then Biology being the more difficult. The reason they teach it in the opposite direction? Because its alphabetical. At no point has the rules, regulations, and laws governing the educational system ACTUALLY been about preparing children for adult life.

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Extra Fun Fact: My youngest is 18 years old. I blew his mind last week by telling him that if he wants pork chops for breakfast and cereal for dinner, that's totally his prerogative.