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Sai :) wrote: "🙇 all hail the chicken nerd"

😌✨👑

Sai :) wrote: "Barnette {#rememberalexei} wrote: "Sai :) wrote: "wait what if you took polls on people's stances on some of the heated topics?? that might be cool to look at"

ooo sure, which topics do you mean t..."

Ohh ok!!

Sai :) wrote: "she's a romance author who has been accused of romanticizing abuse and toxic relationships"

Ohh 🥲

And proud of it

Sai :) wrote: "🤓 /j"

I am a nerd thank you very much

I'm going to public school next year and I'm worried about how my anxiety and panic attacks are going to do 😭

•~Agnes~• wrote: "I’ve started having panic attacks quite a bit since I’ve gone back to school"

I'm sorry 🫂

Ava ˚࿔ wrote: "Sai :) wrote: "this isn't really a story but last year my friends caught my fifty-something english teacher reading iron flame..."

That reminds me how I stalked my elementary school librarians goo..."

Wait who is Hoover and why is that bad

Ava ˚࿔ wrote: "Barnette {#rememberalexei} wrote: "Should I start doing weekly or twice-weekly polls? I'm not sure what I would ask though"

Yesss you should! Maybe ask random stuff like “are you an alien or human..."

Slay

Sai :) wrote: "wait what if you took polls on people's stances on some of the heated topics?? that might be cool to look at"

ooo sure, which topics do you mean though?

Barnette {#rememberalexei} wrote: "Ok so Stranger Things theory:

Eleven was actually related to the MKULTRA government mind control experiments (which were a real thing, not in the show). She was part of a literal government exper..."

GUYS I'M STUPID THAT ACTUALLY WAS ELABORATED ON!! I'm rewatching the series and turns out I missed something really important.

Spoiler alert:

Okay so when Hopper and Joyce found out about Terry Ives and her missing child and visited her, her sister confirms that Terry was part of the MKULTRA tests (consensually, unlike most test subjects). They gave her a bunch of drugs and put her in a sensory deprivation tank. So it's confirmed that these government tests definitely played a role in at least Eleven's mom's life, and probably Eleven's too.

While Terry was being tested on, she didn't realize that she was pregnant. In her third trimester (I'm unsure of the timeline of this and the tests) she was taken to the hospital and apparently miscarried the child, according to all of the doctors, and there's no record or evidence of the child surviving. But Terry continues to claim that her child survived and wasn't miscarried, and she claimed that the child had abilities and was stolen from her. The government takes Terry and fries her brain so she can't keep spreading these stories, and she turns into a vegetative state, unable to communicate and only repeating the same phrase over and over. This state is blamed on the MKULTRA tests, which her family was aware of, and no one dug deeper.

But Hopper realizes this was likely a coverup for something and that Terry's child is probably still out there, which obviously we know because she is Eleven.

So yeah I knew all this before but in my previous watching, I never made the connection of MKULTRA (because I only learned about them irl after I watched the show the first time).

Anyway that's my rant bye

Sai :) wrote: "Barnette {#rememberalexei} wrote: "Sobbing at this chat rn"

imagine someone walked up to you and said, "my love for you is like constipation""

I'd die

Sai :) wrote: "hiiii, im like half-vegetarian lol"

Cool!! That's sorta what I was, I only let myself have one meal a week with meat in it

Loll

Ava ˚࿔ wrote: "I also have GAD and social anxiety disorder plus emetophobia and panic attacks"

Oof, I'm sorry you have to deal with that 🫂

Naimallama🦙:P wrote: "How’s has no one fallen in love with me yet bro, these pick-up lines are soo good!!! 😔"

Frrr 😔

Barnette {#rememberalexei} wrote: "I have GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder) and I've been better recently but I used to be in a constant state of extreme worry, I couldn't focus on anything else, and I'd have panic attacks almost e..."

(By the way my GAD diagnosis was done by a professional psychiatrist, I don't self-diagnose)

I have GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder) and I've been better recently but I used to be in a constant state of extreme worry, I couldn't focus on anything else, and I'd have panic attacks almost every day, sometimes more. Now I still get panic attacks and worry a lot but I've been better, partially because now I'm on an anxiety and depression medication, Lexapro.

I usually cope with my anxiety by listening to music, calling friends, or sketching when I'm having a panic attack or feeling really stressed/worried. How do you cope?

Suggest books and ask for recs!

Discuss anxiety and panic attacks, suggest coping mechanisms, and support others.