I forgive her because she was so young and who would turn that down? I blame the decision to cast someone so young and without the proven ability to pull it off.

I didn't bother, but figured there had to be something out there for any given Pokemon.

Sexy Geodude?

I was obsessed with Mulan as a little kid, but don't remember wanting stuff. Just to watch it over and over.

I was raised Catholic by Christmas-and-Easter Catholic (but nonetheless very socially conservative, killing abortion doctors is God's work, etc.) parents. Personally, I don't want my future kids raised in that environment. I still have so much I'm getting over from having that upbringing that just messed me up…

I'm a 5'6" woman married to a 5'6" man. I love being the same height. And I do most of the cooking but he does most of the cleaning, so I think we're pretty even in housework. Didn't think that had to do with height, though.

I made a play while we were in the hospital and apparently assigned all the nurses and doctors around parts and they did it. I was 2.5 years old.
My brothers were twins and born 2 months premature and at first they were warning my mom that they might end up with learning difficulties because of it. Then later my mom…

Other than Hawaii and some parts of Texas that are directly west of us rather than northwest, pretty much.

Hmm. I didn't realize Delaware was considered part of the South, but probably just because it seems so far north to me and, having never been there, it all kind of blurred together as "up north" to me. (I'm originally from southern FL, where you have to go "up north" to get to The South, so it's a little confusing…

This happened in Philadelphia, which is not in the South to my knowledge.

Makes sense that GW Bush's influence made the difference- though possibly a difference between California and Florida as well. Big step backwards. :(
I don't remember masturbation being mentioned at all, or if it was not in a way where I could comprehend what it was. I would have looked it up on the internet because it…

I figured as much, and I think that's a good amount for them to be exposed to...I wish mine had been better. I tied myself up at that age sometimes to experiment but I didn't realize it was a sexual thing until much later- I wish I had both known what it was and that it was not freakish.
I got yelled at when I was 15…

Isn't 9th grade the last time students get sex ed? It was for me, and I graduated high school in 2008, so not that long ago. I didn't learn what an orgasm was there, though I didn't have one until I was 20 anyway so I don't know if having learned it at 14 would have helped much. And as someone who was into bondage at…

I second that! No energy (I can't stand games like that, trying to force me to play on their timeframe and not mine or pay money to avoid it), you just need to vote on other people's outfits to get "tickets" to enter events.

Oh definitely. I was in chemical engineering my first two years and switched to chemistry at the end of my second year and finishing in 4 years was still not an issue. I think I only had like 2 classes done for engineering that didn't count for some requirement in chemistry, and having had thermodynamics beforehand…

Unfortunately I think you're right. A lot of kids don't know what they want to do but also aren't particularly skilled enough to get scholarships, but they're getting in anyway so they go and end up with a lot of debt. I think it's fine to not know exactly what you want to do and use college to explore that if you are…

Yeah, I take issue with that too. I know there are a lot of for-profit schools that do really shady things financially while not really preparing people for the workplace- one of my friends got signed on to a loan by one at 17 without a co-signer which seems all kinds of shady and was never able to finish there…

Cool! I think the volunteer experience helped me learn that I really love it. I likely could have gotten the job anyway but what happened was that I dropped off my resume at the front desk and as I was leaving the building the boss called me asking if I was still there and could I interview right now? I'd never been…

Oh ok. I just think that we shouldn't let high schoolers get discouraged and think there's no way around debt so they may as well not even try because debt is normal. I don't know that that message is really getting out to kids that there are things you can do to prevent or minimize debt unless it's something their…

My four years of volunteer tutoring in high school translated to a 20 hr/week job in undergrad that paid 9/hr, far more than you'll get at most jobs in college, and now to an easy side job where I can make 13/hr and do as few hours of it a week as I want while I'm doing my PhD. I don't know that I would have been able…