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@natalunasans – 😂

In this case, it’s more of a classic “old person with back and/or knees giving out”* look. Dorky as hell, and not great for outside wear a lot of the time in this climate, socks or no. Probably even worse for a Scandinavian winter, if you want feet 😉

But, Karrimor walking sandals are the best thing I’ve found so far for my joints. And what great signature style! 🙄

* OK, that’s been a thing to some degree for at least 25 years now. But I used to see a lot of older people wearing usually Birkenstocks all the time for pretty much the same reason. Not quite joining them now, but close enough…

@natalunasans – That sounds annoying.

This one also came with sticky stuff, which I’m hoping will work OK on the metal front door. But, there are also screw fixing holes (and a wooden door frame) if that doesn’t do it. Shame yours didn’t come with the screw option too.

This house faces on a busy street, and we have upstairs neighbors who aren’t the quietest. Makes it harder to hear knocking on our door, especially with how bad I am at filtering out background noise and locating sounds. Hopefully it’s a little easier where you are.

@katisconfused – Yeah, I haven’t felt great after eating meat again whenever I’ve had to go back on it (more than once over the years, for various disability reasons). At least for me, that was a more temporary system not used to it kind of thing.

That wouldn’t work the same as with stopping making lactase, but I wouldn’t be surprised if some people who were barely handling certain proteins, etc., couldn’t also have bigger problems once they’re not exposed to them for a while. With the autoimmune celiac BS, a lot of people (including me) get a lot more sensitive to trace amounts the longer we’re off gluten. Don’t know how that might work with actual allergies.

My lactose intolerance followed the more usual pattern and has stayed about the same since I was a toddler. Going totally off dairy for up to about 5 years at a time so far hasn’t seemed to change the threshold or anything, and I didn’t notice any difference eating it again. I’m still fine with a lot more at a time than he can handle before it cause problems, but that apparently varies quite a bit between people. (And nobody is sure why.) Still a little surprised that hasn’t noticeably changed, though.

@tinyeldritchmonster – The way I read that commentary, at least, it sounded like they were talking about the girl being so desperate to get out of the terrible situation her parents put her in. (And sent her back to, when she tried to leave :/)

That really would be awful the other way.

@ajax-daughter-of-telamon – Sounds about right 😉

@katisconfused – Ugh, that really sucks

Things are not supposed to work that way under this system, at all. I mean, they’ve kept not even pretending to follow their own guidelines dealing with me, the disabled foreigner. 🤔 But, that still made this more of a surprise. Not finding any relevant info or discussion so far either.

Wondering what that nurse might be trying to pull, of course, and if I might be in any immediate danger. (Besides “just” likely making it even harder to get appropriate treatment.) Not to mention how to reasonably deal with the whole situation. Not going to figure out any of it tonight. But yeah, all of this shit is great for a person’s actual mental health 😬

@katisconfused – That sounds like enough fun to deal with

Maybe not surprisingly, one of the things that led to that split was his abusive behavior toward my mother escalating and getting more blatant. That episode, in retrospect, was pretty much the intro to his going full-on classic stalky Divorce Related Fetid Fathering Syndrome–an unfortunately spot-on parody–and dragging other people into things more to try and hurt her. (Though he was the one who left.) Including kids and the poor dog besides the court system, yeah

Glad from the other thing you posted earlier too, that it didn’t sound like that kind of thing was a problem for you. More normal pissed-off human jerky behavior can be enough joy sometimes,though.

@katisconfused – Unfortunately good way of putting it. That is definitely a thing I have noticed too.

Still, I feel like I at least have a better chance of starting off at less of a disadvantage dealing with people who are not in such a position to view me as some kind of weird substandard human being who has a lot of nerve taking up their precious time and resources at all. Which is a different set of dynamics from any I ran into before, on top of some of those existing problems

(Tbqh, if I weren’t concerned about both physical accessibility now and real possible language barriers, I might be more tempted to try one of the Polish clinics that AFAICT mostly got going thanks to similar concerns. I’m not Polish, but they’d have no obvious reason to treat me like that beyond the whole autistic weirdo factor. Nobody should have to go private and pay out of pocket to get competent non-begrudging treatment, of course.)

@mquester – Same! Sometimes end up using the hall as a pantry for several days now before I can get it all put away.

I do end up feeling sillier with it, though, when I didn’t even go out to the store and haul it home. Today it was a delivery, but I still didn’t feel like doing much with it after wrangling pretty much a weekly shop’s worth of bags into the hall with both shoulders acting up. *wry smile*

Reminded these were there, while I’m waiting for the delivery to show up 🙄

@kelpforestdweller – I know, right? Really wasn’t expecting that. It would also let me change/cancel the order up until 12:45 the same afternoon. I guess not that many people had booked deliveries for Saturday night, which is a little surprising too because weekends. Definitely would have expected them to require earlier advance ordering. Good to know for future reference.

@natalunasans – That really does suck One of the good things about living in the inner burbs here: multiple supermarket delivery options. Surprised when I moved here. I suspect there’s been better availability for years because there are a lot more people without cars (ETA: packed into a relatively small geographic area), but still. That sounds really frustrating if you have stores that close which do delivery to other neighborhoods 😐