Me too. But especially when my tiny dog leaves tiny turds on the living room rug.
I can see your point, aaaand it also makes me uncomfortable because it feels like an easy jump to anti-choice people who say “but what if your birth mother had aborted YOU?!” To which I always say “I’d be okay with that, she should have had more choices, I wouldn’t know if I hadn’t been born, and if I was ‘meant’ to…
Yep, we adoptees have many different perspectives on a complicated, emotional, and personal issue.
This is disturbingly similar in look to the dumping sites for dogs in some areas of the South. FFS.
Gonna be blasting this a lot this summer, with the windows rolled down.
Whhhhyyyyyyyyyyyy would you dignify this b.s. by taking it out of the grays?! WHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
If you can, sit with the criticism and try to really hear it. Certainly local chapters can vary quite a bit and even veer away from the national org and maybe your family members are different, but fundamentally, Autism Speaks is created by and for families who view autism as a terrible tragedy to be avoided at all…
If you’re looking for resources/connection, a much, much better organization than Autism Speaks is the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, which is actually led by autistic people themselves.
If it’s even half as good as Orphan Black, it’ll be amazing!
Countercounterpoint: Arrange your life in such a way that you almost never have to fly, because it’s always terrible.
Completely unrelated, I just noticed this and it made me snort-giggle.
Yeah, I thought about that after I posted. And then it made me think about the state of modern agriculture and I got overwhelmed and cranky about life, the universe, and everything.
POOP LEADS LEDES!
Can’t help but wonder if the “angry farmer” was perhaps paid by Cuadrilla to do that...