Oof lucky af. I doubt mine will have any but I will look tomorrow.

I don't know if this counts technically as the other Ev band members aren't in it, but I'm obsessed with Amy's performance of Bring Me To Life with Wagakki Band. I just think it's so cool and different.

https://youtu.be/hk1GtYK7BJM

Bring Me To Life is almost exclusively played on pop stations now.

Girl, this isn't prom, tf.

That would be awesome because it would mean increased stop range for ~5 months of the year where I am lol

Seriously it was awesome

Yeah same, I would log in still like once a day just out of habit but I really didn't play much the past few weeks. Looking forward to getting back into it!

I wasn't even one of the hardcore boycott people, but I just naturally stopped playing as much. I couldn't reach hardly any of the stops I used to frequent and it just wasn't fun anymore. Pogo is already a really grindy game but this made it almost unplayable. I like being able to spin stops across the street and it actually makes me more likely to visit whatever it is because now I know about it. Swapping gifts with friends around the world and seeing all the cool and quirky places they visit is actually by far my favorite part of the game.

I'm so glad they listened to us, the boycotts, the influencers, etc, but I also think a lot of players were like me and still played, but their playtime decreased dramatically and Niantic had to have noticed, I know half of my friends list of 50 very quickly had the "2+ days ago" status when they used to be daily players.

I'm also still going to commit to be F2P because like, this was crappy to begin with and I don't want to encourage them.

Still, I'm happy about the change. Ultimately, with New Zealand going back into lockdown they were literally just punishing Americans for no reason, and during the height of our 4th COVID wave. It just made no sense anymore.

Wine moms are a whole aesthetic now.

I literally would not have survived. School was my only escape from my parents, and I purposely went nocturnal in the summers to avoid them. My dad once scheduled a stay at home vacation the same week I had spring break and I thought I was going to kms.

Lockdown with my parents would have killed me. Thankfully I was 32 when all this started.

Kids ruin relationships. Most of the childfree couples I know (including myself and my partner) are happy.

I went off on this stupid chick in a Facebook group who was doing IVF because she was having a hard time getting pregnant because she had CANCER.

I mean what the fuuuuuuck

Ohhh I am probably not going to be doing tricks for a long time if ever 😅 mostly learning so I can get around town easier, I’m sick of walking!

I had to do the same when my mom passed. She had so. much. stuff. I am trying to restrict my collecting habit just so I don’t end up with a house full of stuff. Although I don’t feel so bad about Pokémon cards since they fit in binders lol

You’re definitely valid! And in the absence of a full on professional diagnosis I think it was really smart of you to at least seek the advice of your therapist, who is a medical professional and can at least somewhat back up your pondering about it! I did the same (my therapist is actually also autistic) and it helped so much to just be able to talk about it out loud.

I am self diagnosed too and personally I haven’t told anyone explicitly that I’m autistic (other than other autistic people online in forums like this). I was professionally diagnosed with ADHD when I was 10 so I usually just say I’m neurodivergent, since I feel like it’s a nice umbrella term that covers my autistic traits too but is also 100% true regardless. I’ve been mostly just stimming a bit more, talking more about & engaging in my special interests, etc around other people (namely my boyfriend) so I’m not like straight out telling him I’m autistic, but I’m being autistic around him and sometimes describing my autistic experiences to him. That honestly has been enough so far for me. I feel like if I drop the A word he will doubt me because I don’t “look autistic”.

I was assigned female at birth (now transgender) and yeah I get what you’re saying about women presenting with different traits than men or in different degrees/ways. We can really be invisible autistics sometimes. I mask really, really well, to the point where I went 33 years without suspecting I could be even close to autistic. My psychiatrist when I was 16 suggested I could have ASD but I was so stuck in the stigma about autism that I refused to go through with the testing (one of my biggest regrets lol). But yeah anyway I just think I mask so well that it would be hard to get a diagnosis. I’ve heard horror stories of (especially women) getting told that because they have a job, partner/spouse, friends, live independently, etc that they couldn’t possibly be autistic, since even medical professionals sometimes have a hard time shaking off the stereotypes about how “functional” autistic people should be.

Don’t be ashamed of your self diagnosis! Just be aware, there may be people in your life who won’t believe you without a diagnosis. You don’t necessarily have to tell everyone everything tho.

Thanks!

Cute shelf setup!

Got my first board!

All I can do is push and roll so far haha but that’s good for a few hours of practice considering no prior skating experience :) I was scared I couldn’t do it with my balance issues but I went to a local skate shop and they let me stand on a bunch of boards and this one felt the best. Hope to learn a lot more in the coming weeks :)

I think pops will have more staying power than beanie babies, just because those were random characters some dude made up, and pops are connected to pop culture from like almost everything we have grown up with.

Chases have totally ruined it for those of us who just want the regular version lol

I’ve always liked the red/pink eyeshadow on her. For whatever reason she pulls that off like no one else could.

I do miss the edgier Fallen-era looks but also she’s like 20 years older than that now, and realistically it had a shelf life. I think she knows she doesn’t have to try so hard now and can wear pretty much whatever and people will still like her and her music.

My boyfriend watches a lot of YouTube and he’s always wanting to show me random videos and they’re 10 minutes or more long and I’ve learned to just start setting boundaries like “meh I don’t feel like watching anything right now” because my ADHD will get overwhelmed.

Yep. I got lucky that I lived with one of my best friends for 4 years and we managed to stay best friends afterwards. He moved one state away to be with his now-husband but (during non pandemic times) visits during the holidays. But that’s the only time it’s ever worked out. Everyone else I’ve ever lived with I don’t talk to anymore.

100%

like it’s a disease

It is 😂