Also let's not forget the time involved in changing clothes multiple times per day.

Hard time recognizing faces, remembering names, and remembering directions / layouts as well as difficulty with math concepts are all symptoms of dyscalculia. You didn't mention it in your comment so maybe you're already aware of it - but if you're not, you should check it out. Even as an adult, being diagnosed with…

Hmm, that makes me wonder how my dyscalculia impacts my IQ score. As I mentioned in another comment, I have a lot of the classic symptoms and terrible conceptualization/visualization. How the crap does anyone know what shape the box would be if the design on the paper was folded? Do not get that stuff at all. I did…

I have dyscalculia! I wasn't diagnosed until adulthood. I don't score in the genius range on IQ tests, but I am extremely verbal/language oriented. Missed one point on the language sections of the ACT, scored in the 30th percentile on the math section. Similar with my GRE scores. I could breeze through English classes…

The Daily Mail has some on their site: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2278765/Carnival-Triumph-cruise-survivors-talk-horrific-ordeal-board-ill-fated-ship.html

THANK YOU. Why is this such a difficult concept??

I know! Of course it was soul-crushing at the time, looking back it is indeed almost like a hilarious cliche. Oh, high school.

Pedophile isn't a legal term, it's a psychological term. It means someone who has sexual attraction towards pre-pubescents (i.e., with no secondary sex characteristics such as developed breasts). That doesn't mean I don't think it's gross or morally suspect to have sex with a teenager, but pedophiles is just not the…

Once in middle school a group of popular boys thought it would be hilarious to call me and pretend that one of them had a crush and wanted to date me. So hilarious that to this day I have a hard time believing that people seriously find me attractive or want to be with me. It wasn't just that one instance, of course,…

Oh my gosh, my high school had the same thing. Except it was a little bag of pink-tinted caramel corn, and it was the whole fucking week before V-day, and every morning your first period teacher would hand out little slips informing people they had caramel corn waiting for them. Of course some people would get, like,…

A RomCom would be if she married the doctor who performed the Heimlich!

I heart you guys.

I had a similar conversation with a current sex ed / home ec teacher in the local school district. After she had finished a diatribe about how sex always results in stds and babies, I said, "what about responsible sex using birth control? Do you teach your students about that?"

The boyishly cute ones never age well. See: Broderick, Matthew.

People who speak in absolutes are always wrong.

Why did the hipster burn her mouth?

That's just a silly thing to say.

This is a public safety issue as well as an employee rights issue. If you are too much of an insensitive, clueless jerk to realize how hard it can be to just "find a new job" right now, consider the public safety aspect instead.

Thank you from a fellow anthropologist.

What a lovely and graceful post. I think you just melted about a hundred hearts with this.