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Epileptic, 26, She/Her, They/Them, whatever. Not married to Cybersmith. I just want to post random crap into a void of strangers. Pansexual, Trans Ally. It costs nothing to be nice. Don't be dicks.

i’ve been saying it for years:

government considers you able to work if you can give anything more than 0%

employers consider you unhireable if you give anything less than 100%

it occurred to me recently that this may be somewhat on purpose.

not saying there's a conspiracy or something, I'm just saying the people in power have a pretty strong economic motivation to interpret the stats this way.

I've given this advice before and I'll give it again:

if you are looking at the checkbox where you have to self-identify whether or not you have a disability,

  1. only check it off if you are going to request a specific accommodation
  2. only do so after you have already been offered the job.

Companies have absolutely no reason to know you are disabled unless you need to get accommodations. And if you do need accommodations, it is so much better to have an offer letter in hand when you request them - at that point, the company will need to actually officially rescind its offer if they want to try to discriminate, and any company that has even heard of the ADA knows they are on dodgy legal ground doing that given that they would have to do so in writing and provide some kind of valid reason for it, rather than just ghosting you like they would probably do if you had not already been offered the job. You have the legal right to wait until you are hired to disclose that you have a disability, and you should avail yourself of that right.

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what's the most demented thing you guys got in trouble for in school mine was when an english boy in my class made fun of my name and called my mum a (derogatory word for irish travellers) so i told him my ira uncle was in town and was coming to blow him up after school

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ok so nobody got in trouble in school?

I'm in the U.S., and was the bullied quiet kid. I mean I'm on Tumblr as an adult now, so it probably goes without saying. Anyway, so I got curious about why the student populace favored certain students over others and did my own little study like an alien studying humans. I had just read Collin Fischer, and his way of doing things made sense so I carried around a notebook for my studies. On the first page was a list of popular kids, some of whom having bullied me. I lost the notebook the second week of studies, and a classmate found a list of students and reported it to a teacher. The teacher gave it to the principal, and I get called in with my parents for worries about a hit list. In hindsight, I can see why the classmate/teacher thought I would be a school shooter, except I am a shit shot, and I'm too soft for murder. And I get squeamish and dizzy with blood. But that's my story

Oh shit.

This isn’t demented, but I feel it’s worth mentioning.

I once got kicked out of class for saying the word “overkill”.

No idea why. I mean I know they kicked me out for saying it.

But they never explained their reasoning for doing it.

Well, that's bollocks. At least I was given a reason. You were just using a fairly innocuous word.

PSA: tomatoes are not spicy. Tomatoes and tomato products should not be spicy. Pizza sauce isn’t inherently spicy. Tomato-based pasta sauce is not spicy. Ketchup is NOT spicy.

If tomatoes are spicy, you have an allergy to tomatoes.

This announcement brought to you by my almost 29-year-old husband learning for the first time in his 2.8 decades of putting food products into his mouth that spaghetti and saucy pizza aren’t spicy foods

Seeing the tags on this as it’s going around again, so I have returned to say a few things:

  • If your mouth hurts, feels raw, or itches when you eat something, please don’t eat it! It might not be a full-blown allergy, could be something like a sensitivity to the acid content or maybe even Oral Allergy Syndrome, but also, you might very well be allergic. Unless it’s explicitly designed to be sour or spicy, it’s not supposed to do that.
  • Bananas are not spicy, prickly, or tingly! Kiwi is not unbearably sour and tingly! You people probably have an allergy! Stop eating the death fruits!
  • Mango and pineapple are a little odd. A lot of people react to pineapple because of an enzyme it contains which breaks down proteins; depending on your sensitivity level, it can make it feel like your mouth is being dissolved, because that’s kind of maybe what’s happening? You might not have a full-blown systemic allergy, but if it hurts, listen to your mouth and respect its stopping point. Mango has a compound super similar to urushiol, which is the stuff in poison ivy. A lot of people get oral allergy symptoms with fresh mango. Again, not necessarily a systemic allergy, but also, your body doesn’t like that. Please listen to your body.
  • Honey is not naturally spicy, sour, or tingly. (Spicy and infused honeys do exist, but I’m talking plain honey.) It might be a bit rich/overly sweet, but no, it should not make your tongue funny, ‘prickle,’ or otherwise hurt your mouth. You are probably allergic to honey. (insert “ghost bees” post here lol)
  • Many peppers are spicy, but bell peppers are not. Repeat after me: Bell Peppers Are Not Spicy. If they are spicy, you are probably allergic! This is yet another one my husband learned recently. Bell peppers/capsicum are also called sweet peppers, because they are sweet.
  • On that note, here’s a handy metric: If you find yourself wondering how people just looooove this food, or how they always fail to mention the weird sensory feature about it–primarily the spiciness, ‘fuzziness’ in mouth, or pain it causes–your experience is probably out of the ordinary and could very well be some kind of allergy.

And now, an update on my husband’s journey of allergen discovery, because I’m sensing from the tags and comments this might be relevant to a lot of y’all.

Yes, he is definitely allergic to tomatoes. Went and got him allergy tested to confirm it, and it came back pretty darn high on the list. Along with a crapton of other foods he’d been eating his entire life. We immediately got rid of all of those things in our diet, and wouldn’t you know it, his lifelong “IBS” went away.

So here’s a further PSA.

If you have “IBS” or a “sensitive stomach,” try to get tested for food allergies, too. Not all food allergies send you into anaphylaxis. Sometimes they give you smelly gas, diarrhea, constipation, acid reflux, recurrent tummyaches, nausea, and headaches. And it doesn’t always happen right away, sometimes taking several hours or most of a day to produce the unpleasant results, so you might not be noticing what your specific triggers are.

Also, I see all you people in the tags talking about how you’re gonna eat your allergens anyway. Please don’t do that, unless you’re 100% medically sure it’s just something like a surface sensitivity to enzymes or an oral reaction that’s not actually an allergy. Eating your allergens all the time inflames your whole system, and it can cause a lot of damage that takes a long time to heal. Be kind to your body, friends. You live there.

I did the low FODMAP elimination diet a few years ago, and yes it was a huge pain in the ass but by the end of the two months, I felt so good that I didn’t want to reintroduce foods to figure out what I was allergic to. I’d been chronically nauseated for so long that I didn’t even know there was another way to be. It turns out I’m sensitive to garlic and onion, which are in EVERYTHING. It sucks I can’t eat most processed foods or at most restaurants, but I don’t even feel inclined to cheat a little bit because of how unpleasant the consequences might be. It’s been life changing.

Also, cucumbers are apparently not supposed to make your mouth slightly numb.

And mint toothpaste isn’t supposed to burn like hellfire to the point where it’s painful, so if it’s doing that then you need to find one that’s not mint. The only toothpastes I can stand to use are non-minty ones from the organic section of the grocery store - usually Tom’s fennel. I tried a mint one from Tom’s once, and it was fine at first, but by the end of the tube it had started to burn too.

Apparently olives are not supposed to burn like habaneros naturally? And holy water or olive oil isn't supposed to feel like your a loaded pincushion dipped in fire ants. Because I was with my mother in law and accidentally got some holy water on me and shrugged it off, she turned around to put the religious articles away, and turned back and my hand was red and puffy where it touched me. It freaked her out. She asked if it happens to me when I go to their masses to and I nodded. But like, the same thing happens when I cook pasta too. And after some looking stuff up, that how my partner, MiL, and I have figured out that maybe I possibly have a sensitivity to olives.

And I have made no changes since.

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what's the most demented thing you guys got in trouble for in school mine was when an english boy in my class made fun of my name and called my mum a (derogatory word for irish travellers) so i told him my ira uncle was in town and was coming to blow him up after school

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ok so nobody got in trouble in school?

I'm in the U.S., and was the bullied quiet kid. I mean I'm on Tumblr as an adult now, so it probably goes without saying. Anyway, so I got curious about why the student populace favored certain students over others and did my own little study like an alien studying humans. I had just read Collin Fischer, and his way of doing things made sense so I carried around a notebook for my studies. On the first page was a list of popular kids, some of whom having bullied me. I lost the notebook the second week of studies, and a classmate found a list of students and reported it to a teacher. The teacher gave it to the principal, and I get called in with my parents for worries about a hit list. In hindsight, I can see why the classmate/teacher thought I would be a school shooter, except I am a shit shot, and I'm too soft for murder. And I get squeamish and dizzy with blood. But that's my story

Can you imagine if ao3 did a Spotify wrapped thing?? I’d have to hack the site and shut it down my history must stay in the dark

That is some terrifying shit, and that thought needs to not be in the world.

My AO3 is smut and smut only. It's the shit even my partner is afraid to do. I treasure my cursed little to reads list like smeagol treasures the ring. I do not want to share that list.