I mean, there's ample evidence that SOMETHING is messing with peoples' bodies; they're not just crafting the feeling sick from whole cloth or anything. They're just not sure what's doing that yet.

The people who think fruit is actually bad for you are growing in number. Now that gluten sensitivity is jumping the shark, I predict the anti fruitites will ascend the Throne of the Special Snowflake.

Pharma-farming strikes again! Seriously though, Putting the Gluten-war right on the shelf with the Carb-war and the Fat-war, and all the other attempts to single out an important part of real diets because "it's bad for you"

Fix'd. I'd rather hear that from you than from some dickhead mainpage commenter going "THIS IS INDICATIVE OF THE DECLINING JOURNALISTIC STANDARDS OF THIS WEBSITE TIME FOR ME TO STOP READING IT BUT WAIT FIRST I MUST COMMENT ON EVERY ARTICLE AND SAY THE EXACT SAME THING FOR THE NEXT FIVE MONTHS."

My commencement speaker was the CEO of Sesame Workshop and... the Cookie Monster.

"For the sake of their privacy, we've blurred out the names,"

I understand what you mean, and yes, I agree with you and believe that if you are informed while pregnant that your child is going to be disabled and you know that you can't handle it, you should have a right to an abortion. However, not every disability can be predicted during pregnancy, including autism spectrum…

This makes me so sad because I never ever hear it IRL. All you hear is how absolutely fantastic motherhood is, how you don't know real happiness or love before you have children, and how they give meaning to your life. And I notice people who dare say anything not 100% positive about that experience get a lot of…

I agree with you completely. I'm not sterilized, but I plan to be sometime within the next few years.

While this is clearly upsetting to some people here, I think it's important to see things like this.

These posts really sum up for me the idea that a lot of people have children out of curiosity or 'because it's what one does' without really thinking about it. Perhaps I overthink it but I do feel that if I did have a child I would look at them everyday and think 'I should never have had you, you should be here for a…

I'm of the opinion that us mere mortals are sub-par parents and that's fucking okay. I think we need to cut ourselves a lot of slack. The floors aren't swept in two weeks? Fuck it. We're eating frozen pizza for the 3rd time this week? Fuck it. I'm drinking a bottle of wine locked in the bathroom while my kids are…

I'm actually getting pretty annoyed with those commenters. Someone said that the person who said they hate their son is an awful person. But we don't know that. We don't know if she feels that way every day, or if in a moment of frustration she vented in an anonymous way to protect him from that feeling. Having a…

One reason I like posts like these is because people should have an awareness of the downside of being a parent. Having a kid is something that should happen with both eyes open, but all too often people seem to rush into. Not everyone needs children, not everyone should have children. It needs to be said more, IMO.

I feel bad for the people commenting saying "this isn't funny, this is horrifying!" - but these feelings/behaviors/thoughts/etc. exist. Sorry it confronted your limited world view?

Me too. I sat in my car and cried before I came in from work the other night because I feel like I've made the worst decision of my life by getting married It's not like I have terrible kids or anything like that, but I feel like I'm not great mom material. My friends think I'm a brilliant mom and they are amazed at…

This post is so weirdly therapeutic. There are few things shamed more than family dysfunction and unloving/bad parenting. As someone who lived through deeply unloving parenting, it's validating to see people admit it that feelings from parents towards children aren't always puppies and rainbows.

I read this and came away thinking that my mom owes ME an apology. Because she treated me like shit. All of those confessions are things I felt and heard implicitly and explicitly from my mom. I NEVER want kids. The way I was treated as a kid is a big reason why.

Some of these make me very sad. I will just hope they were having a super bad day. But yes, my kids totally ruined my body.