Yep. I was told my son was "moderately to severely autistic" at 3, but with the added caveat that "we don't typically diagnose kids as young as 3 because they are still developing". So then why the hell did you just cause me to curl up into a ball on the floor and sob like a fucking lunatic? Then he had "sensory…

I love you for this comment. I came here to write something similar. Fucking waste of space.

Word, I'm totally with you. Trashy tv, especially RHO__ is my pure escape from reality. It's not even my guilty pleasure because I feel not one ounce of guilt over watching it. Screw the holier-than-thou Judgy McJudgies, I'm a proud Trashy TV watcher.

Oh man, I hope that gossipy crap you read is wrong. I love everyone BUT Ramona (hating Aviva is a given). Ramona has been on too long, in my opinion. I love Kristin, Heather, Carol and yes, even LuAnn right now, though. I thought they all knocked it out of the park this season. (Although I could have done with less…

I think you're right. I was just diagnosed with Crohn's and I'm 700 years old. I asked my new GI dr. what the deal is with finding out about an autoimmune disorder at 700 and he said it's actually not uncommon at all. He said it's likely that I've had it my whole life, but hormonal changes coupled with my appendix…

My advice would be yes, absolutely look into why the university appears to be applying its policies inconsistently. Go directly to the HR department of the school, via email. They may call you in response to your email in an effort to avoid having to put anything in writing. However, as soon as you have a discussion…

Kevin Bull is totally amazing and I love that he's a newbie. I love watching David Campbell, too. I think he's the one referred to as "The Godfather".

There is understood to be the implicit right to privacy in many places in the Constitution. Would that there were an explicit right to privacy set forth in the Constitution. I never said there was. Also, while the Founding Fathers were, indeed, lily white, I disagree 1000% with your guess that they would be…

Right to privacy. The government needs to show a compelling interest when it creates policies that cut into fundamental constitutional rights. The Federal Government of White Men dictating what, where, how and when women can do things with or to their own bodies is—I'm just guessing—not what our Founders envisioned.

I agree with this 100%. I was laid off in 2010 and it was at a time when I was already teetering on the edge financially and barely making it check to check. I contracted my way intermittently through the next 366 day, but I never knew when I was going to have a contract gig so even if I could pay most of my bills…

Side note: I love it when you post. Every time you write something I find myself frantically nodding my head, saying, "YEP" to myself. You're the only person (other than dark me) who posts this stuff honestly and un-ironically and you make a gal feel slightly less alone in the world. Slightly.

I'm an in-house attorney who works closely with HR on a regular basis, and I am also the first person who receives a demand letter, an EEOC charge or a law suit when one comes in the door. Yeah, most states require both parties to a conversation to consent to a recording, but you know who doesn't care about that…

People keep mischaracterizing this requirement as part of "the war on drugs" and saying that government has a legitimate interest in protecting its citizens from the dangers of drug use. Are you kidding me with that? This has nothing to do about drugs; and has everything to do with the war against poor people. [Note…

No shit. Because there's just not enough guilt out there, let's unnecessarily expose moms to more of it. I have 3 kids and have worked their entire lives. I've never: a) been "room mom"; b) attended the "Friday PTA coffees in the courtyard" at 8:30am; c) volunteered to stuff Friday Folders (shoot me now); d) you…

Yup. Learned that the hard way. Now I always get a script for Ambien. Crazy pills + lack of sleep = tearful rage about 90% of the day. I have PTSD just thinking about it.

My god, the crazy pills, as I call them. The constant sweat, the giant red moon face, the swollen legs/ankles, the wildly fluctuating moods that tend to lean towards homicidal most of the day, the insomnia, the urge to eat anything not nailed down except you can't because you're on the crazy pills due to a flare. I…

Agreed 100%. I have Crohn's and not a day goes by where I don't practice how to tell a first date about the colostomy bag I don't have and *fingers crossed* won't need. I live in fear of one all the time. I love it that she posted this picture.

well, thanks for carrying the torch. i just took some southern sugar's bait down thread so here we go...

"I'm not a nymphomaniac who 'needs' birth control." See, you just destroyed your whole "no need to call names!" argument. There are so many layers of wrong to what you are writing here today on this thread that I don't even know where to begin, so I'll just say this: you knew perfectly well what you were doing when…

Yeah, crazy, emotional, irrational, Sakish—keep your silly rage in check, why don't you?