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I had a friend who was a very pretty woman, but she drew a bunch of tattoos on her face in eyeliner and wore a baggy sweatshirt and jeans one year for Halloween and it was uncanny. She already had super long ringlets and she just fucking nailed it.

Poor Webb Haymaker, he tried..

Honestly, I think he probably succeeded in helping a lot of people, he just couldn’t keep going forever. It’s absolutely tragic that he didn’t make it to meet his daughter though.

I’ve always been an atheist, but the older I get, the more I wish there was a traditional Christian afterlife (just with the moral values determining where people end up significantly tweaked). It would be nice to think he and Yoshi could be reunited and at peace.

So we’re basically all fucked, compared to what we’ve seen so far. I definitely ate more sugar as a young child than my grandmother, born just before WWI. My parents might have had more than me (though almost certainly not), but lots of places still had food rations for much of the baby boomers’ early childhood.

At least we now have judicial clearance to block the AFD, so when we wait until they’re even more popular and can’t, it’ll be… oh, no wait, even more infuriating

Nothing wrong

Strength is throwing a rotten tomato hard enough to explode on impact.

I think it’s a combination of guilt, shame, helplessness, and an inability to connect with their autistic children that makes them hate it so much.

Guilt because autism is partially genetic and they blame themselves (of course, many genuinely stupid/brainwashed people think they caused it with vaccines). Shame because they’re too close minded to be proud of children who aren’t like them. Helplessness because there’s no cure for it and the symptoms can be incredibly severe. The inability to connect could be due to the severity of their child’s symptoms, but it’s more likely because their child doesn’t respond the way they expect and they and their child don’t recognize each other’s emotions from their body language.

All of that is made even more difficult if they themselves are on the autism spectrum and reject that.

I’m autistic and I come from a family of high functioning autistic people. My dad doesn’t think any of us are autistic, even though it’s very clear (he and I used to bond over our mutual love of excel and he has always been uncharacteristically thoughtful about my absolute intolerance for the sound of knife sharpening). I think part of the block for him is accepting that his own family history of ham radio operators, train engineers, and cryptographers might not be totally neurotypical.

He has accepted his ADHD, but it’s a hard diagnosis to disagree with when you’ve literally had over 60 jobs. Another barrier is that he feels like it’s “too many things” to have more than one mental health diagnosis, even though he is aware of the existence of comorbidities. Because he thinks he’s normal, he thinks everyone struggles with social cues, overstimulation, and changes in routine. Even though he knows he has ADHD, he got a master’s degree and had a successful career (despite changing jobs a lot), so he feels like people who struggle with ADHD are weak or lazy.

It’s fucked up, but it’s also a predictable reaction to growing up in the environment he did. Luckily, none of his kids takes his opinion on this to heart, and he was always good and reasonable enough to help us seek treatment for our mental health. My siblings are raising their neurodivergent children with much more acceptance and support than what we got as kids, just as he raised us with more than he got. Hopefully my family is not alone.

That was infuriating the whole way through. I don’t exactly want to recommend reading further, because it’s just a depressing story all around, but this was well written and provided the piece of information I was shamefully burning with curiosity about

Per 100k full time employees, 1.6, 3.1, and 1.8/year versus 0.8/year for electricians, pipefitters, and millwrights, respectively, vs office workers.

A bachelor's degree is just a checkbox to prove you went through the motions.

That really depends on the program. A general studies BA from a correspondence school might not indicate much, but a BS in the focus of a highly specialized university does.

electricians, pipefitters, millwrights

Electricians, pipefitters, and millwrights have really hazardous jobs. That’s why they get paid so well, directly and indirectly (because it takes a lot of training to do those jobs safely).

I’m not trying to discourage anyone from taking these jobs, but they’re not risk free.

It’s drier than I enjoy my wine, but it’s not undrinkable or anything. I would dilute it, just because I would assume that it already has a lot of sugar.

Though my uncle worked auditing cranberry bogs for the MA government (I now realize this might have been kid logic- he did something with cranberries as a state employee, I don’t know exactly what), so I grew up eating cranberries in all their forms.