A little of many, and a lot of a few.
Probably pretty similar to you.

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Cake day: November 18th, 2025

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  • I take issue with how trauma is framed in modern pop-psychology. The guidance we receive from our negative emotions is incredibly useful and framing it as being similar to recovering from a wound is misleading. I’m not trying to belittle people who have had traumatic experiences when I say that, how you feel about things that have happened to you really matters. They way you respond to these events almost defines you as a person, and having poor coping mechanisms will hurt you further. But bad experiences are inevitable, and treating them with taboo limits our ability to see out of ourselves and understand our situations with clarity.









  • You are thinking of a completely different plant called milkweed. The monarch butterflies lay their eggs on it and the caterpillars eat it as their exclusive diet, and become poisonous for it. Its not thorny at all but a broad leafed plant that flowers in the spring. Monarch butterflies can eat nectar from many kinds of flowers. It is a native plant and I have plenty of it growing.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepias.

    Interestingly both these plants have very similar methods of spreading their seeds, seeds attached to silky strands that float away on the wind.