Emily 🏳️‍⚧️ (Sad Music Era)

I've noticed the Google AI summary is now frequently preserving my typos and misspellings.

So that's fun.

The glorified text prediction engine is now struggling to correct typos.

I just saw a subreddit called "terf trans alliance" and I'm afraid that's proof we live in a vibe coded simulation.

Random question for anyone who might know:

Anyone know of a product I can use to temporarily dye white hair that does NOT dye skin?

It's for electrolysis.

I have a lot of pure white hair. And lidocaine injections turn the skin much paler. Turns mine, in fact, the color of my white hair.

Which makes them hard to find, especially ones that have been zapped previously but not fully killed, and so grew back thinner and finer.

It'd be great if I could add even a TINY bit of color to even just the tips of the hair for five or six hours, but that won't color the skin too and further blend the darn things in.

Any suggestions?

"Why do you pay someone to mow the yard, Emily? That's a lot of money you could be saving!"

"I've got allergies" I say, as I listen to my heart pound and try to ignore the headache and burning eyes from just the yard being mowed outside my window.

My lungs and heart and head and everything are protesting and I'm inside the house. It's not like the window are open either.

Just...proximity to everything that got kicked up.

I'm looking for a way to describe the internal difference between dysphoria, dysmorphia, and vanity to someone cis.

I know the definitions of them all, and the diagnostic differences between the first two, and I know how all three feel to me -- I can generally tell which is which, even when it's mixed up. (And yes, I can be vain! I see no problem with a little vanity).

But someone I dearly love, who is deeply supportive, can't quite understand at times -- because they look the same on the outside. Don't get me wrong, she trusts my word when I say it's different.

But....not having ever experienced dysphoria, her mental framework is her own experience with dysmorphia and vanity -- especially vanity in the 'body image issues as cultivated by media'. And I get it -- dysphoria is heavily rooted in the body, and in concepts of what my body 'should' look like. And "what my body should look like" is exactly what culture and media pushes on people, especially women, that causes body image issues if you're not exactly one specific size, shape, color, build, bone structure, etc.

So there's something of a gap in understanding when talking about things, one I'd like to bridge.

Any tips?