That sounds like a much better solution than letting them float around the bottom of my bag.

I’m just in love with the term tamp-case. I want one so I can go around talking about my tamp-case all day — but two tampons would not be nearly enough for me. I need a tamp-purse.

See, my mom has offered me the money for #2 (as well as permission to install it since I live with her) but it would require major renovation and I’m terrified of having strangers in my living space. Also I’d have to clean out the bathroom and ugh. So I just keep using the tiny bathtub in the tiny guest bathroom and…

When my family was in the market for our house 20+ years ago, our other option had a secret passageway in it. I BEGGED for that house, but it was too expensive. So instead of a house with a secret passage, I have a recurring dream about living in a house with a secret passage. Sometimes it opens up to a whole new…

If this is cancelled as swiftly as the Pete Holmes show was, I will cry/rage (even more than I did when Pete Holmes got canned).

Who puts a photograph of someone in the bathroom? I don’t care if they’re long dead, I would still be embarrassed to poop in front of them. I have to cover the faces of people in magazines when I go. WHAT IF MAGIC IS REAL AND THEY CAN SEE ME? AND THEN SOME DAY I MEET THEM AND THEY’RE LIKE “OH GOD IT'S YOU."

Or it’s because they have genuine food aversions. I was forced to try new things as a kid (usually not even forced — I enjoy trying new things, I just end up hating most of them) and I’m still a picky eater as an adult. In fact I try most of my no-go foods a few times a year in the hopes that they will no longer make…

I suspect the kids who do this “for a living” (ie more often than a couple days a year like the girl in this article) get paid more. I did some casual modeling as a child in the early 90’s — a national ad campaign for a company my dad worked for, some spokesmodel type live stuff — and the most I got paid was a $50…

Also, THOSE DIMPLES.

This was my entire high school experience. I ended up having to become that “ew gross don’t call me a feminist, honestly I kinda hate women” girl just to survive. It took a long time to purge all the horrifying misogyny I'd internalized.

I am one of those people :( Graduated & went to an Ivy for a couple years before dropping out (well, technically I took medical leave and just never went back). Worked a few menial jobs for health insurance, finally found a career path I loved working with children, and then I had to go on disability for mental &…

I’m so glad I’m not the only one who has this problem. Last year, someone asked me my age and without thinking I answered “23.” I was actually 30. I couldn’t even correct myself because what was I gonna say, “oh sorry I forgot about my last 7 birthdays”?

Ugh, doctors suck sometimes. Crossing my fingers that you’re able to find a better one soon!

Thank you (and everyone who’s responded, it still feels a bit too overwhelming to try to reply individually) so much for the support <3 my mom’s here now so she got some food, water & Tylenol in me and now I’m taking an Epsom salt bath so I can head to bed early tonight. Just have to get through tomorrow too and then…

Thank you for the kitten and the kind words <3 I went to look for my jewelry downstairs and thankfully found it there, although not before falling down the staircase and wrenching my shoulder. So I’m sore but calming down a little at least. Going to take your advice and just stop looking for the serum so I don’t hurt…

So I’ve been without antidepressants for a week because my doctor is apparently incapable of refilling it on time and I’ve officially lost what little sanity I had. This morning I discovered a $50 bottle of rosacea treatment serum is missing from my bathroom, but I put off the OCD flare I knew that would cause until…

Sounds like hypnagogic/hypnapompic hallucinations. Your brain starts falling asleep before the rest of you, so you see things that aren’t really there even though you’re certain you’re awake. I have narcolepsy so I get them a lot anyway, but when I was on Ambien in particular I would get those swirly/geometric colors…

Same, for the most part. I do have hallucinations of hearing people outside my room or seeing people coming into my room but they don’t loom over my bed usually. It’s still terrifying because I have a severe phobia of people coming into my room. Sometimes they try to hurt me (or have sex with me against my will) but…

When I was a kid, my gerbil escaped from his cage and we came home from dinner one night to find him hiding from our cat under a bureau (which thankfully sat too low to the ground for more than a rodent and/or a cat’s paw to fit). It was TERRIFYING. Like I’m 31 now and just remembering it is raising my heart rate.

Then stay out of my freezer!