I’m in Canada (and have a child with autism as well as work with kids who have autism) and there are definitely parents who try all kinds of crazy shit here, including chelation, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, super restrictive diets etc.
We have better health care, but the government is failing our kids. There are…

The thing is, there are so many different types of parents raising kids who have ASD, and the ones who aren’t crazy don’t get any press. This woman is not some sort of sympathetic face for how hard it is to raise kids with disabilities, she is an outlier who weighed the risks against the benefits and made a poor…

It is striking to me how many of the significant problems in this story could have been mitigated by a health care system that supported parents, treated illness, and took a uniform approach to science and evidence.

If you aren’t familiar with daily struggles associated with severe ASD, you aren’t familiar with the hopelessness and desperation that can push a parent to do things like this. I am not defending dangerous “protocols” and what is essentially the abuse of a disabled person. It’s absolutely reprehensible and clearly a…

My parents discovered I was gay at the end of my senior year of high school, right before graduation. My father beat me nearly unconscious and I literally ran out of the house with only the clothes I was wearing. I snuck back in twice to get some things, but it barely amounted to a suitcase’s worth of stuff.

I stayed…

“Maybe 2020 will be the year we remember that you can simply sip from the lip of a cup”

I feel the same way about genuine shearling as I do rabbit fur and leather. They’re in a different category than the rest of the fur market since these are natural by products of human consumption vs items like mink, ermine, and beaver. Just because it’s less common for people in the US to eat rabbit and mutton,…

Faux fur is just terrible for the environment. If you really want to wear fur that much, go to the thrift store and buy some. Nobody new dies, and tons of fine particles of shed plastic acrylic fiber don’t end up in the ocean. 

Maxipads go on cunts, so this checks out.

She failed the Turing Test on her own Instagram. She sucks.

You inspire me with your calm, stoic disposition and unwavering prioritization of that which matters most in life.

Yeah, if my ex tells a completely manufactured story about me putting a gun in my mouth and firing a round in the ceiling in front of our child, I am FOR SURE not going to respond by saying it’s one-sided. 

But micro plastics from fabric are filling fish and animal stomachs and starving them...

Tyler Cameron is a super generic-looking white dude.

Yeah, no, I cannot compute feeling “ire” at ever seeing a little girl who looks like this or having the nerve to compare this hairstyle—which looks like the girl just got out of soccer practice for fuck’s sake—to minstrel imagery.

Call me when they cut bangs... 

It’s not worth an entire post. All the good people of Jezebel go home on the weekends, leaving me behind to find and write stories to both entertain and appall you. I write them as fast as I can, mistakes happen, and I correct those mistakes as soon as the grammar-loving crowd types their displeasure.

He’s an average-heighted glass of rice milk in a solo cup.

So, you went on a date with 45 and his little hands?

OMG YES what is it with Seattle and the back-in parking?? It doesn’t save you any time man!