That was my thought too. When I was teaching, I had one student with autism, and several with Aspergers. They were all pretty high functioning (in a gen ed classroom) and I'm fairly sure that none of them would have been diagnosed in a non-traditional school setting.

I have a good friend who I suspect isn't vaccinating her son. He just turned 5. I know she vaccinated him at birth and through the first year or so, but after that, she got into a lot of pseudoscience stuff. A few years ago, she mentioned if she had a second kid, she'd have to do "more research" before she'd…

ETA:Double post—sorry!

According to her plea for money, she seemed to blame Uber:

I came to the comments to say the same thing. If I remember correctly, she was innovative for trying to crowdfund the bill.

Sometimes...I used to be a high school teacher, and I saw some kids undergo some pretty rapid changes based on friends. It might surprise you to learn how quickly hanging out with an ungrateful brat will make a kid's behavior change. Maybe this was the first time the kid let their new ungrateful attitude show, and…

Eh, to me it's not SO HARSH. We have no idea what other kinds of toys this kid already has at home. The fact he had to go along to return it also doesn't seem that harsh to me, it just makes the whole thing more concrete.

I've heard of it before as a punishment for not appreciating the other, less fun gifts. Like if the kid can't give a genuine thank you for a book or a sweater from grandma, or if they throw a fit because they "only" got the Wii and not a laptop too.

I've heard of this punishment before when a kid is totally unappreciative of other, less fun gifts. Like if you can't give grandma a sincere thank you for the sweater she knit for you, maybe you don't need the expensive gadget of the year.

Totally agree. Perhaps a pictureless message inviting you to use the app, and letting you choose whether to have Facebook autogenerate it, or allowing you to pick the pictures from the beginning.

Totally agree. I always feel so weird "liking" statuses about death or sickness, but it seems to be an appropriate way to show sympathy (especially for those who you aren't in a position to send a card or flowers to).

Mine was 50% pictures of my dog who passed away in November, and 50% Throwback Thursday pictures.

Oh God. You deserve so many apologies.

Yep, "remember when your dog got bone cancer, had her leg amputated, lost control of her other leg a month and a half later, and had to be put to sleep?"

I think Facebook used the same app last year. If your mom posted the video last year, there was probably an option that gave the app permission to post to her timeline, and she may have agreed to it. It's still super shady of them, as it isn't hard to imagine that a person who shared the video one year might not…

I'm not sure, the only high school age girls I was exposed to were the ones I taught (who were all from the same region)

Suburban white high school girls were using ratchet in 2011. Sorry.

(disregarding the fact he has never sought the victim out to apologize) I don't necessarily disagree. However, there are tons of people out there who made bad decisions at a young age and don't get pardons.

I used to be a teacher, and I saw this all the time.

That's terrible. And people wonder why she was too scared.