Ovulation does not happen 14 days AFTER your period, it happens 14 days BEFORE your period. So if your cycle is 24 days, ovulation happens on the tenth day of your cycle. If your cycle is 32 days, it happens 18 days after your period. This is really important to understand, I have met countless women who didn’t…

Population stats don’t count for much when you’re the one having an unwanted pregnancy though.

I got pregnant with my son on the tail end (was spotting) of my period. My doctor didn’t believe me. I have a shorter cycle and I think sperm can live in a woman’s body for three days. I had been trying via the calendar for several months with no luck. The spontaneous sex did it. I ended up going into labor 6 days…

Pretty sure people that post stuff like that have never taken a flight longer than 4 hours.

>Airplane armrests are to be split evenly between passengers. One person takes the front half of the armrest, the other person takes the back half.

I’m definitely taking my shoes off on an international flight. As long as my feet don’t smell and I’m wearing socks. But there is no way I’m wearing shoes for an entire 13-hour flight.

Also, unless there is an empty seat between you, NEVER push up the dividing armrest. It is down for a reason- my space on this side, your space on that side. This is a sacred and powerful divider. Even if parts of you are spilling under it and squeezing against my thighs, I can pretend that it impossible because the…

I have an adult brother with a low IQ and various learning disabilities. He will probably never be self-sufficient. He lives with my parents, and will most likely come live with me or our other brother once both of my parents are gone.

The article paints a very grey picture. Sara clearly wants her daughter and wants to do right but it’s really unclear if she can. The state is in a damned if you do/damned if you don’t situation. And there are limited resources to help disabled parents. The weird part is that more credit wasn't granted to the…

From the linked article:

I hear you. My brother is borderline and semi independent with a lot of family and agency support. He’s higher functioning than Sara sounds from the article (can follow directions, take the bus, handle money) and in no way equipped to raise a child. People with family members in this situation probably see this as a…

how does anyone’s religion have any bearing on how good of parents they’re going to be or how suited they are for adoption. SMDH. that just infuriates me.

My sister’s IQ is about 65. She’s very high functioning in some areas, very low in others. She does well enough to live on her own, but just barely. She forgets to take medication, struggles with simple cooking directions, etc. She actually conceived several times but miscarried. I do not believe that her body was…

It was more than that she missed a feeding and had trouble with the diaper:

Unpopular opinion: I think calling child services was the right choice. I have a relative with a similar IQ who was the single parent of his daughter, and she turned out alive...but not great. She did not have the kind of advocate a child with a typically-abled parent would. Kids need more than to be fed, clothed, and…

I can’t say I disagree with DCF’s original assessment. Read the linked article: as a child, Sara was removed from her parents’ home because her father was violent and may have sexually abused her. Sending a new baby girl into that home without a second thought would be horribly short-sighted. Additionally, reading…

Sigh. I have a learning-disabled parent with a below-average IQ. Not 70, but not great. I have a lot of feelings about this article but I’ll sum it up with, “I think intellectually disabled people can be great parents, but they are also not always ideal parents and their children will face many, many hurdles that go…

I was on board with this until I thought about it in the context of a nightclub. I (a woman) go out alone to clubs all the time, I know I’m being stupid, but it’s the only way to see the DJs I want to see. Anyway, every single fucking time I go out, I have a creepy encounter. Thinking about having to use the same…

Call me backwards or old fashioned, but *do not want.*

Look, I’m all for gender neutral bathrooms..there’s stalls, no one cares. But locker rooms? No. I’m hit on almost every single day, especially at the gym. I also like to change, shower, etc and I’m not modest. I trust the women in the locker room because they dont eye rape me like 75% of dudes. I’m not saying men are…