Notices by Dizzy Ken :confusedlucy:​:rebeccaangry:​ (levelup@corteximplant.com), page 2

@marta

yes yes, they know,

okay good, sorry if I offended?

they probably don't realize how bad it is

Big hugs to you, it's a very real fear, it can make the heart race.

because being scared of dogs this much is not that common

You'd be surprised, people often cross the road when I walk my dogs and they're not big big, not like my brother's dog or others. It's an unspoken fear but more people have it than they'd like to admit.

I've seen people scream and run away as well. It is rare but that has happened a few times, especially when going around a corner and someone with a phobia doesn't spot us straight away. (Looking up from their phones.)

To be honest, it makes sense, neither the dog or stranger know each other so I totally understand the fear.

I'm so sorry about your brother, that sounds awful 😖

It was and he was scared of dogs, until years later our cousin's dog was really nice to us. Then he wanted to get a dog to conquer his fears. A funny kid, he was.

Big breaths, when the door's closed, the dog is away from you both and out of sight, I hope you will be able to have a good time. Sorry about the fear though, it's so hard. Take care and tell your partner some internet nerd said their art is cool. ty! :blobcathearthug:

@jill You're right to avoid if you don't feel it's for you.
Keep your eyes safe and go with what you're comfortable with. Sometimes opticians will try to show you everything about them and how great they think they are but it's really not worth it if it makes you uncomfortable. 🙈

My brother's eyes are a werid shape so he has to wear glass contacts and it's not fun. I have told him again and again it's okay to have a pair of comfy glasses to wear at home and he can wear the contacts outside but he's the "glasses are for nerds" type of person. He's had an abusive ex break one of them while he was wearing it once too...
I know there's soft ones but they don't make ones like that for his eyes. His ego and pride stands in the way of just wearing some glasses at home, much like people have comfy clothes at home...home is for relaxing and nobody cares that you're wearing glasses! Glasses are not inherantly bad but kids are taught that they are and for some people it sticks.

I think I would have to punch your colleague because it's kind of rude to go into all of those details when it's something that commonly makes people very uncomfortable. 🤦

Let's both try our best to take care of our eyes, nothing needs to touch them, ever. 😱

@marta Awwww that's a shame but understandable though. I felt like that when my brother was repeatedly bitten in the face by a dog as a child.

Have you been able to let them know? Just so they're aware and you're not left unattended or anything like that.

Well aparently it was so bad it made my dad cry and he never crieds. So now I[m really glad i didn't see it. I know my brother would laugh off these kinds of things because he's done so much but damn...

I've had cringey watering eyes.

I've been perpetually cringing for 2 hours now...

My brother's somehow injured his eye and his pupil has split somehow.

He's been keen to bust into my room and show me but from the description my mum gave...I don't want to see it.

So I'm pretending to be asleep because the cringe is so much. It's like having really tense electric shock running up and down my skin. Lots of tension around my neck... just go and rest. Leave me in peace. 😭

The cringe is getting worse, especially everytime he comes upto my door running up the stairs or tries to knock on it. Blarghhhh....

I swear he's just like his dog! His dog got an eye injury and i had to take care of him (the dog). I realised afterwards that his dog was going deaf from old age, so that's why he followed me so much, he could barely see or hear so cuddling me was a comfort to him.

Yikes, just yikes.

How does the fediverse plan on becoming more diverse?

@Juju Yeah that's a no lol.

I've been having a better time spending more time with the languages I learn, getting used to speech at full speed. I'm pretty sure if I went just as hard at another language with where I'm at in Spanish, then I'd mess them both up which is why I'm not too keen on being so intense in more than one for now.

But... I guess I can work on how to become more skilled or something and slowly continue with the rest.

@5tern1 I'm sorry. D:

Shit, I need to learn German quick. Someone spew the power of German Language ability into me, because that's totally how it works jk jk. (I'll do anything to get out of this broken brexit.) 😂

I think after Spanish I may have to see which countries are not as hostile as the UK and learn their language to move there. I've yet to figure out where that would be but I have time, maybe I will be more skilled by then. :excited_eyes:

Good luck to me with finding housing though... lmoa... 🙃

https://journa.host/@fulelo/110594715956965028

@Juju I really like the idea of that shelf. 😂

Step one: See a book you might be interested in.

@5tern1 No, definately not.

why do other trans people have such cool life stories

I didn't try on my mom's clothes
I didn't hang out with the girls at school
I didn't play with makeup
I didn't "act like a girl"
I didn't hate my name
I didn't cross dress
I didn't let myself look inwards
I didn't get told "we always suspected" when I came out

I didn't know

I just felt sad and wrong and I didn't know why.
I was hollow and my emotions didn't make sense
every relationship I tried went sour because I didn't feel anything

if I didn't get that time during covid to really think, I might never have figured it out. I might have gone my entire life as a sad but ok most of the time, guy

it always hurts when I read or hear some trans person's journey as they recount every instance where it was "clearly a sign" and they were just born in the wrong body and they were basically a girl anyway and...

because of this, I just never related to these few trans people I saw in the public eye. I thought of it as this rare disorder that was for therapists to diagnose

it took me a while to realize it wasn't about who I had been. It was about who I wanted to become

@ivy

Same here, to be honest the person diagnosing me was looking for allllll of those signs but they didn't really exist. I hung with the boys but I was still always the girl even if I saw myself as a tomboy.

The only sign I had is that when I started to explore it, I finally felt happy for once. I felt really guilty about that happiness at first, but I felt so much joy, it was too big to deny that I was along the right lines.

I just felt right for the first time.

@kev Oof.
That you-may-have-heard-of-us attitude with the clunky AF grammar bothers me so much. Atleast make an effort.

No, no we don't know anything about p92, tell us exactly what it is in the email in detail and be transparent for once thank you very much.

Why on earth would anyone want to agree to talk about and sign an NDA over something as ambiguous as that? Off the record or not, it's only Meta who gets to keep a record of what's spoken about. Get out of here with that snakey corporate behaviour.

I appreciate the screenshot share. Bye Rachel.

@kev Just realized these are the people who tried to sue @pixelfed

@kev Thanks for sharing. Looks like they're serious

@neil

I think it's a smart choice of words, speaking ill of him in a public setting would be risky.

"But there are rules - and then there are sound engineering principles and the laws of physics."
From the article it's quite clear to me that he knew it was a matter of time.

"We have heard the baseless cries of 'you are going to kill someone' way too often," he wrote. "I take this as a serious personal insult."

This is a very unfortunate quote. Ego. Big big ego.

@marta It's a valid observation about the comprehension of eurocentric languages and how some of them are mutually intelligible in some ways.