Triumph

It’s the leaves that make it feel cornucopiaey.

Yes, that’s a word.

I’m pretty sure it was William Henry Harrison.

You’ve not met very many people then, and/or are heavily influenced by what you see online. Most people, yes even in the US, are not like what you’re describing.

You are not allowed to be modest and enjoy your life here. You have to always be striving for more and deeply unhappy with what you already have. It’s the national religion.

Who’s being hyperbolic again?

You’re the one who brought it up. If you’re already fine with it, and I misread your several comments as your being conflicted about all that, forgive me. But “You can tell me these magical ‘supportive’ people exist, but to me they are entirely theoretical” really doesn’t sound like you’re okay with it.

All that said, just because people are family doesn’t mean they can’t be shitty shitty people. Just because you’ve known someone a long time doesn’t necessarily make them a friend.

To put it bluntly, yes.

After reading your reply to someone else, you seem to be wrapped up in what all of those people think about you. If you can unwrap yourself without cutting them out, do that. It’ll take a lot of quiet confidence and being able to let their criticisms roll off your back.

That’s hard to do when you’re in a hole, and nobody wants to support your getting out of it. (And by hole, I mean your mental state, not your financial situation.) You should connect with people who support you, not with people who continue to push you down.

The people who give you shit for having more room than you actually need are self-selecting themselves out of your life.

The Aztec was decent to drive, it was just kind of ugly and not terribly reliable.

The Cimarron was, as you say, a rebadged Cavalier. The Cav was the bottom of the barrel that GM had to offer at the time (1982), and they thought it would be a good idea to slap their flagship brand on it.

It was a legendary failure, on par with the Edsel.

It’s to get you to accidentally click on the thing they want you to instead of what you intended.

Has the world forgotten the Cadillac Cimmaron?

And also my girl.

Yes it isn’t.

No I didn’t.

I cannot debate you, and I will not debate this point.

I can not!

Or “Anything but that”

I have a trans son who went from gay to non-binary to trans. Like you, we as parents love him just the same, wholly support him, have always - but yeah, it’s a hell of a roller coaster. We weren’t raised to understand that this is one of the possibilities when you have a kid, so it’s totally normal to feel lost.

Explain that to your kid. Let them know you’re going to support and love them always, but you’re human and the product of your generation, and you’re going to make mistakes. Hell, I recently almost deadnamed my son because I’d just woken up and there was some minor crisis going on. I caught myself but I was certain he’d noticed, so after I got my coffee in me I made a point to apologize and explain. That was the right thing to do.

Be honest about yourself to your kid. Own your mistakes. Keep trying. Ask for their help. You’re in this together.

Pretty sure he welded himself inside it.

Eh, Heemeyer was an asshole. He was given a few different perfectly reasonable resolutions and refused them all.

Being at such a high altitude, the effects of gravity are less. This means that players will have a lesser risk of injury when they pretend to be injured.