Dr. Rumer ruined the past 3 years of my goddamn life. I will be having different surgeons fix my complications in 6 weeks at NYU Langone. Dr. Rumer completely ignored my complications after I emailed and called her office countless times. It was SUCH a battle to just get my medical records from her too that I needed…

I’m in Canada (and have a child with autism as well as work with kids who have autism) and there are definitely parents who try all kinds of crazy shit here, including chelation, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, super restrictive diets etc.
We have better health care, but the government is failing our kids. There are…

If you aren’t familiar with daily struggles associated with severe ASD, you aren’t familiar with the hopelessness and desperation that can push a parent to do things like this. I am not defending dangerous “protocols” and what is essentially the abuse of a disabled person. It’s absolutely reprehensible and clearly a…

“people with little to no experience with the dementia population”  In my experience, people with no experience tend to feel quite the opposite. People who don’t know about dementia tend to think of it as early stages when a person is just confused about who is who and what day it is and keep having the same…

“avoided discussing it and grew evasive about the future,”

I would be 100% ok with my husband doing this. My folks would be 100% ok with one doing this to/for the other. My grandparents (the happiest couple I have ever seen FWIW), my siblings, etc. A surprising number of Boomers I know are planning for similar scenarios - not calling the ambulance right away or at all, etc.…

Let me say at the top here that what he did was absolutely wrong and the Times article is next level bonkers and tone deaf. I am not defending either one.

Hmm, no mention that this piece was worked on by former Jezebel Deputy editor Dodai Stewart, who tweeted out the link and said “this is a love story”.

Your point would be an absolutely 100% correct and incontrovertible counterpoint if that person had been capable of adding their perspective. Based on how the story reads though, they were not.

Agree 100%. This is an awful thing to watch people go through, especially people you love. The anger and denial are simply part of the grieving process, and that process begins well before the death of the loved one. I also don’t advocate the route this man took, but I’m not willing to judge him for it either. No one…

Anyone who has dealt with this stuff with their aging parents will recognize the evasiveness, secrecy and reluctance to accept outside help as being extremely common and just part of the immense stress and heartache of seeing elderly parents deal with a progressive disease. I mean, I guess it could also be a sign of…

I know this sounds too hyperbolic taken on its face, but I do think it’s something that should be said and considered: to some extent, organisations like Jezebel are continuing, and furthering, the abuse that people have suffered when they insist to us that they are notable first and foremost for their victimhood.…

i will enjoy the terrible absurdity of this film, as high as i can possibly muster, once it comes to streaming somewhere. i do love a good trainwreck. i also acknowledge i may regret the decision when i’m done and  cannot ever sleep again.

i know this movie isn’t “good” per se, but i want it to come to a discount theater near me, eat an edible like Rich, and then just lose my mind

They also had the option to just not play it. Those interviews are taped for later broadcast. They aren’t live.

I did not leave it out. It’s in the graf after the 2015 Fresh Air excerpt.

“We don’t really understand why he left,”

This is not at all the same thing. 

I don’t have anything made with leather or canvas. I have a degree in art history, an eye for design and I’ve been collecting 50ies pieces for years. I know what I’m doing, but thank you for mansplaining something I’m an expert at

Not everyone is going to have the money for IVF (or adoption for that matter). I think the fact that most people wouldn’t dump someone they’re already serious about based on them being a fellow recessive carrier of a disease is why someone might find this sort of screening useful. If you already know you’re a…