literally my doctor handed me an article entitled “the urgent need to reduce sodium consumption” and was like “i want u to ignore everything in this article except the list of the highest-sodium foods on page 2. eat them.”

i’m not really doing the performative egotism thing anymore, in that that’s something you do when you talk to anyone other than the three people who are already totally in love with you

like, i’ll get to revisit it soon, because graduating/grad school necessarily means a new group of people to confuse impress acquire be used by and then winnow down to the 1-3 actually interesting & kind people who i will incorporate into myself and love forever, which is the inherent life cycle of entering a new space, but it’s just funny to notice that i’m no longer routinely making jokes that hinge entirely on explaining, with deep sincerity, that i’m a fascinating genius

uh not to be Boring and/or Presumptuously Prescriptive but like. this really very much sounds like the sort of thing you should talk to a doctor about if you haven’t??? i mean, if the validation is useful: this is very much not par for the course!!

hskdjf listen you’re completely right, as it happens i have been to the doctor but “UH SEEK HELP” is what i would describe as the “objectively correct” response to this situation

like, in my case my doctor was like “here’s prescription-strength aleve for the cramps! let us know if you’re still bleeding in a week and maybe we’ll try to fix that? also you have pcos which is why this is happening. have fun!”

rn i’m just sort of in the stage where i’m like “so…. listen….. i’m glad we know what’s going on now, but i still can’t, walk places, so…………..”

unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond my control (a very enthusiastically gender-affirming waiter repeatedly addressing me by the name written on the takeout order i was picking up), i now have the strongest positive gender associations with……. my roommate’s name