gotcha. happy to be a source of encouragement. i am a rather skeptical person and only started myself because of a trusted friend’s journey. i cannot speak more highly of the experience so far. keep your head up and advocate for yourself. metabolic disorders are real, they are genuine, and you deserve treatment to have a functioning body.

haha wow… i love it, thanks.

lmfao did i word it strangely… i can be dumb sometimes 🫣

no, please do! that is interesting.

it’s quite the change, yes. :D

oh, uh, sure? that’s an odd thing to reply with when i never implied only having friends on Lemmy or online was healthy… so… alright. i do have friends in person, if we’re going to talk about it. i just still find it rather difficult to make new connections.

thank you so much. i wish you well on your journey!

aw thank you. that is ultimately what i hope this helps with as well. i want the mental and psychological relief to the degree that it allows me to seek proper care of myself. i appreciate it!

thanks! if you’re struggling and do have excess weight, you may want to bring up a glp-1 med like Zepbound. i’m not here to push them but i would be lying if i said i wasn’t trying to get people to acknowledge and talk about them. there’s a weird stigma around them currently and it is very bizarre. but anyway–that’s ultimately your choice to make if you’re interested.

thank you so much! it is. it doesn’t feel like one because i am merely allowing the medication to work. i am in awe how effective my medication is.

congrats!

Native-born Americans never have to worry about losing their citizenship, no matter what they do.

that is far too confident a statement

…huh? i don’t know what that means.

oh okay, now they won’t. a judge said so, you guys.

yeah but making friends IRL as a mid 30s millennial feels impossible.

they never will lol. everyone is afraid of the legalities involved and aren’t willing to risk lawsuits for your correct call for violent action. nobody is willing to support a movement of revolutionaries because it is bad optics. violence is unpopular even though it gets results.

it is becoming more and more obvious to those who couldn’t see before that you cannot vote fascism out of power. we are rapidly approaching a countrywide breaking point. i don’t know from which side or what angle, but there is a lot of anger and only one group (anyone Left of Republicans) has the moral high ground. we are not going to demonstrate or talk our way out of the pockets of the oligarchy. if not now, when? when will it be time?

yes, but i am also becoming more tolerant of personal quirks as i’ve learned of my autism and how it impacts my socializing. i worry nobody likes me and tend to avoid conversation. i want friends. i have some, but more would be nice. something genuine and deep but equally as stupid and silly and shallow.

a lot of people value celebrities for reasons i struggle to understand. i posted this thinking about those folks. there’s a lot of them out there who don’t realize many of these stars are fascists.

i don’t care