Too Afraid To Ask

POTENTIALLY DUMB QUESTION ALERT, but I’m here for a reason. I have SEVERE ADHD which a lot of the time feels like I’m bordering on autism when it comes to specific interactions. I’ve developed a habit of just, throwing out the phrase “oh, I’m just hella autistic” as a reason if I do something weird in a social interaction, like get overly passionate about something or get awkward or whatever.

“I will talk to a therapist because I’m not sure, maybe both? But here’s a bit of what I’ve written down:

so i know this one girl who’s pretty freaky, if you know what i mean, and got mad at me because i didn’t share her interest in gay porn manga, but i just could never get into it. i prefer romantic rather than sexual content, and as a lesbian, i prefer romance between two women.

Sorry to ask, I don’t want to seem ignorant but I really don’t get it. Like, I saw a post on someone identifying as Norwegian-American and I thought of what another commenter said that most people don’t do the stuff Americans do and how most people will see them as American. But I see many Americans strongly identify with a culture they were raised with. Is it still okay for them to do that? What’s the point?

Let’s say hypothetically you’ve got a bad case of covid & strep throat so you check into a hotel for a week to quarantine away from friends & family, at any point do you notify hotel staff of your illness? Or would you rather lay low, ashamed, not mention it, hoping/assuming they clean the room as well as possible after you leave. Knowing there’s a possibility the housekeeper and anyone nearby may catch this bug??

Hi, I identify as a gay man for now and I feel disconnected from womanhood, but my body is female. I want to know how normal it is for women not to be comfortable in their own bodies and wish they had bodily characteristics of a born male. I've felt that way ever since I was eight or seven, so it got me thinking that I could have known I was a boy even then.

I know that "females" is seen as icky when describing women or girls, but since not all women were born female and not all born females are women, would that make addressing them as such transphobic?

I had to deal with this one lady my age who was/is friends with a girl who used to bully me (I caught up with her and the bully is so far nice, it's been four years so it's possible, even likely, she changed). She was even worse than the bully, she constantly acted like she was going to attack me, screamed my name like she was my archnemesis in a story, and after sending threats to me, calling me names, and telling me to die, she made several other accounts with different names like "Kaitlyn", "Josephine", etc. all friending me and liking my posts. I knew it was her from the mannerisms, being friends with all the lady's friends, and one other thing: Kaitlyn was her username but her display name was kept as her real name.

I'm not talking about troll posts, but like innocent posts that always have 1 or 2 downvotes on every comment they post. Is it someone disagreeing or just a downvote troll?

my mom is jewish and russian… as you can imagine, we have family in russia and israel, both of which are very hated for the wars going on there. i’m personally very anti-war, but i’m afraid people, especially irl, will hate me for my background.

I like the idea of holding hands or hugging my girlfriend, but IDK if I see her as a romantic partner or more of a deep platonic one.

In my fictional country, my character banned Kiwi Farms, but someone said that it would mean she hated free speech.

I’m asking here because I may get judged less. I’m not asking as a hateful person. In my story, my worldbuilding, there is a fictional Queen who is banning sites like Kiwi Farms.

so i was talking to a maga family member about one of my stories i was planning to make, which happened to have a diverse set of characters from different cultures and countries.

right-wing, left-wing, liberal, whatever. i’m not too knowledgeable on politics and I feel like this is really stupid to ask, but I’m curious.

Obviously like the other questions like this say, it’s not a diagnosis. Plus, this guy refuses help, but I know it’s surely something his behavior indicates.

Like, no, you trying to beat me up every time I don’t do what you want can’t be excused with “just being mad”.

Again, this is not for armchair diagnosis. Just to analyze the behavior.

Or narcissistic behavior like some people have said?

My online friend Jaiden lives in and is from the Philippines. She has dealt with a lot of trauma and abusive parents, it seems, and also seems to have been bullied. I have heard from many people, especially those who have been to the Philippines, that it’s great. The country is pretty and the people are nice.

i am russian. i moved here as a child at like 10 years. i currently live in united states but my mom and i miss russia.

This feels very stupid and uncertain to answer, but I get really curious.