Uhhh can we talk about the better Drake story from last night? He skipped out on a v. prestigious Canadian awards ceremony that he was nominated for (it makes a big deal about ‘artistic merit’, as opposed to sales figures) to DJ the opening of his new restaurant called FRINGS.

I can’t believe that no one has figured out or leaked the paternity of January Jones’s kid yet. She must be some kind of witch. My money is on Ashton Kutcher

That’s not a phobia. You don’t have the condition - and you do not understand the condition. So please, yourself. Don’t simply dismiss the reality of what a phobia can do to someone. Glib statements like yours are what continues a cycle of shame and unfair treatment of mental illnesses. Why do you get to pass such…

This is how I feel about frogs (technically crapuad, but whatever). Just seeing them makes my skin crawl. My new apartment is surrounded by land that is farmed and the frogs come out at night. I don’t leave the house after dark and I try to get home before nightfall. Once I went to see a movie and came back around…

I admire the way you handled all those replies. You have the patience of a saint. Just remember that over a hundred people agree with you. :)

CPS? The chances of this happening at all in the first place were minuscule and the chance it would happen again the same way are equally remote. It was an anomaly event—an accident. The accident is the direct result of a human reaction, but that reaction’s dependent on an unlikely scenario.

I had this happen with a palo verde beetle. I thought there was a bat in the car attacking me! The upside of living in the southwest is that you can also just park your car in the sun to autoclave any life out of it.

I laughed at this article because I could see myself doing this, but it’s no joke. I could actually see myself doing this, because I’m that afraid. I’ve avoided websites for hours (including Jez) because i saw a story with a picture of a spider posted and needed to wait for it to get to a later page before it was safe…

I knew my husband was afraid of snakes but I didn’t realize how much. I showed him a picture of my sister’s pet snake so he could see how beautiful she was. I accidentally gave him a panic attack. It took a lot of apologies to fully apologize for that one.

yes, that’s the kind of thing that phobias can do.

That has nothing to do with it, honestly. Any phobia could cause any amount of damage if everything lined up ‘just so.’ This was terribly unfortunate and thank God it wasn’t worse, but it is a true accident.

Don’t go easy on her, evaluate the evidence in its context. Be smart. There’s a reason she’s not being charged and it’s because what happened was not her fault. A person can’t control their reaction to phobia, and having a phobia does not preclude someone from being a good mother. This was just an extremely unlucky…

What’s your point here? This woman didn’t make a conscious choice to abandon her kid in a moving car. Her body’s fight/flight instinct kicked in and she ejected herself from the car. Yeah, this was a horribly dangerous incident, but she wasn’t in a head space where she could control her response. Hopefully, this…

All this is true. It is so, so tough for people without a phobia to get it, because of course jumping out of a moving car (and leaving your child in one!) is a thousand, million times more dangerous and terrible than a spider. This is a fact. But phobias aren’t about facts at all. A person with a phobia—me, for…

It could in the wrong/right circumstance. And typically arachnophobia wouldn’t cause this either, it was just exceptionally bad timing/luck.

I hope this gets a million more stars. Phobia as are a serious and real mental disorder and I'm disappointed this was not pointed out in this article. I realize how insane it sounds to jump out of a moving car with your child inside, but this is a woman with a phobia not a woman whom was capable for even a second of…

I want to quickly point out that of course of this woman’s actions were irresponsible and irrational—that’s the nature of phobia, an irrational fear that is debilitating. I have nearly done this for another reason (not spiders) and it’s horrifying. I’ve been locked in rooms by my phobia. Locked out of my house for…

Things our mothers and sisters had to hear.

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AND compliments to your mom, who I think you said made the dress - she did a lovely job!