u/SweetResort

I saw a light blinking under a flag from afar at Holden Beach, NC (not sure if the location/context is useful information). It was 5 short 3 long over and over. When I looked up Morse code, it would apparently mean 5o5o5o5o, and so on. Which isn't a word obviously but also doesn't seem to mean anything according to the results on Google. I'm so curious and also a bit worried that it means something happened (I know the standard emergency signal is sos and is 3 short 3 long 3 short so this would mean something else).

Took an edible, same brand, same batch, but this time was different. At about the 1 hour mark, I started noticing that my body felt more floaty than usual. Very noticable. Then, I realized I couldn't feel any of my body against the bed.

I thought it was numbness, until I felt my legs and could feel myself touching them, but the sensation was very dimmed. I could barely feel pain even. I slapped my leg and it mostly just felt like a strong sensory input that is just under the level of pain, I pinched myself and I could slightly feel the pain but barely.

I basically could feel dulled sensation if I touched myself somewhere but otherwise I was numb to my physical environment. Only other thing I could feel was my steps when walking and me laying back down on the bed, again dulled. Has anybody else experienced this?

I'm assuming it's probably just because my edible was made incorrectly with more mgs than the rest, because I felt higher much sooner too. But mannnn was it weird.

Edit: Thankfully it didn't freak me out and ruin my high, it was just intriguing and strange so I thought I'd share.

So I have an Insta account that is used to educate people about things related to disability and chronic illness, and I have a post I am planning to make that relates to the North Carolina hemp ban that might happen soon/how thar would affect people who use the stuff with THC and not just CBD, etc. medicinally.

The issue is, I'm trying to word the post in such a way that is both accessible to people with different disabilities including neurodivergent people who might get confused by alternative text like h3mp and emojis like 🍃💨 as well as needing to cater to people who are visually impaired and use accessible screen reading features (ex. h3mp would be weird for text to speech to read aloud and might confuse people)

I am unsure whether I can just outright use the word hemp. I know that words like weed, marijuana, and cannabis can heighten the risk of my account getting banned.

TLDR: Checking what words won't get my insta account banned when making a post about how the North Carolina hemp ban would affect people who use the stuff with THC medicinally.

Edit: I guess I misunderstood the mechanism of the unconciosness with the seizures and these count as dissociative seizures. Main point is that I thought I could stop these episodes if I tried and just deal with the uncomfortable situations in life and find ways to get back in touch with reality in those moments and later on i realized this wasn't my fault but an actual condition that is neuropsychiatric and not just "putting things on".

Many reasons that it took me a while to accept that this was not my fault and I was not just faking to avoid things. My life story made it way harder to realize I truly had this disorder.

I was born with an extremely rare genetic condition that affects my first chromosome, and I've always had weird random health issues. Mostly minor, but because I had a genetic condition that very little is known about, I always was extra worried and felt like a hyoocondirac.

When I was first diagnosed with FND, I coincidentally was working with people with disabilities at a summer camp. And before that) still to this day, as I'm autistic and have special interests, I've always been extra curious about the human body, brain, etc. and disorders, specifically neurological and psychological.

Ontop of all that, my mom used to use a wheelchair for long distances due to a huge multiple sclerosis flare up so we had one in the shed and I liked to roll around in it when I was little in the backyard because it was fun to get around in a different way than I was used to. Normal kid curiousity.

Finally, as an anxious person, whenever I was in a situation that was even remotely uncomfortable, embarrassing, or scary, my instinct was "freeze" as well as minor dissociation. I also am very exercise intolerant due to POTS which I didn't realize I had until after high school. And I always wished I could find ways to get out of PE, and chores that required heavy lifting.

You can probably see why when I developed non epileptic seizures, episodic speech loss, and episodic leg weakness/paralysis why my first thoughts were "oh I must be faking to get out of responsibilities". Even though I couldn't help it. It just happened. Heck, even when my seizures caused loss of consciousness, I thought it was just more a severe level of dissociation and that I was still putting the seizure on which in turn caused the dissociation because I couldn't handle stress.

I'm hoping to go to blue ridge pride this year. I've never been. I'm an ambulatory wheelchair user who has episodic weakness, so worst case I'll figure something out, but I'm curious how flat/wheelchair accessible packs square park is since that's where it's held.

If I were to get the vive wheelchair from Amazon as a travel chair so that I can protect my quality custom chair and use that instead when flying, would it fit folded in the wheelchair cabinet that's in the cabin so that there's no risk of breakage in the bottom of the plane? I usually fly Aliegent airlines which has slightly smaller wheelchair storage I've heard. Just trying to find a way to have a semi-quality chair that feels at least sort of like a rigid chair while traveling so I can be as independent as possible.

I can't figure out if the Spinlife measurement options for the Comfort Unite 1 Back are height or width (on the Tilite Z page). I'm guessing it's height but I want to be absolutely sure before I apply for the grant. I don't want the backrest to be the wrong width and not fit my chair.