As someone who has both a boy and a girl, now adults, on the spectrum, I agree that the experience is totally different. My son is happy being who he is, but he faces more social and workplace difficulties to “fit in.” My daughter has internalized the social pressure, and the need to mask is overwhelming. So she is…

Cheese cake brownies?? 😱 😱😱

If you used ground beef instead of brisket and cut our the beans, potato and sauce, sure.

I’ve made this several times. The secret is to dump ketchup or some tangy sauce in to brighten up the flavor. Skip the rice/wheat berries, though. That soaks up the sauce and dries the thing out.

Congratulations on handling a very difficult situation and still managing to have a marriage on your own terms. I feel lucky that no one in our immediate families cared much on either side, as the push to conform seems incredibly intense.

Add grated onion, matzo meal and egg and you have great “homemade laktes,” my friend.

These people are too selfish for suicide to even remotely be a consideration.

It doesn’t matter. From now on out, the contestants will be increasingly white, boring, and overly repressed.

It’s an old post, they already have. 

Wait. How has nobody suggested this yet?

It IS great, and the use of that spray-on fake snow in the outside scenes is just the cherry on the top.

Your picture offers the best option, but might I suggest mac and cheese with sriracha.

She is wearing a Steffi Graf necklace. It’s a joke on her weirdly spelled name.

And their soy chicken nuggets with a side of sriracha ain’t half bad.

Oh yeah? So what’s your take on frozen Ferrero Rocher, you philistine? 

I was talking about the Takeout and Jezebel

Thank you, here’s hoping you stay with us and that none of the other NYC sites are affected!

I think they might be starting in the newer posts.

At the some point in early tweens/teens, dressing in a costume just seemed dorky (this was before Comic Con made it cool again). And no one gives candy to a sullen teen who’s not wearing a costume.

Done.