White people who compare mild to moderate situations/annoyances to MLK’s struggle are the fucking worst.

Also a good idea to make sure people who tend to drink too much DON’T leave by themselves.

There was a case a couple of years ago in northern MN on a similarly frigid night where college kids dropped off a friend at her house, then drove away before watching to make sure she got in the door. She apparently dropped her keys in the snow, couldn’t find them or get in, and was found the next morning on her…

I don’t think people are very considerate anymore. I always wait until my friends (boys and girls) are safely in their car or in their house before I drive away. That has literally never happened for me, except for when my own dad is dropping me off somewhere.

I always hope my friends notice me sitting in my car, and…

This this this this this so much. FC is demonstrably bullshit. Assisted communication *can* definitely be great for people with physical disabilities who don’t have mental disabilities or who have less severe mental disabilities - people who have ALS, for example. My grandmother had a degenerative nerological disease…

This case is even more horrific than it’s being presented as here. The kind of FC Stubblefield practices has been extensively and consistently disproven (ie, in multiple reproducible studies, if conflicting information is presented to the facilitator and the patient, 100% of the time the FC will express the info given…

I can't believe that FC still has a lot of backing and support. This technique has done so much damage. I understand the need to connect with people who have severe disabilities and how easy it is to grasp at straws. My god, so many people have burned by this and it really needs to end.

I feel like if it were a balance thing, then some sort of sling would be just as effective. But if you need a specific person to hold your hand? yeah no.

I was with her until I read nobody else can “help” him to speak but her

Really? What’s a better punishment? We complain about mass incarceration in the abstract but want to keep everyone in prison forever in the concrete.

Seems like if you’re a practitioner of a therapy that already isn’t completely accepted by the medical or scientific community that you should probably just abstain from sex with your clients if you don’t want to make your therapy look even more sketchy.

While the Chicago season was mostly forgettable, I am forever in debt to those seven strangers for the wonderfully delightful “kidney stones” song about Tonya that I STILL sing from time to time.

Oh, shit. I would binge watch that like no tomorrow if they did. Actually, why isn’t it on Netflix or Hulu or somewhere? Talk about a show that lends itself to mindless binge watching.

That’s what it was in the original seasons. And it was great.

It’s all been downhill since The Real World: Sacramento.

ALL I WANT IN LIFE IS FOR NETFLIX TO PUT EVERY SEASON ON STREAMING

14-year-old with a 17-year old is 100% legal in New York. While 14-year-old with an 18-year-old is a crime, there is an affirmative defense which makes it not a crime if the 18-year-old is less than four years older than the person under the age of 15 (so if you were 14 and 8 months and he was 18 and one month, that’s…

Lost my virginity to a 17/18 year old when I was 14 and I really struggle with the fact that although I know it was statutory rape, I would not call myself a victim of rape*.

What 26-year-old man other than a sexual abuser and/or rapist would be even remotely interested in a 14-year-old child? That’s something I will never understand.

“I was almost obsessed with having a man feel like he wants me. It made me feel great and I didn’t care what he did or how old he was”