greenmangostudio

So way back in June of 2023 , I African American Autistic(17M) went to my high school gymnasium in the morning for graduation practice, everything went well, until when my row was called up to walk up to the podium one by one, so when I was ready to go up, my vice principal thought I was going up early and yelled "wait" at me, which embarrassed me. Keep in mind that I'm an introvert , and I always keep my mouth shut when I'm at school unless a teacher calls on me. So anyway, when I was ready to walk up to the podium, I realize one of my classmates, was looking at me, which I thought was that she was making sure what I was doing. When the principal called my name, I arrived at the podium, and then she says "Smile!! [my name], smile!!" Which made my blood started to rush and I just stood there with a couple seconds frozen in fear, I had to walk with full embarrassment, while the principal spoke to the whole senior class "guys, you have to smile", wh...

So this happened yesterday. I work from home and have a mini-fridge in my office space, energy drinks (Celsius) and protein shakes mostly. A while ago the little door that covers the freezer section popped off. No big deal, right? Wrong! Slowly, I've been building a mountain of ice in my fridge. Yesterday I decided enough was enough and figured I'd shut it down, defrost it, and fix the freezer door. And I did! No issues. After a few hours, I had a huge chunk of ice left over, maybe 8x6 inches and 1/2" thick. I tossed the wet towels in the washing machine, tossed the hunk of ice in the sink, and went back to work, feeling like I accomplished something. Husband comes home and decides he wants chicken for supper. He opens a couple packs and pours the excess water (juice?) in the sink. Yes... the same sink. He's cooking, I'm working, and the ice is sitting in the dirty chicken-water sink. Enter the child. 7yo. You'd think she would be old enough...

Today I (25m) went to the cinema to watch The Odyssey (keep in mind this movie is 3 hours long) with my friend. We walk in and take out booked seats to sit down. Not long after, a group of girls come by (ages roughly 25 - 50) and sit in the remaining seats next to me. So the pre-movie ads and trailers start, so I make myself comfortable and talk to my friend about some upcoming movies. When out of the corner of my eye, I notice the girl next to me taking quick glances at me. I ignore this and just mind my own business. As the trailers and then the movie start, I notice more glances towards me, so I reciprocate the glance. I was intrigued. Due to the movie being long, I lean into the corner of my seat, away from my friend and towards the stranger. Not too long after, the girl next to me does the same thing. Coincidence, right… The movie continues, and as it goes on, we move and shuffle around, but we always end up leaning close to each other after a while. As the hours went by a...

I (28M) am a US citizen who's been working in the UK for the past two years. I made the decision to move back home and am finally on the road back home. The catch? I brought my cat (F5) with me. The UK is super strict about how animals can enter and exit the country, and I'm super protective of my cat, so I have to fly into and out of the EU in order to have her ride in the cabin of the plane with me and have her with me the entire time. The journey up to this point has been stressful for me and my cat. In addition to everything that comes with leaving a toxic work environment and mental health struggles, I spent all of last week getting everything removed from our London flat. Monday, she had a vet appointment to get cleared to travel and then had a hotel stay. Tuesday (yesterday), we had a seven-hour car ride from our hotel in London to the new hotel in a town near CDG airport. The idea for the French leg of our trip was that we would arrive on Tuesday, spend the day in Fra...

​TL;DR: Cleaned my school bus window so well it looked invisible, tried to toss a cup of my own pee out of it after a long route, and ended up covering myself and the driver's cab in urine right before a surprise inspection from my nightmare boss. Got suspended, but it gave me the push to quit and change careers. This actually happened a while ago, but I’m finally able to laugh about it and the smell is long gone. ​For context, I used to be a mini school bus driver. I’m normally a massive clean freak and my bus was usually spotless. But my former boss was an absolute tyrant who treated everyone like garbage and seemed to live to make our lives a living hell. If there was a single piece of dust, you’d get written up. Last week, one of the kids left an empty soda can in the back. I missed it during my sweep, and my boss called me into his office just to belittled me and act like I’d committed a felony. ​Naturally, this kind of micromanagement led to a union meeting to address h...

I (f17) and my sister (f27) were very close especially after she had a kid. we’d hang out all the time, have sleepovers, etc (normal sibling stuff). the one thing we’d disagree about majorly though is our bio-mother. i went no contact with our Bio-m, as she watched me get abused by her husband and did nothing. only staying for the money. my sister stayed in contact which I respected until she constantly started to ask me if I wanted to talk to her. when I say constantly I mean every other conversation. it got really bad. she never took my trauma seriously, saying I never had it as bad as she did when she was younger. it all came a head when our Bio-M divorced her then-husband. apparently getting it into her head that I’d talk to her again. my sister called me during work and asked the question. I said no, afterwards proceeding to send her a text about how I’d just like for her to stop asking me at all and stop mentioning Bio-M. she sent a snarky text back a few minutes later and gh...