u/WeirdLight9452

I’m blind, so I use a screen reader to navigate apps and things. I pressed the random avatar button when I first made the account, so I had no idea what it was. I’ve been wondering for years why everyone keeps assuming I’m a man. It took some troll pointing it out in the middle of insulting me for me to work it out. 😂😂😂

Note: this dude is now commenting on all my posts in a vain attempt to upset me, so he may pop up here.

Edit: it still is a dude with a moustache, he’s just dressed as an owl now. Because they can describe the outfits but not the avatars, apparently.

Edit 2: I got my partner to fix it 😂

So I’ve had Loki 3 years, he’s 5 now we think. Every so often he has these phases where he does things in the night to wake us up, like he’ll scratch the wardrobe or the side of the bed, or jump on our dressers and knock things over. We would ignore it and it would stop after a bit.

Now he’s started standing on my bedside table and kicking my phone off its charger, either on to the table or the floor. Obviously I’m worried he’ll break it, but I live in an old house with like two sockets per room, there’s nowhere else to put it.

His cat tree is beside the table, so he uses the table as a bridge to get to our bed. Knowing that, I got a charger I could put in the corner to leave him plenty of room. And at first he was fine, he didn’t like the texture of the plastic, but then he realised he cud lever the phone off without touching the stand.

I can’t move the cat tree because it won’t fit anywhere else. He has toys. He has food and water. His litter is clean. We play with him before bed. If we shut him out of the bedroom he screams and body slams the door. He was rescued from a multiple cat home where the other cats picked on him, so even if I had the space or the money I couldn’t get him a sibling. He would hate it.

But I don’t know what else I can do. Even when he finally stops attacking my phone, he sits looming over it and I’m stressed and struggle to get back to sleek. Even if I had more power sockets, surely it’s not healthy to just let him claim whatever space he wants in our house. He only started doing this about a month ago and I don’t know why. It’s like he has to have us awake at all times and he’ll do whatever it takes to make sure that happens. I even struggle to get to sleep because I’m waiting for it to start.

Is there anything else I can do? And why does he leave my partner alone? Is it just his tree is on my side of the bed?