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    Sertraline is an antidepressant. I’ve taken it. It worked fairly well for me. That said, if I told someone I was upping my dose and they said “that’s art deco,” I would assume they were referencing Sylvia Plath and L’Ennui via The Great Gatsby, and I would be impressed and agree.

    And then I would be amused at their correct assumption that I, an LGBT white woman with depression, have familiarity with Sylvia Plath, and I would be impressed with their wit.

    All that to say, you can just say anything, and sometimes you’ll get lucky.

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      If you were a character in a book, you’d be my favorite character. Please take this as a compliment.

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        Honestly, any comparison to Sam Vimes is a compliment. Unless it’s the alcoholism.

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          Samuel Vimes is personally responsible for my pair of good boots and he isn’t even real.

          I went mountain climbing on Saturday and the good boots saved my life. Sometimes it isn’t about feeling the cobbles beneath your feet in the streets of Ankh-Morpor, but about the god damned sharp rocks climbing Mt. Erebus, and the fact that one slip means certain death.

          Oh, and speaking of death, he loves mountain climbers. He doesn’t even have to do his job.

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    The meaning doesn’t matter
    If it’s only idle chatter
    Of a transcendental kind -
    And everyone will say
    As you walk your mystic way,
    “If this young man expresses himself
    In terms too deep for me
    Then what a very singularly deep young man
    This deep young man must be!”

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    She probably agreed because that is at least a seamless way of “acknowledging” some totally incomprehensible bullshit that a stranger just told her.

    Not that I see how the sertraline dosage even came up, to be fair.

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      You’d be surprised what people will tell you. Although usually it’s the customer and not the employee

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            I had a lifetime movie type experience with an ex several years ago, that was an incredibly close call. Shortly after it happened, I got a haircut and told the hairdresser about it, because it’s a good story. She got pretty quiet and afterwards my sister scolded me for trauma dumping. It probably was that at the time, because I was pretty traumatized, but I didn’t realize that that would make a stranger feel weird.

            I was in my early twenties and had not yet learned that I was autistic, but I do tend to pick up on those signals. Just, the stress of the situation made it feel like a thing that should be shared (for real everyone, google peoples full names before you start dating them).

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              for real everyone, google peoples full names before you start dating them).

              Also, check the state’s court records.

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    I was buying some edibles a few weeks ago and the guy behind the counter told me this cheap brand was infused with “nano technology.” I laughed a hearty laugh and replied, “I’m sorry, did you just say those are infused with nano technology?” He looked me right in the eye and said, “yes.” I bought the $6, ‘nano technology infused’ edibles lol!

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    As a coffee enthusiast and probably a part-time barista some time in the future, I love how baristas are the most pretentious humans people can think of