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Colorful and hopefully optimistic but maybe hateful occasionally

Thank you, guys :) :)

Yep, I’m okay! Unplugging was exactly what I needed.

My dad continued to send me messages. One had an attachment, and that finally got me curious enough to open them all and see what he was talking about. That man knows exactly how to get me to respond, haha. He sent me a PDF of how to make adorable decorated cupcakes. I ended up thanking him. He simply sent a heart in response and finally left me alone.

I’m not sure what it means, but I do remember how loving he’d act towards my mom right after being a gigantic dick, so I’m not getting my hopes up that he’s getting help. He knows I like cute things, that I am a bit extra, and... wait, I hated sweets when I knew him. But cute things. Big weakness.

But it worked out. He seemed to realize that he was annoying me and crossing a boundary without me saying so. That’s probably why he sent the PDF. He specializes in placating. I won’t have my hopes up that he’s going to be an actual person until he gives an apology, un-disowns my brother for “making a fake sexual abuse charge,” and for good measure confesses to at least one murder.

I scanned the crap out of that PDF looking for attached files. I’m better than computers than he is. Amazingly, no tracking bugs this time. Back when he used to send me emails all the time (I don’t actually know why that stopped), he’d occasionally attach a tracking bug. That was before I had a cellular, so much easier to deal with. This current phone does send out coordinates when I use radars and maps, which is usually not a big deal. It tells me with an icon in the corner if something is tracking me, and I have a setting (I think everyone does?) that tells me if a closed app is trying to get my location.

I feel pretty safe lately.

Also, sorry I take so many breaks, but I really need them. I’ll start obsessing, first of all, and second, I get very, very attached to you guys and think about how you’re doing. Which is probably okay but you know.

Longest break I’ve taken so far was three years. Most the people I knew here moved on in that time. (Not all though! Not like it’s a bad thing to not need support like that anymore though.) If you ever pop by again, @Tanishq , I still think about you and am sorry I didn’t reply to your last few messages around here. Hope you’re living the good life
 
A lot has been on my mind, but three things in particular I want to address:

(1) Brandi blamed me for everything. She said “Are you lying?” “Are you tricking me?” “Are you getting something out of this?” Classic manipulation. If you can take 0 blame, something is wrong.

(2) I’ve been thinking about all I said on here about the pedophile — particularly all that stuff that he hated white people, and the white man like my father. In all honesty, there were some white people who had a hand in destroying his family, past and present. I imagine none of them were children.

I realized something. I was rereading the story and felt like it was the kind of story that you’d read to a kid, only darker, but the kind you expect to have a happy ending.

And it did. He suddenly repented and tried to kill himself.

Yet I have a memory of getting hit, hard, in the head, with a metal bat.

I realized this week that his story may have just been a story. Something to make me feel bad for him, to make me want to go out of my way to prove that a white person can be loving and kind. Something that would make the end, the “break up,” feel like I did good in the world. I think I may have been duped. He either still hates white people, or never cared to begin with. I remember @Freida saying that the reason I thought the pedophile was my friend was because he knew what he was doing. I think, finally, there’s some truth at least in that.

I still feel that his unwell attempts after he dismissed me were at least somewhat genuine. I think he did really have some guilt. It was right after I was continuously kind to him. He was used to teenagers. Not kids... wait, that sounds messed up too. hm

(3) I found out that Fungus had/has some things that I have no record of. OCD and memory-hoarding along with a still-good (not quite photographic but good) memory force me to keep matriculous records in weird ways. Usually by keeping certain things.

I tested my memory when I found some things that my memory straight up couldn’t recall today. It’s working fine. I was recalling what my bedroom looked like when I was one and a half. I wasn’t allowed to play in there because it was dangerous. My dad had junk everywhere. I wasn’t allowed to walk and got caged. My doctors claim my muscles may never strengthen properly, but I played sports and still exercise anyway.

A while ago, my phone’s main browser glitched. It suddenly opened 600+ tabs based on things in its history. (Long story, but the issue was resolved by professional staff at the phone’s mother company and it won’t happen again.) For the past year-ish, I’ve been slowly going through tabs and deleting them once I know what they are and can confirm that I don’t need them.

Something weird happened today. I had sort of forgotten that my browser had a “private browsing” section. I remember that I used it to hide things from Brandi, as she’d go through my phone for proof that I was lying. I got down to 255ish tabs (yay! So close to having more memory on my phone!) and I don’t know why but I got curious and tapped the button to view private tabs.

I was confused all day. I didn’t remember a single one. But they all somehow felt critically relevant. And I remember very clearly being sure to close every tab that was private. I had never left any open before — because then they could technically be found.

Yet there were over 100 of these tabs.

It finally dawned on me when I went home a few hours ago. It was when I tapped a tab about a certain animal that has figured out exactly how to catch plant cells and use them to make food, rather than eat them (cool article, probably one I would have remembered). They weren’t mine. These were carefully researched topics that Fungus was explaining to Brandi.

I’m not sure why I can’t remember them. I’m not going to look for reasons though. It might mean nothing

I will say, though, that work without Nestle has been odd. I took myself for a walk, apparently. But I remember that
 

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