It’s getting worse, isn’t it. My heart starts to rev when I read these things and I’m Canadian.

I want to toss in that I honestly feel that this is a worthwhile discussion to have and while it’s often hard to withstand a lot of criticism and stay civil your pov is a valuable one to hear. So thank you. (And I can see this reading as condescending but I don’t mean it that way.)

Wow, you just gave me a mantra.

It’s neurotypical privilege to think that some actions count as related to mental illness while others don’t.

Agreed. I’m going through something like this right now and after 12 years of it I feel confident in my diagnosis of “I know you have a mood disorder and possibly a personality disorder and quite likely some trauma-related disorders to boot but this behaviour is ‘asshole’ and even the DSM-5 knows it.”

Alternatively, as an obligatory nod to the Canadians among us, KD. PC KD if you’re a Loblaws type.

5K Pro!

And yet I can’t stop smiling at the AAAAAAAAAA part. (We laugh so that we do not cry.)

WHAT!! THE!!! FUCK?!?!?!?!?! “Distressingly” can’t even be the half of it. “Never forgotten” can’t be a tenth. A hundredth. More. I’m so sorry.

This is exactly why I can not engage Trump supporters (we Canadians know these people as Rob Ford 2018!!!!!!!!!) because I have a family members who do have common sense but use very similar arguments. I believe that the yardstick Trump supporters use to measure what makes a good president is not the one we use and…

I teared up, too. God knows we lean on our devices even at the best of times...

Groans AND laughs, Gen-X-ially.

Viola Desmond! Seriously, it's like perpetual shade with her. I want that on my currency.

YES. So glad that happened.

He’ll work it out!

If I were to guess it’s an IT Crowd reference, though I remember it as ‘ludicrous display.’

You just wrote their lawyer’s defense statement in full.

The guy is just not comfortable doing photo ops with animals.

Having lost the wedge of cheese on his head he now resembles Kevin Pillar.

I am in the Order of the Eternal Grey but I’ll still say that it’s spelled “Mckesson,” not “McKesson.”