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I 19F work at a small restaurant , all the workers are only girls ages 16-25. I have this one coworker 17F who started working with me maybe like 5 months ago, we have grew vv close since then, we tell each other everything.
She has always lived with her aunt because her mom kicked her out a while back. Well she just got kicked out of her aunts house and is forced to move back with her mom. she recently told me her mom is a meth addict and that’s the reason she originally left. She been with her mom for about two weeks now and yesterday she came into work with a fat black eye from her mom, she said she caught her mom getting high in her little siblings room and called her out for it so her mom hit her in the face for it. My coworker said she left her home and is now with a friend cause she can’t handle her mom being a addict. I’m glad she is safe now and is getting support from her friend but honestly in the back of my head i’m still thinking of her little siblings, they are all still in elementary school and it’s sad that they probably also have to watch their mom act out this way. I told her she should call cps but she said she doesn’t think it’s a good idea, should i step in and do it? should i just mind my business on this one?

Back in October I wa involved in a RTC on my way to see my children. I drive a 125cc Honda for All it matters. I had 4 years clean not a single slip or trip on the bike.
Going between 25 and 30 mph along a 40mpbh road (school traffic it was 8.10am) approached the t-junction, I have right of way, a learner car was pulling left into the t junction, I allowed it to get a good 75% around the corner before continuing, next thing you know I'm going flying.
Turns out the person waiting to pull out was, well distracted I guess, because this guy didn't even try to use his breaks.
Had written (emailed to my solicitor from his insurance) confirmation that they had accepted liabity. Until 18th of march the day after my solicitor sent the costs over, when suddenly the issued the acceptance of liabity by mistake.
We have a witness who can vouch I did everything correctly and legally. Lovey lady gave me her slippers to lay my head on while I was crumpled on the ground.
What's the chance they will try to settle again before court? They already did 1st offer just under 2k, my solicitor laughed at that and told me to nit accept it under any circumstances. He's valued the injury at 5 700. And then roughly 1250 in excess fee and new boots helmet ect ect
Edited: I live in the westmidlands of England

For me fight doesn't seem like a typical frequent response. I am more biased towards freeze and flight. But a key part of how I'm traumatized is blocking of anger and fight energy, to the extent that a lot of my behaviour becomes coping that tries to keep anger suppressed, like an IFS protector.
Some kinds of events seem to cause burying of anger and fight energy, that never really goes away. I can regulate myself to a seemingly calm state via various means, including time spent in nature and time spent online. But that involves an increase in dissociation, like burying the upset part of me. I don't know how to simply let go of or forgive some things.
The most common pattern causing this is when I make an attempt to communicate what is important to me, and that fails to have a result. Such patterns include explaining how something is important to me, or how something hurts me, and then that being ignored. Sometimes people can seem to care but it fails to make any lasting difference. Other times people can seem to not care at all. More precisely, one common pattern is when someone is being abusive towards me, and other people don't care about that hurt and want me to simply endure the abuse, and even keep trying to help the abuser while I am being abused.
One example was being bullied in elementary school, when teachers refusing to help, insisting I simply need to ignore it, and punishing both sides if I fight back, and me if I try to run outside of schoolyard bounds. Even decades after that, some things can trigger the associated anger.
Another example is experiences with my mother, where she was emotionally abusive, sometimes throwing terrible temper tantrums to control me in various ways. It is okay if others say she is not responsible for that due to being mentally ill, but it is not okay for the pain and damage I suffer to not matter because of that. She got diagnosed with borderline personality disorder in her old age. I am also upset about how a lot of my communication with mental health professionals involved in her care seemed totally useless.
Part of the problem is that when my mother gets severely agitated, "hysterical" as some people call it, nothing else seems to matter. Previous communication I've had with her and other "normal" people all becomes irrelevant.
A lot of the resulting anger isn't at the abusive people themselves, like the school bullies, and my mother, but about other people who disregarded my pain, failed to protect me, and failed to allow me to protect myself.
The troubling thing is that when there is no more hope that communication can help, the only remaining alternative seems to be war. I don't like that.
Actually, there is another alternative, giving up, accepting shit, and doing whatever other people want. But as I said earlier in the post, this seems to involve burying upset parts of me and getting more dissociated. It increases impairment of my ability to function, and may lead to risk of bad things happening in the future when I've buried too much anger for self control to handle.
In the last few years, one answer I found has been to express the fight drive in a controlled way, making sure it is reasonably safe and not causing serious harm. Though it may only truly help when there is some hope that it will help reach objectives that I'm trying to fight towards.

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about me: I've been a consistent honor student since elementary school. I graduated as valedictorian and competed in journalism, specifically in news writing, feature writing, copyreading, and headline writing. I was also an SSC (Special Science Curriculum) student and was in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) strand. i can do:
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hiii! i'm 19, a student. i need to save for my collegeee because i stopped. if u have a job to recommend pls dm me!
about me: I've been a consistent honor student since elementary school. I graduated as valedictorian and competed in journalism, specifically in news writing, feature writing, copyreading, and headline writing. I was also an SSC (Special Science Curriculum) student and was in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) strand. i can do:
academic commissions
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data entry jobs
tutoring
transcription
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hiii! i'm 19, a student. i need to save for my collegeee because i stopped. if u have a job to recommend pls dm me!
about me: I've been a consistent honor student since elementary school. I graduated as valedictorian and competed in journalism, specifically in news writing, feature writing, copyreading, and headline writing. I was also an SSC (Special Science Curriculum) student and was in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) strand. i can do:
academic commissions
excel (macro) and word
data entry jobs
tutoring
transcription
layout
video editing
powerpoint presentations
math problems
essay, critique paper, reflection paper, brochure
note: kung may iba po kayong ipapagawa, i'm a quick learner po and am willing to learn!
i also offer nsfw services. dm me if you're interested.
note: i don't do face reveals and meetups

hiii! i'm 19, a student. i need to save for my collegeee because i stopped. if u have a job to recommend pls dm me!
about me: I've been a consistent honor student since elementary school. I graduated as valedictorian and competed in journalism, specifically in news writing, feature writing, copyreading, and headline writing. I was also an SSC (Special Science Curriculum) student and was in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) strand. i can do:
academic commissions
excel (macro) and word
data entry jobs
tutoring
transcription
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essay, critique paper, reflection paper, brochure
note: kung may iba po kayong ipapagawa, i'm a quick learner po and am willing to learn!
i also offer nsfw services. dm me if you're interested.
note: i don't do face reveals and meetups

hiii! i'm 19, a student. i need to save for my collegeee because i stopped. if u have a job to recommend pls dm me!
about me: I've been a consistent honor student since elementary school. I graduated as valedictorian and competed in journalism, specifically in news writing, feature writing, copyreading, and headline writing. I was also an SSC (Special Science Curriculum) student and was in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) strand. i can do:
academic commissions
excel (macro) and word
data entry jobs
tutoring
transcription
layout
video editing
powerpoint presentations
math problems
essay, critique paper, reflection paper, brochure
note: kung may iba po kayong ipapagawa, i'm a quick learner po and am willing to learn!
i also offer nsfw services. dm me if you're interested.
note: i don't do face reveals and meetups

So basically today I was at a track meet (day 1 of 2). There was this girl who was very pretty. (Ik she is queer bc we live in a small city and I’ve heard of her) I caught her glancing at me a few times which she couldn’t see me looking at her bc I had sunglasses on. I was about to ask for her number but I was too scared to and by the time I was about to ask for her number she left early with a family member. So a few hours go by and I finally ask someone from her school for her Snapchat. They gave it to me and I’ve added her but she hasn’t added me back and it’s been around an hour and a bit. She obviously might be busy but who knows bc she can see I added her by search. So the thing is if she doesn’t end up adding me by chance should I ask for her number or even start a conversation at the 2nd day of the meet? The second day is 2 days away. Thankss.
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hiii! i'm 19, a student. i need to save for my collegeee because i stopped. if u have a job to recommend pls dm me!
about me: I've been a consistent honor student since elementary school. I graduated as valedictorian and competed in journalism, specifically in news writing, feature writing, copyreading, and headline writing. I was also an SSC (Special Science Curriculum) student and was in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) strand. i can do:
academic commissions
excel (macro) and word
data entry jobs
tutoring
transcription
layout
video editing
powerpoint presentations
math problems
essay, critique paper, reflection paper, brochure
note: kung may iba po kayong ipapagawa, i'm a quick learner po and am willing to learn!
i also offer nsfw services. dm me if you're interested.
note: i don't do face reveals and meetups

Alright. There's this story that I remember having to read in elementary school, specifically in 4th grade. I don't remember much except for the following details:

1. If I remember correctly, it was an absurdist novel for children where one major location that the story took place in was a school.
2. In the intro, a science teacher is explaining gravity to her students via a newly purchased expensive computer. Instead of using it normally for her lessons in gravity, she throws the computer out of a window from a very high floor of the school with her students watching it fall and hit the ground below before explaining to them that what just happened was an example of gravity at work.
3. It may have been written by Roald Dahl because I remember having to read his novels for English back in 4th grade.

I (19F) work as a before + after school counselor at an elementary school. It’s my first job ever, and I started last August. My supervisor (25M) has been very touchy with male students. (He is gay and single as well and acts this way with male students only).
He will play with their hair, tickle them, pick them up, sit them on his lap, lay down with them while playing with their hair, basically cuddling them. The children’s ages range from kindergarten (5) to fifth grade (10).
The student he says he has the most attachment to is a fifth grader (10M) that he met in third grade when he first moved to that site as a supervisor. He will actively seek that child to watch his grade activities during after care, he will call that child up to the sign-out and let the child use his (supervisor’s) own phone, while cuddling.
The parents of this child seem to be aware, from the interactions I’ve seen and heard, but they don’t seem concerned at all. This happens daily.
All of my past coworkers have not mentioned it at all. However, all the students know that that child is his favorite. A month ago, I got a new coworker (21F) who became like a friend to me. Today we were talking, and she brought up the topic of that fifth-grader. She told me how sketchy it seems as the supervisor will always be walking and hugging him. Not even five minutes later, our supervisor comes and sits down with us to chat with us. He mentions how sad he is that the fifth-grader is moving to middle school and leaving. He says on Friday he will be “attached by his side” and “crying, so pretend like he’s not the supervisor for the day.” My coworker and I look at each other. The supervisor then continues to say that he mentioned to the student if he doesn’t leave early tomorrow after graduation, he will buy the child ice cream and keep him in the front with him all afternoon. The mom then agreed and the child as well, according to the supervisor. Supervisor also said that he will pick up the child early from middle school just to hangout with him and take him for ice cream, or bring him back to the elementary school to stay with him.
Should I report this? It’s been happening all year, but this is the first time another coworker mentioned something.
Who do I report this to? The supervisor is friends with all the directors, and I’m scared of reporting, but nothing happens because I’m overreacting and then everyone knows I reported. The organization that we work for has STRICT rules on no hugging, touching, especially tickling or laying down with a student. The supervisor and I attended meetings together with that same topic.
What do I do??? Please help.

Hi all!
So my niece has recently gotten into gaming and really wants to build her own PC. The issue lies in that her parents have no tech skills/knowledge and I know enough to be dangerous.
I want to basically buy all the parts and have her build it with me. She loves science and I fully support her love of gaming and technology (and her parents wouldn't mind if this help start a career in STEM--but she's still in middle school so that's getting a bit ahead of ourselves.)
Currently, she loves beating the boys in her class on Fortnite and Warzone but my launch edition PS4 leaves a lot to be desired. At a minimum she would need to be able to run those games as best as possible. Also a build that could be upgraded overtime would be a nice touch. Budget is $1000 to $1200 USD. Thanks!
Cheers, TPM

I (27f) started working as a teacher in a new school. I have many responsibilities, one of which is yearbook advisor. There is another teacher at the school who often takes team photos and other photos for school events. They have a side business in photography. They charge for students to recieve their photos. Well I do something different. At my last school I took photos for prom for free and just sent digital copies to everyone. I suggested that I do this for my new school. I was told no because it will cut into this other teacher's business. Well a couple coaches found out I take photos and asked that I take their team photos. I told them due to my ethics (which I have always been told that it is unethical to make money off of photos for the school you work at) I take the photos for free, team, individual, whatever they would like. I later edit them and send everyone a folder with digital copies of all of the edited photos. Yes I knew this other teacher took photos. However these coaches came to me, and asked me todo so, without me offering first. The school already had me scheduled to take graduation photos anyways, so I did not think it was a big deal. Well this other teacher started emailing coaches as to why they are no longer using them (several have told me they do not like the way this person takes photos anyways). I am short and sweet with photos usually takes 30 minutes or less to take individual and team photos. The biggest team this year was 13 people. With 4 separate team photo groups. So AITA for taking photos for these teams?

I work in a predominantly female environment and I'd say 80% of the staff where I work (primary or elementary school) are female.
Inevitably there are times when I'll be party to discussions about men and sometimes in my opinion it verges on being inappropriate i.e. objectification and lewd comments.
It's complicated because we are friends as well as colleagues, but equally I feel like we would not accept (not should we) if the situation was reversed and we heard male colleagues chatting like that.
I try not to participate because I don't want to be the fun police, but it's also kind of benign and I don't want to be the boring one

New Kids on the Block is an American boy band from Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Members:
Jonathan Knight
Jordan Knight
Donnie Wahlberg
Danny Wood
Joe McIntyre
In the early 1980s, Maurice Starr discovered pop/R&B quintet New Edition, and guided their early success. After breaking ties with them, Starr and his business partner, Mary Alford, sought to create a white counterpart act. Fifteen-year-old Donnie Wahlberg impressed Starr and Alford with his rapping skills, becoming the group's first member. He was initially joined by his younger brother Mark, who left the group after only a few months. Donnie then recruited his school friends Jamie Kelly, Jordan Knight, and Danny Wood to join the group; Knight was followed into the group by his older brother Jonathan Knight, while Kelly left the group early on.
When a search was made to find a Michael Jackson-esque singer to replace Kelly, Starr recruited 12-year-old Joey McIntyre, who initially struggled to fit in with the group. With the final lineup in place, Starr rehearsed the boys after school and on weekends and eventually secured the group a recording contract at Columbia Records.
Originally, the group was called Nynuk (pronounced "na-nook"). Nikki Van Noy, the author of the group's official biography, wrote in 2012 that the name Nynuk is "meaningless", although a 1989 article by Rolling Stone suggested a possible connection to Nanook of the North. Columbia demanded Starr change the name of the group. Subsequently, they settled on New Kids on the Block, after a rap song that Donnie Wahlberg had written and arranged for their first album. The group was signed to Columbia's black music division and originally marketed to black audiences.

Here is a situation that's been difficult for me for many years and I don't know if my feelings are justified. I'm confused and need opinions.
I (26)f, joined my father to another country when I was 14 yo. I didn't grow up with him and he was 0 present in my life before I moved with him, never called me to talk to me, ask how I was doing, etc. He only talked to mom and payed for my school. I grew up without feeling his presence and to be honest it didn't bother me as that's what I was used to. Then I moved with him when I was 14, alone just the two of us in another country. I discovered very quickly that he leaves the toilet dirty (pee and poo stains on the seat) so I can't sit to use the toilet before cleaning it. He doesnt clean after himself overall but the toilet is the biggest issue. I hated asking him to clean up because it's embarrassing but I still did it many times. He would answer by telling me what's the problem and I should just go ahead and clean it myself, he was very tired or was too sleepy to clean or he would simply ignore me. Mind you he was around 60 yo, so I told myself maybe it's the age. However he has no difficulty doing anything else, and when I insist he cleans he does so with no problem. So I think it's more like he doesn't bother to clean. It's been 12 years that I've been living with him and the problem remains. We have fought about it many many times, but nothing changes. Sometimes he would clean, most of the times he wouldn't bother. I however have not gotten used to cleaning his poop and pee, I hate it so much and everytime I do it I feel a part of me die. I usually clean the toilet at least twice a day. I feel so disrespected. Add to that that he hardly spoke to me during all this time together, doesn't ask me how I'm doing, didn't check on what I was doing or where I was going as a teenager, and whenever there was something that needed to be done I had to fight him to do it, I have to fight him just to get his attention. I felt so ignored and dismissed and still do. And I'm very resentful towards him, I didn't feel like he took care of me other than providing me with food and shelter (I'm not minimizing them and the effort it takes to provide them)and so I hate having to clean his crap when he is fully capable to do so, and hate being dismissed by being told you should just deal with it.
I have moved before but came back mainly because of rent as I was a student. Now I don't want to move out because he is getting old and i don't want to leave him alone. However I am very angry and resentful and I lose my shit everytime I walk into the toilet. Like when I need to use the toilet in the middle of the night, I have to clean it while being sleepy or I have to make sure I don't sit.
I don't know how long I can take living like this before cracking.
Am I crazy for feeling like this? Are my feelings justified or am I being a brat? What should I do? I don't know how to cope anymore
Edit: I once went on vacation for a couple of months to my home country and when I came back the bathroom was filthy. I was tired and looking forward to hop on the shower and go to bed, but I had to clean everything first, so I just stood there and cried.

Can anyone share their experience with switching from elementary to secondary? I’ve been applying to secondary jobs since we moved and I thought it would be a great time to switch since I’m looking for work, but I’m not having any luck getting a call back for any of the middle school or high school jobs I’ve applied for!

Recently my school had its prom, which I went too, and so did my best friend (let’s call him Peter), and he went with his girlfriend (let’s call her Sarah). I only went with a bunch of my friends because I knew Peter would basically just spend the whole time with Sarah so I didn’t really care to hang out with him. Him and Sarah haven’t been dating long (just over a month now) but I never really liked her.
At prom I took a picture of them dancing and sent it to his sister, who I am also friends with, to make a joke that I figured she would find funny. However, Peter found out and got really upset at me, except I didn’t really know why, I was just making a joke that was unrelated to him or his girlfriend. I only found out why he was upset after another one of his friends had to explain that he thought I was trying to cause drama or get him in trouble, which I wouldn’t do. Him being upset at me crippled my mental health, and I had several panic attacks and depressive episodes during the rest of prom and the next day too. At first I was really sorry and apologetic, and I apologized to his sister because I knew he wouldn’t respond if he got a message from me anyways. However, he was incredibly rude and his girlfriend was awful too, telling me to “disrespectfully, f*ck off” (actual quote). He never tried to hear me out, and overreacted at this incident, and even created drama himself, which is ironic because that’s exactly why he was mad in the first place.
Since then I have been directly ignoring him and refusing to speak to him directly, because thats my best method for coping. I initially planned on ignoring him for a week so I could isolate myself and cool off because I got upset at him getting upset. This was until he sent his “apology” which basically just said that he was upset I was trying to create drama and he wouldn’t treat his friends like that (which he literally did to me) and that he would want to spend more time with Sarah than his other friends because he’s dating her, and would expect me to do the same (I’ve had a girlfriend before, and that isn’t how I acted, nor would I ever have acted like that to someone I considered my best friend). Because of this I prolonged my period of silence to an unforeseen date.
Other friends of mine are also not talking to them for various reasons. One is because of how fast he moved on from his last relationship, which was about a year and a half or so, another is because of how he ended that relationship and then tried to cover it up and play the victim when he was clearly in the wrong, and another is because Sarah used to bully them in middle school. Anyways, I feel bad about not talking to him but I also feel bad when I think about talking to him because I am afraid I might blow up and start yelling at him, and make it worse somehow. Am I in the wrong? What should I do?
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I see this time and again. Usually someone younger will claim they’re Xennial or even Gen X because “I grew up poor” or “I lived in a rural town”.
When did we start associating generations/cohorts with our parents bank accounts?
Anyone else find this an unusual, even uneasy, way to mark generations? It leaves the impression that the primary deciding factor in what cohort you belong to is based largely on the material things your parents could or could not afford.
When it comes to tech, isn’t the greatest factor more about what was widely available and normalized on a macro level? For example, in the US we collectively grew up when the Oregon Trail remake game was super popular in elementary/middle schools. Even if someone our age lived in a school system that couldn’t afford Apple IIs, that doesn’t mean that those kids are suddenly not Xennials.
Likewise someone born well away from the Gen X cutoff doesn’t magically become Gen X because their mom couldn’t afford to buy a Nintendo, so they grew up with an old Atari. Why would this even matter, from a larger generational perspective?
It seems so much of this stuff is coming down to the affordability of “stuff” and that just seems…off to me.