You’re right. Pinterest has severely lowered your standards and you should defer to someone else on these matters.

In this case two fonts would have been better. Had she went with a squarish font for the main text and put the name in that one I think it would have been okay.

She’s got a rogue comma here: July, 30 2015

as a designer, this hurts my head. SO MANY THINGS. she or her assistant probably did this with an app.

I think most dictionaries now give “many” as an alternative definition or synonym for “plethora.”

I don’t totally understand being anti-euthanasia across the board - if someone has been suffering from a deadly form of cancer, won’t recover, and genuinely wants to end their life, shouldn’t they be able to?

At this point it’s hard to see it as more than a slightly extreme “my house-my rules” situation.

The fact that she made up some lie about being gang-raped, falsified records and then plotted to kill her parents has nothing to do with her being SE. Asian or having helicopter parents. I saw firsthand the sort of anxiety in kids (which isn’t a bad thing) it can induce when A or A- isn’t good enough (I was always…

It’s like her parents created an environment where she had to live in a parallel world.

Yeah, some of the victim blaming in the comments I’m reading is kind of disturbing. The writer’s description of her childhood is very similar to mine and my Asian friends growing up and none of us ever ended up murdering our parents and most of us are still very close to our families in our 30s. My childhood was…

You’d be comfortable with her walking around in the world as a free person?

Jesus, you are persistent in misreading things. 1) What is written up there does not constitute abuse. 2) If she was being physically or psychologically abused, I would respond very differently. 3) Given the absence of evidence of abuse from the article, she should have moved her adult self out if she felt the demands…

Wake me up when we have any indication that she was being physically abused or subjected to psychological abuse. As I said before, given the facts we have now, no reasonable judge or therapist would call this abuse.

We have that too. But we tend to take notice of adults skulking around without kids. Actually, on Halloween, we’re probably more alert to it.

Well, why not just get a job, get a place, move out, say goodbye to parents, make friends, buy stuff, pay taxes, live a more normal life. Is it really that difficult?

You know, the psychotherapist whose office is right down the hall from mine has a sign that says something to the effect of: “Parents getting you down? Move out, get your own place, and never do chores again!”

I am not excusing her parents behavior, however painting her as a victim of abuse given the information here is indefensible and ALSO arm-chair quarterbacking.

So, like, why not just move out. You’re over 18, you have “jobs.” They literally can’t stop you. Rent an apartment, pack your things, and leave. Then you can do whatever you want.

I do not understand the comments about the parents being unreasonably strict. The actions mentioned as occurring during high school are pretty normal where I grew up, and we also have to consider that those actions are being relayed by a friend years after the fact.

Not to make light of this situation but I went to a north Toronto high school with a lot of South Asian, Chinese and Viet kids who seemed to under the same strain this young lady was facing. I don’t remember any plotting to kill their parents though.