Same here! I guess I'm an older millennial (27), but my social circle is doing just fine on the relationship front- lots of rings and weddings and sonograms on my Facebook feed, lots of serial monogamist friends.

I had a life insurance policy as a baby. I think the idea what that it would cover funeral costs while I was a minor and the coverage amount would go up significantly once I turned 18. Then I would have a standard "take care of the surviving relatives" policy at a cheaper rate than normal. But I was lazy/broke and let…

You might want to check out the rest of the /nosleep forum, where this story was first posted. It's all fiction, and everyone on the site knows that it's fiction, but people play along because they have fun interacting with the author and the other commenters as if it was real.

I was born in '86 and there were a bunch of kids with Asperger's in my school or neighborhood, including my brother. When he was diagnosed we realized my father had it too.

I think the ability to view the camera feed live has changed things significantly. Ten years ago you could have strapped a camera to your toy helicopter and buzzed it around in the hopes that you would catch someone naked just by chance, but the odds wouldn't be very good. You also had to be closer with the controls,…

He already had the guns at the point when his parents discovered his videos and called the police to try and get him hospitalized. There was that whole thing about how the cops didn't check his apartment when the parents called them, because if they had they would have found the arsenal.

Not knowing anyone nearby can really suck, your family shouldn't be dismissive of that!

I felt similarly when I got a Grown Up Job after graduation (ikes, 5 years ago). You can still do all that fun stuff, it just takes a little more planning. And you get the benefit of stability in between adventures. One thing that really helped me was setting up a special vacation travel fund. I auto deposit some…

Oh, I used to have that problem all the time before I moved. First question is whether your job will allow you to work shifted hours occasionally, so you could come in 2 hours late and then work until you had to leave for your activity.

Donors are screened for STDs and genetic diseases, cannot sue for custody and cannot be made to pay child support. The medical screening you could probably arrange on your own, but I don't know if you can make a "this person will not be considered the child's parent" contract without going through an actual clinic.

Each bedroom has it's own bathroom, then one "public" bathroom on each floor, I guess? I've always hated sharing a bathroom, that's totally what I'd do if I was rich.

I think body wash counts as soap for that purpose, though. I guess this guy might get clean enough with only water and shampoo, but not having any soap by the sink would be a total dealbreaker. I couldn't date, much less have sex with, a guy who I knew didn't wash his hands after going to the bathroom. That would be…

Maybe that would have worked. Or maybe being cut off financially would have triggered a rampage earlier, and then Gawker would be full of comments blaming for the parents for giving him an ultimatum. We really don't know.

That's really interesting. I can see the "dad pants" ad working pretty well on my mother. She buys a lot of my dad's clothing, and often picks up things for my brother too. Since they're usually not present when she's shopping for them, she might be more influenced by advertising than someone who could try the clothes…

I think the MRA reaction to that quote is about half them being upset by the idea of women not needing them, and half that they (willfully?) misinterpret the phrase as meaning "men are as useless to women as bicycles are useless to fish".

I don't know to what extent that's true for the study population. These are women who have already died of old age, meaning they had their children at a time when most people married young and women were less likely to work outside the home. It's something to consider, but I'd assume that education and income played a…

This is me. I board the train at an above ground stop, so I start reading with my sunglasses on because hey, I'm in the sun, waiting for the train. By the time the train goes underground I'm usually so lost in the book that I forget about the sunglasses.

There are two real estate agents with my name, one of them from my state, and they both maintain very active online presences. Sometimes I wonder if they're trying to out-SEO each other. You can find stuff about me online if you add search terms about my work or where I went to school, but I'm impossible to google by…

I sleep on whichever side is farther away from the window or air conditioner, because my boyfriend can't sleep unless it's really cold. The average summer night finds him lying on top of the sheets with the AC blasting and me buried under the heavy winter blankets.

For the blanket issue- getting a king size bed with separate twin size blankets was the best decision we ever made. King size blankets and top sheet on a queen bed can also help.