My mom was born with a "hole" in her heart (missing mitrial valve, I think), so the geneticist tested me for vHEDS and classical type to be safe.

Working at Old Navy made me twitch whenever I hear Christmas music and exponentially increased my hatred for top 40 music. I refuse to set foot in any Gap Inc stores.

I’m a zebra too. The geneticist who diagnosed me took 5 minutes to diagnose me with hypermobile type based on my chart and beighton score. He was annoyed that I was referred to him cause if my GP knew anything about EDS, he could’ve saved me the trouble of genetic testing and taking a day off work to go see a…

EDS? I have hypermobile type. 16 years to get a diagnosis. My mom started taking me to specialists when I was 11. After a hip dislocation and severe shoulder tendonitis, I have started rocking my cane unapologetically (on rough days) and finally got my power chair for long trips/really bad days.

I’m 30 and use both a cane and mobility chair on a semi-regular basis (any time I gave to walk for more than 2 hours and/or my hip is having a high pain day). I have Ehlers-Danlos, and I’m scared I’ll be confined to a chair or have to use a cane every day by the time I'm 40. Sometimes people get the crappy end if the…

My family immigrated from El Salvador during the civil war. It’s definitely not a safe place for women who have miscarried or need an abortion (it's illegal to get an abortion and women are often prosecuted for accidental miscarriages). It’s also unsafe for LGBTQ folks—trans people in particular. Many LGBTQ people…

Impeach the motherfucker.

I'm aware. I went broke managing it the first 5 years. I got lucky and found doctors willing to do pro bono. One of my hospitalization woukd have fist me $20k after insurance if it weren't for the charity program (took 3+ years to get that cleared and they ruined my credit in the mean time).

I have bipolar type 1 with psychosis and rapid-cycling, basically the kind you would think would cause me to lose control. I have literally never committed a violent crime or seriously harmed anyone. It is 100% possible to manage it and gain some semblance of sanity. I was undiagnosed until age 19 and attempted…

Oddly enough every Cuban I’ve met leans pretty far right and are (ironically) anti-immigrant while almost all Puerto Ricans I’ve met actually support many pro-immigrant causes. I think the fact that borricuas are basically secind-class citizens til the move to the mainland makes them sympathetic to how the rest of us…

I've never used a transit system outside of California (never been anywhere else that has one), and this is insane to me. I thought LA metro was tough with luggage and/or my cane but still doable. BART in the SF Bay has elevators and/or escalators at every stop. I figured the advent of ADA would require they retrofit…

They go to “good” private schools, where the parents basically pay for the prestige and can bitch and complain their way to an A from criminally underpaid teachers who are often not fully credentialed or qualified to teach public school. I subbed at once such school in Palo Alto when I was starting out as a teacher,…

If our current political situation is anything to go by, I'd say it's the most dangerous kind of stupidity.

I guess I subconsciously wanted to maximize their suffering.

I live close enough that pretty much all undeveloped land in my area is covered in Joshua trees. These trees survived decades (many well over a hundred years) of drought and fire only to be destroyed by asshole who decided to knock them down for shots and giggles. I honestly hope everyone who trashed our national…

It was ok enough for me to watch it all the way through, but I get why non-rentheads didn't enjoy it much.

I would agree if 90% of the edits had occurred only in lines that included vulgarity or profanity. Most of them were just random, like in Goodbye Love changing “baby could you?” to “how could I?".

It wasn’t horrible, but it wasn’t great. Watch it when you have time to kill or watch the final Broadway show they taped live before the revival with Tracie Thoms as Joanne and Renee Elise Goldsberry (aka the original Angelica Schuyler) as Mimi instead. Personally, the highlight was the Seasons of Love encore with the…

Out of breath most of the time, sadly, especially during Today 4 U. She fit the part perfectly and matched WJH's voice really well, but she was either tired, conserving her voice, or both. I strongly wish they'd gone for an understudy for Roger cause his acting was not good even if his voice wasn't bad.

This is my exact sentiment. I write two first drafts of novels (sadly the computer and hard drive I had the stored to were stolen), and I wouldn't even attempt to have someone else read something I wanted to publish without doing a decent grammar check.