Right but imagine that 10 year old has the ability and permission to beat you to feel powerful. That he’s wearing the patch specifically to scare you. That is scary. Psychopaths are scary, and the fact that they don’t feel the need to be professional enough to not wear these patches that mean I am here because I want to kill you is scary, whether the patch design is moronic or not.
Yeah, I love the clones, it’s like bonus levels
I was thinking about letting a cis girl get breast augmentation in my comment, so i wasn’t really worried about her being disappointed, more that her motivation for body modification is bullying. Kids are really mean, and unformed brains (and formed ones!) Have a hard time seeing past that into even just 4 years in the future.
I don’t think I understand your comment though, people can have whatever tits they want at 21? I’m talking about 15 year olds.
Yeah, it’s nuts. I’m one of 15 grand kids, and me and my 3 sisters are the only ones who do anything for her. No one’s doing well enough to really help, so asking just feels like I’ll lose the relationships and still not get any help. There’s definitely resentment building though
My brother has been off his medication while unemployed / interviewing / first 90 days of his new job until his insurance kicks in. Breaks my heart to hear him describe how hard it is to know he’s intelligent, but everyone at his new job genuinely believes he’s dumb. Kid has an IQ of 141, but without ADHD meds is barely scraping by at his office.
I’m sure this is an inappropriate question, but out of curiosity, are you a man or a woman?
I’m just always curious with this because women are typically diagnosed later or not at all because women figure out masking earlier and better.
I wonder if it’s purely self preservation on the part of women or if women are more explicit in social rules with one another?
I quit for about a year and a half and by the end just thought I was stupid due to aging/ motherhood. Then one day I accidentally consumed like 2 cups worth (migraine meds have a ton of caffeine!) And I was a super hero that day. I got so much done! I could actually do puzzles again! My brain worked! Then I checked the medicine bottle and was like… oh.
Anyway, I’m diagnosed with ADHD now and realized I’ve been self medicating with caffeine since high school. I’ll never go off it again unless I get actually medicated. I also drink a ton of decaf because I just love drinking coffee
They are. But what’s the alternative? The elderly person who doesn’t know who you are dies their slow, maybe 10 year death in your living room when you don’t have the support you need to care for them? It’s either awful for the elderly person or awful for everyone.
Source: we can’t stomach putting granny in one of those so she lives with us, and I wipe her butt every day. I feel suicidal, and she feels… idk. Because the dementia is too bad for her to really tell me. We can’t put her in one because we know she’ll be abused, but I genuinely can’t and don’t judge anyone who drops their family member off and walks away.
Yeah this game is definitely better if you’re totally burned out/ depressed, cause then the handholding is kind of nice. Plus the main island is kind of sandboxy to create your real home/ base since you basically have very little autonomy in the main quests, and you don’t get that in the first one. I feel like my whole life is so many decisions and I’m too tired to actually do hobbies or game, but I can do a cute game like builders with no brain, just mindless fun.
I feel the same way that it’s like if Minecraft came with a Lego manual and all you’re doing is following it.
Do you like Lego? Do you like following a kit, or do you want to build how you want without instructions?
And I think also shared what food he had. Yeah, the kid was under prepared for sure, but apparently he had studied the food sources and terrain somewhat. He got unlucky. Not being prepared for unlucky is very very dumb. But most people I hear mad about this think he was zero prepared
Idk what the ulterior motive is, but if your goal is to protect children this is like the third or fourth least damaging porn of all. Like ban all other fetishes first
Yeah, I read that hypothetically consuming the plant (which resembled a nontoxic look alike) could have made it so he was too weak to scavenge what he needed to survive. He could have survived otherwise. He was certainly gambling with his life being out there alone, but I read the claims of him being totally unprepared were exaggerated.
Once I did a single small inhale off a dab and missed all of friendsgiving sick in bed. Also once I took a hit off a friend’s vape and had to Uber home from the halloween party cause too high. Would much rather use an old joint where you kind of know where you are and can build more slowly
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I agree, but does suck for upper middle class kids who’s parents suck. My parents were poor so I was eligible for all kinds of scholarships/aid. My hs boyfriend’s dad was well off enough that he qualified for zero aid even though his dad wasn’t interested in supporting him financially at all.
He ended up with much higher student loans than me, though we received equal financial support from our parents.
Our mindsets around money were different though so maybe it evens out? He wasn’t afraid of debt, took out loans for everything, became an engineer, does ok. I got a full ride, worked three jobs to cover room and board, ended up overwhelmed and depressed and dropped out. Eventually got my AA at community college. Still have like 7k in student loans a decade later with no real degree.
Where do you draw the line? Not being combative, just curious. Like my toddler should not have bodily autonomy. I don’t think a 5 year old would handle that responsibility well either. At what age do you get it, or does it increase gradually?
I try to let my toddler choose who they hug, or let them pick their clothes when I can, but they are very dumb. They don’t understand the consequences of not wearing shoes, or insisting on a jacket on a hot day. They should have little to no autonomy over their diet or it would just be 15 bananas and constant constipation.
I am ON BOARD for discontinuing the barbaric genital mutilation that is the norm in my country, but do you let a teen get a breast augmentation or a nose job just because their high school peers are bullies? Your teen’s (and young adult’s) brain isn’t done cooking. Where’s the line for body modification expression? Even just evidence of ear piercings don’t go away fully for decades.
What are the basic rights kids and teens should have? (And sorry to hear you live in a community where physical abuse is normalized)
I touch hand rails. And i never wash my hands immediately upon entering my home unless I’ve just been shopping. I don’t get sick almost ever. Is the idea that this prevents you from getting sick or just that it helps you not to feel gross?
Of course 2 years ago I had a child, I touch as little as possible in public, I wash my hands constantly while out and at home. I am sick all the time. The child doesn’t go to daycare and we don’t go to church but we’re all sick several times a year.
No, at least for some people they can control it. I told my loud sneezing husband who "couldn’t help it " if his sneeze woke the child, the child was his responsibility alone to care for and he found a way to sneeze normally.
Communication is not an option when the man speaks no English and is functionally blind. You can’t mime any thing. You wouldn’t have been able to guess his language either to use a translator app, because it’s not like he was speaking something recognizable to the average American.
I agree, calling the police is a gamble at best, but so is letting a stranger into your home who is holding a curtain rod. It was not obviously a walking stick with red tape on the end. Unfortunately, as a woman in America, your default is to be wary if not afraid of men.
This situation just sucks for everyone involved, and is a downright tragedy for the man. He was abused by the authorities, not the random woman whose porch he ended up on.
If withholding lifesaving care is murder, everyone who hasn’t donated a kidney is a murderer. Everyone who didn’t donate blood this month is a murderer. Everyone who isn’t an organ donor is a murderer.
No one getting an abortion is a murderer, they’re just not agreeing to share all of their organs with another person for almost a year.
So yeah, I just don’t understand their position. They don’t call withholding medical care by sharing organs murder in any other context.