Interesting, what’s it called

Blue blood from a horseshoe crab yes. Blue crabs are also a thing and horseshoe crabs are always referred to with the word horseshoe in front. So calling them just crabs with the word blue in front is a poor choice if one cares about communication.

Horseshoe crabs not blue crabs

For me, fine would be my preferred generic response to these questions because that’s generally how I actually am.

To me, good means actively happy. But generally speaking I’m more neutral. If there’s nothing that has made me actively happy at that moment, and I’m also not actively annoyed or upset about something, then I’m just existing, neutral.

But people tend to question you when you do that. “Fine? Not good? What’s wrong?🤔🥺” Which is annoying because I thought we were playing the game where you ask a question you don’t want the answer to… But they want you to answer in very specific socially acceptable ways and fine is apparently negative to NT.

My favorite response is in Russian. Im Not Russian and don’t even know if this is actually culturally accurate but being taught Russian in America we learned: “как дела?” (Kak Dela?- how goes it?) “нормальный” (normal’nyy - Normal¯⁠\⁠_⁠(~⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯)

I am so angry that they don’t have an easy “report this posting” button. Firstly, you have to go on a computer, you can’t do it at all on the app. Then it’s a tiny bit of text kind of hidden under suggested products and the report form doesn’t allow you to upload photos or anything so it just feels like it’s a throw away form. So I did that and then contacted the customer service bot and you have to be careful how you word it because “I need to report a fraudulent seller” makes the bot respond with prompts about phishing emails or calls pretending to be from Amazon and if you try to go back and start over it remembers what you’ve already said and gets confused and just gives you dead ends… But if you can just get it to give you a customer service rep you can eventually get them to say nice words to you pretending they will investigate an “take care of it”. Which I’m sure is bullshit. Gahhhhh such angry

They refused to contact me back with the results of their “investigation”. I asked what I should do if I see the post again and they said to contact them again. I tried to report it to the FTC but I would have had to lie about having purchased it which I didn’t want to risk ruining the report by doing so. I’m half considering actually buying it in order to be able to 😅🤔😬

I’m not being the change I want to see in the world for sure when I say this but I’m definitely scared to be “out” in any way regarding mental health struggles at work. The closest I’ve gotten is talking about anxiety and stress burnout, which I’ve been very careful to do in corporate-speak. I just feel like I can’t risk being seen as “at risk” of not being able to handle my work, even if that means I’m more at risk of that happening than if I was actually being supported. 😭

I contribute to an FSA but my job does not bc they’re dumb in that regard, so I should have some funds in there as I haven’t been going to therapy all year basically despite thinking I would be and planning my contributions to include a copay for that. Buy I still think it will be several hundred out of pocket which I’m not sure I’ll be able to do as my savings got decimated this spring. I’m mostly just enraged that this isn’t covered more by insurance and it’s kicking my justice sensitivity rage into gear. I figured posting might be illustrative for those seeking a diagnosis and or those complaining about the rate of self diagnosis.

How is it meaningful to have neverending scripts of “hey how are you” “I’m good how are you” “good thanks. How was your day?” “It was good how was yours?” “It was alright thanks.” I would be happy to never ever ever answer those questions again. I’ll tell you how I’m feeling when I have something to say about it and I’ll talk you about something that happened during my day if I want to. I expect the same from you. I’m also happy to just sit near you in silence. Watch something together or do our own thing.

I would like a medication that would reduce burnout and overstimulation.

I use goblin tools! I hear you on the blank slate phenomenon of gpt…I have yet to make a meaningful use of it because of that.

Idol tbh

Right? Give me this magical spring roll fountain