u/Wrong-Question-2066

So I, 18F, have a Wendy’s near my high school. I’m a senior and have my own car and like to go there before marching band. They have the best nuggets and no one can convince me otherwise.

So I go to Wendy’s and last time I was there, I was talking to the manager. The reason was I heard one of the machines in the back make a noise and I have echolalia and tend to mimic sounds. So I was asking what I was mimicking. (it was the deep fryer if anyone was curious). And that old lady was there. She looked way too old to be working there.

So this time I head there and I order my food. (10 piece nugget meal). And this old lady from last time is there. She looks at me and says. “You’re the girl with Autism, right?” I‘m surprised but kinda flattered she remembered so I say yes I am. Then this lady proceeds to tell me that my autism comes from the metal in vaccines. At this point I’m baffled. But she doubles down and says she can give me a referral to a doctor that can FIX me. I’m holding back laughter at this point and I politely decline. I take my food and head to a booth. I’ve never met an antivaxxer in public before so this was baffling.

i later told my parents about this and they laughed so hard. They said I should’ve trolled her and told her “Yeah my mom took a lot of Tylenol when she was pregnant with me.”

We also have a joke in my family that I am the autism deity. It’s because when we went on a family trip to New York and I did something stupid. I tried to say “Sorry I’m autistic.” And accidentally said “Sorry I am autism.” So now im just the autism deity. And whenever im upset my dad says “Quick! Someone read her a train schedule to appease her!”

So yeah, that was my experience with an antivaxxer woman at a Wendy’s.

So I, (17F) and my little brother (12FTM), have always been fascinated about where we are from. my mom was able to reunite some family we thought was long lost and my grandma got to see her little brother for the first time in like 50 years. On the second trip i got to meet him too and some distant cousins. It was amazing and I even started learning to speak the language of that country and so did my mom and brother. (I’m being vague about the country just in case my family is on here).

Last Christmas one of our gifts was that my mom got me and my brother, (We’ll call him Keith just to make this more cohesive) DNA tests. Me and Keith were so excited and we did forgot about it for a couple months but then we took the tests. It took a while but the results came back and my mom refused to show them to me and Keith. I asked my dad about it and apparently one of us has more DNA from where our family is from than the other. My mom thinks it’s going to cause a fight.

She says she MIGHT show me when I turn 18 but it was a pretty big maybe. I told Keith what our dad said and he wasn’t even bothered by it. Keith straight up said that it’s probably me with the more DNA since i am a generation before him. (don’t know if that’s exactly how DNA works but it’s our guess). For something that my mom has gotten me and Keith so excited about, her gate keeping is incredibly frustrating.

I haven’t brought it up to my mom since then because she has a bit of a temper sometimes and pissing her off is not worth it. But I’m still incredibly upset. If she doesn’t tell me when I’m 18, im going to buy my own test and find out for myself. So AIO for being petty about this?

So I, (previously 16 at the time of this) now 17F had a girlfriend who was 15MTF at the time and is now 16 by now. I broke things off last November and I still feel guilty even though she was awful. She would talk bad about my friends and family. She would force me to stay up late with her which my body cannot handle. She’d manipulate me and threaten to hurt herself or worse. There was one night where she convinced me she was going to end her life and I was sobbing. She was fine the next morning and after that, I had to break things off. She was forcing me to do things out of my comfort zone and got made at me for having hobbies that took time away from her. (I do marching band and multiple instruments for context.) I lost interest in all my hobbies and became pretty depressed. I finally broke things off and she continued to stalk and message me. I blocked her on GroupMe, she stalked my phone number, I blocked her on discord, she stalked MY EMAIL. I blocked her on everything and she’s out of my life and I feel better but sometimes I still feel guilt. She did a lot of horrible things to me but I still feel guilty. How do I cope with these feelings? Edit of something I forgot to add:She had me send her NSFW images and would fetishized me for being a bit on the heavier side at the time. (I’ve lost a lot of weight now and I’m much happier again as well)