A few weeks ago, I was discussing a similar topic with some coworkers of mine.

"I think a lot of this is that people who are close with their family don't understand the concept of not being close with your family."

This has been one of the most therapeutic pieces I have read in a long time. My sister and I are estranged from our mother and when people hear of this they usually paint us as spoiled children. "But that's your MOTHER!" they say. No matter that she was and is an abusive psycho who both my sister and I tried our…

I think sometimes abusive parents have a tendency to believe the lies they've told themselves about how wonderful their children's childhoods were. Particularly if their children turned out to be decent adults.

The guy who was smuggling in the tiger claws and rhino horns was grateful for the distraction.

Hm, not that impressive. Two better revenge stories:

I myself foud a clever way to unearth the cheating girlfriend years ago.. Prior to the ubiquitous nature of cell phones — let's just call it the late 80's— I suspected my GF of cheating with some other dude— but then also learned he had no idea about me & her. Well, I perfectly timed dropping off a vase full of roses…

If his balls are so big, why are his shorts so tight?

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You made me LOL. And I hate the term "lol."

They will tip over if they sit with their legs together. They will TIP OVER if they sit with their legs together. I have been snorting in my cubicle for the last few minutes because I keep picturing some poor man sitting on the bus helplessly falling over like one of those fainting goats because he's trying to sit…

As the owner of a set of balls I can confirm that I have found it possible to sit respectfully on public transportation on nearly 100% of my journeys without injury.

Exactly. The same men that hired me would frequent this place, critique the waitresses bodies while at their table, & then talk about them being "hur hur, dumb sluts" for working there. If the waitresses were recognized while trying to later get a different type of job, these dudes would be the same ones to deny them…

Lots of dairy products have additives that can make yeast infections worse—the sugar in most American yogurts, for example, would cause the yeast to multiply like crazy. You can avoid this problem by using only plain, no-sugar-added yogurt.

Oh, oh yes.

Also, don't assume just because someone has a physical disability that they're mentally disabled too. My girlfriend has spastic cerebral palsy, and a lot of times when we go out, people talk to me instead of her (like at restaurants, they'll ask me what she wants to eat). I just stay quiet and let her answer, and a…

Do you also get told you should educate people about your illness/disability? Because I wanna set things on *fire* when I get that.

"Even at the time it creeped me out because it seemed to imply he should be defined other people's reactions to him, and deny the sort of complexity described here."

Incidents like this are why I was left sobbing over my keyboard at stories like that of Misty Cargill, an Oklahoma woman who was denied a kidney transplant for her mild intellectual disability. Some doctor, who had never met Misty, determined that she wasn't worthy of a life-saving kidney that could have gone to…