Your situation sounds so much like ours here. I’m sorry. I know how hard it is. Problem being, that even with a diagnosis, there just isn’t that much information or research or commonly-practiced interventions for adults with FAS. Seriously, when you look it up, all you find are pediatric recommendations that if…

Aw, see now you’re gonna make me cry lol. I know exactly how that is. My ex works, but I have to constantly monitor the money he makes, where he goes, what he does, who he talks to, etc. He gets angry and frustrated because, as an adult man he FEELS like an adult man and who wouldn’t get frustrated with being followed…

First thing that popped into my head, too.

Thank you for caring :) Its a frustrating path sometimes, and often because instead of understanding what’s going on, people assume I am somehow doing something sexually deviant or manipulative because both my partner and my ex are so present and close in my life. Nothing could be farther from the truth, but what can…

I’ve met a wonderful man who understands that what I am trying to do is best for my ex and my daughter, and he supports that. I’m very grateful that he is so understanding, and he’s very helpful with my ex. Despite lots of adolescent behavior on my ex’s part, my boyfriend treats him like a buddy and is very good to…

I live with someone who doesn’t understand cause and effect and doesn’t learn from consequence because he can understand bits and pieces but not a whole concept. Or, if he can understand a concept, he can’t maintain the thought that one must to understand the bits and pieces that make up said concept. https://www.under…

You should really look up “executive functioning issues”. These can be lifelong problems and often go undiagnosed. https://www.understood.org/en/learning-at…

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is just one. “Right from Wrong” are hard to determine when you can only understand elements of a situation and not the whole concept, or you can only remember ever third thing you hear, if you even remember that at all.

Because people are selfish, and it takes effort, time and operating on something other than impulse to take the time to evaluate what’s going out outside of your own immediate sensory experience. That’s what I think, anyway. Would have been much easier to just decide my child’s father was an asshole. He certainly met…

I think its one of those problems, at least FAS, where it goes undiagnosed because no one wants to admit, even to themselves, that they could have caused this to their child. Nor does anyone want to think that way about their mother.

oh I’m bigger than he is and if he got really violent I’d either call the cops or put him on his ass and restrain him without hurting him. (I had to do it a couple of times. Not fun, but sometimes words weren’t working and he was going to cause a major problem if he didn’t sit and settle. I really haven’t seen that in…

I’m not going to just assume she’s innocent and the idea that she’d claim this to save her own ass (which I doubt, really) makes me sick, but you wouldn’t believe how many innocent people who did NOTHING to deserve it or cause it are affected by things like this, often unidentified. Whole lives of frustration,…

I know everyone is ready to crucify this woman and all, BUT.. my child’s father has these same sorts of problems. It isn’t anything you can see and it is due to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. We’re not together anymore and its something you need some time with someone to recognize. We only had him diagnosed at about 25. I…

thank you. Yes, we do exist, in numbers. Sorry, we don’t all think Hillary needs to be prom queen. She has so much opposition against her (save for republicans who don’t want Trump, which should worry people a lot, and DNC-lifers who needed some goddamn term limits 10-20 years ago) she’s going to make for the saddest…

If you can’t understand the concept of “mansplaining”, what it is, that it exists, and that its wrong, I’m going to assume the worst of you, too.

hate to piss in the party punch, but if you grow up poor in America its not hard to see it as a poor country.. cause for the majority of people who live here, it is. No health care, no dental, everyone working their asses off to get by.. check.

It's very much worth mentioning that IUDs have improved dramatically in design in the last ten (and really, the last five) years. Those of us who have heard horror stories that scared us off.. lots of those stories were over devices that are no longer being used. It is my understanding that even the long-used…

like anyone in here ain't Googled some peen.. lol

I know it sounds impossible, but its totally possible to not know you are pregnant for a long time. I didn't know til I was about six months along. I had a total of four home pregnancy tests tell me that I wasn't, and I took them pretty spaced out over the course of 24 weeks. I have endometriosis and the wind can blow…

She's not an asshole. She's just not interested and trying to avoid the kind of scene that maybe someone a smidge more dudebro than you would engage in. You'll have to forgive us on that notallmen level, but when you're concerned about whether you can walk safely to your car to leave, then potential man hurtfeels kind…