Stuff happening in the mouth is a particular form of torture--which is why it gets used as a particular form of torture.

I didn't even have anything against dentists! My childhood dentist reminded me of a hobbit and my orthodontist in middle and high school raised calla lilies! I find it very unfair that in full adulthood I'm having to feel prickly and resentful and vaguely nightmarish about a discipline I never took personally before.

Little Wittgenstein may want to tell you you never will write again, but little Spock must say that logically speaking, the trend is quite to the contrary.

Thank you. I am working on trusting that. I just feel like all my brain is going toward keeping in motion, rather than collapse.