u/HappyValleySailorMon

I want to start trying THC gummies. However, I want to know what I would be getting into if I was to try it. I have anxiety and I've been recommended by friends that having a THC gummy every now and then to relax might do some good for me. I'm open to it, but I would like to ask people who have done it before as a first timer.

What is a recommended starting dose, I guess would be my first question. I've never tried using weed recreationally in any way. I am not intending to use the weed for medicinal purposes or as a coping mechanism. I just want to relax every now and then.

I hope I don't sound like a little kid trying to join the cool kids group. I'm just trying to figure out if this would be good for me.

UPDATE: Thank you guys for all of your help. It felt very validating and assuring to have people take things like my anxiety into account when giving me recommendations of what doses and what gummies would work the best for me. I knew I came to the right place. I will look into this during the week when I have time. Thank you for all of your help.

UPDATE 2: I went to a dispensary today. There is one across the street from my work building. After freaking out at the idea of one of my coworkers or one of my clients seeing me there, I went inside. The budtender was incredibly kind and helpful. I explained everything I told all of you and he recommended me on a starter pack of 2.5mg of THC in a pack of five pomegranate flavoured gummies. He recommended this one as the best for me and I bought it.

I usually just go with the voices from Weird Mysteries since they fit their personalities pretty well, but I'd love to see other peoples' feelings.

Most of my favourite childhood shows were from early 2000s Teletoon. It’s been 2026. I wanna know what’s going on in their future. I’ll go first for you lovely people, you all know Wayside was my shit— I think Miss Mush’s fortune came true and Todd becomes a teacher at Wayside. There you go, i contributed something for the gazebo of Wayside fans.

Also, once again, sorry for posting so much on here. This subreddit has just been such a blast for me to post in and it’s been getting me through a pretty hard time as of late.

Stay unreal, Teletooners.

I want to personally thank every one of you for the other night's thread of asking my opinion of various Canadian cartoons. Without sharing too many details, I was going through a very serious, depressing time and coming onto the subreddit and discussing the childhood channel I love was something that brought me great comfort and a smile for this week. For that, thank all of you. You're all so wonderfully wonderful people.

Let's play a new game tonight. Explain a Teletoon show as badly as possible and let's all try to guess which one you're talking about. Don't make it obvious, give everyone a real challenge.

Stay unreal, Teletooners.

I used to love Flying Rhino Junior High. I caught quite a few episodes where it would air on YTV Playtime. Does anybody remember YTV Playtime? I remember YTV Playtime.

Guys, there’s a phantom in the school and we know he’s in the school and we know his real name and we know why he’s doing this shit and yet we just… don’t try to find him? These dangon flying rhino kids just wanted problems, I swear.

And before you guys, “but then there’d be no show,” bro that’s fine. I would’ve taken Earl getting apprehended over 26 episodes of him getting salty. This man doing all this cause he got a D in shop class. Bro, just transfer to a new class??? Bro, D is a passing grade in Canada.

There’s always that one episode of a kids show that puts you in the feels. We’ve all had them.

I used to watch Wayside all the time as a kid everyday on Teletoon. My mom and I would sit together and watch it. My favourite joke as a kid was the GAZEBO gag where Mr. Kidswatter was so hyped about a gazebo until he realizes what it is. Just happened to come up on my feed as an adult and it was a post about how Todd is done so dirty. I was like “huh that can’t be what happened”

Holy fuck guys I don’t remember the fucking gaslighting and everybody trying to start something with Todd every episode. Literally one episode has him trying to be able to stay the full day cuz he always gets sent home on the kindergarten bus, so he writes her a report card requesting to be seen after class. Mrs. Jewls couldn’t handle this valid criticism and the whole class, who literally knows his issue with being sent home early, turn on him and fucking say “bro why you picking on her”

And then Todd and Mrs. Jewls ride the kindergarten bus together and Mrs. Jewls says “oh hell yeah you going home on this goblin dungeon every day for the rest of your school year”. I remember being so confused by that ending as a kid because even 8 year old me knew that was definitely not the solution lol

F in the chat for Todd. He was done so dirty.

I haven’t seen enough episodes to confirm. I doubt the books have the same lore as the cartoon. Did Todd like run over Mrs. Jewls’ mom or commit some kind of horrible war crime? I need to know, man.

I’m not sure if this is the right place to come for this post, but I cannot stop crying right now and I genuinely need assistance with this problem I have.

I’m sorry for the huge novel you’re about to read, but please understand.

A few things to note:

I’m 25 years old and have ADHD, specifically the inattentive kind, but I also have severe depression and anxiety. I’ve been in and out of therapy since I was a teenager and I am rarely able to afford it. I don’t have a proper support system in my life; I don’t like venting to my friends, my parents undermine and shrug off my problems, even though I have spending my whole time trying to get a shred of validation from them. I started working as a secretary at a doctor’s office fairly recently. Everybody there is friendly with me and assures me that I’m doing a good job, but I feel that the people I work the closest to me are frustrated by me.

There are two other secretaries who work with me; Gina and Tina (obviously not their real names). Gina is the one I switch with, but she mostly complains about the patients and doesn’t really do her job very well. Tina is a good teacher, but I am never working the same days she is, depriving me of a proper training session. Gina took a leave of absence, so Tina and I have been working together. Tina pointed out a lot of big mistakes I made and I started to cry. Not bawling, but tears in eyes. She was really thrown off and thought she was being mean to me. But I kept assuring her that she did nothing wrong but that I feel afraid of being fired. She told me that I should feel happy to work there because they chose me, but I feel that they will get rid of me as quickly as they chose me.

My ADHD means that I cannot be thrown off when in the middle of a task or else I will be distracted. For example, if I am billing to someone’s insurance (Task A) and then the debit machine goes down and needs rebooting (task B) and the phone rings (Task C), they need to be done one at a time or else I will get really stressed. Mind you, I’m not saying that I cannot do these things; I have gotten better with multi-tasking, but I end up pretty wiped out or stressed. I’m just not used to doing so much at once, especially when everyone has an expectation that I need to do things. I need to write down every single thing I am doing or else I will not remember to do it. Alternatively, I need it when explaining things to coworkers as well because sometimes I don’t know what I need to tell them until it’s too late.

And before you guys post that maybe this job is not for me, I cannot mentally handle that. I love this job, I am good at this job, I can literally do this job like everyone else, but it is doing all these tasks at once, some of which haven’t even been taught to me before, that is making it difficult. I know how to talk on the phone, how to send emails, how to check in on patients’ files, etc. all of that is good, it’s managing multiple tasks at once that is difficult. It causes me to move very slow and end my shift way past when I am supposed to be gone.

As with any jobs here, I begin on a three month probation to see if they want to keep me around. I was rushed into being hired as they were in desperate need of a secretary. I don’t know how to tell my boss (who I think has ADHD himself based on his tendency to forget everything I ask him and being a pretty disorganized guy) that one month into probation, I am still struggling with the job. I’ve been there since August 7th, coming in maybe three times a week to work. I didn’t tell them upfront that I had ADHD, even though they told me they were incredibly accommodating toward my other medical problems. I am not sure why I didn’t communicate this. Growing up, I have always minimized how much my ADHD affected my ability to do certain, laborious tasks because I was invalidated throughout my life and made to believe that I was “being lazy” by my parents. I never knew what was me being lazy versus having a legitimate disorder. I was hired and told I would be doing paid training, but I have been sat at the desk on my own with maybe like one or two quick lessons on the basics and expected to learn on my own with some instructions about how to do some stuff. But there are things I haven’t been taught to do and I end up having to bother my boss (who is the doctor) and my coworkers outside of the clock to understand things.

I’ve always struggled with keeping things organized from a very young age. The electronic medical software we use is new to me and while I study and listen to the instructions of my coworkers. sometimes find that it takes me a while to do tasks like booking appointments for patients or getting the closing tasks done. I can tell that my coworkers and my boss are starting to get a bit annoyed with me. I am a month into my probation and I do not believe I will stay. Sometimes, patients make jokes about me not knowing things. Everyone tells me that I am doing okay, but I find that I forget how to do things like how to use the copy machine or how to price something, etc. and I need to be rescued by my coworkers.

This is not the first time I’ve been let go from a job because I couldn’t meet the tasks fast enough. I don’t know what I should do. I can’t tell them now; they’ll be so mad. I don’t know how to have that conversation. I cannot afford to lose this job and I am horrified at the idea of losing it and having to explain to all the unsupportive, shitty people in my life that I failed. I keep not understanding things and being scared to ask for help because I don’t want them to be mad that I don’t understand.

Today, I left the office in tears bawling my eyes out in the elevator. I was given attitude today by a woman because I was trying to enforce our policy with credit cards and she kept refusing to give it to me despite me literally explaining it to her 5 times and then she got me in trouble with my boss. Then a man interrupted me while I was on the line with customer service for an insurance claim I had to reverse for my co-worker because ThE rOoM iS diRTy FiX iT iDIOT. Then I get a text message (it was cordial, I don’t think my boss was mean) from my boss saying that he basically wasn’t happy I had been staying late finishing up tasks that should’ve been done a while before my shift ends and that I need to leave when my shift ends. He said that if I am struggling with closing, that we can go through it together, but I’m scared of explaining this problem to him.

For starters, I don’t think he will be accommodating. I have had bosses in the past show support for me, but only having a very vague understanding of the disability and not actually doing anything. I am afraid he will either tell me that this job is not for me anymore or he will forget to accommodate me or he will be upset that I didn’t tell him before. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do here; I don’t want to be fired. Am I overreacting? Am I assuming things after a month in? How can I start that conversation with him?

I can do this job, I can. It’s just that I don’t know what to do right now. I have sent off a message to my boss, requesting that we have a talk about my job performance. But with how upset I am right now, I am afraid that I will just bawl my eyes out the whole time and he will not like this.

Please help me.

I just began working as a receptionist. I’ve been there since the 7th, coming in maybe three times a week to work. I didn’t tell them upfront that I had ADHD, even though they told me they were incredibly accommodating toward my other medical problems. I am not sure why I didn’t communicate this. Growing up, I have always minimized how much my ADHD affected my ability to do certain, laborious tasks because I was invalidated throughout my life and made to believe that I was “being lazy.”

I was hired and told I would be doing paid training, but I have been sat at the desk on my own and expected to learn on my own with some instructions about how to do some stuff. But there are things I haven’t been taught to do and I end up having to bother my boss (who is the doctor) and my coworkers outside of the clock to understand things.

I’ve always struggled with keeping things organized from a very young age. The electronic medical software we use is new to me and while I study and listen to the instructions of my coworkers. sometimes find that it takes me a while to do tasks like booking appointments for patients or getting the closing tasks done. I can tell that my coworkers and my boss are starting to get a bit annoyed with me. I am a month into my probation and I do not believe I will stay. Sometimes, patients make jokes about me not knowing things. Everyone tells me that I am doing okay, but I find that I forget how to do things like how to use the copy machine or how to price something, etc. and I need to be rescued by my coworkers.

This is not the first time I’ve been let go from a job because I couldn’t meet the tasks fast enough. I don’t know what I should do. I can’t tell them now; they’ll be so mad. I don’t know how to have that conversation. Can somebody tell me what I should do?

Should I tell the boss first? Or the hiring coordinator who works with us has been handling relaying information like my accommodations and my feedback? I don’t know who to talk to.