This is pretty much the way we should be going. Everyone gets their own little room to pee in and when you walk out there’s a long line of sinks for everyone to use.

Love this idea!

Or when you’re at the back of the store and your 3 year old starts doing the potty dance so you have to pick them up and race to the front hoping desperately that you don’t get peed on.

Thankfully this seems to be the direction that we’re moving in (which is a shift from even 10 years ago). My son is on the spectrum and the focus from his therapists and teachers has always been “what can we do to help him do his best.” So for example if he’s stimming they don’t try to stop/redirect the stimming.…

Under the DSM V Aspergers is no longer a diagnosis. Everything is now Autism and differentiated only by level of functioning/degree of supports needed. They’ve also shifted the diagnostic criteria so that a lot of kids (including my son) now qualify as autistic when they didn’t just a few years ago*.

The main reason…

I know you’re right, but I still have trouble wrapping my mind around the stupidity/willful ignorance involved.

“Well, I’d rather my child got some disease than maybe be autistic”

That’s been the thing I don’t get at all. My oldest son is on the spectrum and he and his younger siblings are still fully vaccinated including flu shots every year. I don’t think that vaccines cause autism (the science is pretty clear) but even if I…

Autism Speaks is the worst. Their official position may be “we don’t know if vaccines cause autism” (which of course is bullshit) but they routinely host presenters who do at their conferences.

“because routine testing was skipped”

This is key and it doesn’t get talked about much. My second and third were birthing center births and a lot of people were surprised that I wanted basically all the (non-invasive) testing possible. I wanted all the ultrasounds because if there was anything that looked like a…

Congratulations!

Certified Nurse Midwives have a degree equivalent to that of a Nurse Practitioner and are therefore allowed to prescribe and administer medication.

Certified Nurse Midwives are allowed to prescribe and administer medication (just like Nurse Practitioners and Physician’s Assistants). As others have mentioned epidurals are only done in hospitals by specialists. Any woman who wants an epidural can go to the hospital and get one. However one of the reasons women…

Lighter skinned, yes, the vast majority of the time.

Idk, they both look light skinned enough to be biracial to me (and I live in a weird little bubble where huge percentage of relationships are interracial; out of the 8 classmates at my son’s birthday party yesterday 3, maybe 4 were biracial).

Except that it’s not a re-make, it’s clearly set up more as a sequel/reboot.

The Daily Show and The Nightly Show both have terrible correspondents right now.

It would have been more accurate and therefore funnier to say that they were both good a dropping bombs or something like that. I mean, do we really believe that Obama *likes* to drop bombs on people?

Pretty sure that’s the selfie he tried to take with her as it looks like she’s trying to duck down behind him. I think he posted it publicly and tagged he in it and she reposted/copied it.

Since they’re staying in DC for a few years so Sasha can finish school I’m guessing non-profit sector at least to start.

Removal has got to be easier, plus it would massively reduce the risk of getting caner in the remaining breast. (As someone with mild OCD the lack of symmetry would drive me bonkers)