smh

Look, we can't be blamed for what our parents named us. ^SMH

It's novel on someone else's home.

Ah, ok. It sounded like you were advocating for helping the "easy cases" and ignoring those that needed a bit more support.

Reminder: being mentally ill or addicted folks doesn't preclude someone from holding down a job and/or being a "regular" person. They might just need extra supports.

Source: have mental illness. Am mostly a regular person but need extra supports. Am currently holding down a job requiring an MS.

I could be pushed to 3 homes. One person owns a triple-decker building, lives on one floor and rents out the other two to students. That sounds fine to me.

Rereading: you said houses, not homes. 2 houses sounds good. One main home and a mother-in-law unit seems reasonable.

The sort that would want a Hitler clone would be happy with a direwolf-style pseudo-clone with good marketing.

Me, neither. I think the target market is grievers who believe chatgpt is a magic Oracle. It's taking the memory of someone dear and diluting it with nonsense.

I'm 4 years out from losing my dad. Can confirm: one of the most upsetting things is knowing I'm unlikely to make new memories of him.

(Unlikely but not unable: his frat brother told last year me about how they used get together in Dad's room, smoke pot, and play tabletop RPGs. I... I knew about the tabletop games but not the marijuana.)

Actual answer: "no, I tried!"

I love mine. It fits comfortably in my bra, unlike my previous phone. Some games are too small, especially text-heavy ones that don't scale the text. That's ok. I shouldn't play so many phone games anyway.

Favorite comment from a coworker: [exasperated] "Could you find a smaller phone‽"

All potato items 💔

Fist bump for "mother's outdated psych textbooks"! Mine were about what I guess we'd call now atypical and neurodivergent child development. Lots of use of the R word. 😬

Also, I'm glad you figured yourself out, or are on the path to it (it's a journey and I'm not sure how to know when it's done). From experience: life is more comfortable when you're not trying to fit yourself into a box of the wrong shape, even if politics makes it wicked scary, at least you're not fighting your own brain as much.

As someone slightly older than you: don't forget your stretches and exercises. Sunscreen is your friend. (All that's supposed to be reassuring and friendly)