The only thing that can snap me out of a spiral is to talk to someone I trust. Either a loved one or a therapist.

You and your pronouns are ofc valid, but it’s unfortunately not feasible to go into everyone’s profile in a forum like this.

So yeah it’s probably your field! Sorry about that. Fwiw I don’t think the problem is that it isn’t ‘hard science’, I find it easy to find philosophical works (German, English and French language ones). It’s probably just too niche.

I used to live way outside of town and there weren’t any night buses on weekdays, so I got a moped at 15. I just didn’t drink at all when I hung out with friends on weekdays, even when I turned 16 and it became legal, because I had to drive. It wasn’t hard to do and nobody batted an eye. So, the alternative is not drinking. Having no alternative transport is a poor excuse for drunk driving.

Edit: tangent point the above image in the post reminded me of.

For every person who thinks they’re interesting for hating a popular thing, there’s ten who will be like OMG YOU THINK YOURE SO SPECIAL AND BETTER THAN EVERYONE when you casually mention you don’t particularly care for a popular thing.

That’d also harm big corporations less than small, independent artists who don’t get paid as much per use of their artwork.

Under capitalism, copyrights are a necessary tool for people to get paid for their labour in some cases. That’s not the most common usecase for copyrights, but a needed one until we get a better system. Fuck copyrights being used for corporate greed though. Somehow, more people are against the former than the latter, which is super wrong. But it’s not a reason to be against the former in addition to being against the latter.

That is an aggressively shitty way to present that data

Idk if itll help but have you tried annas archive? It mirrors multiple science piracy sites.

Edit:do you mean pedagogical materials or research? Cause I don’t think you’ll be lucky if it’s the former.

Major mood

I’m both like you and a fidgeter myself. It sucks. I do try to fidget subtlely- I like rubbing my fingernails with the thumb of the same hand.

Huh I thought since most are moisturizing that they were basically lotion with extra sun protecting ingredients!

Not questioning that you can die of nicotine overdose! I mean, you can die from water overdose. More wondering what the LD50 was, and if the butt of one cigarette was enough to be lethal.

Most enbies consider ourselves trans, seeing as trans means to identify with a gender other than the one you were assigned.

If it helps, both I and a close friend feel like gender is one of those social concepts that them and I just don’t fully grasp due to our autism. That’s not to say it’s not valid for autists to strongly identify as a specific gender, binary, nonbinary, cis or trans! But i definitely don’t feel like I have a gender at all. I do enjoy to be androgynous though. I can only encourage you to try a more fem look when and if it’s safe and see how you feel! Maybe even just at home at first.

I’ve been wondering why so much sunscreen has alcohol, exactly because of what you explained. Do you happen to know?

One time when I was a drunk dumb teen I ate half a cigarette and I didn’t die. Didn’t even feel anything. I hear that thing about a cig butt killing a child a lot, I wonder if anyone has a source?

Disclaimer: it’s not a good idea either way

Ah fair! I wasn’t super clear, I was more talking about my comment than the original post.

It’s more nuanced. It’s ‘this is a social construct, therefore I can just decide whether I want to accept it, and I dont’

With the added /s it still reads like you’re using an example to explain why things shouldn’t be rejected based on them being social constructs. The edit just reads like you’re smug about it. If that’s not what you’re saying, can you explain what you mean?