Most Latin Americans have a mixture of African, indigenous, and European heritage (though there are certainly some places with other large ethnicities).

You might not want to hear this, but your parents probably wake up before you and have couple time together that they feel they have to call off when you get up. They’re probably generally happy when it happens, but might worry if it starts happening regularly without explanation. If you ask your parents to knock off the baby voice, your problem might be solved. If you tell them your sleep schedule changed at school and you sleep in more often lately, they might stop commenting entirely. This hinges on your parents being understanding and willing to change their behavior though, and only you can judge how likely that is.

I finished! I was ~4 hours late, but it’s a Sunday and I think she’ll be lenient, plus I was done right in time for 04:20 🙃

When I finish nursing this j, I’m going to eat the cookie butter roll I smeared in anticipation of finishing and nearly caved on because it was fucking beautiful.

Sorry, these are some long comments- I guess I’m still in essay writing mode, lol. Now I’m worried that my uptick in posting and prolific comments are going to make it seem like I’m one of the recent ai trolls. I think I just need to eat and sleep for a while, lol.

I planned to write a paper on my own research in roughly 20 hours (thankfully, the research was a group project and shame is an effective motivator for me, so that got done nearly on time, and the delay wasn’t my fault) and it took me about 60 all told. I got the first third done in a few hours, the next third about 15 hours later, and about 40 hours on the last third and formatting the attachments.

The most irritating thing is that I start to become gradually more and more fascinated and simultaneously hopeful and I’ll finish any moment now, every time I write a paper. I start to enjoy investigating the topic so much that I slow down and hyperfocus on details, sabotaging myself while wishing I had started earlier so I could really get into it. I cannot overstate that this happens every time I write a paper and yet I still always procrastinate starting.

I tried to analyze why I was procrastinating this time and the furthest I got was that I knew once I started, I’d fill the remaining time with it like a goldfish growing to fit its habitat, and I didn’t want to do that much work. But I knew that I would enjoy it once I started, so I couldn’t figure out why I was still avoiding it.

I made a partial breakthrough by writing a to do list for the paper and discussing in depth how one even writes a paper with my endlessly patient husband, but that only worked for the second burst.

I suspect it would still be better than if I disappeared into the bathroom on a quiet workday and came out a couple hours later, sweaty and having obviously cried.

I do take sick leave in general less often than male coworkers and partners have, so I’d probably just highlight that in my year end meeting.

Fuck the pill, lol. My sex drive completely drops off a cliff, I gain a bunch of weight, and I’m tired all the time. Plus, the period I get after I stop is the really painful one.

As the other commenter said, it does increase your risk of some cancers, but it also reduces your risk of other cancers, so I don’t know enough to choose which ones.

I get what I consider moderate periods, based on unscientific comparisons with friends. I had to go to the hospital once, and last year it put me on the ground, with shallow breathing, sweating, nausea for the better part of an hour.

The important thing is that mine only seems to be awful if I’m not doing anything. I know it’s not like this for everyone, but I’ve never been stricken down by cramps while in a rush at work or while physically exerting myself (I suspect cramps are correlated with flow speed and physical exertion or stress cause them to drop off at those times, but that’s entirely based on my own experience). It can be debilitating, but likely wouldn’t preclude me from being just as theoretically able to help in any given situation as a man.

I sure would benefit from not having to use sick time to cover for the very rare occasions that I get bad cramps before I go to work though.

It’s entirely fair to want to get better at it, but those people probably couldn’t help you even if they were inclined to, because they’re bad at socializing- they invited someone whose socialization style doesn’t vibe with their party, then their response is to mock the guest for their own mistake.

Not everyone is like that, and not every neurotypical is like that. It’s hard to find a good group, but one exists for you.

Also, specifically regarding learning to socialize: you don’t necessarily have to get help from neurotypicals- that’s like having a math teacher who’s just naturally good at math, vs one who had to struggle to master it. You learn better from the latter if you’re not also gifted at math.

The PS is great

If we let toddlers’ preferences dictate the film industry, Hollywood would look very different. At least we’d be able to watch a movie in daylight and still see details, I guess, but everything else would be worse.

Sorry, totally unrelated but fun memory: Iconoclast was the first word whose unexpected etymology I (mostly) worked out on my own. I was watching a vh1 documentary on iconoclasts, and I’d just had a biology class where I’d learned about acetoclastic bacteria. I had a eureka moment wherein I leapt to the conclusion that “breaking the mold” was an older saying than I expected. I wasn’t totally right on that, but I was still psyched to have broken it down correctly.

The claim is fifty days in soil, but I don’t know if that means any soil within standard temperature, moisture, and pH levels, or if they’d be allowed to publish that if it only works in the soil surrounding acid lakes or something.

The clit extending inside as well

People are allowed to have sex and talk about that sex on the internet.

Depending on the community near you, Unitarian Universalists sometimes have basically that. I’ve been an atheist since I was four, but I have no problem with other people being religious and it was perfect for me. If you’re the type to be annoyed by people talking about the universe in a way that suggests the supernatural, you might not want to deal with even the UU’s very mild language. When I went as a kid, we learned about volcanoes in Sunday School, as a gauge for how religious they are.

Or if you want evil church without religion, can I interest you in crossfit?

Reading books, writing, doing crafts, going on walks, hanging out with pets, gardening, doing chores, cooking, making art, looking at the stars…

Yeah, that’s at least step three, after talking to him directly and talking to your boss one on one

Spain and españa are also just cognates

“Where are you?” is not something that many people would have said aloud outside of a game of hide and seek before the advent of pay phones and only rarely until the turn of the century or so.