I was about to type a snarky reply while sipping a glass of my local probably-lower-arsenic $7/bottle Arkansas AVA until I realized I would 1000% trade my tasty underpriced local shit for living in California and having franzia-only access tbh 😔

meaning.....what exactly? Autistic people having an innate lack of empathy is a myth, if that's where you were going with this, and as hard as I've seen some parents of severely affected kids have it, I wouldn't exactly call expecting people to treat us like humans and accommodate when they can like any other…

I'm autistic, and while I'm not super functional in some areas (sensory overload, forgetfulness, body language), it is 100000% due to how society is set up and neurotypical people's refusal to be understanding and empathetic towards me. I've met and have friends that are on the "more severe end of the spectrum"…

ohhhh, I never thought of this one, and my mom actually is dead, so it's not even a lie! (It's been 13 years, so I don't feel bad about it and I doubt she would either). Thanks for the idea!

maybe it wasn't Madeleine's intention, but personally I'd say its worth mention because in the last 5 years 70+ disabled people have been murdered by caretakers, family, or friends, and that's just the reported ones. (http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/02282…) (and yes, a lot of deaf people don't consider themselves…

The nature is gorgeous and especially in northwest Arkansas, and if you can find a little pocket of sanity like Fayetteville or eureka springs it's a very good place to be (even as someone lgbt), but not a week goes by that I don't still fantasize about winning the lottery and getting the hell out and/or all the…

as a missouri native I feel like I should be offended, but as a current Arkansas resident fuck those guys, I would honestly rather live in this demonic-foster-kid-re homing hellscape (also fuck you guys because now I want some Kansas City BBQ)

as someone with a chronic illness who grew up with a chronically ill mother, I can definitely say they would not be better off (tho I know where you're coming from ) <3

this isnt surprising, but it's so antithetical to my experience of my parents is all the more sad. My mom was a very brittle type 1 diabetic (in the days before insulin pumps) who had a kidney transplant before I was born and was always in and out of the hospital. My dad worked and she was a homemaker perhaps by…

Calories were not news, but the sodium is! I've been having issues w orthostatic intolerance (faintin spells) and got told BY A DOCTOR the best treatment was 4000-8000mg sodium per day sooooo what I'm getting from this is LATER LOSERS I WILL BE OFF MAKING LOVE TO SEVERAL BURRITO BOWLS, THANK U NYT

as someone w celiac i kinda wanna visit colorado now, but as someone also w sense and a seething love/hate relationship w gf fad dieters (QUIT DRIVING UP THE PRICE OF BREAD!!!! ....but thanks for making stores carry bread) I feel like a lot of these outliers would be like the restaurant equivalent of that one weird…

as someone with a connective tissue disorder that dislocates shit just walking around, I salute and condole you

that's a nice proposal in theory, but a lot of food allergies are not technically allergies or have huge margins for error. take gluten antibody tests, for instance - I've had celiac blood panels 5 times before I went GF that came back clear, and these days even a crumb puts me in the ER (and those same immune tests…

same, only it took 2 months and I ended up having a paradoxical reaction that made me fail out of an 18-credit semester. ahhh, neurotransmitters

has anyone not tried lactaid? Yes, I have, and actually take them every night with medications that contain lactose as a filler, but unfortunately I have casein issues too :( should've said "lactose intolerant and or entirely dairy intolerant"

for the above mentioned lactose-intolerant, replace the milk with any nondairy milk in a carton EXCEPT almond (gross when heated) or rice (just a plain gross), and replace the heavy cream with canned coconut milk. this tip brought to you by my quest to stop pouring money into the gaping maw of Silk nondairy nog, and…

Nah, it's not like saying that at all, as a Bethel Heights resident (between springdale and lowell) I would definitely not say I live in Fayetteville, it takes a good 20 minutes for me to get to Dickson st and I'm sure out there in the ass-end of cave springs tonitown Johnson blah blah it's even longer. "Near…

it's higher than you'd think - idk how many customers of yours claim to be gf but multiple gi docs over the years have told me celiac is about 1 in 130, and non-celiac (aka celiac symptoms but had ok bloodwork) gluten intolerance is much higher, and celiac is super under diagnosed itself.

Oh yeah, being picky about something that will literally put me into the hospital and possibly on IV nutrition for weeks is awfuuuuul, it's not like I already feel bad enough asking for such complicated things like clean dishware and not putting a roll on my plate every time I don't have time or energy to cook at home.

See, the general disdain and references to it as a military thing are confusing me rn, bc it's one of those things we had for dinner a few times a month when I was a kid w two very non-military parents, and even reading abt it now is kinda making me want some! But maybe it's a southern thing - mmmmmm, sausage gravy…