Agreed, and I’d add a third reason: that kids can’t necessarily recognize/articulate the difference between “this food is still kinda new to me so I’m suspicious” and “this food actually physically repulses me.” I couldn’t even do that until I was an adult and learned about the concept of food aversions (most commonly…

“Transracial” actually is a real thing, and you’re exactly the kind of person it describes: someone who (usually due to being adopted) was raised in a culture different from the one they were biologically born into. You’re not appropriating the Latin culture, you were raised in it. (Also, white people CAN be Hispanic…

(Sorry, didn’t mean to sound so negative. It’s a good article! I just wish they’d pointed out that if you experience sleep paralysis frequently, you should see a neurologist/sleep specialist to rule out narcolepsy or other sleep disorders.)

I can’t believe they didn’t mention narcolepsy at all. This along with the night hallucinations is one of its hallmark symptoms (although it also happens going into sleep for us, not just coming out of it).

Yep! At least my Roku LT does, but I assume the apps are the same on all of them.

Students are going to repeat this regardless of what the end result is, because these types of behavioral problems are almost always due to underlying issues at home (as they were in this very situation), or with friends, etc. Successful discipline isn’t about punishing one kid to deter them or others. It’s about…

The ideal solution would be to have the teacher escort the rest of the class to another location (like the library or an empty classroom) and hopefully continue the lesson there. Then the police officer can continue to use de-escalation techniques for a while longer. I’ve seen/heard of situations where this goes on…

I have two cats, so I got two beds and bought white sheets for one and orange sheets* for the other. My cats will just have to learn which one they’re allowed on!

“So Much Better" is my go-to song for when I need to kick ass and take names.

Yep. Unpaid training periods for workers with (not just intellectual) disabilities are legal and astonishingly common. I’ve been to disability job fairs in my city and a lot of places are allowed to pay us subminimum wage too.

I try this trick approximately once a year (I live upstairs in my parents’ house). Now 90% of my belongings are in baskets at the top of the stairs.

I’m so glad they make lower profile versions now. I still feel like a horrifying reverse vampire spewing blood everywhere when I leave the house in them, but at least I’m communicating that fact to fewer people.

Yep. I get amazing scores on these types of tests, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s because I watch a ton of TV and thus have gotten the chance to study actors’ expressions closely. It doesn’t help me out at all in real life. When I’m watching actors, they aren’t watching me back and trying to interact with me.

I totally get your point. I wish I could afford to be a vegetarian (financially, medically, etc) but my diet is too restricted as it is. It horrifies me what factory animals are put through, and I do try to support humane farming, but the one time I DON’T want to think about that stuff is when I’m actually eating.…

Shrimp and lobster are terrible too. As food. They’re awesome when you’re watching them hang out underwater.

If they can find a way to make insect meat not look like it came from an insect, I’d be fine with eating it. Bug protein powder or something like that — totally cool. I just don’t like for my food to resemble the animal it came from. Let me compartmentalize these things!

My guess is they’re talking about the arthropod also known as the “harvestmen” — which is a terrifying name for an arthropod and sounds like it should be the subject of an urban legend where they steal your organs for the black market.

Dude, I have tiny breasts (well, one is tiny, the other is moderately sized and it’s annoying and I hate it) and they still sweat like crazy. I’m super jealous of this woman and her nice dry breasts.

Social security is a terrible liberal thing that needs to be cut — when it’s given to anyone other than a Republican. Because they worked hard and earned theirs, duh.

I was hoping this would be a line of clothing designed specifically to provide the kind of deep pressure stimulation that tends to soothe people on the autism spectrum. I would totally go for that.