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My brother's nephew is on the spectrum, and I am in awe of the boy's mother because of how hard she works to balance explaining her child to other people and explaining other people to her child. I'm sure it's exhausting and not at all what you signed up for when you decided to have children, but it is an impressive

Kristina especially is way too indulgent a parent who seems to think anyone who disagrees with her style is being a bully. You can be an advocate for your son and help others understand what's different about him, but you also have to set boundaries for him and expect that not everyone else is going to think he's the

Yeah, given this it wouldn't be surprising if there was some bitter taste left in Dean's mouth. Biting the hand that fed you is one thing, but it's not entirely unreasonable to want some flexibility with planning your next step.

I don't think I ever would have thought of Forrest Gump for this list, because I actually kind of like the movie, but I forgot that it was up against Pulp Fiction, which is just so much better on so many levels.

Pumpernickel.

After seeing pictures of him cuddling with puppies, I just want to mail my vagina to him.

I loved "Do You Know What It Takes" and "Show Me Love" when I was 12 but never really kept up with her, and when "Call Your Girlfriend" first became a thing, I assumed it was an entirely different artist with the same name. It took me longer than I am proud of to have the realization.

So…I'm assuming that Bruno Mars and his band probably weren't playing live, either, but no one seems to care?

People might have been pissed about that multilingual Coke ad, but I was most upset that the Full House commercial had John Stamos making out with some chick who wasn't Aunt Becky.

I get so maligned whenever I say that I preferred Cheers without Shelley Long, so it's nice to get some validation here. I was never a big fan of the Sam-Diane dynamic — though I think was influenced by the fact that I didn't watch the entire series from start to finish until about five years ago. Knowing that she's

I agree with this. When I first met my boyfriend a few years ago, my therapist asked me what it was I liked about him and I told her that it was because we were nerdy in the same kind of way. We got excited about the same kind of dorky pursuits and expressed that excitement in the same kind of way, and that was what

I was always in the camp that we shouldn't meet the mother until the very end of the series finale, because there was always going to be a significant percentage of the audience that was going to hate her no matter what she was like. I was begrudgingly giving them the benefit of the doubt once they introduced her in

Jean Ralphio's "The more the merrier" line made the whole thing worth it for me.

That's because, no kidding, Sara Bareilles just might be one of the coolest people ever.

I thought that was a nice bookend to the episode where he walked to her apartment after Barney and Robin got engaged and asked her to wait for him. Before the episode, I kept saying I didn't want to see Ted and the mother interacting because I was afraid it would blow the magic of the story, but that scene actually

I'm not sure what prompted me to rewatch the entire series again a couple of years ago, but it was the first time I watched it as a cohesive unit since it originally aired when I was a teenager and most of the life experience stuff flew over my head. Watching it when I was roughly the same age as the characters, I

These episodes really exemplify what I loved about the first couple seasons of Friends, and why I've loved watching the reruns as I go through my early-mid twenties and live those same experiences. They really captured what it meant to be a twentysomething whose life didn't necessarily suck but you felt kind of adrift

Pete's response to his mother asking "Aren't I entitled to the pleasures of love?" was pretty priceless.

Yes, this was the most touching thing for me, too. It reminded me of moments like concussed Dwight helping Pam with her Russian iPod and comforting her by asking her if she's PMSing. I liked how the two of them grew beyond being annoyed with each other over time and became so encouraging instead.