Member of your 2% (and a chick-gasp!). I grew up in Minnesota and left the same year the North Stars went somewhere else (won't acknowledge where) and my whole family and I became Hawks fans from that moment on. I've now lived here since 2000 and I still cannot believe that I school about 3/4 of the alleged "hockey…

Right?

October 2013. One of the first cold, rainy nights of the fall season. I was 2 months into dating a painter and instructor at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. He asked me if he could sketch me naked (or "nude", I guess, in art parlance). I pretended I wasn't self conscious while I laid there for close to…

I typically expect the worst of people at all times and even I didn't see those comments coming about what you wrote. I'm pissed that I was surprised.

Last weekend, I went out on my first date in 18 months. 18 months. I was actually starting to try to accept that I might not ever have another boyfriend again when this guy asked me out. I was terrified, but I was excited, too. I was excited just to be asked out (even though it was OKCupid so it wasn't like he…

For something as supposedly pervasive as ASD diagnoses, I'm constantly surprised by how misinformed people are. You also hit the nail squarely on the head—this story is about guns and misogyny and has absolutely nothing to do with Asperberger's. Am I acting like an arm chair psychologist right now? No. I'm putting…

Thank you. My 14 yo son is somewhere on the spectrum (was labeled Asperger and NLD but now he's just "on the spectrum somewhere") and he is the kindest, most gentle soul I'll ever encounter in this life time. Animals, small kids/babies and the elderly are naturally drawn to him. He sees the good in everyone…

He's a real sidler.

Chet Haze is a treasure.

There's absolutely nothing contradictory or strange about how I described my parenting. Regretting my parenting choice and being a fucking slam-dunk parent are not mutually exclusive things. I think you and I are on different wave lengths regarding my feelings on the subject and please let's just leave it at that.

I just came here to say that it always felt so North Korean to me. It's so strange.

I feel like you kind of missed the point of what I wrote. I seem to put all of your eggs in my parenthetical, but that wasn't the gist of my comment. As for repeating the cycle, there is zero chance of that. I'm one of the best parents I know.

Aw, thanks. I didn't mean to sound whiney; I've actually come to this realization a long time ago and am trying to do little things to help me carve out some sort of semblance of a life just for me. Their personalities are awesome. They are the kindest, funniest, most endearing 3 people I'll ever know. The…

A) I didn't have 10 kids; B) most of us are zombies because we don't know any better. Some of us become enlightened later in life, and some of us don't. I, for one, have become enlightened, just later in life than I would have liked (understatement). You just don't understand why people miss the point that it is…

No. What I said, or rather meant, in my tangential side note is that I was completely invisible in my house because my mom was completely over kids by the time they had me, (and she wasn't a warm, loving person to begin with), so I wasn't taught that I was important, I mattered, I had value. I was taught to shut up…

I actually do regret having them and it feels horrible to admit, especially when no one else in my world has ever admitted it to me. I will say this, though: my oldest will be 15 in a couple of weeks and man, he is actually a pleasure to be around. As in, I genuinely enjoy his company and don't in any way feel like…

Y'all are taking care of KK quite nicely, so I would like to add this comment because this drives me nuts: can we please stop referring to families with divorced parents as "broken homes"? My home is sufficiently, lovingly, respectfully intact, thank you very much. Indeed, it's arguably more intact than unbroken (?)…

But see, that's the whole reason why she made the video - to show that not all women leave feeling guilty and remorseful about their decision, and it's not always a tearful, horrible thing to have to go through. YOU would feel guilty because YOU feel like the procedure is ending a life. However, not everyone does. …

Grow up! That's rich. I hate to tell ya, but you are the one "vehemently" insisting upon yourself and your tired view of when life begins. A) I don't give a shit what it's called and when, to be honest with you; and B) I view a non-viable fetus as an embryo, not a human life. It's as simple as that. Not hard to…

Eh. This debate is so tired, so old and I'm exhausted and it's the worst time of the weekend because it's almost Monday. I tell you what—you believe what you want, and continue to cherry-pick and spin your "scientific facts" (?), and I will do the same. I will say that it's a little heartwarming to see at least one…