That's an excellent description of my birdies.

Your generation is undergoing a massive priority shift driven in a large part by necessity, and that includes forgoing things like homeownership indefinitely. My generation saw those things as the equivalent of video game levels, something anyone could reach if they worked hard enough. For Millennials, it's more like…

Thank you for that! Sometimes I wonder if these commenters even know any Millennials.

These things are awesome! I went full-on treat Kiddo like a dog by attaching his harness to a 15' retractable lead. It was great. If there was room to run even a little, I could let him do it safely, and if I needed him close, I could keep him there.

There were a few issues. 1. I'm disabled, but not disfigured, by autiommune disease, and have been meditating for twenty years, which gives me a deceptive aura of happiness. 99% of people think I'm making the disability up. This does wonders for my credibility in general. 2. Kiddo is polite, articulate and not…

I'm so glad you found a situation that works! It's so hard, and the services they claim exist don't, or require stupid hoops to jump through. I realize that the schools are underfunded. I do. But they're making promises they have no intention of keeping, and it was clear that they wanted neither my son nor me. As far…

Thank you, Stacey. Thing is, almost nobody else thinks so. I've been called both negligent and overprotective, as well as a drama queen, and I've gotten the teacher eye roll and condescending voice so many times I wanted to puke. I drugged my kid. That's all some people need to know.

Mother of an inattentive-type ADD son here, so severe that he couldn't read a paragraph correctly at age 13, even though he tested at a college level for vocabulary. Probably teachers thought I was all helicoptery and that Special Snowflake was lazy. Mostly, they put every problem he had in class down to the fact that…

Occurred to me rather late that the phrase "big, fat fake" probably bothers a few people, but it's all quite literally true. I'm tall, busty and overweight. These are facts about me that need to be accepted in the same way that mental illness is accepted.

Wish I could say you can break the cycle, but I no longer believe that. My Dad did, in fact, get custody of me, and I got a ton of therapy as a young adult, and guess what? I have both my mother's depression and the mental quirk that triggers it—and an additional layer of self-loathing piled on by being raised by a…

Cooking is horribly time-consuming because it requires prep time. No matter when you do it, whether it's the night before or the weekend, that time has to be put in. Veggies need washing, chopping and sometimes peeling, never mind if you saute them or whatever. Dried beans need to be soaked overnight and boiled,…

Ah, so you're teaching your daughter that rape is avoidable if she takes certain steps? Most of which will not help her in the most common rape situations?

You think you were ignored, picked on or what have you? The fact that you think that there were very, very few women interested in games back then should tell you everything you need to know about how we were treated.