Right. I don’t understand why people have so much trouble believing that someone who has visibly been struggling with substance abuse is also possibly abusive.

Thankfully she was able to accommodate them despite her naivety! So much worse when this happens to people living in townhouses.

The stories they told at Edgar’s Mission made everybody cry. One of the pigs had come to them stinking of weed and curiously mellow, but covered in graffiti. He was found in a laundry covered in his own excrement. Left to their own devices pigs will walk a mile from where they eat and sleep to go to the toilet because…

No sane person is.

From a sustainability perspective I think that’s great but as a vegetarian I’m like, poor little piggy 😭😭😭. Although at least it saves it from awful factory farms.

Yes, I think even Miss Manners would give them a pass.

Gosh, I didn’t know that 😭 I always assumed they were the result of unethical selective breeding but that’s even worse.

This piece is fantastic.

This happens all the time. I visited Edgar’s Mission, a local farm sanctuary, and they said they get calls every day from people trying to find a home for unexpectedly enormous pigs. And micro-pigs aren’t even available in Australia.

He did seem to age ten years over the course of their marriage. Also, it really seems like he stuck her with most of the blame for their dog smuggling ring which could hardly engender a sense of trust in your spouse.

Last year there was a pretty good Australian miniseries about young adults with disabilities — Down syndrome and autism — moving out of their parents’ homes and into a share house: http://www.artemisfilms.com/productions/th…

That’s one reason I got SUPER into Switched at Birth for a while — it’s such a dumb cheesy soap in so many ways but it was really wonderful to see deaf actors have the opportunity to represent their own language and culture. It's sad how radical that still is in the year 2016.

She is easily one of the funniest people on television.

To me the difference in your story is that you were clearly being subjected to emotional/psychological violence — I completely understand the horror you felt about your own reaction, but the relationship was obviously distressing and dysfunctional on both sides.

Thanks!

Could I get some more info on that podcast please?

Wow, really? I haven’t read it as a kid (in the late 80s/early 90s) but I’ve always strongly associated it with the 50s. Clearly not an Archie expert.

np 😊

I know, you can tell from the photos that it isn't.

It’s interesting that you find those videos help because I find them — for want of a better word — triggering. I think it’s because some of them go for so long, my brain can't handle it and it's like GET THAT STUFF OUT OF ME NOW. The only thing that really works for me is redirection. Like, since I shaved my head I…