EmptySlime

That's some lore I've never heard of. I've never heard of this "human domestication guide" you speak of. Is it something you'd recommend?

It is so wild reading how other people react to stimulants like caffeine. The first and only time I've ever felt anything even resembling what I hear more typical people talk about feeling was this one time in college. I get migraines and one of the only things that help them besides closing my eyes and attempting to cease being conscious is caffeine.

In those days the thing that worked best for my migraine was to toss back 800mg of ibuprofen and chug an entire can of Java Monster. Usually I start to feel some relief from the pain in about 20 minutes. At worst, I wouldn't feel anything at all if it was a really bad migraine and downing a second energy drink would usually take care of it. This day was probably one of the worst migraines of my entire life and I ended up chugging 3 cans in about an hour.

Now for someone who at this point had never felt anything at all from literally any amount of caffeine before, suddenly feeling my heart rate spike and starting to feel jittery was an utterly terrifying experience. I ended up giving myself a panic attack and calling my Mom thinking I'd messed up big time and I was about to die of a heart attack or something. In reality my heart rate was only a little elevated and it was a tiny case of the jitters, but being someone who had never felt anything from caffeine before it scared the crap out of me.

You would think that if anyone was going to, then other trans people would understand that, but my gods so many people in the community end up whether they realize it or not perpetuating the bad stereotypes that cause so many of us grief. Trans guys don't have to take everything on the chin without complaint to be valid just like trans ladies don't have to perfectly perform femininity to be valid. You'd think that people who reject the box they were put in wouldn't be jumping at the chance to force others into boxes.

It should be! But my gods it feels like there's a very loud portion of at least the online trans community that thinks that the only valid ways to be trans are "fem-leaning androgynous enby" if you're AFAB and "trans woman" if you're AMAB. As if the second that they can look at you and read "that's a dude" you stop being valid or something. Which is so messed up.

I don't know, I think that's part of why I've always vibed more with the transmasc crowd than the transfem one despite being AMAB. It's not the same but I spent my entire life getting bullied by the men in it for being too effeminate. I had a baby doll that I took care of while my Mom took care of my baby brother when she did something I couldn't help with. I cried too easily, I didn't care about cars and sports like they did, I had no interest in sex. It was like the way everyone else saw me was "girl badly pretending to be a boy" except I didn't feel like either.

Best I got is a stupid Dad Joke.

When is a door not a door?

! When it's AJAR ~~I'll see myself out.~~!<

It's only ever Vote Blue No Matter Who when it's the establishment pick. Any other time it's "oh we should let the voters have their say."

Dude there are still so many people even other trans people that think trans men and transmasc nonbinary people aren't actually real it's fucking wild. I've seen so many of them get treated by default like the only reason they transition is because they are so tired of misogyny they decided to join The Patriarchy to escape it.

It's like people literally believe "Eww, Men are evil who would want to be one willingly?" idk, I feel like that's a pretty strong argument that they are actually trans but what do I know?

Trans means all trans people and that means enbies, men, and women.

Yes! My gods the experience I had when I first started actually figuring things out around 10 years ago was horrible because of people not getting this. I tried to join a few online communities that claimed to be for trans people or at least trans inclusive and it was such a horrible experience. Multiple large communities the literal second they learned I'm AMAB and not on HRT I either got outright banned, told my existence was triggering to other members and I should either leave or not participate in any discussions, or told that I'm not actually nonbinary.

That I just have too much "internalized transmisogyny" and I'll be so much happier once my egg cracks the rest of the way. The last one particularly hurt because I'd had an entire gender crisis back in high school and I literally told them that the idea of being a woman felt just as wrong but in different ways as being a man and they just laughed at me like I didn't know what I was talking about. Took me so long to actually start willingly engaging with trans communities again.

There's not a lot of rhyme or reason to what games these dipshits call "Woke" really. It basically amounts to "I don't like the game," for a lot of them honestly. I've seen several games that you'd think for sure have gotta be woke that they say are fine and others with way less woke elements that they'll say it Woke Trash.

That feel when you can't remember where you put a thing that you specifically put away to not lose it, but you can remember the exact location down to the millimeter of a thing you saw once a month ago.

Eh, depends on the person. I'm ace and don't really feel it mentally but my body will respond to things so I generally just find it to be an inconvenience. Though sometimes my partner and I get a good laugh about it because I'll not realize it sometimes and she'll notice before me.

Makes sense. I've been told that taking off the socks is what makes it gay to give the homies a smooch. So I cannot find fault in this logic.