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EDIT: ISLE IS A TYPO, I KNOW. I'M STILL JETLAGGED AND MIX UP THE 5 LANGUAGES IN MY HEAD. TYPOS HAPPEN. I left it in the text to explain the around 10 comments I already got saying "it's spelled aisle".

I had the isle seat, but the attendants came and told me that the full row would be empty and I should just go to the window and make myself comfortable. And so I did! After all, it was almost 11pm and a 13h flight was about to start.

A bit after takeoff, a man came up to me and asked if he could take the aisle seat after meals, as he was either travelling with two small kids or there were two kids near him, and he needed a bit more space and peace. I said sure, as he asked if HE and ONLY HE could come. We'd still have a free seat between us, and could both enjoy the peace as my plans were only to watch movies, draw and sleep. He left his jacket on the seat, I laid down for a bit and waited for the meal.

Well, a bit after the meal a woman with a baby came up. It was the man's wife. She told me that he had told her that she could come sit here. Sure, fine, I already agreed to it.

Except now there was a sleeping baby in the middle seat that occasionally woke up to scream, usually right when I was about to fall asleep. And a sleeping mother in the isle seat, who was sitting in a way that I couldn't really parkour over her to go change pads in the bathroom bihourly (heavy periods suck) without waking her up. I felt so bad... Also, the guy in the middle in front of us rolled his seat back a bunch so my parkour attempts also had me scared of waking up the baby from being so close to it.

Also, the mother started turning off all lights etc right as she arrived, while I was still in the middle of doing things 🫠 fine, I just lowered the brightness in my screen and watched a movie.

The flight was somewhat disastrous otherwise too, thw guy in front of me kept opening the window and flashbanging me awake all throughout the night because "he just wanted to see the midnight sun"... And I spilled half a bottle of ice tea on my lap and carry-on bag when I tried to drink right after waking up, which resulted in a book getting soaked... At least my copy of Dracula now smells like peaches I guess? Also, the bathrooms were constantly occupied, but only on the aisle I could access. The other isle was free all the flight, while I and many others lined up. Also an older gentleman looked at me with hatred while I was leaving the disabled WC, the only available WC, that I needed to go to to not bleed on the seats... When I went, he wasn't yet in the line. And the previous person that went there hadn't flushed. Also more infuriating, a young woman on her phone cut in front of the old man and marched into the toilet right as I left. Also my vegetarian meals were pretty lacking in protein, the warm meal had one small mushroom and the breakfast had some eggs (I had tried and failed to switch to a vegan option as I can't stand eggs).

Only mildly infuriating as the flight and everyone on it was fine, landing and takeoff went well, staff was kind, all drinks except alcohol were free, I got a free bottle of rosé wine with my meal and I'm young so I survive without a full night's sleep

4494 2893 1379 is my code!! I can atm mostly send postcards from either Finland, which is the Icy Snow variant region, or Japan, specifically the Elegant variant region!! Before leaving Japan I'll try to stack up on the cards too!!

I'll also send gifts daily or near daily <3 atm I'm an active player, but I do have both periods of extreme activity and full on breaks.

The bra store was a part of the Funky Lady chain. The bras themselves were cute!!

According to the calculator, I think I'm a 30G or something? It's been a while since I last measured, but it's already a fight to get my mom to give up on the idea of me being a EU 75C. Earlier the same day we tried on some bras at a clothes store and I showed her how a 75C gives me quadroboob and a 75D doesn't. She didn't want to believe me, so we went to the lingerie store.

The clerk gave me two different 75C bras to try, as that was her assumption too. The first was stabbing me in the middle, as the cups were way too small. I told her that, and... She gave me a 70D, as to her the only issue was the band looking a bit loose. So now I was being stabbed in my breast tissue AND felt like I was being suffocated by the band! Great! I said so, and she relented, but told me I definitely don't need a bigger size. Well, I tested the other 75C, and it was... Fine. I have more hidden tissue, so I can squeeze myself into smaller bras. This bra's cups just started at the right width for me and so removed the middle stab issue, but even now if I scoop half my tit is out and areola barely covered. But it looked good enough to the clerk and my mom, so now I have one more 75C bra. It's cute and all, but I would've preferred it to fit. She didn't even measure anything, just assumed!! While I was already wearing a bra too small for me!! I can't wait to have a stable income so I could do my bra shopping alone...

So I'm 19F, been on the pill (or pills) since I was 16. Currently on my sixth pills.

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I've had all the side effects. Bleeding even worse (which led to nearly blood loss anemia), worse cramps (I couldn't even get off the floor after taking the max recommended dose of both ibuprofen and paracetamol), horrid anxiety leading to nights stayed up stress vomiting (which I never do) and having to leave in the middle of tests to go vomit from anxiety, headaches, acne breakouts, periods every two weeks, constant bleeding, constant cramps, more breast tissue pain etc.

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I've been on Diza, Dienorette, Midiana, Rigevidoncont, Slinda and I just started a new one that I forgot the name of, but they all have different luteinizing hormones. The Mirena IUD would have the same hormone as Rigevidoncont, which caused me the anxiety. I am medically able to get free Mirena IUD's for the rest of my life due to the heaviness of my flow, but I'm scared that it would also make me react badly. Also I'm scared of the procedure, as most people I know said it was horrible. Implants under the skin creep me out way too much, and condoms aren't needed or useful here, since I'm not sexually active, a virgin, lesbian and using BC to help with regularity, heaviness of the flow and pain.

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Without BC, I have the kind of flow where I need to switch pads every hour at least... If I'm wearing night pads. I can't sit straight or properly walk thanks to the cramps and thet come sometime between a week and three months after my last periods. I was checked for endo, but bc nothing could be seen via ultrasound, my gyno declared I can't have endo.

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Idk, just needed to rant. I don't want to get my hopes up for the new pill tbh, I'm pretty sure it will also fail...

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Hi, I will be travelling to Japan (specifically Hamamatsu prefecture) later this summer for 25 days. My phone model doesn't support eSIM and I don't have spare phones that do or the money for them.

Is a pocket wifi or traveller SIM better? Can I use my own phone number with either? How does having two SIM cards on one phone work? What companies would you recommend and which would you suggest to stay away from? I know that a 10-15Gt plan would be enough for me, is there any options that size?

I tried looking this up but all I got was eSIM adverts or wildly expensive unlimited plans... I also tried asking my friends, but one just used an eSIM and one relied on their own data plan since their vending machine SIM didn't work.

Cheaper would be preferred (35€ or under, so... 6500 yen?) but all suggestions are welcome!!

Thanks in advance!

I (19F) used to date (20F) a self-proclaimed metalhead, like myself. She was bi, I'm lesbian, just to clarify.

The first red flag to me was our music discussions. I have a diverse taste, ranging from kpop and musicals to death metal and sometimes black metal. She liked exclusively heavy metal, pop and Russian rap. Nothing wrong in that, except she forbade me from listening to kpop in her presense because "it's cringe" and also Babymetal, because "they're not real metal. I only listen to the heavier stuff, not that rock lite."

Okay, whatever, not every band is for everyone. I thought she'd pull some death or black, maybe grindcore or something. Then she continued:

"I only listen to the heavy af stuff. Like Slayer and Judas Priest."

Good bands, yeah, but WHAT.

Turns out, she was an asshole anyway, but this was my first red flag in our relationship. Thought it'd be funny to share lol

EDIT FOR CLEARING SOMETHING UP: I like Slayer and Judas Priest too. My issue is not her taste, but her attitude of "my taste is better than yours, you can't listen to what you like." It's specifically about her acting like Priest and Slayer are the heaviest bands there are and valuing bands only on their heaviness. Judas Priest and Slayer are both highly influential bands and I hold utmost respect for both of them, but the fact is that there is heavier metal than them. It's not a bad thing and never is, heaviness doesn't judge the quality of a song in my eyes at least. Hope this clears stuff up!

So, I (19F) went looking for advice. I don't want a diagnosis as it might harm my career chances in the future, I just want to know for myself.

The tests I did were AQ, women's masking, special sensitivity and one other related to how well I survive daily life. On all of them I scored high, on AQ I was a few points under the British autistic average and way over my home country's autistic average. Masking was over 20 points over the cutoff point and special sensitivity was 104/140 with the cutoff somewhere near 70 points.

But I survive daily life, even according to the test. I have always been very independent and just "made it work" through meltdowns, sleepless nights and high stress. Because of that, my psychologist is sure I can't be autistic because "autistic people need much more help in their daily lives. You're just an artistic soul!"

She is also certain that I'm just a HSP since I scored so high on the sensitivity test and my score wasn't above the British average. Not a cutoff point, average for autistic people answering. The British average was 35p., I scored 31. My home country's average wasn't listed, but it was said to be significantly lower. For neurotypical people the average was 10-17, iirc.

But because of these things, my psychologist is sure I'm just a HSP, an artistic soul and genius at the same time and in no need of support networking.

Idk if I can confidently call myself autistic after this since, well, I don't have a diagnosis and a professional told me I'm not autistic, but the test scores would hint at it.

So, one Google account is full, and I'm trying to move all pics to a new, empty account. I did it via the "share photos to a friend"-option and downloaded all the pictures, but if I delete them on the original account, they will also disappear into the trash bin on the new account. Is there any way to bypass this or do I need to move the pictures via Drive or something? I'm doing this in preparation for switching phones so I will have backups of everything and have everything saved, as the old acc was so full it wouldn't make backups anymore.

I've always had bad period cramps, but just as long as I've had them, I've been told to learn to bear them, sit up straight and act more mature. They have genuinely brought me to tears at public places as a child (and even at over 18!) and been so bad at their worst that my legs give out and I can't get back up. Painkillers are a minor relief, usually I still feel most of the cramps through 800mg ibuprofen and 1000mg paracetamol.

But what am I told? "It's normal. Get over it. It's not that bad. Everyone struggles with it. Just you wait until you get hurt worse. Have you tried contraceptives?"

Well, I've been on contraceptives since I was 16 to ease the pain, but so far it hasn't helped. I've tried 5 different pills too.

But to the actual point... "Just wait until you get hurt worse".

Recently, around three weeks ago, I broke my nose. It hurt so little I wasn't concerned at all, it was mostly just annoying. I only noticed it was broken when the swelling went down and my nose was fully crooked. I went for a reposition last Tuesday and removed the protective cast on Sunday.

On Friday I coughed so hard that I heard something pop and ever since then I've had an annoying pain in my side. I've been living life as normal, carrying heavy bags etc without as much as a complaint since it's bearable pain. Today I went to try folk dancing and had to tap out after 45 minutes due to the pain in my side. I'm fairly certain I fractured my rib by coughing so hard (I had been coughing HARD for weeks at that point).

But now I'm thinking about the "normal pain". On the scale of pain I've experienced, my periods are usually 7/10 - 10/10. Breaking my nose was 3/10 max, probably closer to a 2.6/10. The reposition was slightly more uncomfortable, maybe 3.1/10. The possible rib fracture was at most 5/10 and currently around 4.5/10. Yet these are medical emergencies??? And my periods just normal pain I have to learn to bear just because my body decided I need to have cramps that bad?? Because society decided I must perform a false idea of feminine perfection even when I'm at my worst??

P.S. I got ultrasound screening done at the gyno and no endometriosis could be seen. So if I have it, it's well hidden <3 and I'm medically allowed a free Mirena IUD for my heavy bleeding, but the hormone in that, levonorgestrel, in pill form has previously caused me the worst anxiety I've ever had to the point of staying up nights to vomit from stress, fear and anxiety. Even if I had endo, the only treatment option besides "just live" is the Mirena IUD where I'm from. Surgeries are not recommended to anyone and hysterectomies have to be fought for furiously, and I as a 19 year old student who currently has a broken nose, possibly fractured rib and no job am not the one they'll recommend it to anyway :D it's just for women over the age of 45 or who have 5 or more kids