- Snack Attack Anon

Honestly, I did it on a whim just because I could. I was 13 ish and talking to a vegetarian friend and had a moment of "...I eat basically no meat already. I could very easily cut it out entirely. what the hell, why not?" and then did.

at this point i dont eat meat more because an object in motion stays in motion than anything. and because the original statement of my family not eating much meat remains true. and also because in the years since I developed ocd related to food contamination and I have Fear over meat not being properly prepared and making me sick

so tbh at some point i'll have to eat meat again as part of getting rid of that obsession bc ocd is not a good reason to do anything. or like i'll have to more seriously eat meat. i'm not a 100% strict vegetarian; i've eaten meat in the past 8 years several times.

half right! i don't care what other people do, live your life, but I have always personally really hated substances of any and all kinds. for a variety of reasons. primary ones being a family history of addiction and i hate things messing with my brain.

i know i'm higher risk, and I just don't want to play with that fire even slightly. as soon as i was old enough to understand genetic histories i was like oh okay so i'm never doing that. this includes for alcohol and weed and everything more socially acceptable. plus the experience just doesn't sound at all appealing. i dont want to get hazy n fucked up i like being in complete control of myself and my brain.

AND THEY SMELL!!! not my primary deterrent but it certainly doesn't help their case. so. you're not wrong!

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You're fine! I don't personally use the term daddy issues--that was a very loose, non-serious use because it's what the generator spit out.

I am very close with my dad--probably the person I am closest to in the world, on account of I am basically Him 2.0. But that doesn't mean there aren't complications. My dad is one of my favorite people AND he's also, at times, a massive asshole

I won't get into family history and drama, but it does, at times, complicate our relationship. And impact how I see myself and connect with others, since he and I are so similar. Apples and trees

I do! I don’t wear them 24/7, just when I need to see something far (movie, driving, whiteboard)

I actually got new frames recently—still need to confirm the prescription’s right, but hopefully they are

Now turning the question back on you! Why do you like shorts? (more specifically what makes you like them enough to wear them in 30 degree weather?!)

We could not be more different I actively hate the feeling of pants and ESPECIALLY the feeling of rolling them up.

It's a sensory thing. I hate the resistance fabric gives when you move. Every time you move you can feel it, so I try to wear things that are as minimally covering as possible. Short shorts, tank tops--though half the time when I'm home I don't even wear a shirt. I drew a comparison between my sister and I a couple years ago and it still holds true

I hate it enough I will choose to be cold instead of wearing pants. My strategy instead is to wear a hoodie/zip up; if i'm warm enough up top it'll compensate for cold legs. If it's really cold I'll suck it up, but the moment I can I'm putting shorts on again.

I will say, I do wear tights with my shorts when it's colder. Which is tolerable because 1. fashion and 2. it's thin and form fitting. And while leggings are also form fitting, they're too thick and give me dysphoria. Skirts/dresses are equally unpleasant there's too much movement

And personally dress codes haven't been a consideration since middle school, but I do understand how that factors into others' clothing choices.

Sure! When I was 6-7, we moved to CO so my dad could go to grad (?) school, and lived in this co-op esque place. Which meant there were a few rules, one being not to smoke. Our neighbor, an old white guy, did not follow this rule.

My dad pointed it out or told him to stop, something along those lines (I was 7, okay). There's kids here, after all. And my dad is visibly brown. Old white guy did not like being told to stop smoking by a brown man.

So, he reported my dad to the police for having inappropriate photos/videos of my sister and I (2 and 7, at the time; light enough to pass as white). His evidence? Vibes. (Little more to it, but the key component is there was literally nothing to find because he made it up!!)

Unfortunately, he reported this to the co-op police instead of city, and they never got anything interesting, so they jumped at this. Confiscated all our home videos, searched the apartment, etc. Took months longer than they should've to complete the investigation. And also called CPS

There was a whole debacle about actually getting in contact with CPS, because we were out of town when they wanted to come by, which the investigators said wouldn't be a problem, but apparently was! because CPS thought my parents were avoiding them and it made them much more aggressive and suspicious when we got back from out of town and realized Oh Fuck they were calling and coming by and we didn't know !!

but anyway. they finally come by when we're home, and they take little me aside to question me. ask me whether I like my parents, if there's anything I don't like, what I wish they wouldn't do, any secrets, standard is this kid being abused questions (i was not).

by the end they realize...uh. these kids are fine. nothing's going on here. and all the videos the police confiscated turn up completely fine. on account of the accusations were literally all made up. no legal action taken, investigation closed, etc.

we, however, did not stick around. moved again immediately, and my dad never did finish (or even start...?) those studies. we were in CO for less than a year, and the investigation was like...7-8 months? so it must've started pretty soon after we moved in