An intellectual disabiliy is different than a physical disability such as blindness, though.

This is a-goddamned-dorable. Love the lunch tweet and calling them a “tease” for being dismissed for lunch.

wait, I thought you couldn’t have your phone with you??????

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…

To be fair, taking care of a baby is not the equivalent of filling out forms and doing “money and time math.” We need a standard that’s a bit higher than “not struggling to take care of one’s self.” (I’m not saying this situation was handled well by the state, of course.)

Sara’s father may have sexually abused her when she was 4. Given Sara’s IQ, Dana is a product of rape/iffy consent. Yeah, let’s let another little girl live in that home.

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…

...but she couldn’t read or tell time. That was the problem.

I agree that her only getting 2 hours a month to see her baby is bullshit, though I’m inclined to believe there is a lot more to the story than we know especially if her own parents were sketchy and in the system themselves.

I feel bad for DCF; they are always second-guessed by everyone. “Why did you take the kids away?” “Why didn’t you take the kids away?” They can’t win. In this case while it’s possible that they and the judge made the wrong decision it definitely sounds like a close call to me. The DCF SHOULD intervene with a woman…

I feel for her and while I’m glad she got her daughter back, the state and the hospital were doing their job, which was to protect the child. I’m a pediatrician and see many parents who, to be completely honest, shouldn’t be taking care of their children without help. I’m not saying everyone with some developmental…

Or is a Nice Guy (TM).

Yes - “rabid” and “devoted” are not really the same. “Rabid” comes from the same origin as Rabies, the extremely fatal infectious disease causing madness in dogs. A “devoted supporter” connotes someone who decided to be loyal to a cause or person, whereas a “rabid supporter” connotes non-thinking fanaticism and…

“Articulate”

Also, those words are not solely or even most commonly defined that way. A telephone is shrill. An alarm clock. Intentionally choosing gendered shit to express a non-gendered adjective is irresponsible. Let people learn their bias from their shitty parents, as is tradition.

How did they illustrate the word, “Uppity?”

“shrill” – defined as “the rising shrill of women’s voices”– and “psyche” – for which the example sentence is, “I will never really fathom the female psyche”. “Grating”, defined as “sounding harsh and unpleasant”, was illustrated with the phrase “her high, grating voice”, while the adjective “nagging” used the…

I’d encourage you to reconsider this stance. She’s an avid songwriter for some of the biggest names in pop music, several of her b-side tracks are really beautiful. Everything she puts out isn’t about sex and drugs and partying. She’s got a beautiful voice and is an actual musician who plays several instruments.

Many of the good upstanding protesting Christian men were shocked at the sight of breasts as these were the first they’d seen since viewing porn the night before.