I can't get behind your line of thought here. I feel like everyone is just telling the music industry to suck it up and accept piracy, which is kind of bullshit. I know the analogy has been used to death, but you can't just walk into Saks and grab a pair of shoes that appeals to you. Why on earth should it be okay to…

This is beautiful. Thanks for posting.

Holy crud. Yep, what a complete and utter shit. I'm glad you and your kiddo are doing fine.

I hated pregnancy more than I have ever hated anything. And I thought the early baby stuff was tedious (plus I had a colicky kid who cried for 4 months solid). But I lived, and now I have a pretty delightful 3.5 year old buddy. He can be a terrific pain in the ass but, on balance, he's more than satisfactory.

I'll pipe up and add to the chorus of it gets better. I am another who could have written this verbatim (with the bipolar variant of intermittent cuckoo psychosis and being really really smart, then really really dull over and over). Meds, vigilance about mood shifts and adjusting exercise and supplements at those…

I was in the same boat. I was definitely not the driving force behind having a kid. I just wanted to hop on here and give you a little reassurance (if you need it). I had a few hiccups at the start, but I am pretty glad my husband had the idea. I could have still had a wonderful life without my son, but he adds a…

If you like Lindy Ortega, have a listen to http://www.jennyqueen.com. Coming from the same place.

My kid's preschool has a bathroom in the corner of the room with three toilets. There are no stalls, just toilets and a trough sink, surrounded by big windows. It is coed. This is in Australia, where people are infinitely more practical about these matters. My mom (American, like me) flipped her shit when I described…

I love the idea, but I would have no idea how to get it to anyone who matters (lawmakers, policymakers, etc.).

This is getting close to the bone. I was very intermittently medicated in college. I feel awful for my roommates. I don't think I ever washed a dish. I don't recall cleaning at all. When I was fun, I was very very fun, but then when I wasn't...ugh. After freshman year I lived alone off campus.

Same here.

I love the idea of tracking anklets for DV protection orders. I think if there's a documented history of violence and a credible threat, bam, tracking device. But it would expensive to monitor. Maybe some kind of smartphone app to tell you when the device is close?

Your dad sounds fascinating and I would love to read his ms on hallucinogens and early European mysticism. Wow. You were lucky to be raised by someone with such an active and curious mind.

I love you for the Dorian Gray Joke. I used to make that joke all the time (I look younger than I am) and there were just...crickets. Either not enough people have read the story, or my kind of funny isn't everybody else's.

I have been mulling over ways to keep my (currently preschool aged) son from falling down the family rabbit hole of addiction and misery, and I asked my psychiatrist for ideas. He basically co-signed your dad's approach. Said being very frank about the mental and physical deficits brought on is a good way to go with…

I just finished reading the comments for the article and now I am so sad and angry and disappointed. The site has changed so much since the beginning (I've been here all the time, but lost my original username in the great Kinja switch) and I miss the old site and the honesty and rawness so much. Poor Dodai. She must…

I'm so out of the loop, I didn't even realize they had a new editor. Shit, I wish I knew the whole story. I love Dodai with the fierceness.

What is going on with Dodai? I have seen a few mentions in comments, but I've been away recently. Is she still here? Is someone being mean to my Dodai, dammit?

Surely this is a teen boy. That's the only demographic that would assume that a breast feeding woman might somehow spray breast milk willy nilly around the joint, "endangering people with lactose (HA!)" Also there's no way that someone who actually has a kid wouldn't be able to imagine a kid refusing to eat under a…

That would make me homicidal. Especially when I was pregnant. I had a hair trigger when I was pregnant. Ignorance standing between me and a tuna sandwich could only have ended badly.