One word: Bánh mì

Regarding your main question: you don’t fit a square in a round hole.

https://anarwiki.org/wiki/List_of_Anarchist_Societies

This might be of interest.

The co-occurrence is surprisingly high

Let’s hear more then!

You are correct, she was a calico

I had a cat who couldn’t stop rubbing their head on any limb that was available. It was cute but also quite annoying at times - especially when the object of her affection was the foot of someone trying to sleep. The cat, who was a semi feral rescue, had other strangely obsessive behaviours as well, although she did calm down later in life. She was an oddball but lived a healthy and surprisingly long life, must’ve been closer to 20 when she died some years back!

I have a friend who was struggling with recurring UTI for years and years, they were on UTI blocker medicine etc. On the side they had random other strange health issues every now and then that seemed to appear and disappear with no obvious reason – skin issues, numbness in limbs, problems with sight, swelling and pains in legs etc, of course everything was checked and reasoned out individually - some way or another - but doctors didn’t take a closer look and consider whether they could be connected. They thought it could be arthritis, but tests didn’t show anything. Just a little while ago this friend’s fingers went suddenly numb and started swelling and turning purple. They rushed to ER and was put on heavy medicine, turns out the condition could’ve lead to gangrene soon. Now the doctors are suspecting it’s an autoimmune disease similar to lupus, but so far couldn’t have figured out which. The friend is on cytostatic treatment, cortisone etc. The meds have worked well and things that were considered normal before (like cold hands and feet, rash) have disappeared. They will probably be on this medication for rest of their lives.

What’s strange is that another person I know was just recently diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and had somewhat similar symptoms.

Tl;dr: if you have strange health issues appear, that don’t seem to be connected, it still might be worth checking if they are, because some diseases cause inflammation and tissue damage that causes all kinds of strange symptoms.

Also Swedish. And cursive handwiriting.

I take 3 grams of vitamin C, some ibuprofen and zinc for the first symptoms, that often helps. If I get properly sick I drink plenty of ginger & lemon tea and eat berries and something easy like porridge. What helps a lot is rinsing the nasal cavity with warm salt water several times a day, I don’t have a netipot so I just use a drinking bottle or something similar.

Listen to music I was into in my teens & twenties and sing out loud. Cook grub. Clean the flat. Read books on couch and go to sleep early. Probably start a project that will be left unfinished on the table. Enjoy the peace & quiet. Then walk around talking to myself and get annoyed for being lonely and bored.

Judging by the look on its historical face, the bowls must’ve been empty already then

manul

Excited to wake up to a new day, slightly confused, a bit of a hassle going on but there are some friendly faces around and I get to help those people fend off a dragon, everybody seems to be expecting great things of me!

…some months later I’ve lost the track of my life, no idea where I should be going, a long to-do list in the pocked I am sneak-archering through yet another draugr-filled cave, later I go pick up flowers and delivering notes instead of focusing on the big and important goals, what were they anyways? I seem to have ridden on this side path for too long and really need to find direction for my life. Everyone is waiting for me to save the day after all! I’ll just finish this one small thing and get to it –

Excited to wake up to a new day, slightly confused, a bit of a hassle going on but there are some friendly faces around and I get to help those people fend off a dragon, everybody seems to be expecting great things of me!

Be me at 15, obviously depressed, mom: “I’m worried about you hanging out with (my partner at that time), they wear black and are weird, it seems like they are bad company for you!”. Me at 35, still struggling with mental health problems and having recently got an ADHD diagnosis w/ autism traits, been to psychotherapy for 3 years because of trauma-related depression and anxiety, yet mom goes: “it must be the guy you hang around with in your teens!” (And has nothing to do with the trauma of being neglected as a child and raised by undiagnosed neurodivergent parents with their own traumas, as well as having lived with undiagnosed AuDHD and dealing with the consequences).

So damn that weird guy who wore black! I wish I had known better! Also can’t be AuDHD, probably just want to use drugs or something, everyone has those same problems anyways! And they aren’t really problems either, just similar to her “personal traits” or could be that I’m just not trying hard enough!

I just had food in my mouth, thanks

I have a drawer in the garage titled “uncle solutions”, it has a collection of rusted wire, bits of electric wire and similar shit for “quick fixes”. I also just bought me and my SO nordic walking sticks, we still need to get matching trekking suits. Oh and I dream about retiring to a remote cottage and growing my own veggies like proper siberian babushka.

I probably would end up in limbo getting splashed by Magikarp

Being ND it feels that my senses are already too much sometimes and they become even more amplified by the amount of stress I experience. Honestly I’d rather have the option to decrease the intensity of sensory experiences than increase it. 😅

There are various factors that increase the risk of course, but according to the doctors for a person this young the exposure is not the reason for getting sick. Epigenetics could be the reason for the increase in young people’s mouth cancers as epigenetic changes in genes can transmit across generations, meaning it’s possible that, for example, environmental exposure that occurred in one generation, could be transmitted even further beyond their children and grandchildren.

Big up to all my fellow unsuccesful burned out ND millenials without houses or careers! You know who you are!