...I am a degenerate.

I don't have the book on me at the moment but I will attempt to find it when I am more sober.

Suicidal at 4th? I was suicidal in 6th!

People don't get that we've lived different lives. Also, do you know less than one in ten of us makes it to adulthood? You're the first other one I've met!

I'm adding on here in case there are ignorant people who saw this and assumed she was "punishing" him this way;

I have pretty severe ADHD and I won't notice I've done the thing (exhausted someone) until well after, either. She warned him, they went on the date, she did the thing (excitedly talk a lot) and then noticed she'd sucked his soul dry. This is an unfortunately normal event for us. Which is why the warning.

I'm judging it because we have better technology and I feel like if this is what someone wants, they should have the ability to get a hologram by now.

He's one of those German cannibals!

I'm in an ethical pickle.

As a survivor who has spent time in multiple institutions, "you need to have successfully attempted" doesn't really bother me. This is the kind of joke that I like.

If I see a cw, I assume it's for something taken seriously and that I would have skipped reading.

Luigi, Luigi, who can I turn to?
You give me something I can hold onto!
Things can't stay the way that they were before
It's time to put some villains up on the wall!

Luigi I got your number!
I think it's hero time!
Luigi don't change your number!

Four six one six two five oh!
Four six one six two five oh!
Four six one six two five oh!
Four six one six two five oh!

Luigi Luigi you're the guy for me
Oh, you don't know me but you make me so happy. I tried to free you but I lost my nerve. I said "nullification" but I got censored

Luigi I got your number. I think it's hero time. Luigi don't change your number

Four six one six two five oh!
Four six one six two five oh!
Four six one six two five oh!
Four six one six two five oh!

I got it (I got it) I got it
Put those assholes on the wall!
I got it (I got it) I got it
For the good of, for the good of us all!

Luigi, Luigi who can we turn to
(Four six one six two five oh)
To know our pain, we can always turn to you. (Four six one six two five oh)

I will add that you can also charge them a fortune for it.

You need the rest of it:

See?

My friends call this my "brightside bullshit" but it is a power. No matter what awful thing happens, I can say, "I know this can't kill me," and that's pretty good.

...admittedly some things, you'd rather they kill you, but luckily, most of those are behind us. So! Prepared to deal with anything.

Brevity is the soul of wit, and my soul is a delicious peanut butter fudge; dense as hell.

I have a lot of them. Sleep and I are in an... enemies to lovers kind of relationship.

There's hate-fucking, is what I'm saying. I hate it so much and it's all I want.

Some of my advice might be bad advice due to my ADHD but I can't tell what might work for you so.

Also, I have left off a lot of stuff that I have done that is... not good. If you need harm reduction options, let me know.

1. I wear an eye-mask. The gentle, soft, cool (not cold!) pressure is a reminder to my brain that it's bed-time.

2. Don't eat too close to bed.

3. Make sure there's nothing uncomfortable (like a tag from the sheets) touching me.

4. Play a TV show I find comforting but that doesn't need my 100% attention, at a low enough volume that I can't quite hear it unless I'm very, very, very quiet. This helps make me some moving/jittering/jiggling. (I play Futurama. Can't get a nightmare from Futurama.)

5. I take l-theanine. It's supposed to make people "alert" and "calm" but my doctor recommended it to me and it's sedating effect is so strong it significantly drops my blood pressure. (Very useful if I have to take stimulant medication.)

6. Which leads to I take prescription medication. It doesn't quite do it, and is hit-or-miss, hence the list.

Mine made me capable of surviving almost anything. Which is terrible. But you can spin that, for your resume.

No but I edit for readability for ADHD, and also I limit the wordcount.

I've been using stuff like "capable in a changing environment" and "adept at multitasking" to mean "I have CPTSD and ADHD" for years.

Puhlease.

They fully intend to sit on porches drinking mint juleps.

We tried to take the loans with us, but a bunch of angry right-wingers wouldn't let us, so that's still due.

This, and other equally valuable reasons, are why I choose "I Will Survive," by Gloria Gaynor.