u/CrowLogical7

Nurses, doctors, paramedics, guards, police officers, surgeons.

As someone who's had to be hospitalized multiple times I have no idea how you can be so patient and considerate. I mean I don't tend to be that difficult of a patient myself, but you don't tend to get that much privacy in a hospital. Unless your roommate is deaf or something.

Otherwise you sometimes hear a patient who's either high or has dementia shouting all the time and both the nurses and police officers just responding calmly to them. How the fuck are you keeping composed like that. I mean thank you, but HOW.

I tend to label myself as asexual when voluntarily celibate might be more accurate. I'm a mega introvert who isn't generally that interested in having sex, but putting it as "asexual" will make people more likely to just go "okay, sexual orientation, not a choice" while going "celibate" is more likely to make people wonder why. Am I religious and waiting to get married, am I a prude, is there something so wrong with me that I can't get anyone's interest.

I do tend to tell people that I'm vegetarian pretty early on in relationships (I'm talking any kind, friends, coworkers, not just romantic) because while I'm not that picky about what I eat there are restaurants out there that do not cater to vegetarians or vegans at all. I'll take the salad or the fries, I don't need anything fancy, but at some places these automatically come with parmesan, which usually is not vegetarian. When I say this I tend to feel like I'm virtue signalling or something, when that's not it at all.

I also have a buzzcut, wear casual, and don't do either shaving or make-up. This can come across as me being either a lesbian or non-binary. I live in a very liberal city, so this isn't exactly an issue, but it just feels weird to me to be judged based on something I'm not (even if it's not negative).

I also have a couple of medical conditions that have become more of an issue recently. If I get together with friends I'd rather keep things lighter, have fun, not trauma dump, but I've had enough incidents recently where I committed to something and then just didn't show up without even a last minute warning. So I've been feeling more of a need to explain, but I still don't know how to do this without either underplaying or exaggerating it.

Receptionist: I am so sorry to cancel last minute, but something personal came up for him, so would you be okay with rescheduling to next Monday?

Me, looking at the timing of the message, then looking at my calendar, then looking at what time it is now: Fuck, I did have this appointment scheduled for 8:00am and the message was sent at 7:58am, and it is now...10:37am, and I am just waking up.

Me: Oh, no worries at all, I totally get it, I can do next Monday.

Receptionist: Thank you so much for being so understanding.

Me, to myself: Mhm. Me being understanding is totally it.

I set alarms for my appointments, okay? I do. I just seem to keep sleeping through them.

Anyway, what is your not so serious life problem?