and for those who are curious, I'm not a welfare queen or a mooch or a junkie - since that's what is assumed because of my missing teeth or my lack of work. I had surgery done by a drunk doctor 10 years ago, I vomit up to 14 times a day so my teeth fell out, and my work plus the state told me to stop working because…

I am suffering from prepartum depression. It is talked about even less and most insurance companies don't consider it an issue. The food stamp office gives me and my family 16 dollars a month for 3 people. Seeing as I am disabled, we were already in trouble financially before the pregnancy happened (my husband had the…

And as I've said under my other ID (http://gawker.com/people/ComputerGirlMandy) that locked me out on accident for weeks, real men can control their "rape urges" and not just "do what anyone else would have done if they were around a drunk 15 year old". Real men don't see a girl so utterly incapacitated she can't even…

My husband got busted with peyote outside his reservation at the age of 17. He was still on probation until he told them he refused to pay another dime for any fines - he's 33 now. He just did 11 months in prison on a charge that was over 15 years ago. He's never failed a urine test or got in more trouble but he is…

Menstruating on command would be my super power if I was a comic book hero. It's Bloody Mandy and she's making sure crime rides the crimson tide straight to jail.

Girl if you ever need someone to commiserate with, please hit me up. With my first pregnancy, over 16 years ago, I had periodicals at the library and BBS boards for help with my weird questions but I had an amazing OB who really cared about me. At the age of 36, dealing with my third pregnancy (a second one was…

As someone who finds herself 18 weeks pregnant at the age of 36, I get more unsolicited advice on a situation that wasn't planned. From being accused to cheating on my husband because I got pregnant right out after he got out of prison *this is his family that visited me once while he was in prison for a year and I…

My parents gave me a book that was 30 pages long and told me to sit in their room to read it. Finished it in 4 minutes, laughed, then used the time I had as the one time I didn't have to clean up or cook or watch kids for 3 hours. My mother cared so little about what was going on with my body besides ridiculing it…

Dude, I was taught to never bury the lede but this is a bit fucking much.

this is so damn awesome!