There is a difference between someone who just has narcissitic qualities and someone who legitimately has NPD. My dad will go to therapy, but will hear only what he wants to hear, twists the therapists words, wants brownie points just for GOING to therapy because YOU are so fucked up, but he’s such a great guy he will…

Good luck. My dad has NPD. It’s considered incurable, because there’s nothing wrong with HIM, of course. One of the worst, most horrific things to deal with ever.

Wait, what does being a white man have to do with it? Privilaged? Spoiled? Doesn’t have that fear cause he’s a guy? I chain lock my damn door, but I’m a female who lives alone.

I went back two years ago and managed to drunkenly lock myself out on my 17th floor balcony with my sister, friends, and two random new friends while smoking weed. We were staying at The Cove at Atlantis...and luckily had the foresight to bring out a package of Chips Ahoy onto the balcony with us. I had to figure out…

I LOVED Holiday in the Sun, and I had just gone to Atlantis, so I ate that shit up.

I didn’t know that til now. Ugh. Makes so much more sense. Quiverful and Gothard creep me out to no end.

You’re cool. Never change.

Thanks for everything. You were one of my favorites (among others who have departed *moment of silence* </3), but I am so mad that I’m sitting here, eating my hungover breakfast, and you just HAD to go and bring up the My Little Pony thing that I had successfully erased from my memory as a coping mechanism. DAMMIT,…

Please, please, please? I’ve been waiting forever to be out of the grays and have longed to be up where they walk, up where they run, up where they stay all day in the sun.

First of all, *Hugs*. Second of all, I’m having a shitty NYE too while my ex boyfriend who I’m still very much in love with (and our relationship is a gray area) is skiing. Sunshineaya’s guide for surviving a shitty NYE:

Ditto on the finding people...and finding POSITIVE people. It’s easy to get stuck in the endless loop of negativity. I’m an anxious person, and I get stressed. I like to say I keep it real. However, my closest friends in the building are those who don’t bullshit, they get stressed too...but not EVERYTHING is negative.…

Teacher training? Is that like student teaching? I’m a second year NYC Teacher, and I actually just finished grading a pile of papers. It is 10:14 PM on NYE, and that’s what I’m doing. One of my New Years Resolutions is to find a work/life balance. You WILL cry over nothing. You will be stressed. You will be…

When RedBull was newish, they came out with Tab Energy. It came in a slim pink can, tasted NOTHING like tab, and was pink and fizzy. Marketing got me, and I loved that shit in college. It was lightly carbonated, and tasted great, IMHO. Clearly, no one else agreed with me.

Frakking obsessed with your username!

In sixth grade, my bully was my teacher. I will never, ever forget the time she called me an “insignificant lifeform” in front of the whole class.

Now it’s the opposite. These elementary kids think ANYTHING is bullying (including many things that aren’t). Basically, if a third grader doesn’t get his way, he is being bullied in his mind. Methinks we’re going too far in the opposite direction at the moment...

Fuck your principal. I am sorry.

It’s a fine line to walk. I only teach 5th grade, so not quite those horrific middle school years, and I do have them all day, so it’s a little easier. Sometimes, I have to weigh in with “Are these normal 5th grade giggles, or is something worse going on?” With 33 kids in my class, 12 IEPs (special ed), and me being…

I grew up on Long Island, not in NYC. Are you familiar with Long Island? Our public transportation options, beyond the LIRR (which is just a commuter rail into the city, essentially), are slim to none. You NEED a car to survive on Long Island. It is one of the least pedestrian friendly areas in the nation. I’d agree…

Except I was born and raised on Long Island, where you most certainly need a car. Those suburbs are NOT pedestrian friendly.