Welcome to Episode 778 with my guest, Laura Moran.

I am Paul Gilmartin, and this is the Metal Illeneless Happy Hour, which is a place for honesty about all the battles and our heads, from medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas and sexual dysfunction, to everyday compulsive negative thinking.

This show is not meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling.

I am not a therapist.

You have been warned.

This week on Patreon, instead of bonus surveys, I have a bonus episode.

It is an interview with licensed clinical social worker Jesse Jonesburg.

And we talk about ADHD, a little bit about autism, and a couple of other things. So check that out. How do you, how's that

grab you? Is that an old phrase? How's that grab you? I don't, I don't hear any of the youngsters

saying, how's that grab you? Oh my God. I'm so afraid that I'm becoming that person that when I was a kid, I would look at their phrases and I would, I'd hear their phrases and I'd be like, don't you know nobody says that anymore?

It's funny, as much as we don't want to be that person that we looked at when we

were a kid and thought, oh my God, whether it's our parents or a stranger, we're going to be

them. And I think even worse than that is the old person trying not to be old and just, you know, like a 60-year-old person with their hat on sideways, saying, yo.

All right.

This is from the Ask Paul Anything survey, and this is filled out by Kyra.

And she writes, in your, and this actually is not a question.

This is more her weighing in on something. In your recent darkest

surveys episode, you apologized for reading so many with female abusers. As someone who runs

a discord support group for victims of childhood sexual abuse, I want you to know that you did the right

thing by reading these surveys.

A lot of people feel like they have to keep quiet about being abused by a woman.

Men feel like it's not manly to admit to being hurt by a woman, and women sometimes face

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