12.
“When you didn’t know what time it was, you could dial: ‘H E 70211.’ In my town in southern California, people would still use the call letters from waaay back. The first time I heard that, I mean, there were letters on the numbers, so why not give it a shot? And I’ll be damned, ‘Welcome to GTE. The time at the tone is ….. I miss that.”
—Anonymous…
10.
“Recovery time.”
—lubbockin
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4.
“I think this counts as dirty. I wrote an anonymous letter to my math teacher in Year 9 (when I was 14/15 for Americans), asking him to please shower more often and wear deodorant because his B.O. was so horrific. I tried to word it as nicely as possible, and…
6.
“They usually fall into one of these three:”
“Hyper-reactive and defensive — always on edge, because life’s taught them to expect the worst. (Unprocessed trauma.)
Withdrawn and distant — they’ve shut out the world as a form of protection.
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4.
“A lot of the time, it’s the executive dysfunction that truly fucks you over, not the ‘focus’ problems. If I’m having a bad day, suddenly every minor decision seems inconceivably difficult to deal with, even if I logically know it’s not.
4.
“I grew up Catholic in the U.S.: Catholic high school, Sunday Mass with my religious dad and grandparents, parties for family baptisms and First Communions, the whole thing. Even though I now consider myself a lapsed Catholic, I still pay attention when…
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