Why am I crying now?

All of those are legitimate reasons to cry.
- How about these?:
  I just found out Swans can be gay
  I just saw something happy, which made me sad because I don't have that
  I saw the color purple
  
  Also: remembering that swans can be gay
  
  It's ok for swans to be gay
- hey stranger unrelated fun fact you might enjoy: did you know swans can be gay?

When I was 8 my mother brought me and my siblings to her boyfriend's on Christmas Eve and they went out for drinks and left us with a 13 year old baby sitter. They dropped us in the driveway without bothering to let us in and his house was locked. It was snowing and we were scared. They didn't come back until after midnight. She was drunk and blamed him and piled us into the car and took off and crashed into a snowbank. I had to go up to a stranger's house early on Christmas morning and wake them up for help, which is probably why I am so awkward in social situations now.
- Wow, you're bringing back very specific memories from my childhood. I hope you've managed to heal somewhat and found things that make you happy.

A fun thing is that I don't even have a uterus anymore but since I kept my ovaries, I still know when my period would've been because I still get emotional and hungry about it. Stupid body.

“Fluorescent lights in grocery store too bright, causing a downward spiral into existential dread.”
Fluorescent lights too dim to “save energy” making everything creepier, causing increased nervousness

Imagine Implying that ovulating is not a legit reason to cry
- I think they're implying that legitimate things are immediate, sad, and personal. But I think all of these options are legitimate reasons to cry.
  What's an illegitimate reason? To manipulate someone

I am a big believer in the therapeutic effects of having a good solid cry.
I am man enough to cry when I need to and damn, a good solid cry does feel amazing when you are done.
Crying removes emotional tension and gets rid of excess energy, leaving you better able to deal with the issue after.
- For most of my life whenever I felt shitty for a few days but hadn’t cried yet, I’d put on a sad movie and just bawl during the whole thing. Felt much better after a good cry and a good sleep.

Do people really go crazy when they are hungry? I keep seeing it and I assume it's some exageration or meme.
- I worked in the food service industry for 5 years, yes they absolutely do.
  We had to call the police on people multiple times in those years for things as simple as "1 too many pickles on burger" because the dude got 4 pickles when he asked for 3.
  Every single day, multiple times a day, people came in and lost their shit because they were hungry.
- yes
- There are definitely people who can't handle it. It makes sense in a way; pretty much everybody will lose it once they start starving, so there's definitely a line. Some people just have that line much closer. It seems like a physical tolerance, not really a psychological or character trait.
  My spouse is like that and can't go more than 6 hours or so without food. I'm the opposite and can easily go more than a day without before getting cranky, but I assume that's from a lot of practice as a kid.
  
  If only I could get my spouse to understand this better. Eating times seem to be her go to when time is tight and we need to shift things around. That really doesn't work for me.
  With the way it can effect me I've been concerned I might be diabetic, but my blood work consistently shows that I'm not and not close to at risk of developing it.
  It doesn't help that I've had numerous experiences over time with people saying they'd be fine to skip a meal or eat later who definitively weren't. As a response I tend to worry about that more than I probably should.
  Thankfully it only comes up regularly during road trips, and we've agreed that it only takes one of us to want to stop for us to stop (and go get food, bathroom, etc).
- Especially people with an unhealthy relationship to food.
- Rule of HALT - never argue / discuss when you are hungry, angry, lonely or tired. All of these feelings make people unreasonable and they lash out.

Legitimate reason, but I also hate fluorescent lights

"Just Be Happy!" - every parent ever
🥲

I don't ovulate but some of these resonate

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-cri-evrytiem

Jesus Christ lighting in a store really?
- So, I did a bit of digging into this to find a reasonable explanation for this one. I've gone through dozens blog posts, research papers, and skimmed through two webinars on the topic. Turns out, this is actually a pretty contentious subject in the sociology field, and there's a lot of competing explanations for this phenomenon. I reached out to an old colleague of mine, Prof. I.M. Bawling, author of Why Am I Crying? Tears, Wails, and Bellyaching Explained, and he was absolutely stumped. After a heated debate that ultimately resulted in the destruction of our lifelong friendship and revoking my invitation to Christmas dinner, the conclusion we've come to is:
  It's a joke.
  
  I started to expect Hell in a Cell at the end of this. Good job. 😆