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So, this week I finally gathered the courage to tell them. It's been more than a year since I've been aware of my own plurality. It has had its ups and downs, but I wouldn't trade it for the world. We've went from believing we were an endogenic system, to traumagenic, to mixed origins. Nowadays we couldn't care less about origins, to be honest.

So, we told them. I (host) was ​co-fronting with our co-host and we just... we were finishing dinner and washing up and they said that lately I've been looking very tired and stressed. And that I had been acting a bit weird.

I just said: “I year ago... I started having these really weird mood swings. You know how I've been having memory problems since my first year in college? I think it was tied to that. Last year, around April, I was just so tired, and stressed that I had a panic attack. And that's when I started hearing... let's call it voices.

At first I thought it was just my own consciousness talking to me, or my own thoughts in the form of a dialogue... until I realized that I couldn't control the other string of thoughts. It was very mean to me. Angry, even. We argued a lot those days, and it was exhausting. That's when it occurred to me to ask it if it had a name. He told me he did. His name was Orion.

I tried to get rid of it. Not my proudest moment, to be honest. But I was just so, so scared. I thought I was losing my mind. I thought I had finally lost it, and that I was going crazy. Orion helped me. He took control when I couldn't, cared for me. And eventually, more started to appear."

I showed them my diaries. My discoveries. My binder with each headmate's information. Simply plural with the log-ins. Told them about what plurality was, its ties to alterhumanity (they know I'm an alterhuman).

They were quiet for a bit and I was shitting my pants. I was so, so scared. They told me they understood, and that they had noticed that I was acting "weird" too. That they had noticed when 'I' wasn't fronting. I sid that I didn't want to lie to them anymore, that they were my best friends and they deserved to know. One of my flatmates, she thinks it is like a coping mechanism (it basically is). That maybe it will go away when the stress is done. I told her I was waiting for it to stop for an entire year and hadn't stopped yet.

The other flatmate believes me because he has seen a switch with his own two eyes and has spoken with one of our headmates in the past. He accepts it, I think.

I'm still not sure what I was expecting, honestly. I'm not really sure what came over me to tell them in the first place. Maybe we want to be called by our real names. I'm not sure if that is going to change, because I said I was tired and that I would tell them more in the morning. Morning came and other headmate fronted and forgot the whole thing. But honestly, if you don't make a big deal of "coming out" to people, they just... won't care.

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Every time I try to open Chat gpt on desktop, it shows me this message. Like, it loads for a second and then fails. I have to create a new private tab, open chat gpt in private, log in, and only use in a private window. Is there any way to fix it?

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Basically, I've (NB, 22) been living with my flatmate (F, 21, let's call her M) for three years now. We're both college students, studying the same career, her on the fourth and last year, and me on my third year. Yesterday me and my friends from college (whom we all have M as a mutual friend) hung up to catch on because we haven't been talking much.

Basically, the talk made me realize that, indirectly, M is making me dependent on her for cooking, cleaning, and house stuff. She manages mine and my other flatmate's (M, 25) expenses, at first it was out of necessity because she had less classes than me and it just stuck, and also cooks most of the meals without us asking her to. Like, I don't ask her to do it. It was convenient at first, but now she just does it. Sometimes I come home from college (I have classes 9-15 in the mornings, she's not going to class) and the food has already been made, which leaves me to do the dishes from the three of us (we have a rule: who cooks doesn't clean). If I don't clean it will just sit there for days because I'm the only one who cleans right after cooking individual meals.

Also, I think M is turning me against all of our mutual friends. Let's call them C (21), Mi (22), and E (27). M told me that C was angry at me because she (C) was jealous of me. She also told me that C was talking shit behind my back and saying nasty stuff about me. M told me that Mi wasn't talking to them because he didn't care about the group, and had other friends. Yesterday, when me, C, Mi, and E talked, they told me that that was not true, that M was shutting them down, not talking to anyone, and ignoring everyone except me.

It made me realize that what she's indirectly trying to do to me is isolating me from my friends, depending on me for emotional stability. And I hadn't realised because I'm autistic af. I just... what do I do? I know I need to talk to M, but I don't even know how to talk to her about it, can anyone give me any advice?

TL;DR

My flatmate is isolating me from our mutual friends (saying they say nasty things about me) and making me dependent on her unsolicited, because she handles expenses and cooking without anyone asking her to do it.

Hello I'm an European and I watch a question about bullying portrayal in movies. When I was younger, all movies for teens had always this bully character that belittled the protagonist, physically assaulted them, insulted them even in front of the teachers, even going as far as threatening them violently. Is that really how bullying is there?

Also. In movies and tv shows, teachers always dismissed bullying concerns, and from what I see of people talking about it it sounds horrific.

I went to a school in Spain where I suffered bullying, yes, but we had a social program of tutoring put in place to prevent it. Teachers were always supervising us, and we never physically fought like I've seen in American movies. It was mostly insults.