Really glad she’s okay! I understand the urge as a teenager to go off your meds once you start feeling “normal” so you can just be a regular kid. I hope she realizes how helpful they can be to avoid situations like this.

Based on this video, I doubt I have much in common with this couple. That doesn't diminish my compassion or sadness for them at this particular moment.

I don’t think it’s on you to decide how a person grieves or how long people should wait before they’re allowed to celebrate something exciting.

Many years ago at the group home for developmentally disabled teens where I worked there was a resident who really, really wanted to go to the best steak house in the city for his 18th birthday. He had behavior and anger issues, but was determined to earn that birthday dinner, and he managed it. So another staff…

He is literally King Triton

Kinja is a piece of shit. THERE ARE TRICKS TO COMBAT ITS FUCKERY THO.

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Fucking no.

Don’t laugh at the stock photo of that child. My own daughter was recently diagnosed with shutterstock. She has watermarks all over her face and body, and she refuses to go outdoors.

Your son will probably grow up fine - there are many therapeutic options now for dealing with socialization and over-stimulation issues. Being on the spectrum means taking the road less traveled, and sometimes that does indeed make all the difference. I wish you the best.

I know this is first and foremost a public health threat but I wish more attention was paid to the fact that buying into the autism-connection myth demonstrates a profound hatred of autistic people. It’s one thing to say, no, that’s bullshit, but people who spread it should also be confronted with the fact that they…

Poehler is the voice of joy in the recently-released animated film, Inside Out.

This is a long one, but I think it’s pretty great. Please excuse any typos.

Two friends from college got married, and it was a doozy of a wedding. My friends actually went to college with my best friend from high school, so over the course of college and the following decade her friends became mine, and vice versa.…

This is not my story. I was merely an observer on this crazy wedding hook-up ride.

I was a bridesmaid in a close friend’s wedding. Got to the rehearsal, noticed that her three-years-younger brother had gotten SUPER cute since I last saw him, brought him back to my place after the reception and showed him a REAL good time. He ended up spending the night with me and trying to sneak back into the hotel…

My face, the entire time.

Whoever documented her shame and then put it on the internet deserves an eternity of public humiliations. I hope they crap themselves at work or on the metro or while on a first date. The universe should right this wrong. And I hope in their moment of embarrassment they realize that what they are experiencing is…