I also live below the poverty line and a fuck off fund is/would be a luxury. What I would love is some financial institution or insurer to start catering to this market and maybe do a community emergency fund that collects interests to help pay emergency bills(ie car repairs, emergency dental/medical..etc).
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As someone who has worked with survivors of domestic violence and as someone who is below the poverty line (because I chose a career that works with survivors of domestic violence), these articles feel like such a heavy “should” that so many can't accomplish. I appreciate your acknowledgment that this is a pipe dream…
I’m game to star in the Real Housewives of Gaithersburg.
If you ever get the chance to scream the lyrics of All Star on a stage with Smash Mouth you fucking do it, and then you mentally high-five childhood you
Smash mouth is akin to when you are cooking something for a dinner and you don’t have time to grab the exact ingredients so you say fuck it and substitute a bunch of stuff, but then you get to the dinner and everyone LOOOOOVEEESSS it and for the life of you, you cant figure out why, no one has ever liked anything you…
This this this this this so much. FC is demonstrably bullshit. Assisted communication *can* definitely be great for people with physical disabilities who don’t have mental disabilities or who have less severe mental disabilities - people who have ALS, for example. My grandmother had a degenerative nerological disease…
There was a “Law & Order” episode that had this as a plot element.
This case is even more horrific than it’s being presented as here. The kind of FC Stubblefield practices has been extensively and consistently disproven (ie, in multiple reproducible studies, if conflicting information is presented to the facilitator and the patient, 100% of the time the FC will express the info given…
Not fucking long enough.
A Rutgers University professor who was convicted of sexually assaulting her severely disabled pupil was sentenced to…
I had my first at age 38 and recently went to see my OB about trying for #2. Not once did she treat me like I was a falling-apart Old Person. She was insanely supportive and encouraging and full of great info. Yes, geriatric pregnancy can be complicated, but so can pregnancy for those in the “prime” age category.
Yeah part of me wants to excuse it as poor scientific literacy probably caused by shitty primary education, but another part of me is like... you all have google.
Reading this thread makes me actually want to weep - how fucking hard is it to read a little bit about your own pregnancy so you can stop assuming everyone is out to offend you with their terminology? The only people I feel bad for here are the doctors.
I was ambivalent until I met my husband. It seemed like parenting wouldn’t be this horrible slog as long as I had him on my team. Funny how things change!
I’m really sorry you’re going through all this, but I think it’s crazy to tell women have have babies by age 30. I didn’t even get married until I was 31, what should I have done, popped out a baby at 22 with some random guy I had no feelings or connection with and then been a single mom while finishing college/going…
counterpoint: a 15 yr old will make choices that get them the most freedom. I’ve seen this happen with a close friend, and having that sort of freedom to choose who you live with when you are a hormonal teenaged mess is a rough thing to handle. I wish for my friend (and for madonna’s family for that matter) that a…
Uhh... Please be Cloverfield 2?
There’s been a number of situations in my hometown where a child has been left in the car for a minute or two for whatever reason, and the car got stolen. Kids always turned up fine, but that’s probably why people disapprove. There’s also been a number of situations where children have died from being left in a hot…
It’s not naive at all. Like at all. Sandra Bullock IS her mama, and you suggesting it’s naive to say that shows that you’re naive for assuming it CAN’T be said because she was adopted. Screw you a little bit. That is her mama, the one who will take care of her and sleep by her bed and hold her hand.
The issue became a great popular obsession, but it took decades to wrangle all the necessary stakeholders, officials and taxpayers for basics like upgraded sewers. Various reformers would emerge and propose grand schemes, but the decentralized nature of local government made it damn near impossible to get anything…