Lol, edgy and super cool

Mandildo?.. I accept the re-interpretation

Probs should’ve included the /s first, and then rethought the whole thing before posting that. But we’re all learning out here, ain’t trying to shame ya that hard

I only need one kidney, AND I can have 3 legs. Deal

It’s called Spoon Theory

If you ever played a Zelda game, its how many “hearts” you have before you “faint”. It’s a metaphor about how much energy a person has, that can be usefully descriptive when discussing one’s experiences with managing a chronic illness

Wanna shower? That’ll cost ya a spoon. Maybe you’ve got eight of them, so how do you choose to use them? If you run out, you won’t be able to cook yourself dinner, and there’s no amount of “will power” that will help you

Use some medication to help you “push-through” because you’re hungry? That’ll cost ya a spoon on credit (when you wake up)

When it comes to disability — if you over-exert, it can cost you your entire next day while you rest and “restore hearts”. So you have to learn how to manage your energy more conscientiously than you would if you didn’t have “that disability”

The theory can help, not only to teach yourself how to manage your energy for everyday tasks, but also how to discuss the hurdles that your situation presents

In my own experience — it can be especially helpful in discussing how an “invisible illness” affects you… with family, friends, and sometimes acquaintances. And I find that to be kind, because it’s easily digestible for the person who hasn’t had those extremes of experiences

Regardless of my struggles, I’m very grateful for the amount of spoons I’ve been given

didn’t have the spoons to do anything about it

I see you dabble in disability. I always appreciated this metaphor for it’s usefulness and kindness

You’re a troll-y little thing, ain’t ya. It’s also super cool to be kind for no reason, you should try it!

I thought that was just him about to sneeze

My best

How expressive is it‽ Like, we talking “finger-puppet” expressive, or more “don’t look it in it’s eye” expressive?

I believe you to be correct, as I was being (obviously) kinda cheeky :) But I always appreciate someone being able to hear me <3

Pathota, pathota

Made my day

I don’t have MacOS, but it’s nice they make that intuitive

I’m traumatized by elementary school teachers telling me my sentences were too “choppy”. But verbose quickly becomes run-on… I still have to heal

Dang, I was thinking “ellipsis” but then was unsure of myself and too lazy to search, so thank you! Honestly, idk anyone IRL who uses em-dahes casually, I just like using 'em (eyyy, a little em joke)

Maybe they’re trying to say that we’re not normal? Idk, but either way — rude lol

I’ve been a fan of em-dashes for a long time, mainly to try and make sentences more coherent without overusing commas, semicolons, and whatever the “…” is called. It’s just another piece of the grammatical jigsaw that allows written language to kinda have a voice. But I also don’t use an em-dash like 5 times in a paragraph

I just gotta long-press the dash symbol on my phone to use it — like so. Now on a physical keyboard, I gotta really want to use it cause I can never remember the key combination. But I refuse to let AI ruin a perfectly good piece of punctuation for me

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They do make that, but I’ve never met a nail biter who was actually deterred by it. But it could still help to bring the nail biting into focus, so you don’t accidently “mindlessly” chew