Lmao. Ours wouldn't either, my mother went for the opportunity once at the vet while my father was holding him. Could never put a Santa Claus hat on him either.

If you remember to be patient with yourself i'm sure you'll find people to enjoy in company.
And yeah, i get that, isolation is a bitch.

Hey so, nothing in common with my previous responses.
Have you ever taken a photo or video of your doggo with sunglasses? I heavily recommend it.

I'm sorry hon. That's really tough. I hope you can meet some chill people in the bird watching communities you mentioned wanting to be in.

Does this mean you feel alienated when talking to your friends lately?

Like, hypersexualitation and forced romance? The world is oversaturated with them, if i had realized that years ago i'd be pissed too

And idk, i don't want you to hurt.

So, your feelings are going to be too powerful to be able to regulate even if you tried, and that's not any sort of failure in your part, it's just life being too shitty to handle.

I don't know further context, so i wanted to remind you that placing high expectations on yourself rn might hurt you

It was an attempt to remind you, not that you are going through some pretty big stressors (you know that better than anyone), but that it's logical for your negative feelings to be vastly overwhelming and to keep you in that harmful cycle.

I'm not saying it's because of that that you are having these thoughts, i don't know the situation in your friendships and while i hope it's nothing that you won't be able to work through, i'm not saying it to invalidate your feelings or give uninformed and possibly forced positive reinforcement

Probably the anxiety of severe weather and sleep depravation not helping you amongst those worries

*my last