What made you unhappy today? v2.0

[V M]

The other thing that bothered me was feeling insulted by the peculiar assumptions and strange behavior of someone I consider a friend 

[Shantel]

The other thing that bothered me was feeling insulted by the peculiar assumptions and strange behavior of someone I consider a friend 

Maybe it's time to confront that person and find out what the problem is? Not everyone can do that, I am a confrontational type and it has paid to get to the truth.

[sigmafan]

I lost someone today that I had considered a friend years ago.  He plummeted to his death while with his friends just moments after getting some great news about not being homeless anymore.  RIP Andy Duke.

[V M]

Maybe it's time to confront that person and find out what the problem is? Not everyone can do that, I am a confrontational type and it has paid to get to the truth.

I'm not confrontational type, if hurting my feelings makes them feel big, that's their problem not mine

I lost someone today that I had considered a friend years ago.  He plummeted to his death while with his friends just moments after getting some great news about not being homeless anymore.  RIP Andy Duke.

Hugs sigmafan     Sorry for your loss

[big kim]

Hugs sigmafan,my Mum passed away yesterday on her 87th birthday.

[Saison Marguerite]

One of my croissants was too dry because it did not have enough butter on it.

[StellaB]

I'm not confrontational type, if hurting my feelings makes them feel big, that's their problem not mine

I understand you somewhat (personal conflict makes me physically ill) but that saying, friends aren't people who intentionally hurt your feelings. Sometimes you do have to make a point or confront an issue.

I'd also see their assumptions and behaviour more as a statement about them and their issues rather than about you. There's no need to accept responsibility for their issues.

Hope something happens which makes you feel better.

[Devlyn]

Sigmafan, Big Kim, I'm sorry about your losses. Big hugs, Devlyn

[Shantel]

I lost someone today that I had considered a friend years ago.  He plummeted to his death while with his friends just moments after getting some great news about not being homeless anymore.  RIP Andy Duke.

It's sad about Andy, ((Hugs)) we never know about what goes on in other people's minds and it's so traumatizing to everyone when a friend takes their own life.

[big kim]

Thanks Devlyn

[sigmafan]

It's sad about Andy, ((Hugs)) we never know about what goes on in other people's minds and it's so traumatizing to everyone when a friend takes their own life.

The report says that he was hiking with his friends at night around 1am and he slipped and fell 50 feet to his death.  At least he was doing something he loved with friends.  On another thread in which he was one of the main posters, the RIP thread is 7 pages long.  That just goes to show you how many people cared about him and how grief struck people were when he died unexpectedly.

[Shantel]

"Former Mouseketeer Annette Funicello dies!"

Oh this is heartbreaking! I used to run home from school as a kid so I could watch the Mickey Mouse Club and see her, I had a huge crush on that sweet little lady. 

[Saison Marguerite]

I go to see a friend only to have him be too busy and then I log on to my account here to realize that he changed my photograph and name and I don't know how to change it back 

[Adam (birkin)]

I go to see a friend only to have him be too busy and then I log on to my account here to realize that he changed my photograph and name and I don't know how to change it back 

That's what you get, Saison Marguerite. For saying "how do you say" before words you CLEARLY know how to say.

[StellaB]

The amount of people with almost total amnesia who have come out of the woodwork after the death of Margaret Thatcher telling everyone just what a great leader she was.

She harboured the right wing Chilean dictator Pinochet.

She refused to acknowledge the ANC and her support of apartheid delayed its downfall.

She set up a political ideology which villified the jobless and was totally indifferent to the struggles of the poor and sick.

She was hardly open to the LGBT community either.

Agreed that this was the death of somebody's mother and one of Britain's better politicians and for those two reasons alone she deserves to be mourned. I do not feel any joy or sense of celebration because somebody died.

However great leaders serve the people of a country and whether she intended it so or not, I'm sorry but she fell short of the mark.

[FTMDiaries]

I must start by saying that I'm saddened at the passing of Baroness Thatcher - the greatest peacetime British Prime Minister of the 20th C - and by the undignified behaviour of certain quarters of British society in response to her death. I'm deeply ashamed that there were people in my home town who took to the streets and actually partied on hearing of the passing of an 87-year-old grandmother.

Now on to what really upset me today: I went to my boss to talk to him about a business trip I need to make in a few weeks' time. It's a five-hour drive away so he suggested that I should leave really early in the morning to get there in time to do a full days' work. I wasn't happy about this because I just can't sleep the night before doing anything that isn't part of my routine. I have Asperger's which means I need my days to be predictable, otherwise I get huge levels of anxiety that stress me out & leave me with insomnia the night before. This is a problem for me whenever my routine is disrupted: I even struggle to sleep every Friday & Sunday due to the change from working week to weekend and vice versa.

So I said I'd prefer to leave the day before and stay there overnight so that I'll be fresh & ready for my early morning start, because otherwise I wouldn't get any sleep and would have trouble thinking straight. He said OK... but then 20 minutes later he confronted me in front of my colleagues and demanded I explain exactly why I would find it so difficult to sleep the night before.

So, in front of my colleagues, I had to humiliate myself by explaining once again the nature of my disability and how it affects my anxiety levels. He knows I'm disabled and I've told him many times before how difficult it is for me to cope when my routine is disrupted... but he forced me to humiliate myself anyway because he thought I was just taking the mickey & wanted an extra night's free hotel accommodation on his dime.

I'm sure there's a hashtag for this somewhere...

[Shantel]

I must start by saying that I'm saddened at the passing of Baroness Thatcher - the greatest peacetime British Prime Minister of the 20th C - and by the undignified behaviour of certain quarters of British society in response to her death. I'm deeply ashamed that there were people in my home town who took to the streets and actually partied on hearing of the passing of an 87-year-old grandmother.

She was a great lady and could hold her own in the male dominated parliament. I enjoyed videos of how she engaged naysayers, she was the mistress of smackdown and intelligent debate.

So, in front of my colleagues, I had to humiliate myself by explaining once again the nature of my disability and how it affects my anxiety levels. He knows I'm disabled and I've told him many times before how difficult it is for me to cope when my routine is disrupted... but he forced me to humiliate myself anyway because he thought I was just taking the mickey & wanted an extra night's free hotel accommodation on his dime.

I'm sure there's a hashtag for this somewhere...

He gets the award for being an insensitive dork!

[Jayne]

I've been trying to offer emotional support to many of the people in this hostel who are suffering depression & the thanks I got was to have my PSP & money stolen!
The PSP had pictures of an old dog who passed away & those pictures cannot be replaced.

In spite of this I still have my heart set on becoming a support worker to help people in this kind of situation (no home/depression/drug problems etc), i've just filled out an application for a training course & i'm in the process of trying to set up an all inclusive trans support group (FTM & MTF) for my home town & one of the support workers is trying to help with finding a venue & financial support for this.

[couch tater]

thinking about how sick and tired I am of looking in the mirror and seeing nothing but an ugly thing trying too hard to look like what they're not.

[Shantel]

thinking about how sick and tired I am of looking in the mirror and seeing nothing but an ugly thing trying too hard to look like what they're not.

You've got nothing to cry about Jaime, I'd trade faces with you any day and then you'd be bawling all the time. I just look and think to myself "Who's that ugly mf!"    Without humor there is only pain and tears.