OTOH, I almost died multiple times due to asthma prior to ACA.  Medicaid is a shitshow on a good day, but it’s better than being uninsured.

It is totally normal and appropriate behavior, as well as a good coping skill.

I work with 12-17 year old psychiatric patients. We have a reward store where they can redeem tokens for a variety of things, including small containers of playdough and sample size bottles of scented lotion. A new trend to mix playdough with lotion to turn it into slime. And then ask the nurses for a urine specimen…

“Fingerlings, a kind of clip-on finger puppet”

So I had the privilege of sitting in a department of human services office on Monday. It opened at 8:30 a.m. By 9:00 a.m. it was standing room only with many unhappy babies. There was a large sign on the wall telling people not to use abusive language and to watch their children. The entire place is just sad-…

I’ve struggled with this season. I love Jodie. I was team “The Doctor needs to be a woman or a person of color or sentient slime as long as they’re not a flipping white bloke AGAIN”. So I was super excited and then the season came and I’ve just been dragging myself through based on loyalty.

This episode gives me hope,…

I’m a butter fan, but I also like romaine when it’s not all murdery.

They switched out all lettuce for spinach at work, so when they sent salads in the lunches they were all spinach. I work with teenagers. They were much unhappy.

Literally me. I can take selfies- sort of? I guess because I can control it. But if I see a picture of me taken by someone else I freak out.

I had my picture taken for a brochure that exists at a college I graduated from.  I am terrified I’ll see it one day.  I don’t want to see it.  Ever.

They would likely be living were it not for the initial act of domestic violence, therefore I would characterize them as victims of domestic violence.

If terrorists bomb a US embassy to specifically target the US and kill a Brazilian diplomat, you don’t say the Brazilian wasn’t a vctim of terrorism simply because they…

I think there are a lot of good doulas out there. I also think there are potentially harmful doulas, that I’ve had the unfortunate opportunity to meet. My guess is they exist more within particular circles (I’m in a car-seat safety oriented circle, and it seems like we pick up some crunchy mama antivax type folks,…

What I think some people don’t understand is that things like universal healthcare (or universal college, or universal preschool...) are much more politically problematic than economically.

Just for healthcare, the US already spends about twice as much as we need to. The government pays for about half of that cost. So,…

“When doulas get paid by someone other than the mother, it gets to the question of, Who does the doula work for?” Ms. Deutschbein said. “I’d have to see more of the details.”

Generally speaking any adult can adopt any other adult as long as it’s consensual. So I could adopt a 95 year old at 32.

It was not uncommon within the gay community to facilitate inheritance.

When my brother was about 8 he went through a stage where he CONSTANTLY talked like Cat Valentine. All the time. Nearly 24/7. If you asked him to stop he would look offended and respond in the same voice.

(only at home or in the presence of specific female friends, though. can’t be practicing your jr. drag act on the…

Unfortunately our world is full of dumb.

That professor likely believed what she was doing was real (as do most facilitated communication people). FC is basically bunk, anytime you hear anything about someone with a profound language disability suddenly typing complete sentences it’s probably a version of FC, and that person is likely being used as a human…

Because we have an entirely non-democratic system that allows a minority (overwhelming white, often rural, often highly religious, often middle to upper middle class) be used as a tool by the oligarchy to terrorize and control the rest of us.

Two people can have dark skin and have a baby who is very fair complected, and vice versa. Occasionally two previously presumed to be “white” people will have a black baby.

Genetics don’t care about our culture constructions of race.

I’m 32 and I’m not sure I’m a grown up yet, tbh.

I Believe In the system. I just think that if I, a formerly quite active commentor that gets most of her posts ungreyed anyway and has had posts rank up hundreds upon hundreds of stars can’t get out of it, there is something that needs to be improved. Be in more active admin involvement or some programming that…