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Matty D
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12-03-2018
20-12-2020
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24-11-2020
01:55 PM
Sorry to write another letter, but here goes anyway: Dear substitute RTO teacher, Last year, you made the stupidest, cruelest, and crappiest joke about my dog not wanting to be with me if I don’t give her enough pats, and I don’t give a damn if it WAS only a joke, because it left me feeling hurt and upset up until now, and let me tell you this - ANYONE else’s dogs out there honestly couldn’t care less how frequently/infrequently their owners pat them; they sure as hell will NOT love you any less for that, EVER. NOBODY talks about my dog that way. From Matty D.
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23-11-2020
08:15 PM
From @Matty D: Dear 2020, COVID-19 rules, and the government, Your rules have been WAY too mixed up and confusing for me to fathom, and as for YOU, 2020 and COVID-19 rules, you’re not off the damn hook either - you’ve been putting craploads of pressure on me, confusing me and leaving me wondering what the hell to do. And, of course, the government - how can I forget your silliest rule ever made - to stop wearing masks NOW just ‘cos we’ve made it almost a whole bloody month without any new virus cases or deaths?! You have NO idea how much I resent you all. Damn you, 2020, for being so goddamn hard on me, some of you messed-up COVID-19 rules for confusing the crap out of me and making it all the more harder for me to control my worsened anxiety, and the government for making this unmasking decision so frickin’ soon.
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04-05-2020
03:48 PM
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I’m fine, and I’m not really that concerned, it’s just that all I’m saying is, the longer they put off lifting the restrictions, the better, otherwise it might cause the illness to spread a lot faster and then we’ll probably just have to reinforce them anyway, because the sooner the restrictions are called off, the faster the disease will spread and more people might be at risk (mostly the elderly, that is!), because there was already another sudden spike in overnight cases the other night - 70 of them, and we sure as hell don’t want to surpass that number, so I reckon it’s for the best if they leave the restrictions upon us for a while longer.
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03-05-2020
10:05 PM
But what COULD happen if they’re lifted too soon is the virus might spread faster and we might be back to how it was when it all started. (I hope I wasn’t eavesdropping or spying on this) and I’m not sure if you remember this, but when you talked to one of the other users on here yesterday, you said to them that if the restrictions are lifted too soon, the spreading of COVID-19 might speed up and we might go back to being stuck in the same painful nightmare.
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03-05-2020
08:59 AM
Hello everyone, hope I’m not butting in here, but I just want to say something about Dan Andrews’ decision to lift lockdown restrictions on May 11, which is, I couldn’t care less if he says it’s not safe to do so just yet, because if the restrictions are lifted too soon, that’d probably only speed up the spreading of COVID-19 and leave us back where we were from when the restrictions started.
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01-05-2020
07:24 PM
I sure hope so too, because this stomach bug and diarrhoea crap needs to stop. SO damn ridiculous, I swear to God. Even one of my bloody grandmas (my dad’s mum) has it too! 🙄 And as much as I miss having special snacks (like chips, lollies, ice-cream, etc), I obviously can’t for now, because they’re 100% guaranteed to aggravate my already irritated guts, so all I can have for lunch/dinner is bland food, like boiled rice and potatoes, and toast/porridge (mixed with water) for breakfast until this sickness gets the hell away from me. I thought I was more healthier than this. Luckily my bug’s NOWHERE near as severe as my dog, Stella, when she caught it - on Sunday night, she had to spend the entire bloody night in animal hospital, because some of her diarrhoea had blood in it, which was a VERY serious sign, and she almost had to stay in that animal hospital a 2nd time, but thankfully, she didn’t - just for some more help from the vet and nurse.
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01-05-2020
04:08 PM
The only thing weighing me down is this constant abdominal pain that just will NOT stop coming and going in waves, and even when the worst of it has passed after I relieve myself, I still feel uncomfortable and bloated as hell, and just when I thought I’d FINALLY seen an end to my damn diarrhoea, it happened again when I used the bathroom just before. As much as it bloody sucks, all I can do for now is just keep taking my meds, replace any lost fluids/electrolytes, and consume only water and dry, plain food until this frickin’ bug blows over. SO inconvenient when there’s already COVID-19 restrictions.
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01-05-2020
03:58 PM
Sorry, disregard that post now; in fact, just forget I even posted about this in the first place - he called back and said I can still take the meds with AND without pain. I was just all over the place initially because I didn’t have a clear memory of what was said.
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01-05-2020
03:06 PM
14-04-2020
12:19 PM
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So am I. Thank God it’s finally been worked out.
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14-04-2020
10:54 AM
It’s been a hell of a wait, but, at long bloody last, I can now rejoice - she FINALLY made that long-awaited call and one of the teachers there said they’re OK with my decision of not wanting to take part in these sessions.
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13-04-2020
08:22 PM
Well, I highly doubt that about my night now because of how hurt, distraught, crap, and emotional I still feel after how I mistakenly treated my dad this morning (if you want to look back at my post about that). And yes, hearing about these sessions DOES suck, no doubt - I am sick and bloody tired of constantly being offered something I do not want to participate in. I wish there were no online classes so I could have less worries, less anxiety, and more damn freedom to work however the hell I want, because if I ever DO use the Zoom app, it’ll only be for sessions with my psychiatrist and NOTHING else. I want absolutely bugger all to do with this.
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13-04-2020
05:09 PM
AND (🙄😠😡) as if my day couldn’t get any worse - I spotted an email from one of my RTO teachers about some online classes on the Zoom app which I already told my mum and one of my other teachers there I don’t want to do this AT ALL (not even 1) because it is just WAY too overwhelming and stressful during my time off from school, as well as getting eye strain, headaches and a stiff neck and body after 2 frickin’ hours of it (but ESPECIALLY what I just said above) and just because I’m off school due to the COVID-19 and so many other damn students are joining in does NOT mean I need homeschooling with online classes - I can still do just that by completing some provided worksheets, because I have a whole bloody crapload of them, which is a HELL of a lot easier for me, and even if I didn’t have them, I STILL wouldn’t have wanted to do these damn sessions anyway! The sooner my mum rings them (which will be tomorrow) the better. If I wasn’t offered these bloody invitations in the first place, I wouldn’t have accidentally spoken to my dad the way I did.
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13-04-2020
03:24 PM
To be honest, the only thing that TRULY helps me at least a bit in these situations is to spend the rest of the day by myself, and also, truth be told, I still feel the lowest than I’ve ever been before, not to mention like crap. I know it was a mistake, I know, but still, though.... what the HELL was I thinking?!🤦♂️💔😭💔😭💔😭💔😭💔😭💔😭💔 I don’t want these memories to come back and haunt me further down the line, like next year, in 2 years, 5 years, even 10 years. I even sent this message to my mum, including several others : “I could just cry myself to sleep every night just thinking about this, because once you've admitted and fessed up to your wrongdoing, sure, you DO feel better and light-hearted again, but, more often than not, it also means you may end up regretting that wrongdoing for the rest of your damn life - I've done these kinds of things in the far-off past, and even to this day, I still regret them, only for them to double and triple in size as they come back to haunt me, because if I had the proper sleeping medications I had now and had less problems at my old schools, I'd have coped a HELL of a lot better and wouldn't have these memories coming back to bite me in the butt and stop me moving forward.” I HATE my day.
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13-04-2020
11:21 AM
Sorry about all that, I felt like that at the time, but I’m slightly better now (although still not completely) because we chatted about it over lunch, and he apologised for giving me a consequence, confiscating my phone, and for what he said about those terms at school, about someone on TV, etc. Feel free to warn me about those kinds of posts or not to make them anymore if you want, because it did have a fair amount of caps-lettered rants included in it, and I’d hate to get kicked off this site because of that - I’ll never forget that time in January a few years back when it happened on here, and I’d hate even more to have that happen again.
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31-03-2020
06:57 PM
Me too, because I don’t need all that extra mixed info that worries the hell out of me when I’m already as cautious enough as I am.
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30-03-2020
10:20 PM
Sorry, but no thanks, I just want to get away from these mixed messages on social media as much as I can.
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30-03-2020
10:18 PM
By social distancing at least 1.5 metres apart from other people, sanitising and washing my hands, etc, and I’m pretty damn certain I won’t die from (or even CATCH) this illness as 248 people have already bounced back from it, only 4 lives in Victoria have been lost (16 in total nationwide) my immune system is super strong, and at least the elderly are much, MUCH more likely to be prone to this disease than the younger ones like myself and my parents.
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30-03-2020
09:32 PM
Not sure if this rings true to anyone on here, but doesn’t it just make you mad and confused as all hell when the media says things about COVID-19 that don’t sound true or make much sense? Like, e.g, “we’ll come out strong on the other side”, “there’s no cause for alarm”, “don’t panic”, any of that crap? Because I just absolutely hate it to the core and the bottom of my heart to hear this when the whole damn world’s already in so much panic that some parts are even in lockdown (including Australia, Melbourne and nationwide). Like, seriously? This bloody media needs to give it a rest because I really do not need to hear any more about this disease, even if no-one in my house is at risk of catching it. I already know well enough what’s going on, as does everyone else, and I’m even home from my work education course because of this! Now, I don’t know about anyone else on here, but doesn’t it just feel totally and utterly messed up to be home from school just because of a damn virus spreading, even if it is a necessary and important precaution?
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05-01-2020
08:32 AM
Was he triggered or upset? I really hope he wasn’t, because I’d be really worried for him if he was.
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05-01-2020
08:32 AM
Sorry, I mistakenly typed “was” instead of “wasn’t”. Sorry if posting twice is annoying, because I understand if it is, and I’d hate to break the guidelines by doing that.
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03-01-2020
09:46 PM
Sorry about mentioning the user's name. I really hope he wasn't upset or triggered, because I'd feel bad if he was.
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03-01-2020
05:44 PM
@Taylor-RO, sorry to go over this again (and I know your and every other mod’s port of call is “no need to say sorry”, etc, but I still like to be anyway), but when someone said even though it makes sense to use mobile phones to ring my family, payphones are great too because he’s used them in the past, I hope that doesn’t mean I should try them out too, because last time I tried, I had to use up most of my coins in my wallet to talk to my mum, and the call only lasted about 30 seconds with each one I inserted into the coin slot, and it’s just too hard for me because I hate having to use up every single one of my 50-cent coins just to get a call through to my mum - it’s too stressful to even think about doing, and it’s been in my mind ever since, even when I tried my hardest not to think about it.
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15-11-2019
11:34 AM
21-06-2018 04:56 PM Re: Mistakes regarding using my phone instead of a pay phone in future "hi @Matty D- no need to apologize! You've expressed yourself well! We don't mind the use of bad language as long as it's not about or directed to another person (or yourself). But you've used words to describe how you're feeling and that's fine. I can hear how frustrating this was for you , but it sounds like you've come up with a good solution - to bring your charger to school so you can keep your phone charged, and always have it available to use on your way home if you need. I hope this works out for you - you've learnt from this situation and that's awesome!" @Bre-RO, This post from June 21, 2018, said the words I used are OK as long as they aren't about or directed towards another person (which I take it that the manager meant here on RO), but the one part I'm a little confused about is when they're said to myself, because I said on here that day that I was "so bloody angry and pissed at myself" for accidentally uttering the “F” word in front of my dad, so, well... that's directed at myself, because I was doing that too (as I sometimes did to myself on here as well), and not just saying how I felt, and I don't know about this manager's opinion, but I don't really see anything wrong with saying stuff like that towards myself, or with saying them about others and directing them towards them (and of course, by that, I mean other people I'm around, not anyone on RO), and alas, they don't have any problem with it, because they understand it's how I express myself, and because they and 99% of other people in this country don't see them as cursing.
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10-11-2019
05:48 PM
Yes, and although I know I didn’t break any of the guidelines, I’m still sorry for even mentioning those 2 names which I won’t repeat so I can make 100% sure this site stays anonymous and secret.
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10-11-2019
05:25 PM
Well, I’m really sorry to say that I cannot always have my focus on the present, because, no offence, but I think what you don’t know is that it can actually help me more often than not once it’s been talked out - for me, if I don’t talk about the past/future, then it won’t help me, and I’ll only end up feeling all emotional, miserable, blue, broken-hearted and torn apart, 💔😭 because every single damn one of us as humans will always remember past times and reflect on/talk them over from time to time, and not to dismiss your advice/suggestions (tell me if I am or any of the managers/staff on here as I still remember that email I got from staff back in January last year about these kinds of things) but I really don’t find grounding to be helpful to me, because I’m just not that kind of human being. And even though you don’t see any problem with that, I personally still kind of do, because when she said “For now let’s leave this one,” etc, that’s why I feel like I probably should’ve just kept my mouth shut, because, after all, it wasn’t even my bloody problem - it was his, and I reckon (in my entitled opinion) that it was kind of fair enough when she said that line, and this is also because I’m also anxious easily most times, but I still honestly think I still would’ve thought the same thing even if I wasn’t feeling like this. So, sorry, 🤷♂️ that’s just how things are for me.
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10-11-2019
01:44 PM
This will be my last post for good after this has been talked through, but if any of the managers are free, I just want to say sorry about some of my posts to another user because when I told a staff member about some of the things he said that shocked me, it was when she said “For now let’s leave this one, as we have spoken to [username removed] and he’s doing really good work getting on top of it”, which made me feel like (and don’t say I don’t need to feel like this, because it’s been worrying me for a damn long time and we all have feelings), maybe if I hadn’t gotten involved, he would’ve had someone else on RO to lean on? And, yeah, I really just feel like that maybe if I kept my nose out of his business, RO staff (probably) wouldn’t have had to remind me about the situation with him, so even though it wasn’t anything bad or wrong I did, and my help to him was appreciated, I still just want to say a massive sorry about that night. I wasn’t upset, just a little shocked to see someone writing such nasty things. I should’ve just sent the damn email about it instead of bringing it up online, because that was one of her most helpful solutions.
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05-07-2019
12:17 PM
No thank you. These will be my last posts for good, and not to be rude or anything here, but I’d really, really appreciate it loads if mods and managers could please stop including me in special discussions about these kinds of topics, because, face it - I’m never going to be the kind of person to be a part of these discussions, because it doesn’t mean that much to me, and it’s starting to annoy me a bit. 😊
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