greenmangostudio

I (17F) have a best friend (17F, let's call her Maria) who I FaceTime pretty regularly whenever we are outside school and haven't had much time to talk. Today she called me before I was going to have dinner, so after talking for a while I said I'd call back in around an hour. Whilst I was eating I was asked by another friend to find a specific book he needed for his mechanics project in pdf form online as a favour. So I jumped to that task, and then realised almost 2 hours had passed since I said I'd call Maria. I forget things quite easily and also tend to hyperfocus on distractions- an issue Maria knows I'm trying to resolve in order to be a better friend. I texted apologetically, and asked if I could call back in another 40 minutes- she said that was fine. While I was still scouring the internet for this book, she calls me and I pick up, not having seen the time. I answer with my usual playful voice, but she doesn't say a word. I continue to ask how she is- n...

I work at a popular Halloween store. I enjoy dressing up and do occasionally. Customers enjoy it, and it leads to good conversation. We had our employee day and I purchased the mehron bruise wheel and some makeup sponges. I have NEVER done horror makeup like this before. I gave myself a fake black eye and bruised up my lip. Because I did it, I could tell it was fake. I asked a friend and sent some photos to some others. I figured the photos probably made it look better due to lighting and that I didnt do that believable of a job. It was a first try after all. I stopped to grab coffee at the shop near work before I clocked in. People avoided looking at me. Women looked at me with visible concern, and I could see they maybe wanted to say something. I didnt want to announce to the entire coffee shop, "its makeup. I work next door" bc thats awkward. I did tell the worker I see regularly who took my order. He gave a laugh of relief as he had seen me yesterday fresh faced. He ...

This happened about a year ago, but I still think about it. I had a bad cold and my nose was completely blocked. My mom asked me to go turn on the geyser (gas water heater) so we could have hot water. Normal thing, I've done it a hundred times. What I didn't know was that the geyser had a gas leak. Normally you'd smell it right away, but my nose was so blocked I couldn't smell anything at all. So I lit the matchstick. There was a blast, and the whole kitchen caught fire. My mom came running, soaked a towel in water and put the fire out. Meanwhile I ran straight to the bathroom and stood under a cold shower because the burning pain was unbearable. After that my skin turned purple and dark navy blue. Then the skin on my face basically peeled off. I was on bed rest for a whole month and could barely walk because everything hurt so much. Slowly, new pink skin came in where the old skin was. It took a long time, but I'm fully healed now, and honestly I'm ...

I (37F) and my youngest (10M) “Sam” were looking for Halloween costume ideas, when we came upon a picture of people dressed as Yip Yips. For the uninitiated, Yip Yips are Sesame Street muppets (technically called the Martians), that look at ordinary objects and say “yip yip yip yip yip” “oooooooooooooohhhh” “uh huuuuuuuh” “yip yip yip yip yip” over and over and over again. They’re delightfully annoying. Anyway. Sam had never seen Yip Yips before, so I pulled up a video, and promptly unlocked a new stim that has already thrown my household into chaos. I have 4 kids. 2 of them have Tourette’s, and Sam is not one of them… however, he’s the sort of kid who does random Mario jumps at the grocery store, says “it’s a me-ya” and makes Pac Man “waka waka waka” noises at random, and gives not a singular shit if people stare. He’s honestly the best, and I love his antics. His siblings do not always feel the same way. Tics tend to trigger more tics, and while the “yips” are not tics, they...

i genuinely feel so stupid right now. i have a few pairs of earrings that are technically silver underneath, but have a gold-colored coating/plating on the outside. they’re not actually gold, they’re just silver earrings that have been made gold-colored somehow (i honestly don’t know the exact process and i don’t remember the name of the metal used). i recently moved out of my house for university, and of course i forgot to bring the jewelry cleaner i normally use for them. unfortunately, i did have a diluted bleach solution with 1.5% sodium hypochlorite. i already knew bleach was going to damage the earrings because it had already happened. for some reason i thought that if i diluted it enough with water and only left them in for about 30 minutes, they would probably be fine. figured i could put them in while i took a shower, take them out afterward, rinse them really well, and that would be it. except i forgot about them for two or three hours. when i finally remembered and too...

I was contemplating the experience of my death and I gave myself a panic attack, something I’ve never experienced before. I’m still very young and I’ve contemplated my mortality before but this time it was different like I could feel it or touch it. It felt horrible and like it shouldn’t happen to me but I know that I’ll eventually get to that point and experience this. I can’t get over this and I’ve been of the verge of tears all day. I can’t get it out of my head and I keep thinking about being completely gone. I think it’s especially triggering my body’s survival instinct because I could vomit thinking too long. This might just completely change my life and right now I don’t feel like I’ll be able to get over it. I wish I hadn’t thought about it. TLDR: I imagined what dying is like and I think I figured it out