You certainly don’t have to go to the wedding...but a small token gift can be lovely. You don’t need to buy some useless registry shit. I like to give a cookbook and some spice mixes I make myself. Or sometimes I give some pottery I made. It costs way under $50 and I notice the items are still in use years later...

I am going to use this all the time when people get my name wrong...

Personally, I think we all need to start wearing hoola hoops to institute mandatory no-touch personal zones.

I’ve gotten Risa and Nisa. No, barista, I’m not that exotic.

Used my last name once, because the guy in front of me shared my first name. “Whittier” got translated to “Woodeater.”

If it weren't for TCM, I would probably cancel cable.

I was talking with my husband about the possibility of cancelling cable when our current contract it up. His question for me: “What about PBS and Jeopardy? We aren’t set up for a TV antenna!”

*eye roll*

Eh, as a very small boobed woman, bralettes aren’t my favorite look, on myself anyway. If they came with just the smallest amount of molding in the cups it’d be aces, because when I wear bralettes I seriously look like I’ve reverted back to 11 year old me who was taunted by boys and girls writing “boobless” on upside…

If it’s true, it’s not just the right wing that will be angry. People already feel Facebook is manipulative and unethical; this is just more fuel for the fire.

Absolutely disgusting. Everybody knows gingers should stick to their own kind.

This is one area where I feel some hope for the future because my high school age kids and their friends do not give one fuck about the race/ethnicity of the people they are interested in. They go to a pretty diverse high school, but in suburban Texas, and I’ve seen every iteration of mixed race couples amongst their…

Ugh this brings me back to when I was 8. My mom calls it my “Adoption Phase” because for me it was easier to say, “yes I’m adopted” than “no, my dad is Asian and my mom is white.” For some reason white person adopting an Asian baby was way more understandable then the latter.

My own father didn’t absorb that I was in an interracial relationship until after my wedding. Like he knew my husband was Asian, and he knew that we are white, but it just never crossed his mind that people had a label for that besides “means to grand babies”

Wow, it is very much not okay for a white person to refer to a black person as a “token.” If you had class you'd change that headline.

Apologize and move on? It’s not like the current administrators of the school are responsible for past actions. Is the USA gonna apologize to all the native Americans? Maybe we could track down their descendants and see how many of the 400 treaties broken affected them. Acknowledge,. apologize, move on.

I wasn't diagnosed until I was 50 - because people don't expect women to have Asperger's.

That is *absolutely* a reason for what seems like a rapid rise in the incidence of autism spectrum diagnoses. The diagnostic criteria have evolved over the years, and ASD has a much higher public profile now, also leading to increased numbers of diagnoses.

I wasn’t diagnosed until I was in my 40's. Doctors are still, in 2016, mostly in the dark about how autism presents in females, it’s still little researched or understood, etc. So in my personal experience (and from what I have learned from other women of my generation), there likely are thousands and thousands of…

It’s absolutely largely due to a broadening of the spectrum. There were two competing theories of autism, one with very strict diagnostic criteria, and one with broad, spectrum criteria. When we shifted to the broader criteria, all of a sudden there was a huge jump in diagnoses. Shocking, right? Anti-vaxxers love to…