flying_shadow

Not sure if this fits this subreddit, but I have an eating disorder and I want to rant, so hopefully this is fine.

Background: I'm 25F and have had ARFID my entire life (autism). As a child you could count all my ribs, though once puberty hit, I basically won the genetic lottery and ended up with a stereotypical good figure even though at my heaviest, my BMI was 18.6. And this entire time, I was having constant symptoms of acid reflux. I had to eat small meals and not eat for several hours before bed, otherwise I'd get horrific heartburn, but I still felt like crap all the time and hated food and eating.

Then I figured out what was going on with me. I started following a strict diet while

I am specifically interested in something that looks at the global situation and isn't mostly focused on one country.

My first period after the insertion started early but was much milder, and the second period should have started a week ago but hasn't yet. It's just bits of tissue every single day, not enough to necessitate pads but enough to be annoying. The pain is like mild menstrual cramps, but sometimes my rectum also hurts - it's like everything in my lower abdomen is spasming at once. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this a symptom of something being seriously wrong (I'm worried about the IUD migrating) or am I just unlucky? In case this is relevant, I am 25, a virgin, and medically underweight.

25F, 159cm/43kg, white.

Since I was a teen I've been having a lot of symptoms of acid reflux - heartburn from eating certain foods or eating until I'm full, regurgitation, chest pain, chronic sore throat. In late spring, an ENT looked at my throat through a flexible tube that went in the nose, saw there was irritation, and prescribed cetirizine (I think) for three months; when the three months were up, there was no more visible irritation but the symptoms were unchanged, so he sent me to get a barium swallow, which was in October.

My dentist said several months ago that my teeth show signs of ongoing acid damage; note that I vomit maybe once a year and have not drunk any acidic drinks in a

I confess that I was one of those people who don't know what different cup sizes actually look like or that there's anything past DD. I presumed I was a B cup going off nothing but the fact that I frequently get misgendered when I wear a sweater, so I thought I must have very small breasts.

So one day I found this subreddit, measured myself and it turned out I am actually a 28D - I had had the impression that D cups are massive but turns out they're not. I didn't believe the results at first and got myself remeasured at a Victoria's Secret. Once again, 28D. I asked for something that size, they said they didn't have any bands that small.

I only wear sports bras and in hindsight, ever sinc

I've seen some authors state as a matter of course that he committed treason, and others say just as confidently that he didn't.

I (mid-twenties) decided to get an IUD because I heard that they make your periods lighter; mine aren't heavy but I find them annoying so I was like 'sign me up!' And also just in case some maniac attacked me or something. My family doctor (a woman barely out of residency) was a little hesitant to refer me to the gyno based on these motivations, so when I went to the gyno, I claimed that I had a boyfriend and we didn't want to have sex until I had an IUD. The gyno was a little reluctant to insert an IUD into a virgin, but she did agree to do it - but only under anaesthesia. I was annoyed about having to wait for weeks and didn't care about painkillers (I had anaesthesia fail when getting my

For years now I've been constantly watching videos of people cooking and eating food, often items I can't have. It's something like - this spicy soup would make me feel like shit, but if I watch someone else eat it, I get the emotional satisfaction with none of the physical discomfort.

Additionally, what age was considered normal or typical for menarche? Would a girl be concerned if she was sixteen and had not begun menstruating yet? Or eighteen? Twenty? For comparison, in the place where I live, me and most of my female friends were ~12 when we got our periods and we were told that we should only start worrying if it hadn't begun by the age of sixteen. I'm curious about how similar or different this nearly universal female experience was in other places and times.

I read somewhere that there have been places and times where <5% of people never got married. Who would these people have been? What factors made someone an extremely undesirable child-in-law in a society where marriage was the default norm?

And how hard was it to obtain them? As an example, I can get scissors in any sewing supply store (albeit I'll be limited to one model) but I had to order my can opener online because no store I went to carried them. In earlier historical eras, do we have any examples of craftspeople using custom tools or was learning to use your right hand for everything universal?

Found on 31 July around 13:00 on a Viva Blue bus that had just arrived at Finch station. I handed it over to the driver and it should hopefully be in the lost and found.

Calling all Torontonians - if you lost a shawl on the Viva Blue when you got off at Finch station around 13:00 on 31 July, I handed it over to the driver and it should be in the lost-and-found. The shawl was blue and white and made from a medium-thickness yarn.

Background: I'm 24F and have had major struggles with food my entire life. I have hypersensitivity (caused by autism) and a poorly functional digestive system, so I couldn't eat some of my culture's most common foods and some of the ones I could eat made me feel worse. Thankfully a combination of decreasing sensitivity from age and branching out into other cultures' cuisines meant that I could cut out things that made me feel worse and replace them with other foods (several years ago I went vegetarian), but I still eat a fairly limited diet. I have a BMI of 17.8 on a good day, though I menstruate regularly, so I'm probably not undernourished.

So you can imagine my face when a doctor told me