I run a database on international academic, mobility, and research agreements for a university and this one form will NOT let me leave the “gender” field blank. I always fill it with “not known” BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW AND WHO CARES. It enrages me every single time that I see that field pop up with a little red star…

HEY NOW. “Less shitty” isn’t a very nice thing to say about us. My politeness is preventing me from expressing my real feelings on the matter but they are not positive!

I was thinking the same thing! I’m pretty sure that my beau and I both would select X for that same reason.

Oh totes, she’d probably piss me off a bit in real life, however, as a soft-spoken woman who is a badass inside and a doormat on the outside, I appreciate her bravado.

I don’t see that as hubris so much as giving a big ol’ middle finger to detractors in no uncertain terms.

Good lord American food is so much less expensive than Canadian. My beau and I are trying our best to stay under $400/month for food-only groceries and it’s looking like month 1 was a hard fail.

I got severe rope burn that took 6 months to heal from one of those leashes when I was a kid! The puppo saw her BFF puppo and they ran circles around me faster than I could get out of and I was tied up by the nylon, encircled several times, and then yanked HARD. I blame myself, however, not the leash or the pups.

Ah! Thanks so much Poodletime! I’m considering training puppo to be a service dog (a formidable can of worms, as my beau and I have ‘invisible [psychiatric] disabilities’ and would both benefit from a working dog in the fam; further complicated by the fact that we would not necessarily ~require~ constant ‘work’ from…

Hi! I noticed that Australian Shepherds are on that list of yours and that gave me pause (paws) (sorry.). Beau has always wanted one and so we got onto a breeder’s list two years ago and are now the second pupper parents in line for a litter that hopefully results from a breeding about 2.5 weeks ago. I have researched…

It’s actually the opposite. It would be far easier to diagnose a little girl than an adult woman because she hasn’t yet studied and internalized how to “fit in” and go undetected. The criteria for diagnosing little girls with ASD needs to change so that women don’t go their whole lives feeling like covert and unwanted…

I am years late to the party on this but... I have just been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, which now includes Asperger’s, and I definitely seem 100% fine, though quirky, to 99% of people in my life. Putting a diagnosis to my years of social anxiety, rock-bottom self esteem, obsession with becoming “normal”,…

PREACH. I was diagnosed with ADHD at 25, after a horrific experience getting my first degree, and I am extremely resentful that I was not diagnosed as a child when, in hindsight, I literally exhibited ALL symptoms. I could have become a fucking doctor or chased any of my other dreams rather than settling for what I…

I honestly never thought that I’d interact with an aggressive and delusional cat vigilante. Today is a special day.

I aspire to be the kind of cat parent that you are.

Nah, fam, they just need to be played with. I don’t want my babies near moving vehicles, Canadian predators (my city has a PACK OF WOLVES living inside of its limits), and shithead sociopaths who’d want to hurt them in any way. They play with each other, they chill on the deck, and I play active games with them like…

Yes! I listened to Love Line a few years later whenever I was driving home from work.

It is but the silver lining is that the parents will definitely have visitation with the children and there was definitely a very good reason for their having been placed in foster care. It is very likely that the parents will have access to supports such as parenting classes, parenting coaches, etc. in the interim,…

This is very difficult to comment on without knowing more details and those details would come from case files. I proofread court-bound documents penned by a counselling and psychology firm on parenting capacities, child welfare assessments, etc. and they are NUANCED. There are so many factors that go into determining…

Me too! As odd as I’m sure it was, I learned most of my early “lessons” on sexuality from late-night health-related shows. I didn’t watch any pornography until years later. Thank you, Health Network, TLC, Discovery, etc. for your mildly dirty after-11-o’clock programming.

It’s sexy to see your partner pulling their weight and it’s sexy to be treated to something (e.g. special snack). When my beau is in “the zone” and is a tidier, cleaner person, I am way more attracted to him.