Emily O'Brien

It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.

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I'd boil it in the pot. It just feels like less work somehow? Also, I'm usually doing other things while waiting for it to boil, so it doesn't really matter to me if it takes a couple minutes longer

Hei hei's coat is looking so good!!

To clarify I don't wet the bed or have kids who can wet the bed, but I am bad at putting sheets on correctly lol

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

Ooh, I usually just try to pick sheets with patterns that have a distinct direction to them because I always try to put it on the wrong way first, but this would be much easier

With no assist from the other hand on any of them

I can do it underneath super easily on both hands, pretty easily on top with my left (non-dominant), and can do it but not easily on top with my right (dominant)

Okay, I haven't done them yet but, bedroom clock/light thingy, stove, microwave, car (this one will almost definitely be done after I start driving somewhere, and then panic that I'm somehow running an hour late)

I know it's hard not to blame yourself for things like this, but remember that people like that are experts at hiding who they really are, and he probably had everyone fooled. You are the one who made your cats feel safe and loved and is giving them all the best life any cat could ask for 🫂❤️

Biological sex is not straightforward is like first year biology stuff, let's debate something actually interesting like the best way to determine if two things are different species or subspecies

I don't even like baseball, yet I still keep checking the score??

I can make my own bad choices without A.I. thank you very much

That guy was actually pretty clearly male visually, but if I recall correctly, he was also crypt so I think the vet took a look while they were in there to make sure there were no ovaries or anything during his neuter just in case

We also had three different chocolate brown cats come in during my time there, and it was very cool every time we saw one of them

We didn't find out until the vet did their exam the next day,and after that he had several of us double checking and being like, no that can't be right after seeing his file haha

I worked at one of the biggest (at the time) animal shelters in Canada for 5 years and I saw one single male tortie kitten out of the thousands of cats that came through. We actually had him marked female at first since the person who did his intake had just marked him automatically based on color.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Of course! It was the link to your BBC interview that doesn't seem to work anymore

It looks like it's gone? Clicking the link just gives me an "Error 404 - Oops, the page you're looking for is no longer here" page

I absolutely LOVED that movie as a kid. If we hadn't already owned the vhs, I probably would have made my parents rent it repeatedly as well

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2. A big room with standing room only crowds, and I forgot a mask and can feel people breathing on me

3. I'm back in university taking a test. The test will determine if I graduate or fail and disappoint everyone who's ever known me. The topics in the exam are not the ones I studied.

I feel I'm mostly safe from the third one because I simply will not realize I am being flirted with until 2 to 5 years later

Oh, that second one is very good

Okay, I'm skipping my most scary room of all because it's gross so here are the next three

1. A room where all of my friends get together intervention style to tell me that they actually all think I'm really annoying, but were too polite to say anything about it until now

I feel like all these zoo animal enrichment pumpkin videos and photos are also human enrichment tools on social media.

I’m very very tired of “living in fear” being lobbed at maskwearers by people who frequently say they can’t wear one because no one else around them is.

Living in fear is ignoring science and endangering lives and your own health because you’re terrified of not fitting in.

I returned to a hobby that I'd been missing since covid, and it felt so good to be excitedly welcomed back to it by the rest of the group