This makes no sense to me. The light of a screen is distracting and shouldn’t be allowed, but it doesn’t break the immersive experience anywhere near as much as someone screaming at the top of their lungs.

It’s interesting what drugs and drug-combinations people who aren’t perceived as “drug-seekers” (i.e people who don’t seem like they came from working-class backgrounds) get from psychiatrists and how that parallels other forms of drug-use.

It doesn’t show how addiction can turn people shitty. It shows that carefully-calculated PR stunts don’t particularly reflect people’s characters. And even outside of the celebrity part, carefully maintaining one’s public/community image is a very powerful tool for wife-beaters.

You’re welcome! I hope you’re soon able to connect with the support you need (I agree that in a big city your therapist dating your cousin was a totally bizarre coincidence...) so that things look up for you soon.

The behavior you’ve described isn’t kind at all—it’s really, really weird to ask for a birthday present back and it’s even weirder and very cruel to blame you for “making” him feel guilty for not seeing his sick father, when he chose to go to Thailand again with his friends instead of visiting his sick father. He…

Have you told your therapist that you need a referral ASAP because she’s marrying your cousin and you don’t feel like you can be as open with her anymore? That would likely be a helpful step.

An 8% or more niacinamide treatment is a good option. Laser treatments are expensive but do work.

A woman who has experienced severe post-partum medical issues doesn’t belong with a man who responds to those issues by taking an additional wife. She belongs with a supportive partner who understands that accepting the possibility of serious post-partum medical issues is part of becoming a parent or, failing that, by…

The mechanism connecting the two isn’t completely clear yet since autism is so complex, but that’s certainly a likely possibility. I think it’s helpful not to frame these things as just genetics and just being dealt a bad hand, though, and to remember that there are some things that parents can do to reduce…

It’s not always just genetics. There are other risk factors, like advanced paternal age, which anti-vaxers prefer not to acknowledge. Robert De Niro comes to mind—had an autistic son at fifty-five and spends his time advocating against vaccines, which have been proved not to increase autism risk, and never says…

What are you talking about? Both the letter-writer and his husband are male. Him being gay isn’t the issue in their relationship.

More lies! Interesting that you’ve left off the name-calling and the bizarre suggestion that I’m “jealous” of something about you (your creepy, aggressive behaviour? your age-group? your inability to distinguish between “most” and “more likely”? unclear!). Maybe you finally felt too foolish to bring yourself to…

Yes, it’s fine to use words that actually have broad meanings and that doesn’t, in fact, mean that other words don’t have narrower meanings. Especially the term evidently. If you were able to provide any evidence for your creepy, absurd claims, you wouldn’t seem quite as foolish, but you, of course, can’t.

Ah, your lack of understanding of the concept of evidence strikes again! (And of nastiness etc....)

No, I didn’t make you do weird things like call people names and lie. I’m very aware that those choices were yours and yours alone. It might be helpful for you to develop that awareness of your own choices and responsibilities too. Is it hilarious to you that you confused “most” with “more likely” and then went on to…

Claiming to “review” over and over and over again doesn’t make up for your failure to actually back up your nonsensical assertions, you know. Or your failure to understand that “most” and “more likely” mean different things. Or your failure to understand that discourse doesn’t, in fact, mean name-calling.

Quantity and quality of sperm both decline. Plus, the declining quality of sperm massively decreases the chance of pregnancy actually resulting in a live birth, which is kind of the point of fertility for pretty much everyone.

Oh, you’ve attempted to bait me with a sorts of strange, aggressive behavior. Unfortunately for you, it’s never once worked. I’ve never even been inclined to sink to your grotesque name-calling and lying behavior. That’s a shame that’s all your own.

Oh, I never suggested that “dialogue” is inappropriate. That’s another silly lie. What’s inappropriate is calling others names, ranting for hundreds of words about a single typo, outright lying, and refusing to back up assertions. Beyond inappropriate. Downright weird.

More like I’ll add the idea that selfie is appropriately written in quotation marks to the list of things which you’ve claimed that demonstrably aren’t true and that you can’t back up. I see that you tacitly admit that it’s very easy to reproach someone for even one of the following: calling people names, ranting for…