Another fantastic bit was insurance made us apply for SSI for our oldest son again recently. He qualified medically before but we made too much money with my wife’s disability benefit. I guess they changed those resource calculations a bit because he got approved this time.

Anyway the payments started and the change in income triggered our income based rent to go up and our SNAP benefit to go down which together amounted to all but like 32 dollars of what they’re giving him in SSI. At least NY isn’t as restrictive about assets for people on SSI than some other states are.

I’m medically disabled enough to get benefits but because of when my disability occurred I hadn’t worked enough time to actually get benefits. I also can’t get SSI because we make too much money from my wife’s benefits.

I had to Google it myself. It’s apparently a psych term to refer to trauma one might carry relating to the loss or otherwise lack of care, nurturing, or affection from a mother.

I guess it’s psych speak for “Mommy issues” from what I’m reading?

I feel like that’s probably the most likely scenario yeah. She might not have even known she was trans when she joined it. Getting closer to the other girls might have been the thing that helped her realize she didn’t want to just be part of the cheer squad she actually wanted to be one of the girls.

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They would love and I mean LOVE legal precedent saying undocumented immigrants weren’t subject to US jurisdiction. Having them be literal Outlaws that can just be killed on sight because they are not protected by law anymore.

He’s also notoriously weak and thin skinned, a proper cunt can really take a pounding.

Did… Did you just try to imply that my dysphoria is from me internalizing women saying men bad?

Oh no I get grouped in with shitty people all the time. I’m AMAB and I look very much like a man. I am acutely aware of how I’m seen. I see every single woman that sees me and instinctively recoils in anticipation of me being exactly that kind of man. It sends my dysphoria through the roof to be seen and perceived that way every single second of every single day. I deal with that pain all the time.

But do you know what I don’t do? I don’t turn that around on women who are validly pointing out saying they hate when men do something messed up or creepy to women and tell them that they need to be more considerate of MY feelings on the matter. I don’t tell them that they need to stop being an asshole to me if they want me to care about their issues.

The difference is that those photos are presented as if the unrealistic thing is desirable. As if it is something that everyone should want to be. While you’re hearing “I wish men would stop being creepy” and acting like they’re directly calling you personally a creep.

I’m an AMAB nonbinary person, basically every time a woman sees me I can see her instinctively preparing for me to be that exact guy because I look like if Bigfoot dressed as Bob from Bob’s Burgers. It sends my dysphoria through the roof every time. But even I can manage not to get bent out of shape when women call out men being toxic because I know I’m not guilty of the things they’re calling out.

So I say again. Sounds like a skill issue

Huh, and here all the men I know have never even the slightest bit upset about broad generalizing statements about men because they are secure in the knowledge that the statement doesn’t apply to them… Sounds like a skill issue tbh.

Saaaaaame…

I went from being homophobic because I mistook my being uncomfortable with overt sexual advances from anyone as being uncomfortable with gay men because “of course I’m attracted to women I just haven’t met The One yet,” to thinking I was bi because once I thought about it I realized I didn’t really feel any differently toward men and women, to finally my now wife when we were dating introducing me to the concept of being asexual and I realized that yeah I do have the same attraction toward men and women… Zero.

Compulsive Heterosexuality is strong yo.

Nah they want Mandatory Fun™©®

It’s a very specific kind of fun. It needs to be deep enough to hold your attention, but not so deep that you don’t drop it even the New Thing releases. It needs to be formulaic so they don’t have to spend much money making it. That’s the ideal for these corpos.

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Classic Lavender Marriage is the easy answer. In my wife’s case she is deeply intimidated by pretty women so she has enough trouble talking to them. She couldn’t flirt with one to save her gay ass.

Her not being attracted to me like that is fine by me since I’m ace. We’re basically just besties on a permanent sleepover that we formalized for tax purposes.

In my experience hearing it is more “failing to hook up with” than “screwing up the relationship with” regrettably. A lot of people seem to think autistic girls are easier to manipulate into sex than others. It could absolutely be the more innocent version but in my experience that phrase is usually pretty indicative of the stereotypical “pickup artist” mindset.

This machine runs on Spite and Caffeine.

I think the weird ones with the horns are usually called Scalies. Wait no I suppose goats exist… Carry on.

Jokes aside this comment made me laugh so hard because before I figured out I was ace and was still forcing myself to keep up a “normal” sex drive for my ex the only porn that did it for me was the super degenerate kind. So for the longest time I thought I had just a bunch of weird fetishes but in reality I was just so asexual that it was indistinguishable from a severe porn addiction like some Degenerate Horseshoe Theory.

So I guess the point is just: Become Ungovernable. Beat your meat to Furry Porn

Unfortunately it probably won’t end up meaning much for a lot of what they have planned for us due to the Supremacy Clause and the way things like FDA approval work. But codifying those protections into the State Constitution does give us at least grounds for resistance on some things here in NY.

I’m glad it passed, that amendment was basically the only reason I voted here in NY. But I don’t think it’s going to matter when they outlaw HRT or whatever else it is they plan to do.

Yeah I guess it was originally opened as Danny’s Donuts and the name Denny’s came about to avoid confusion with another chain.