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  • Pretty sure it’d fry the power supply. Thats my first bet, is that it wouldn’t even get through it.

    If it did pass through, it could fry your electronics. A USB killer is a short pulse, and not at all strong compared to main, so I expect that it’d act more like if a neutral was floating, than an actual surge at the voltage a USB killer usually gets to.

    No idea for sure though and I’m not an electrician.




  • You show that you are dominated by sight even as you say you aren’t.

    Losing your hearing or touch would remove peripheral senses, yes, and certainly that would be unnerving, but think how much worse it would be to lose sight. Hearing wasn’t even a factor for you beyond your peripheral, because what you can see is so much clearer, so much more comprehensive, than what you can hear, that hearing is negligible where you have sight.

    Hearing is a backup sense. Something you lean on when you don’t have sight, but its fidelity is poor enough in people that we rely nearly wholly on sight, when we can.

    Losing that cone of vision impacts us far more than our hearing, although of course losing either is massively detrimental.











  • Yes.

    I started doing that when I was walking back to my dorm in college. It was winter, night fell early, and I didn’t notice someone 10’ ahead of me heading the same way. They got freaked out by the guy following them.

    It turned out to be someone who also lived in my dorm, so I “followed” them most of the way home before I realized the issue and called out to them.

    We ended up talking for a bit, and I said I’m sorry for scaring them, but the biggest issue was I seemed to come out of nowhere, so when they freaked out they thought I was some creep like, waiting to jump someone.

    So yeah, I make noise, for others comfort. I don’t even think about it anymore, it’s just automatic.

    The person I followed wasn’t even a woman, he just thought I was gonna mug him, but if I can freak out a 6’2" guy I could freak out anyone by accident.





  • Well first off, if nothing works, she might just not be ready, so whatever you do, don’t push it too far, it won’t help.

    If she’s using a normal toilet with one of the adapters, consider getting one that can go in her room or wherever shes more comfortable. It kinda kicks the can down the road, because you’ll probably have similar troubles shifting to the actual toilet, but it means she’s actively reinforcing the potty training and not holding it in if it works.

    Pretending to use the toilet yourself could reassure her that it’s safe, too.

    Good luck!