Sombyr

My username? O

My real name?

When I need to say something I'm embarrassed about, my strategy is to say it in as few words as possible, to curb over thinking and get it over with fast, and as bluntly as possible, so it won't be misunderstood causing me to have to say it again, and so it hides my embarrassment somewhat by showing some amount of confidence.

Also, waiting for the best time to say it isn't always the best thing to do, despite how logical it seems, because it gives you too much time to gather self doubts and decide not to do it. You can, of course, gather confidence that way too, but in my experience it's not as easy. I recommend saying it the next time anybody can be there to listen.

This advise is of course, based on my own personal, autistic and somewhat tone-deaf experience, and based on the assumption that you will be accepted, which you seem to indicate you would be.

At the very least, it'd create a discussion for you to talk about what you need to, so if you think it'd work for you I think it's worth a shot.

It took me a long time after realizing I was trans to transition, so I ended up having to get comfortable in women's sections while still looking very obviously like a man.

Turns out, it's the nervousness that makes people uncomfortable, because there's a lot of less good reasons a male appearing person might be nervous in a women's section. Once you can manage to shop with confidence, the worst anybody will assume is that you're shopping for a gift for a girlfriend or sister or something.

As somebody who was once part of a cult, it's just the same circus but worse.

Guess I'm chaotic good.

I chose my name because it means "prophet," and psychics kept telling me I had really strong spiritual energy, but the name itself is pretty normal.

Yes, I frequently encounter psychics in my daily life. It just occurred to me how weird that is.

I don't do anything. I'm the kind to completely forget about it minutes after I close whatever I was looking at. If it's a stupid enough thing that made me angry enough, sometimes I'll vent about it to my wife, and usually get the response of "Why do you care what a random person online you'll never meet thinks?" but I've gotten that response enough for it to have really sunk in to the point where I really don't care 99% of the time. I don't really debate online anymore either for that reason. The most I might do is nudge somebody in the right direction if I suspect their opinion is simply based on a lack of information, but if that fails I tend to just delete my reply and move on so I'm not bothered by it again.

No, on account of I cannot drive at all. I'm 25 and live in Vermont. The particular part I live in, everything's accessible by bus, so I've just never felt the urgency to learn.

I wouldn't, but I could see a really strong argument to be made for it.

I mean, we could call gravity or the sun a god. It's really a matter of perspective rather than concrete definition. I've discussed my ideas about the void with people, and there tends to be a pretty even split between people who believe it would be a god, and those who believe it wouldn't count.

I don't think it's quite the same thing, unless I've been misunderstanding the concept of the big bang, which is entirely possible. I don't think it describes the state of the universe before the singularity, nor how the singularity got there. This is more or less how I believe that happened. A mindless yet omnipotent force just happened to spawn it into existence.

I believe in a power above all else which gave rise to the universe. You could technically call it "God," but I prefer to think of it just as a primordial force of nature, like gravity and such, but far more ancient.

Basically I believe that in the beginning, there was nothing, and that includes the rule that something can't come from nothing. That didn't exist either, so the void just kinda imploded on itself and now stuff exists.

With no rules or restrictions on what could happen yet, literally anything could happen. In a sense, that would make the void omnipotent, but also probably mindless. In my eyes, less like a god, more like the most powerful force of nature to ever exist. Or I guess not exist.

It's still a gradual buildup for me, and there are little pauses every time it starts over, but if I don't have those little pauses, I get overstimulated too much and the nerves just kinda shut off for a couple minutes. There's always an intense shock of pleasure too when it starts over, that fades away really fast, but every time it starts over again the shock is more intense than the previous time, until eventually, one of those shocks is an orgasm. I can technically have one on the lowest settings of sustained vibration too, but it's not intense enough to give me a satisfying orgasm. The settings that just pulse regularly also sometimes work, but I prefer to have at least a second or two with the thing going full blast just because it feels good, so that's why I use the "Morse code" setting instead. That way I get the full intensity, along with the little interruptions that prevent me from getting overstimulated.