I Recently Saw A Tiktok Where A Woman Asked "girlies: What Are Some Things You Do To Be More Whimsical?

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I'm basically into girls

You’re so kind to others; why are you so cruel to yourself?

You know what I think is really cool about language (English in this case)? It’s the way you can express “I don’t know” without opening your mouth. All you have to do is hum a low note, a high note, then another lower note. The same goes for yes and no. Does anyone know what this is called?

you are allowed to be wrong you are allowed to mess up you are allowed to be embarrassing.

Hi!! Hope you're doing well and healthy!! <3 do you know how to strengthen a relationship with a god/goddess? Or have any tips? I'm practicing bhakti yoga and I want to see the deities I worship as my best friends but idk how to do it right. Thanks in advance! 💙✨

What I generally recommend:

1. Do art for them (you don't have to be a super good artist, hell even stick figures work here)

2. Write poems or short stories featuring them

3. Pray to them

4. Dedicate activities to them (showering, eating, meditation, etc.)

5. Vocalizing (even if it's just sounds coming out of your throat, no specific syllabals or anything like that)

6. Wear an accessory thatyou dedicate towards them (I had some skull beads that I wore for Kali for an example)

7. Read books dedicated to them.

they should invent a cigarette that gives you vitamins and hrt and shit

Ok so my kid had an ear infection, right? As kids often do.

The doctor scraped out a bit of earwax to have a better look inside.

I was sent a bill for $200 PER EAR for this 5 second procedure which I did not give permission for them to do.

That was key- they did not ASK me if they could do this "procedure". And, as I OWN a medical practice (it's me. The medical practice is me, sitting in my house on video calls) I knew to call them when this bill came in to be like "You did not obtain informed consent for this procedure, and it was not en emergency procedure. You had full ability to gain my consent and didn't. I'm not paying."

And the massive hospital who owned the bill said "yuh-huh you do have to pay."

And I said "I own a practice. I know these laws. I do not owe you money for this."

And they conducted an "internal review" and SURPRISE! Decided I totally owed them money and they had never done anything wrong ever.

And so I called my state's Attorney General office, and explained the situation because, as I mentioned, I know the law. The AG got in touch within a couple days to say they were taking the case and would send the massive hospital conglomerate a knock it off, guys letter.

Lo and Behold, today I have a letter where said hospital graciously has agreed to forfeit the payment.

"How not to get screwed over by companies" should be part of civics class.

Know your rights and know who to call when they're infringed on. This whole process cost me $0 and honestly less effort than I would have expected.

May this knowledge find its way to someone else who can use it.

Not to go "if you have ADHD just go for a run" or anything, but I am so serious if you have ADHD you should regularly go outside, no headphones no phone no nothing and just stand and observe for a while until you've had enough. Not until you get bored, until you've had enough. Drink your coffee without watching tiktok. Have a bath without music. Turn down the volume in your headphones. I cannot overstate how much learning to be bored is cruicial with ADHD. Life is not just about pleasure, no matter what your dysregulated dopamine system thinks, and when you teach your brain to be okay with being bored, then boring tasks stop feeling like torture. By letting yourself be bored you are yoinking your system out of the high/low binary and allow for the highs to feel like actual highs and not just anything that isn't low. I am so serious go literally touch grass. Listen to the sounds in your flat. Stimulate your body the way it was designed. It lowers anxiety and makes you feel like you're real and best of all it's completely free

Anyways, calling shoplifting “urban foraging” is very funny, a useful euphemism, should be done more often.