Thank you plaque sayings for teachers

A few questions. I promise I tried looking for answers, but wasn't able to find definitive answers (maybe my google-chi sucks, in which case I apologize).

1. We are a family of 4 (13 and 11 yr old, so relatively self sufficient and can carry their own stuff). Will be connecting through YVR coming from DEN, going to NRT towards the end of November. 1 hr 10 min layover - will we make it? will our luggage make it? I remember YVR US to Int'l connections have to walk quite a bit and have to go through one checkpoint?
   
2. I opened an Aeroplan account to manage my booking a bit better, but the Aeroplan website will not let me add my booking to my Aeroplan profile. It says it can't find it, when I try the "Add booking" feature. It finds the booking on the regular AC website with the booking reference and last name, but not if I try to add it to my Aeroplan profile. Weird? Cause for concern? Should I call AC to fix it, clarify it? I booked it directly on the AC website.
   
3. We are all UA MileagePlus members and I added all of our UA account numbers when I booked it, but on the confirmation emails, the attached itinerary pdf, and when I pull up our booking on their website it only shows my UA#, and not for anyone else. Is this normal?
   
4. Will my UA Silver status get us anything with AC?
   
5. Booked on Economy Class (G). Currently shows 777-300ER plane with lots of space and I was able to get good seats.
   

• Given how empty the planes are showing right now, my guess is they will probably change the plane eventually and we will lose our seat assignments?
  
• Bulkhead seat upgrades are $150/person on the YVR-NRT (daytime, but 10.5 hr flight) and NRT-YVR (8.5 hrs, but its red eye) legs. Are those significantly more spacious? I wasn't able to find anything regard how much extra legroom it actually is.
  
• Thinking of possibly bidding for Premium Economy or possibly Signature class upgrade. Any opinions of one vs the other? Obviously Signature will be better, but how much better? What would you bid for upgrades (keep in mind everything is x 4). Is it better to bid early or wait until later for upgrade bidding with AC?
  

Thanks!

Hello everyone, thanks for taking the time to read this post. I am looking for some sort of advice in this situation. To broadly frame the situation, I'm in a distant relationship with my boyfriend, we're from the EU but live in different countries. We know each other for about 5 years and it recently got really serious between us, talking about moving and living together, we're both 30. My BF was diagnosed about a year ago with Bipolarism and is taking medication.
And even though it weighs heavily on his mind, he was excited about moving in together and spending our lives together. As am I. We usually spend a lot of time together online in calls, playing video games, so we could do something together even though we live in different countries. Recently there was a situation where he asked me if there was anything going on with me, if I was moody or feeling down. We had the situation before, where I wouldn't be honest with my feelings in the moment how I am doing, so I am trying to work on that and better myself.
I told him nothing was wrong, that I might sound off because I was feeling a bit tired but he insisted that something was going on.
I told him that I was doing fine, which was the case, and he concluded that either I was lying or that he was being delusional, and would need to go to the hospital immediately. I reassured him that I wasn't lying and that I was doing well. Following that statement, he mailed his Doctor and got a call right after that. I couldn't understand what they were saying but I have no reason to believe that he would ever lie to me. So he told me that his Doctor told him that it sounded like his health was deteriorating faster than expected.
He told me that he would see his Doctor in 2 days, and that he might need to stay at the hospital for 2-6 weeks, after their talk. He told me that he had a very chaotic mind, that he was thankful that I told him what was going on and that things would probably change now, that his health is worse than he or the Doctor assumed beforehand.
So here's me panicking about my BF, worrying about his health, feeling guilty that me maybe not sounding enthusiastic enough on our call, caused him to think he was being delusional. The only thing I said was that I was doing well and that I wasn't lying to him, his conclusion that he must be delusional scared me a lot. I asked him what he meant by how things changed between us, mind you all this happened in a span of maybe 30 minutes, but he didn't want to talk about it. He said that if I would feel bad, imagine how he would feel.
I read a lot about life expectancy of Bipolar people and know that it is lower, I know this, we both do. It feels to me that he thinks this whole situation is almost like a death sentence to him. I'm scared about the whole situation and don't really have anyone to talk to about this. What can I do to be a better partner? How can I act going forward to make things better? He said that I couldn't do anything, that it just is the way it is. This situation just happened so we haven't talked it out or anything yet. Can you guys give me any pointers of what I can do?
Thanks again for reading the story.

I (29M) have been doing all of the house work since my wife (28F) had a spinal injury and brain tumor. She has gotten significantly better since her surgeries, but still has physical and mental impairments. We are working towards SSDI to help with finances. She's able to do a part time customer support job to help as well. She usually asks me to fill her water cup or get/make her food because we live in her parents basement and she can do stairs but it is taxing to her. Sometimes on her really bad pain days, she'll ask me to grab her phone charger or turn off her nightstand lamp, which both are a foot away but she doesn't want to twist to do it. Nearly every night I rub her back and/or to try and help w the tension and pain.
I used to ask her to do small things like hey since you have 4 more hours free can you fold laundry if I leave the basket on the bed, or slowly work through what little dishes we have, not pots and pans just cups and plates and such. She always forgets and I genuinely do not know if it's the mental impairment, laziness, or something else. I just gave up asking.
As well as, I am the only person to take care of the pets in totality. We have a Great Dane that we were gonna train as mobility service dog for her, but I am stretched so thin I do anything and she never stuck with it. He is well behaved just service trained. I want to be more active in general and with the dog, but most days I see the mountain of physical tasks i must do and kinda shut down. Just grinding my way through the chores so the house stays semi-clean.
Intimacy issues have not helped at all either, she has both mental and physical blocks against intimacy. The closest we've been to intimate in the last 4 years is cuddling via spooning. But even that is limited because it usually devolves into her wanted back runs which forces me to back away from her to get a proper angle. I have had open relationships mentioned before but I have no interest in that, I just want her.
I just feel empty, my days consist of work, chores, video games, and rubs. She does her best to not ask me all the time and to let me have free time to go game. But honestly what I want most is her. We aren't well off right now, we're recovering, but that makes doing activities hard because we're so limited from her disabilities to begin with. I used to offer to watch shows or movies with her so that we can spend time together. But that seemed to always be shot down.
As much as I have been harping on her, I am no saint either. She has on several occasions been subject to being a therapist for me as I am a train wreck mentally. As well as I can hyperfixate on finances because of my upbringing, so she normally deals with them. She has definitely helped me become a better person and I will always love her that. I jokingly say without her I'd be dead in a ditch, but honestly it's true, she forced me to not shut away and isolate myself within confines of my mind.
Thank you for reading this.

I'm sorry to be posting something negative, I'd avoid reading this if you want to stay in a good headspace. I'm hoping for some kind of guidance.Not suicidal! TW: Death
For those of you who don't feel like reading all of this, I'll add a tl;dr at the end.

I've been wary of posting about what I'm going through in any public space beyond general feelings I'm experiencing, for several reasons. I don't want it to somehow effect other people the same way it has me, I feel like what I have experienced is fully my fault and that I'm the only person who can change it, and I don't want to put more negativity into anyone's life, especially since I'm not paying for a service here. I also don't really want other people's beliefs to effect my issue, but it is what it is at this point.
That said, I really don't know how to proceed with my life. I hope I can gain some guidance, and that the many others who are facing similar if not identical issues might be helped with anything that comes from this.

Okay! So about five years ago, I got really into manifestation after I discovered it through youtube. No surprise here, I had been into the law of attraction previously but I never felt like resources like The Secret got into the nitty gritty enough for me to have a lot of success with it. I definitely tried, but I wound up thinking it was a bunch of delusional people wasting their time. Shortly after initially discovering the LoA, I ended up in a relationship where my partner introduced me to a lot of other kinds of "applied spirituality?". Energy work and witchcraft were pretty high up there, and I very casually studied ceremonial magick for a little while. Anyway, back to five years ago, I discovered a few resources that made it all make sense, and I had A LOT of successes. Some of them were straight up Glitch_in_the_Matrix worthy, like trying to manifest food and finding an untouched, full bag of groceries right in the middle of the sidewalk on my walk home or conveniently making a new friend who brought me food, literally every single day, unprompted.
So here's where the problem comes in. I've had OCD since I was a young teenager if not all my life to some extent. Diagnosed in 2021, but definitely was dealing with it wayyy earlier. My obsessions always fixated on religion prior to that point, but suddenly with my influx of successful manifestations, I became constantly fixating on accidentally manifesting something very bad. I would get the intrusive thought that my partner was going to die or be hit by a car. I did everything I possibly could to think the opposite, to assume she would be perfectly okay. To read every resource I could and manifest a long, healthy life for her. The thoughts didn't stop.
It went on for 3 straight years, every day, every hour. I was paralyzed by these intrusive thoughts. I tried to manifest the thoughts away as well, but they didn't budge. After years of this, I began to really notice that the bad things were taking their sweet time to happen. Nothing ever happened to her because of my thoughts. Things started to get better. I stuffed spirituality as a whole into a dark corner in the back of my mind and decided to never touch it again.
Then one day, I realized that there were some things I would really love to achieve or change in my life, and decided to get back into it again. Nothing bad ever happened from it in the past, so why not play around with the real life video game cheats again. Almost immediately, I became fixated on accidentally manifesting my own death.
Once again, every day, every hour for the past 1.5 years I've been fixated on it. Constantly thinking about whether or not I'm going to die, whether this is the day or tomorrow is the day. Many days I was convinced it was going to happen, and it did not. I was grateful, but the thoughts and feelings of impending doom never went away.
I feel weak and abused by myself. I feel like I caused this all to happen to myself by, as many in the manifesting communities say, "Living in a victim mentality". I often feel hopeless, as I do today. Really the only reassurance is that I'm currently alive somehow. I don't really care about dying, I just don't want to cause it to happen to myself. I don't want to be too weak to even save my own life. I have tried extremely hard to solve this problem. There were weeks last year where I hardly slept at all because every moment was spent trying to "Occupy the state of surviving to x age". Every time I'd feel like giving up, part of me would find the willpower to try again. But it's been a long time and I'm losing steam.
This is already EXTREMELY long so I appreciate anyone who has read through this a lot. So without going to deep into things, at some point in this process, I got into Buddhism and specifically learning to experience suffering instead of trying to change it. This was super helpful for me, but I'm still suffering, and can still manifest other things. Because of this, I ended up going long periods of time, just allowing my thoughts to do whatever they wanted to. Sometimes I'd be convinced it was going to kill me, but I decided to just let it come and go. This really helps, but I keep jumping back to feeling like I have to do something to survive.
I'll cap it there. Thanks so much for reading. Any thoughts or advice related to the spirituality aspect of this, besides the obvious amount that I need therapy?
tl;dr: got super into manifestation, became extremely fixated on accidentally killing myself with it. proceeded to suffer. hoping for helpful advice

Hi there,
might be odd to say this but over the years I lost motivation to draw. I used to draw when I was a child and in my younger years but currently I am just so unmotivated and bored. Its like having a talent but not being able to live it out. Everytime I draw something I am just not interested or bored although I felt real compassion when I was younger but everything seems to be just a linear line and it looks boring. I dont want this anymore, because I love drawing, it always made me feel whole but right now I hate it more than ever. So I am wondering if you have some advice for me. I think what I need is some kind of absurdity, craziness and all that. I dont find compassion when I draw anime, landscapes, portraits, objects or whatsoever. I need some crazy stuff but I dont really know what so maybe you once were in this kind of position like me or maybe you know some crazy artstyles you could show me.
In advance: thanks a lot.

I noticed, as many of you surely have, that the Moe's Monday deal no longer has a drink included, but the price stayed the same. I contacted the owner and operator of my local Moe's, asking WTF. Here is exactly what he said:
Thank You for taking the time to give me your feedback on the changes to Moe Monday.I can understand your frustration when things change.This was a change made by Moe's Corporate that went into effect on May 13th.As a rewards member you should have received a email on March 25th to inform you that this change was happening. I apologize if you did not receive one.The reason behind the change was that only 57% of redemptions wanted a drink so instead of Increasing the price.The decision was made just to leave the price the same and remove the drink.I have spoken to redacted the GM at this location and instructed him to give you a drink when you order on Mondays.

Thank You

So.. yeah. Literally saying, we decided to just leave the price the same, but give you less.
Way to go, Moe's. Just what every customer wants, I'm sure.

The heavy clouds mirrored the somber mood as mourners gathered beneath the ancient oak tree, its branches swaying gently in the breeze. The scent of fresh earth mingled with the sweet fragrance of lilies, evoking memories of a life both cherished and mourned. In the hush, broken only by the distant call of a mourning dove, friends and family stood together, united in their grief and love.
 
HERE LIES PREDICTION LEAGUE
2017-2024
 
The tombstone’s inscription a sobering message of the fleeting joy it brought to its beloved fans, as the raspy words of the pleading eulogy echo through the cemetery
 
^{Nopredictionleague?}
 
A low rumble from beneath the freshly turned earth sends a shiver down the spines of the mourners. Suddenly, the ground splits open, and a skeletal hand claws its way to the surface, dirt falling away like a dark veil. Gasps and cries of terror fill the air as the corpse, impossibly animated, rises from its grave. Its eyes vacant and lifeless, flesh gaunt and slack, it begins to speak...
 
M̶̟͋y̶̢͘ ̸̺̍b̵͌ͅą̴͒d̸̢̉ ̴̯̍a̷͐͜b̸͓͗o̶͕͗ủ̵͓t̵̻́ ̸͛ͅt̸͚̀h̷̛͎ỉ̵͔s̷͔̀ ̶̣̐m̵̺̿o̵̡̓n̷̹͠t̶͈̒h̷͇̽ ̸͈̆g̶̣͘ṳ̴̌y̶̱̍s̷̻̕,̵̗̊ ̵̰̒Ȉ̷̙ ̶̄͜h̷̥̔a̶̺͒d̵̩̉ ̸͍̑t̴͍͝o̵̧͝ ̴̙̓k̵̤͂ỉ̷̫c̶̖̎k̴͓̓ ̵̰́s̴̝̃c̷̟̈́h̸̨͑o̷̱̅ŏ̴̭l̷̘̅ ̷̓͜t̴̪̿o̶̹͝ ̷̨̀t̵̹͒h̸̡̃e̴̪̓ ̷̻̈́b̵̫͘a̵̡͊c̵̜͝k̸̗͛b̷͓̋ũ̵̦r̸̠̓n̷͔͌e̶̬͊r̸̳̒ ̷̻̎f̸͓͝ő̶̭ŕ̵͕ ̶̛̳a̴̲̓ ̸͚̿b̸͓̆i̷̱̊ẗ̷̠́ ̴͍̈ṫ̷̩ẖ̵́į̷́s̷͚̍ ̸͓͆s̴̤͝ǘ̴̜ṁ̸̤m̵͖͊e̶̙̚r̴̲̓ ̷̜̃ä̷̠n̵̮̏d̷͕̓ ̷̙̈p̴̞̑ī̶̟c̵̱̊k̸̛͕ ̵̗͂u̸͙̓p̷̲̾ ̸̟͒ȃ̸͉ ̶̥͒c̸̳̆ǫ̵́n̸͙̑s̷̺̎u̸̚͜l̴̤̋t̸̥͐ì̸̳n̸̠̆g̵̳͘ ̶̛͉g̸͓̔i̵̻͒g̵͈͂ ̵̦̀ĩ̷͇n̸̮̐ ̷̮͑m̸͔͊y̸̭̓ ̴̝̈́o̸͚͗l̶͔͆d̷̘͋ ̶͓̀f̸͓̔i̵̭̿ȇ̵̡l̸̦͛d̷̝͑ ̶̫̍o̶̧͐f̶̥̓ ̸̮̓w̶̞̽ỏ̷͖r̵͉͂k̶̲͋ ̷͓̑t̴͈̍ő̸̟ ̸̭͒d̶̹͘r̵̛͇u̶̪̅m̴̨̅ ̷͚̓u̶̱͒p̴̻̈́ ̶͚̈́ś̵̢ȍ̷͈m̸̝̽e̸͔̓ ̵̹̃m̸̟͆o̵̢͝r̶̼̆ḛ̶̔ ̸̮̐c̵̱̔ą̵̊s̶̱̕h̵̜͗ ̶̻̊ą̴͐s̴̠̍ ̸̛͙ţ̶̈́h̷̃͜e̵͙͐ ̵̲͐m̷̩̌i̶̯̅s̶͝ͅs̸͈̈ǘ̸̥s̵̞͊ ̵͙̂w̵̞̋ä̶̗n̷̲̓t̶̩͋s̷͑ͅ ̸̲̅a̷̫͐n̶̞̄ö̸̦́t̴͍̂h̶̬͝e̵̛̮r̵͕̓ ̷̛̪ṭ̶͒r̶̉͜i̶̤̽p̶̦͝ ̷̦̈́o̶̠͂v̷͎̈ê̸̦r̶͛͜s̶̯̕e̴̯̊ǎ̶̮s̸͎͝.̷̜̽ ̴̱́I̴̡̅ ̵͍͝g̷̤͝e̶͍͠n̵̟̒ű̸͙i̸̹͆n̴̘͑e̴̟͋l̴̠͝y̴̻͝ ̴̮̊d̷͝ͅo̷͈͘ ̶̮͌e̴̻͌ṋ̵̈́j̵͈͒ö̵̼y̷̱̒ ̷̎ͅd̵̯͐ọ̶͗i̴̼͗ň̸̟g̵̘͝ ̴̫́p̵͙͠r̷̢͋e̸̾ͅd̷̥͝ī̸̧ć̸̣ť̷̼ĩ̷ͅo̵̪̒n̶͈͋ ̷̩̊l̶̥̇e̷̻̎â̵̪ĝ̴̪û̷̡e̷̺̾ ̷̺̿ą̶̿n̵͈̊d̵̘͘ ̶̘̃t̷̜͂h̴̨͠e̷̝̓ ̵͎̃s̸̱̾t̵̯̽a̸͉͘t̷̺̂s̷̻̐ ̸̫́a̵̤͝ṋ̵̕d̴̤͆ ̷̘̆ş̴͊p̸̥͠r̷͕̕e̵̮̚a̷̝̎d̷͍͠s̶̲͊ḧ̴́͜e̴̝͒e̸̥̒ṫ̸̩s̶̛̘ ̵͍̏i̶̖͝n̵̞̂ ̶͔̐p̴̢͊ā̷̝r̷̜͝t̷̖͠i̸͕͆c̶͚̆u̴̹͐l̵͉̒a̵̦͗r̶̮̀ ̴͕́ạ̴̽r̶͇̈ë̵̹́ ̵͍͒h̶͔͠ȯ̶̭b̴̧̕b̵͉͋i̵͓͒e̷̮̋s̴̗̑ ̶̧͝o̸͙̚f̷̲̏ ̴̧͗m̵̼̃i̸͉͒ņ̴͝e̶̟͋ ̶̡̇t̴͇̔h̸͚̆a̷̯̚t̶̮͝ ̸̧̾d̸͇̀ȍ̸͓ ̴̤̌b̵̝̒r̷̹̓i̸͎͝n̴͕̄g̷̯͐ ̷͓̈́m̵̭̂ȩ̸̕ ̶̜͒ĵ̵̨ò̶͇y̶̳̎.̶̦͆ ̴̱̔Ȁ̸̻n̵̳̽ŷ̶͚ẇ̴͖ḁ̴̅y̸͓̑s̷͈̈́,̷̪̈́ ̵̱̈́w̵̮̏i̴͋ͅt̷̰̒h̶̺̍o̸̯͌u̸̬͂t̴͙̅ ̷̪͝f̸̣̈́u̴̜̔r̵̲̈t̵̡͗h̴͕̐e̷̡͋r̴̙̋ ̵̀͜ą̸̑ď̷͚o̶̙͆,̸̣͘ ̵͇̈́W̶̞̕E̴̹͋L̴̪̈́C̶̻̀O̸̲͊Ḿ̶̪E̷̫͂ ̷̖̃T̵̮̅O̶̥͘ ̴̖̃T̶̲̈H̸̙͘I̷͚̍S̸̙̔ ̴͉̎M̸̟̐Ǒ̸̬N̸͔͝T̶̼̂H̶̥͠’̷̰̀S̴̚ͅ ̴̭̓R̷̘̽O̴̹͑U̶̳̍N̷̞͑D̸̫̋ ̵̫̎O̵̗͒F̴̲̐ ̸̺͊P̵̳͌R̵̻̃E̴̛̫Ḑ̸̀-
 
The ghoulish phantom's twisted words are cut short as the crowd of mourners turned frenzied mob descend upon the abomination with pitchforks and torches slaying it mid-monologue. We'll never truly know what it was trying to say, nor should anyone really care.
 
*** End Credits Roll ***
 
Now without further ado, let's get down to the numbers for this round!
 
Congratulations to
shiro321
kewlgal28
*For winning this round with correct predictions of a combination of *
Steel Rising - Guessed correctly by 13 users or 18% of all participants (WOW!)
Hi-Fi RUSH - Guessed correctly by 3 users or 4% of all participants
 
Honorable mentions to Gramd for being the only person to correctly predict Loddlenaut
 
A total of 72 users participated in this month’s round with 16 users (22%) correctly guessing 1 or more titles.
 
Nobody guessed we’d see
King Of The Castle
Bravery and Greed
Amanda the Adventurer
Mediterranea Inferno
 
and here are the standing for this season's prediction league as of now
 
thomasthe1st - 16 points
biohazardbattle - 16 points
Gramd - 15 points
Porruno - 14 points
skinny_thief - 14 points
HerrieM - 13 points
diogenesl - 12 points
Leszczyn - 12 points
shiro321 - 10 points
MJuniorDC9 - 9
 
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u/Fall-Historical 17 🥈
u/Leszczyn 16 🥉
u/Phoenix_Samurai 16 🥉
 
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Not afraid to say I was getting a bit nervy myself a few days ago when lots of people were expecting 'moon shot' from the the cex listing, just cos it was obvious that wouldnt happen, and then panic would happen, but since then the paranoia and nerves i'm hearing are setting the scene for a perfect move upward! Thank you fudders! Your nervous energy may cost you money, but you bestow your gift on the rest of us! See you on the other side.

So I have been taking Qulipta 60mg for about 3 weeks. I was given a sample pack in March to try out after triptans, Ajovy, Nurtec, topamax, and fioricet didn't make a dent in my migraine episodes. I have been diagnosed with hemiplegic migraines and migraine with aura. My episodes are nearly always accompanied by stroke-like symptoms, cognitive delay, and random neurological effects.
For the last week or so of taking the Qulipta, I have been experiencing extreme muscle tension in my entire body, and a feeling of overall panic. My legs and arms especially have been burning as if I'm flexing them or lifting weights, and the muscles will regularly spasm/twitch. It's also happening in my back and neck. I was prescribed Baclofen 5mg by my PCP and I have been taking it twice a day, and I hardly notice any relief. Along with the insane flexing of my body, I have been considerably nauseous, and I keep having to go to the bathroom if you know what I mean.
I called my neurologist to find out if this is a normal enough reaction to the Qulipta, or if this is adverse like other reactions I've read a out on here and on google. They basically told me that since they see me for my migraine problems, then a medication reaction is something my PCP needs to handle, which makes no sense to me because the neuro is the one who prescribed it to me and anytime I talk to my PCP or an ER doctor, they tell me to talk to my neuro.
I stopped taking the Qulipta on Sunday and still feel the same symptoms, is this like anything anyone else has experienced? Any advice? Do I need to go to the ER? Thanks in advance for anyone who reads and has anything to say!!

I’m going to either Michael’s or Walmart later and I just wanted to know what you guys would consider to be the must haves. I’m trying to crochet a blanket just for fun to combat boredom so it doesn’t matter how long it will take. I’ve seen some say buy a pack of hooks but I’m really just unsure. For context, I’ve never crocheted anything before at all so I’ll be starting from the very beginning with no supplies at all. Thanks in advance 😁

Regrettably, the video I intended to share here did not upload properly. But I will say, I have experienced this on both Switch and PS5, in every version beginning with the original launch-day edition.
When Heket appears to you in Anura and curses 5 of your Followers with starvation, her last two dialogue boxes appear to be out of order, and the final one actually goes entirely unvoiced.
While this is certainly not going to impact anyone’s gameplay, I was just wondering if it had ever been officially reported. If it’s one of those things that simply isn’t of high concern, I totally get that too. Just wanted to chime in! 👍
Thank you all for your hard work! We really appreciate it.

Fellow guardians!
About my situation:
I did play through all the content released until season one of Lightfall and completed a day one RoN.
Honestly this was so exhausting that I didn't touch D2 after. Needless to say that I still want to experience how all things wrap up in the Final Shape.
I am not asking for a bounty prep guide but much rather for any important stuff I should try to acquire before FS releases.
Like exotics, red borders. Resources?
I basically know nothing.
Maybe someone can recommend a good video too?
Thank you so much!

This was originally posted to pettyrevenge, but for some reason got taken down. So here goes:
The revenge I took on my grade nine English teacher was so petty that I hesitate to write about it. But Mrs. Bristle (for that is the name I will give her) was cruel to me every chance she got, and she made my first year in high school a misery. So when a file with her name on it arrived at my office, my first thought was not that I would beat her (for I was certain that I would) but rather, of the revenge I would take along the way.
I was pushing forty when Mrs. Bristle’s file hit my desk, some estate litigation where a mother’s last will and testament left my clients next to nothing, and gave their sister, Mrs. Bristle, pretty well the entire estate. When I saw the defendant’s name it looked familiar, and after a bit of Googling, I confirmed what I suspected: the defendant, Mrs. Bristle, was my former grade nine English teacher.
I remembered Mrs. Bristle very well. She was supposed to be teaching us the wonders of English literature, but what she really taught us were her rules, by which she meant her arbitrary whims, expressed in vague language, backed up by petty punishments for non-compliance. There was an art to getting along with Mrs. Bristle, and while most of the other kids learned it easily enough, somehow I did not. I have trouble learning unwritten rules, and in Mrs. Bristle’s class where unwritten and constantly changing rules were the order of the day, I didn’t stand a chance. Mrs. Bristle admonished me almost daily for ‘not paying attention’. I did detentions, re-wrote assignments, and made visits to the principal’s office, all because I apparently wasn’t listening, wasn’t doing what I was told.
Many was the time when Mrs. Bristle took me to task for missing some obvious but unstated part of an assignment. One time I handed in a sonnet, and received an “F” because the rhyming pattern was Petrarchan, not Shakespearean. But she would be nice to me, Mrs. Bristle would always say when she tossed my work back at me. She would give me another chance to hand the assignment in with the arbitrary changes she required, in the end giving me a good mark, but then heavily downgraded for being late.
Mrs. Bristle's case worked its way through the early stages, and every time I exchanged an email with her (for she was a self-rep, no need for counsel, she claimed) I thought about the unpleasant time I’d spent in her class. I had a rough time in high school, and I always resent anything that makes me dwell on it.
After a few months, the case was ready for the next stage. It was time to examine Mrs. Bristle, to find out why she thought her mother wanted to disinherit most of the family and enrich Mrs. Bristle alone. I showed up at the court reporter’s office early as usual, to get set up.
“What’s that shit eating grin on your face?” Adam asked. He was a lawyer colleague, about my vintage, and we were sitting in the lounge for lawyers only, the room that most court reporter’s offices have, a place for the lawyers to hang out and shoot the shit, no clients allowed.
“I’m going to examine my grade nine English teacher today,” I said, “and it's going to be fun.” I explained how she’d hated me back in the day, and had done her best to make my life hell.
“What’s the case about?” Adam said. Adam had been around the block, same as me, and it took only a few words for me to summarize everything that mattered in the file. “Estate fight, one sibling against four, undue influence, holograph will cutting out most of the siblings, competing with an older will, a formal one, where the shares are equal.”
Adam nodded appreciatively. “Nice fees, if the estate’s got the cash.”
“It does,” I said. We chatted for a bit, and then sat there in silence as we each did the last bit of prep for the cases we had that day, making notes, reading documents and drinking coffee. My alarm dinged just before ten, and I made my way to the examination room, and Mrs. Bristle, the teacher who’d greatly disliked the grade nine version of Calledinthe90s. I was curious to see if she would like the older version any better.
* * *
The examination started, and Mrs. Bristle and I sparred for a while, me tossing vague questions her way, and criticizing her when she did not understand. I kept her on the defensive for close to three hours, until it was getting on to one p.m.
“Aren’t you in a conflict or something?” she said to me just before the lunch break, when she’d finally made the connection, and understood that the lawyer asking her questions was a former student.
“No conflict,” I said, dismissing her concerns with a wave of my hand. “During the lunch break, there’s something I need you to do.”
“I don’t want to answer questions during lunch. I need a break.” The examination had been rough on Mrs. Bristle. She was not used to being asked questions, to being held to account, to being constantly challenged, and even having her grammar corrected now and again.
“You’ll get your lunch break. But while you’re eating a sandwich or whatever, keep this copy of the holograph will next to you.” The will on which Mrs. Bristle’s case relied was a holograph will, meaning that Mrs. Bristle’s mother had written the will entirely in hand from start to finish. The mother, or more likely, Mrs. Bristle herself, had downloaded a holograph will form from the web, and had completed it in accordance with the website’s instructions. Holograph wills are special. You can do a holograph will without a witness, without a lawyer, without anything at all, so long as you did it right. But if you got anything wrong, if you messed up in any way, it was invalid.
“You want me to read the will again over lunch?” Mrs. Bristle said.
“No. Instead, I want you to make a handwritten copy of it.”
“You want me to write it out? Whatever for?”
“There’s an allegation that the will wasn’t written by your mother, and that you wrote it up instead.” An allegation that I’d made up myself, that morning, while I was sitting in the lawyer's lounge, drinking coffee and munching on a muffin. My clients had not challenged the will’s handwriting; it was obviously their mother’s, totally different from Mrs. Bristle’s own writing. But I had decided otherwise.
Mrs. Bristle was appropriately outraged at being unjustly accused of forgery. Said she could prove it wasn’t her handwriting, could absolutely prove it.
“Then let’s settle the forgery issue once and for all,” I said, “write out the will in your own hand, so that our document experts can examine it, compare it with the original, and make a determination.”
“I don’t need the entire lunch break for that,” Mrs. Bristle said, “and I’d rather eat lunch at the restaurant downstairs.” The will was barely a page long, at most three hundred words, that being all it took for the mother to allegedly disinherit most of her children, and inexplicably leave everything to Mrs. Bristle. The mother had written up the will herself, but she’d been ninety at the time, while living in Mrs. Bristle’s house, and very much under her influence.
“I’ve retained five different experts,” I said, “and each of them will need copies.”
“Five experts? Why so many experts?”
“Each expert needs ten samples, for comparison purposes. It’s going to take you a while, Mrs. Bristle. I suggest you get started.” I overrode her protests and once she started to write, I left her in the room, and went to the lawyer’s lounge to eat their small sandwiches and drink more of the excellent coffee. After a while I stopped by the examination room to look in on Mrs. Bristle. I wanted to check in on her progress.
Mrs. Bristle asked for more time, complained of writer’s cramp, and asked me again if it was really necessary for her to write out the holograph will fifty times in her own hand, and I assured her that there was nothing for it, that it was absolutely necessary. I returned to the lounge to check my emails, leaving her hard at the homework I’d given her.
After a while my colleague, Adam, popped into the lounge. He asked me how it was going, the examination with the teacher, the teacher who had treated me so badly.
“I’m making her write lines.” Adam laughed, and laughed harder when I explained that I wasn’t kidding, that I really was making Mrs. Bristle write lines, and how I was doing it. His laughter attracted attention, and a few other lawyers asked what was up. “He’s making his teacher witness write lines,” Adam said, and the lawyer’s lounge hooted with laughter when I told everyone what was up.
It was one of the pettiest things I’ve ever done to anyone, making my grade nine teacher write lines. But the writing lines thing was just a warmup. The real revenge had yet to come. I returned to the examination room after a while, to check up on Mrs. Bristle, see how she was doing.
“This is taking forever,” she said, “and I really don’t get why you need it.” She had writer’s cramp, and was shaking her hand to get the kinks out. I picked up the stack of holograph wills she’d created, and flipped through it. She was nowhere near finished.
“On second thought,” I said, “maybe it isn’t necessary. I think you’re right. I don’t need any handwriting samples from you.”
“Why not?” she said.
“The will is invalid,” I explained, adding that because her mother had used a pre-printed form off the web, the law would not recognize the will. “A holograph will has to be entirely in the testator's handwriting,” I explained, “every single word entirely in handwriting from start to finish. This will doesn’t qualify, because your mother used a standard form, a form printed off the web, with instructions and boxes and questions and so on, and when you do that, then the will is no longer a holograph will. It’s a regular will, and regular wills need to be properly witnessed. This one isn’t witnessed, and that means it’s not a will. It’s just a piece of paper.”
“Are you trying to tell me that you only figured that out now? What kind of lawyer are you, anyways?”
“What kind of lawyer am I? I’m a lawyer who makes a witness skip lunch, and sit in a small room all alone, and write lines. Sound familiar, Mrs. Bristle?” She said nothing, and just stared at me. I closed the door on her, leaving her alone once more, and left for the Middle Temple Tavern where the lawyers all hung out. It was time to hoist a Guinness and enjoy my petty triumph.

TLDR: Shooting a very close friends wedding NEXT WEEK! Never shot one before, it will be small (around 20 guests) and he wants it to have an 'intimate feel'. ANY tips? Or recommendations of YouTubers to binge watch in the short time I have to prep would be an amazing help!! Thank you!
Hi All!
I'm a lifelong hobby photographer, recently made the change from Automotive to people having moved to the country where the car scene is virtually non existent. For the past couple of months I've been shooting couples/portraits to build somewhat of a portfolio and gain confidence before I delve into engagements and eventually weddings.
A friend of mine knows about this, is very supportive (sent a few couples my way to get a shoot done), and initially asked me to cover their wedding. I turned them down as I didn't feel comfortable covering a close friend's wedding when I haven't even shadowed a seasoned photographer yet, and the risk of messing up my friends special day made me nervous.
He ended up going with an acquaintance of his who has now dropped out at the very last moment (The wedding is next week!), and understandably stressed my friend asked again if I could do their wedding, saying he trusts I'll get photos he likes (We used to shoot street photos together and we like each others style).
Long story short, I feel like I can produce 'good' images, but there's a reason I wanted to wait a lot longer before doing weddings, and having my first time, when I'm not experienced, be a close friend is stressing me out!
So I'm here for any kind of tips you guys can offer, how to plan my day and what key shots I absolutely CANNOT miss (And how to prepare for them!), or any recommendations on YouTubers I could learn from in the short time I have.
As for equipment, I've got a single Canon R6mk2 (Part of wanting to wait was to buy a second body before I shot such an important day), a 16 2.8, a 50 1.8 and a 85 f2. I also have two goddox flashguns w/ trigger, stands and boxes. I'm not planning to use the lighting, but it'll be going with me on the day incase we end up taking any portraits etc indoors due to weather (Low chance of rain).
So yeah, that's about it, thank you for reading this stress essay, and any help you can offer would be amazing!

Me and my gf(Mus) are in long term relationship. I’m unable to make her understand it’s not right to go deep into this shit since we are from different religions it would affect our relationship. However we got into arguments tonight and now she’s at a point no matter what it says she’s 100% into Islam. When she said I have to redo all religions, I said okay fair enough- but give me one answer “Does Islam says the same thing? Does it says you guys have to treat everyone equally “ and she instead of answering are beating around the bush.
Now she says I won’t answer but I’ll show you translation screenshots which will be as proof.
Than I said I’ll share you the screenshots and translations from Quran that’s not respectful or see’s all humans equally and she has to accept.
Can someone give me a “genuine” source that she can’t reject the source but the Quran is wrong.
Thanks in advance for your help!!

**Sorry for the lengthy post in advance*\*
My car was sideswiped on the right side on May 7th. I was driving straight when the other Driver tried to merge into traffic after being stopped beside a yellow curb. Somehow the other Driver didn't see me as she went to pull forward and she hit my car hard enough to take her front bumper almost clean off (was still hanging just barely on the right side) and my right side passenger door will no longer open, giant gash all the way down the right side of my vehicle. I called the police, took photos of the scene (had to move my car because it was hindering traffic directly, cars were lining up), and gave a statement to the officer. He checked both drivers for "suspected at fault" on the police report, but in his narrative, he clearly stated that the other driver "Unit 2" was determined to be at fault. This is where things started getting difficult..
Accident happened on Tuesday 5/7. I called the police immediately, my insurance, took photos, provided them to both insurance parties- everything I was supposed to do on day one. Meanwhile, two days go by before the at-fault driver makes contact with their insurance at all. I had called Wednesday and Thursday to find out if their insurance had heard anything from the driver- nothing. Finally, Friday 5/10, after I'd been called them early that morning and left a voicemail, their insurance calls me back around 5:00PM (you know, when everything's basically closing for the weekend.) I'm told by an agent assisting with my claim (not the agent who was handling it "directly") that there was nothing they could do because "The police report shows you to be at fault" (he was reading an ACCIDENT INFORMATION FORM and NOT a **POLICE REPORT**) and that he'd spoken to their insured driver "yesterday" about it. Well, awesome, they let a whole two days go by without telling me they'd heard from their insured while I'm having to cancel plans to pick up my Mother for Mother's day that weekend (she's 75 and I frequently drive 8 hour long trips to pick her up for family events. My passenger door again won't open and she can't ride in the backseats.) I managed to get in contact with the police department customer service line just before they closed for the weekend and they informed me that the **police report** hadn't even been completed yet, that it wouldn't be released until the following Monday lol. So, the genius who told me that they had a **police report** screwed up because they in fact **didn't have one yet**, and didn't know wtf documentation he was even looking at, which seems extremely unprofessional at best and in bad faith at worst. Either way, not good to tell me they have official documentation when they don't.
So, Monday morning rolls along, 5/13. I call in and get the **actual** police report from police customer service. It shows myself and the other driver "Unit 2" to be at fault, both of our names checked for "suspect at fault" but in the narrative it clearly states "Unit 2 determined to be at fault but not cited." I send this to their insurance. They call me the next day, Tuesday, and come at me with a double standard about the report. They claim that because the officer was not there, that they cannot go off of his narrative as proof... but they can take his word on the two checked boxes where I'm "suspect at fault" along with their insured lol? Okay.. well, the officer **also** wasn't there to attest to either of us being qualified as "suspect at fault" because he didn't see anything. This is ridiculous, and I understand it's how things go with insurance, but lol. It's a clear double standard: take one part of the evidence to your benefit and leave the other part out. They told me since there was no video footage, I was out of luck. When I asked the adjuster to provide me with any proof they'd been given and a written statement about what story they'd been given by their insured, the adjuster got really rude with me and hung up on me and wouldn't return my call back. So, I called my insurance agent (I had reported the accident to her initially but told her I would be going through the at-fault's insurance, she said that's fine and my premiums will remain the same) and I informed her of all this just to be honest and keep her updated. By this time, I was also waiting on the police to get in touch with me about getting my police report amended to remove the check box showing I was "suspect at fault".
From Tuesday 5/14 to Thursday 5/16, I spend days calling the police, trying to get in touch with the officer who responded to the scene, keep getting told I'll hear back from him or a sergeant, nope. I go to 4 different police precincts and 2 different courthouse buildings TRYING to figure out who the hell I can get to just amend the report for me, each location pointing me somewhere else... I eventually speak to a sergeant who informs me he'll get the police report amending process "expedited" (still haven't heard back from him lol) and he tells me I might need to request approval for the footage from the county sheriff........... SO, after realizing I was basically on my own, realizing that my only recourse was that surveillance footage, I just went straight to the location where the accident happened outside of by myself (it actually was outside one of the courthouses I went to for information...) and they fucking handed me over a disc with the surveillance footage the following morning, Friday 5/17. No police escort needed, no court order, no county sheriff..! The woman working the front desk happened to also be outside when the accident happened on May 7th, and she remembered me and knew exactly what I was there for! I sent this video footage to my insurance agent and she said she would send the video file to the other insurance party herself and try to get the ball rolling for me about getting all of this settled.
Thank you for anyone that has read this far. This is my first time dealing with this kind of thing and it's been more leg work than I expected. I don't mean to come off as blunt to anyone reading, just trying to handle this as assertively as I need to not get myself ripped off by anyone, as I thought this would be a very straight forward proceeding and thought that the other driver was very clealy liable. At this point, what should I do to proceed? Does the other insurance company sound like they dropped the ball a few times or am I being too brash in thinking this? They basically lied or didn't know what they were telling me about when they stated prematurely that they had a police report, and let me go on indefinitely with bad information that I had to figure out on my own wasn't true. They had an entire department from another state handling my claim in the beginning that apparently wasn't "legally allowed" to handle my claim because of whatever red-tape explanation they gave me, I cannot recall.. but more time wasted. I know insurance agents get swamped, I understand you all work very hard, but I felt pretty disregarded by at-fault's insurance when I was trying to seek answers about their reasoning. It is now Tuesday 5/21 and I have yet to hear from their insurance, their website still says I am liable for the accident, and there's absolutely no way lol. They have the video, they've had to have watched it by now, it absolves me of any liability plain as day. I feel like they are still collating this information and sitting on their hands. At what point should I press for escalation of this issue? Should I hire a pro bono lawyer? Or should I just relax? I feel like the adjuster hanging up on me and trying to move forward with no explanation provided and just writing me as liable isn't right. I'm also out of work now for the past two weeks (I do rideshare and also help take care of my father in-home hospice care with my sister.)
Any advice is appreciated. I'm not trying to gouge anyone or upset anything, I just want to get compensated correctly and get this over this. I am very confident in that I am not liable, I have photos and video to back this up. I am just wondering how should I be handling the at-fault's insurance from here on?

I thought the day would never come that I’d finally get over the loss of my best friend. We were friends from 8 years old until 27. My marriage fell into shambles and my husband pushed us into non monogamous relationships. It was hell but my best friend comforted me through it. She even was encouraging as I connected with a man I never should have but when he and I were to meet at a hotel and spend a week together her religious conviction took precedence. She told me how she felt and I listened but obviously felt that since I was an adult it was my right to choose my own path but she however decided to go behind me and tell her mother so she would then tell my mother and blow my world apart. My mother didn’t speak to me for a month afterwards and we lived next door.
It took a lot to forgive her for shoving me out of a closet she knew I didn’t even want to be a part of and permanently damaging my relationship with my family but I did forgive her and I tried desperately to connect with her. I ended that romantic relationship and eventually my marriage and had a new life with a new man just the two of us and was picking up the pieces of my life.
But all she did was leave me on read. Never answered. I was there for her grandfathers funeral still but finally I needed an answer. It had been two years since she decided for religious reasons to implode my life and outside of her grandfathers death she’d ignored me.
So I reached out and this was her reply:
JAN 27, 2021 AT 4:12 AM Me: Hey can I ask you something JAN 27, 2021 AT 8:09 PM Me: That answers my question then JAN 29, 2021 AT 2:06 AM Me: Do you still think of us as friends? JAN 29, 2021 AT 9:07 AM Me: If you don't I understand, I just want to know where I stand and I think any person deserves to hear that directly rather than just thru loss of connection. I did some things I'm not proud of and regret but you've never even given me the chance to tell you that. Every time l've tried to see you you've dodged the question entirely. I ended that ridiculous relationship a long time ago and straightened out my life. I wished I could have sat and talk to you face to face about all that but you've made it clear you didn't want to see me. So l just want a chance to tell you finally that the things I did that were wrong were almost immediately ended. I also want to know where I stand with you for real. If you don't want to be my friend anymore then l'll go but I deserve to hear that from you rather than assume it. JAN 29, 2021 AT 11:47 AM Me: I can see you're just going to leave me on read then. I will accept that as your answer and I'm sorry to see the 19 years we've had is over and even more so without an answer from you as to exactly why
15 days later FEB 12, 2021 AT 9:58 PM Her: My NAME, I'm sorry that l've only just been able to get back to you. I was very emotionally spent when you texted me because Sugar (her dog) has been in and out of the vet and ER for weeks for her health and I am very stressed with that. She is not doing well. I do believe that we are on very different life paths now. There is nothing wrong with life bringing change and I am very glad we had so many fun adventures together growing up, but, unfortunately, I don't recognize my childhood friend in the person I see you as now. I feel like it is best to move on and grow on our own separate paths. I wish only happiness and health for you and your family. I would like to apologize for not being more present during the times when you needed a good friend close by. I don't consider this a failed friendship. I wish you nothing but good for your future and I am sad to see it end in this way.
I didn’t have the words to reply to that message. She chalked up 19 years to “fun adventures”, we went to college together, she was my maid of honor, I was at the airport when she left the country for a year, she went with me and my family every summer to my grandmothers lake cabin. I tried many times after to contact her and was left on read until her father died then she needed me and I was there but after that I was back to being left on read and then after Sept 18 2021 she didn’t even read them anymore
On Dec 22nd 2022 I sent my final message which I then unsent and never tried again. I had been and would continue to regularly dream about her. Dreams of reconnecting finally but usually just about seeing her but she would not speak to or look at me. Those dreams haunted me and I just wanted them to stop.
I got married two months ago, I have my own place, I have custody of my son, I have a beautiful life that I fought through hell to get and I saw a post shared in another group this morning from someone completely left out of a girls trip and how broken hearted they felt. That was the first I’d even thought of my ex best friend since idk when. I realized then that I don’t think about her anymore.
So to my ex best friend I’d like to say, I don’t miss you anymore, outside of rare random updates from my mother who’s still kept at an arms length friendship with your mother I don’t even think about you anymore. I don’t wonder anymore if your husband got his visa or if you’ve decided to have a family. I don’t wonder if you got your own home or if your business ever took off. I don’t miss our yearly trips to my grandmothers lake cabin. I don’t wonder anymore why I was not even a part of your wedding when we were 26 when you’d been my maid of honor 4 years prior. You were the first person I called when I started contracting in labor with my son but he’s 8 now and doesn’t even know your name because I don’t speak about you anymore. I don’t care about you anymore and it doesn’t hurt anymore. I’m glad you’re not my friend any longer because you never truly were the friend to me I was to you. Yes there were many times you were not a “good friend” but I didn’t need a “good friend close by”. I needed my best friend and you were not there, not for much of the good or the bad unless I made the effort first. I look back now and can see how little there was to even really miss and I can thank you now for leaving my life. I’m glad you’re gone.
I have healed from you.

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Sorry that this is so long.
Tldr: My boyfriend is extremely insecure about several topics and I'm afraid it'll destroy our relationship.
My (F21) boyfriend (M21) of a few weeks is very insecure and I have a feeling I am making it worse. When I first pursued him he actually accidentally rejected me due to insecurity because he couldn't imagine a woman like me would ever be interested in a man like him (so he thought I was making fun of him). I made it more clear that I really want him and now we're together but I know that he's feeling super insecure. When we kiss he oftentimes opens his eyes after and mutters something like "I can't believe you actually like me" or "I don't know what I've done to deserve you" and a few days ago I found him crying because according to him he doesn't deserve me and I'm apparently to good for him, which I don't get. I wanted him first. Still, I'm scared that this insecurity will destroy our relationship again and it's really not healthy at all so I want to help him get over it. I told him even though I like him no matter what that if he feels like he doesn't deserve me he can try to become a guy who he thinks he deserves me but I don't know if that was too harsh so I might have to try another approach .
From what I've gathered there are 4 main areas of insecurity for him. 1. Our social circles, 2. Our grades, 3. Our looks and 4. The romantic attention we get/our experience.

1. Our social circles: He is a pretty nerdy guy who is introverted to the point where I'm suspecting him to have social anxiety. He especially struggles talking to women. I'm pretty sure he was only able to talk to me since did most of the heavy lifting in terms of our early conversations and never stopped trying to get to know him. He has a small group of close-knit friends who he cares a lot about. They're like brothers which is really cute to me. The problem is that outside of that group of friends he is definitely less than popular, I think because he is socially awkward like that with a pretty peculiar sense of humour, which I like however.

My social life looks very different. I'm just as nerdy as him behind closed doors but since I had a pretty massive glow up people don't expect that from me. I'm fact outwardly I'm definitely someone in the popular crowd and I gotta admit- I got a pretty big social circle with four groups of friends, two of which are really close as well and I'm basically the centre of.
Whenever he and I are walking together and I have to greet someone again (which happens pretty often, especially on campus) he gets annoyed, especially when it's a guy. A little more than half of my group of friends are guys and I already made him aware that that's not gonna change since I've known most of them for years- still, he suspects almost every one of those to be interested in me which can be quite annoying. There have been some who confessed but that was before my boyfriend and I got together and I established clear boundaries with those. That's the first problem caused by insecurities.

1. grades and achievements: He is a smart man, a former gifted kid, It's a part of him that first caused me to be attracted to him, but the problem is- I as well was a gifted kid. We have lived very different lifes up to this point. He had a pretty relaxed upbringing while I spent my time growing up in debate competitions, dance competitions and participating in youth politics since my parents wanted to prime me for success. I think he has just always been the smart kid and at the beginning he was fully convinced that he was way smarter than me because I asked him to explain things to me since I like to hear him explain and he didn't think that someone like me would be able to have intelligent thoughts or something which he admitted was stupid of him and just based on stereotypes. Now that we spend pretty much every second day together he knows that I actually have a better GPA than him and that I'm according to him "more gifted than him" (which partially has to do with me being on the spectrum) he doesn't openly say it but I know it bothers him. As a formerly gifted kid myself I know how much it hurts when someone is better than you when the thing you were growing up was always just the 'smart kid'. He said that he wants to work harder so he can take care of me sometime in the future but knowing him I know that's only half of the story. Just like he started going to the gym more because at the beginning of our relationship I was stronger than him (Years of competitive dance, martial arts and just being a gym girl). He now is stronger than me again but he still talks about how emasculated he felt because of it.
   
2. Our looks: I was told I have pretty privilege and I got to admit myself - after my glow up I definitely felt how different people treat me now and I get quite a lot of attention now to the point where it's uncomfortable, especially since before my glow up I definitely wasn't as conventionally attractive and was also treated as such. I think my boyfriend looks good. He is cute. His lips are pretty and heart shaped and his eyeshape and lashes are to die for. He doesn't see that though. I know he's not everyone's cup of tea. I gathered so much when I told other people that we're dating but he's my cup of tea so that shouldn't matter. Even his friends teased him about his looks in comparison to mine when he told them and when he told me- I swear I was ready to explode. I try to give him compliments about his looks but he doesn't know how to accept them. He says I'm the only one who'll ever compliment him this way anyway so what's the point. My boyfriend says that when he first saw me he thought I was the most beautiful woman he's ever seen which is why he couldn't believe why I would keep on talking to him. I think being with me makes his insecurities about his looks worse because according to him an 'ugly guy' like him doesn't deserve a girl like me. I think that's bullshit. There is way more to a relationship than looks and I think he's cute and way too harsh on his looks.
   
3. Our romantic experience and the attention we get.
   

I am his first. The first girl he kissed, his first date, his first time holding hands, his first in general. He told me that before we met again he had given up on love- concluded that it wasn't happening for him and that after his parents passed on he should just follow them- and then I showed up again and made it obvious how much I wanted him. I feel so honoured to be his first but not getting any attention before me took a real toll on his self perception I think. He says that I'm the only woman he'll have in this lifetime though. That if I don't work out he'll give up on dating which worries me.
I am the exact opposite. Sure I wasn't in a relationship before him, I also was still a virgin and also never kissed anyone willingly but I get attention. I get asked for my number on the streets or in uni, I get asked on dates and I also went on dates before. I just never felt it. Where he feels like he doesn't get seen by women I feel like I only get seen as a piece of meat, as a love interest, a manic pixie dream girl or a sex object by men. I had so many bad experiences with that just being treated like a normal person by him (partially because he thought he didn't have a chance anyway) had me falling head over heels for him.
He feels insecure about the attention I get however, especially if it'd be men he perceives to be good-looking, successful or simply cool. He often mentions that apparently there were several guys in the friend group we met in that wanted to pursue me and he feels bad for them that he's the one who got me because he's just a 'bastard' in his own words. I think this is another one of the things that bothers him the most based on how often he mentions it. Whenever he finds out that a guy we know ever was interested in me I never hear the end of it. I even was asked for my number while he was right next to me and while in a conversation with him which is not only mad disrespectful but also made him really angry and caused his insecurities to skyrocket. I feel really sorry to make him insecure that way but I really can't control it. He also likes when I get really dressed up for dates and I like that too but whenever he sees the stares I get from men he seems to regret it.
All in all he seems to put me on a pedestal and seems to compare himself to not only me but also other men in my life though I don't want them. I only want him. He says it's suspicious how little is wrong with me, that I'm too good but that's not true. I'm possessive (which I'm working on), at least as competitive as him, all of the social skills he admires so much in me I trained myself to have since I'm pretty much lost in social situations. I can be quite clumsy and scatterbrained sometimes and when I get to talk about my special interests I won't stop for hours. I was training for discipline from a young age to the point where I sometimes don't sleep or eat enough to manage to do everything I planned. I am a perfectionist to an unhealthy degree and sometimes I feel like a robot who just has to function no matter what. I tried to show him, tell him all my flaws but no matter what he doesn't see them as flaws.
He for example sees all of the achievements, the medals my perfectionism brought me but not that I lost so much sleep and ate so little for extended periods of time when I was little that I just stopped growing.
I try to show him that I really like him. He is smart, witty, funny and even though he tries to hide it incredibly kind. He takes care of his friends, family and now me. I feel so safe around him and ...just like myself. I try to tell him that. I try to give him gifts, I try to spend as much time as possible with him and take care of him. Whenever he expresses his boundaries I try to comply (for example he dislikes when I show my cleavage when he isn't around so I stopped) but I feel like that's no use as long as that little voice in his head tells him that he's not enough and that he doesn't deserve me.
I just don't know what to do so that he finally sees himself the way I see him- a person who of course has flaws but is beautiful and kind and a person who deserves to be loved and I'm pretty sure I love.
Thank you for any advice. (And sorry for my English. English is actually my fourth language so I'm not as articulate in it as I would like)

I took a screen recording, but it appears I can't put videos here.
For months I have been unable to downvote anything. When I refresh, the number of upvotes on the comment returns to whatever it was before I downvoted, and if I remove my downvote, it temporarily shows as having one upvote added to the total, only to return to the original number once the page has been reloaded. What could have caused this? I only downvote things when necessary (such as people giving bad/harmful advice on posts asking for help), so I'm a bit confused :,) anything would help! Thank you!
Edit to add an example from my own tests.
Let's say a comment has 1 upvote. I downvote it, and it shows 0 votes. I refresh, and it's back to 1 upvote, but my downvote button is still colored. I remove my downvote; it shows 1 upvote. I add an upvote; it shows 2 upvotes. I refresh, and it shows 1 upvote again. I remove my upvote and it shows 0 upvotes, only for it to show 1 upvote upon refreshing. None of my votes, positive or negative, are registering.