u/Fireheart251

I really need someone to explain this to me, step by step, in as minute detail as possible, because I don't want to go to jail for tax evasion.

I started working a delivery job on Memorial Day. I read online something about 1099 workers needing to pay taxes quarterly because the employer doesn't take it out of your paycheck. I missed the June deadline but I had just started working so I didn't worry about that. Now we're in August and I'm trying to figure out how this works. I've only ever filed taxes twice in my life (very poor work history...) using freetaxusa.

I'm trying to figure out exactly HOW do I pay my taxes? Do I mail a check to someone? Is there a website I can pay online? Is there a form I'm supposed to fill out and email to someone? How do I know how much money to send? Can I go somewhere like HR Block and get this done for me instead? Like, literally, how do I pay these taxes. I have no idea... I am connected with a website called oforce.com, which is where I can review my employment information. There's a tab for a 1099 form but it says nothing is available, and that the form will show up once it is available. I don't know what this means. It's almost 3 months I'm working here, I figured it would've shown up by now. Not sure what to do. Freetaxusa asks me if I want to do a 1099R, 1099G, 1099NEC. I don't know the difference between any of these 😭 someone please help me.

I had my first "relationship" when I was 16, now I'm 31. I don't know if it's just because me and my partners were just not compatible or if it's just a me thing but I've always had so much insecurity around relationships, it makes my head hurt and my heart depressed. I think I may be autistic but I have had no diagnosis other than bipolar type 2 and social anxiety. My biggest problem is insecurity, I guess. I'm just always stressed out about whether the person likes me or not, why aren't they texting me? Should I text them? He's texting me too much. Should I call them? What would we talk about? He wants to hang out too much, we don't hang out enough. Is this outfit good enough? What will he think of me if I wear this low cut shirt, or these baggy pants? I haven't said anything in a while, he probably thinks I'm boring, he's probably thinking about other prettier better girls than me. How should I wear my hair? What if he doesn't like this hairstyle? I don't feel like talking today, but he's gonna think I'm not interested. Maybe I should just send a "hi" text to check in. Oh no, this is turning into a full on conversation, I'm not in the mood for a conversation, how do I get out of this.

My anxiety just gets kicked up to the extreme any time I'm in a relationship. I don't know how to stop this. For a long time I've been single, now met someone new. We're not dating, not in a relationship, but I'm interested in him and I think he's interested in me. We work together, so see each other at work. I cut my hours and I only work 2 days now because I'm about to start a better job so I won't be seeing him as much. I actually ended my last relationship over all these exact feelings, where I was just soooooo anxious about how to act around them, how to dress, what to say, that I just broke up because I couldn't handle the mental stress. A major problem is my NEETdom, I was isolated for years and only re-entered society at 27, I was agoraphobic and rarely left my house. But I've always had dreams of starting a family and living a "normal" life, but my life has taken such an unexpected turn and I've such little development as a person, I don't even know where to start. I don't know how to navigate friendship, nor relationships. Even when I was younger and had friends I had these same feelings. I always felt like I had to perform for friends. Look a certain way, because people expected certain things of me. When I acted different or dressed differently, people are asking me "why are you doing that? why do you look like that?" People always called me quiet, asked me "how come you never talk?" I've always had difficulty with conversation and connecting with people. None of these things come naturally to me. And I'm always so focused on myself. I want to be confident in who I am and my thoughts and opinions but I guess I'm such a people pleaser, I always want people to like me and to say the right thing but there is no right thing to say or do, so I'm just left paralyzed by the endless options. I thought I had mostly conquered this anxiety but whenever I try to build a connection with someone, these feelings always come back. I place so much value on everyone who comes into my life, because I'm so desperately lonely and don't want people to leave and I hardly ever meet new people, I will change myself to keep them around. Problem is, I usually don't know the kind of person they would like so I don't know how to change myself, and so I start acting like how I think they would want to be interacted with, if that makes sense, but it usually still never works. All these years on this planet and I haven't found my people or even been able to feel comfortable in my own skin.

I just wish someone could assure me that I'm doing things right, that I'm saying the right things but no one ever tells me, so I don't know if I'm doing good or not. They smile in my face but leave me on read when I try to text them later to catch up. It's so confusing, I don't understand people. And I hate myself for just not being able to be normal and interact with people like it's not a big deal. I don't know why I put so much stake into everything. Well, I do know why. I mentioned it earlier, it's because I've been alone for years and just want someone who won't run away, but I don't know how to keep them around. I know there's nothing I can do, and people will come and go all the time. I know logically, but this is mentally damaging to me, I can't keep going through this hurt, this emotional rollercoaster up and down all the time. My brain feels tired after a while and then I retreat to substances like alcohol because it makes my brain shut down, and everything feels calm and stable for a little while. I wish I wasn't afraid to say things on my mind, or do things when I feel like doing them. I wish other people would be honest and tell me what they're actually feeling instead of making me guess or assume. I wish I was just confident in myself, but given my past I don't have anything to feel confident about. Even in the present I don't have anything going on really. I feel inadequate to everyone around me. I guess all those dreams of having a girls trip with my besties or having a happily ever after with the love of my life like a Hallmark movie, will only ever be dreams. :/

Within the last few years I've been able to break out of my agoraphobia and social anxiety, and I can go outside easier now, speaking to people has also become easier. I am a neet. I am 31 and have pretty much never worked a job because of fear of going outside and being seen by others because I hated my appearance so much. I had "accepted" what I look like, only because I didn't have a choice, but I still fantasize on occasion. But just now I had a thought, "oh yeah, you can use AI to photoshop images, can't you?" So I opened up chatgpt, submitted a photo of myself and told it to correct the deficit in my face, and oh my god. I look... so good. In the edited image I look like a real human being, not a deformed monster (like how i look in real life). Seeing how I could've looked if God had blessed me upon my birth has made me so sad all over again. I think about how I could have attained that look if only I worked. I needed money for cosmetic surgery but I needed a job to make money. I could never get a job because of my anxiety, so I just stayed stuck for years. Even if I start working now, with the way society and economy is going, how long would it even take me to save up that money? The surgery I need is one of, if not the most expensive available. Double jaw surgery. Minimum 30k, upwards of 50k for the procedure. Not a cheap rhinoplasty. It feels so unfair. Why did this have to happen to me? I could've had a great life. I'm 31, all my best years are behind me. Even if I did get the surgery, I wouldn't be able to live the life I wanted because those years are gone. From here on I'm just gonna get more wrinkles, body will deteriorate. But I still can't let this idea of surgery go. Even if it's just for one day, I want to feel completely comfortable and happy in my skin. I had thought of onlyfans because that's the only thing I can think of to make money quickly. Can't show my face though cuz it would turn people off. Maybe I can wear a mask? Or just crop my face out in videos. If I had access to drugs I would sell them to afford my surgery. I would do literally anything, even hurt people, if that meant it would lead to me being able to get surgery. I am sooooo desperate, I don't know what to do. I am currently in the process of getting an evaluation for mental health/autism so I can apply for disability. I just can't be apart of this society. Not with the way I look. I just can't accept this is my body and my life 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 anyway, I just had these thoughts running through my head and wanted to leave them somewhere since I have no one to talk to in real life (no friends). And my parents keep telling me i'm pretty but they have to say that, they're my parents. I wish they never had me. Mom should've aborted. I would've been better off that way. 😢.

I know about Normalize and Compression, but is there no simple way, like a slider to just lower and raise volume? I don't like how I have to open up a menu to change the volume, close it, then listen to the audio, realize it's not loud/quiet enough, then open the menu again and keep adjusting until it's good, like????? There's got to be a better way that I'm missing. OR if anybody could point me to another free recording app that's more intuitive, I'd like that too.

I'm trying to get me and my mom passports. She is 65 and doesn't know how to use computers so I have to do everything. I've never been married and am confused on what type of document she needs to bring for her passport appointment. Multiple websites are saying she needs a "certified marriage certificate". I don't know what that means. I was directed to the project cupid website to order one but I don't see anything about a certified certificate, just a regular certificate. Google Gemini AI is telling me that there's a "regular/souvenir" certificate, and a "certified" certificate. Other websites only explain the difference between a marriage license and a marriage certificate. Sooo, what is needed??? Is the certificate my mom already has enough, or does she need to get a new one? Websites say we need both the original document and a certified copy, that a photocopy will not be enough. How do we get the certified copy? Or is the original document actually a copy in the first place?

I helped my dad (from island country Dominica) renew his passport online in December 2025. The money has left the account. Within a few weeks he got the "temporary" passport thing, that can be used until he receives the real passport. Now we're all the way in May, 5 months and we still have not received it. I go on to https://passportstatus.state.gov/ and enter his information but it doesn't work. Nothing I type in works. I get the same "Status - Not Available" page every single time, even if I type in gibberish. So the website doesn't appear to be functioning. I'm kinda worried because my dad's country was put on some type of list of who to restrict entry from, I'm wondering if his delayed passport is related to that.

How long does it normally take to receive a passport renewal in the mail? This is not his first renewal, he has been here since 1982, but it is the first time that he renewed it online.