Wow, gal you are busy! Sounds like you are also disciplined and creative and keeping yourself mentally healthy, so go you!

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Yes, that's fine. But what isn't is that he is making it sound like it's his hard work and overachieving that accomplishes everything in that schedule rather than his good income and lack of need to sleep. The title should be "Here Is What A Hard-Working Over-Achieving Person With A Good Income And No Need For Sleep's…

This is true. I love where I live. We're doing the same thing. We do two small trips a year, one that is smaller and within the US (usually a backpacking trip in a National Park) and one that is abroad somewhere.

I don't see where she made that assumption in the first place. She said nothing at all about "most people". She talked about how she did it.

This is the sort of response that really annoys me. Everyone has problems that shrink in relation to other people's problems. We are allowed to talk about the things happening in our lives. If those things interest other people, it's nice to make connections. It's not just people who are suffering that experience life…

Short trips are like nothing to me though. I've had to rewire my thinking. Since we only have time for short trips now, I've learned that you make it about a very small place (like you leave with the expectation that you will just see one city) or you make it about the people you are going with or to visit, and the…

Oh god. I could have written this, except for the babies part. It's actually pretty hard to settle down after wandering about, but it's the sort of difficulty that comes with having spent a lot of time doing something awesome and so it's not something you can really complain about. I tried to complain about it a…

Ha ha. Well good. Sounds like they threw out the textbook and fell in love with their kid and did just whatever seemed to work and be fun for their family! I do think it's important for young girls to not be surrounded by gender expectations all the time. It made a huge difference in my life that I wasn't.

To be fair, Reason #3 isn't just about meal times. It's about the parenting necessary at meal times. And in thinking through that, I realized it was the parenting I don't want to do and the ease of personal freedom that I do want to do. It's just that cooking/food is something I really enjoy, and therefore it was in…

Part of the reason is that Indian food is awesome. But seriously, the conversation was about Indians in India and the eating habits of their children there. (Actually about foreigners and their eating habits in their own foreign cultures, but my input was about India.)

Yup. All the time.

Sorry you don't like the word. I like it just fine. Also I'm not writing Jezebel article comments with an expectation for greatness or wordsmitheryishness.

Politics and art are both full of fart jokes, and they always have been. Culture is full of politics and art, and so also full of fart jokes. Therefore, if you aren't appreciative of fart jokes, you ain't got no culture.

Well I guess I don't understand your question. I mean, why would they? They do sometimes. Just like how most Americans don't eat Indian food but they do sometimes. And, like I said, it's becoming more common among wealthier Indians to eat fast food and packaged food and all that Americanized stuff, though it's…

Just to be clear, I fully support fart jokes at the dinner table.

Yes, just goes to show it's more temperament and tastebuds than upbringing. I grew up that way too. I was in college before I'd had any variety of food or fruits or cuisine. But once I discovered there were foods in the world, I never stopped discovering. In some ways, I think I value it more because I had no idea for…

One of my bf is like that. You open her fridge and there's like jelly and beer. She eats chicken and salads, and I think that's it. She's so picky. She's an amazing woman- brilliant, successful, happy marriage, physically healthy, athletic, ambitious, compassionate, loving, etc. But she eats like a child. So I can…

OMG YOU ARE SO RIGHT. Pancakes do taste like nihilism. How come I never realized this before? And it explains so friggin much about the times in my life when I really crave a lot of pancakes. And about my childhood. You could probably charge me an hour's worth of therapy just for that bit of insight right there.

It's a super hard job, and seriously you get all the kudos. Making a weekly meal schedule with him is brilliant because if he's high functioning autistic, then that's a life lesson that can apply to loads of situations that seem overwhelming but that actually he can control and limit, and you're teaching him tools to…