Does anyone else work from home?

I think overweight people don’t stand up for themselves because society seems to think being overweight is like the worst, worst most evil and disgusting thing ever.

My mother is orthorexic and she told me that overweight people should not be allowed to go to hospital and use up everyone else’s resources.

I hated my wedding. I had morning sickness and laughed inappropriately through the vows.

Im Australian and have lived in severe drought for huge sections of my life. You don’t need lawns, and people need to remove them and put in drought friendly plants and rocks and pebbles and things. Were there naturally lawns there? my house, and many like it, have zero lawn and we all survive. grass is a luxury, not…

I think we would have been friends.

Only one of my parents had ever finished school, they did not follow any sort of plan, and they were forced by state authorities to send me to school, so then they ran (which seems like a big overreaction because it was just SCHOOL) and then I went to a series of religious schools, despite not actually being part of…

...and I was not immunised.

I was homeschooled for part of my school life and I have post graduate diplomas and a good career. I was ahead of classmates when I did go to school, because I pretty much read and memorised text books/literature by myself until then. I was behind socially, but I wouldn’t say that that was definitely the…

Or don’t give money. Give things like time and blood and coats that you no longer like.

I really like Elisabeth Esther's blog so far.

bahahahaha! well said, sir.

“I’m concerned he is a paedophile”

wow thanks. I will look them up. :)

personally I like reading ‘formerly fundie’ type things as I had a very similar upbringing minus the religion. So I cant really offer anything to anyone, but reading the stories makes me feel less alone - I also had limited cultural context, shaming, isolation, misogyny and paranoia to deal with every day.

He would be ok with the household but the emotions? no.

being like this is a direct result of the patriarchy. I was bought up in a cult like family, not a religious cult but a cult that my father was the ‘god’ of, and I was expected to be compliant, pure, sweet, kind and have a soft voice. any expressed emotion other than gratefulness or cheerfulness was deemed offensive…

It is wonderful that you got out and are now able to be insightful for others to learn and relate.

that is the funniest thing I have ever seen.

The vag flicking doesn’t stand up.