Yeah, I don’t know any couples my age who don’t both work.

It doesn’t really make a difference if both parents are working and make similar amounts. Then that part is no different from filing separately.

I didn’t do a special party or anything. But I did file paperwork to legally change my last name to my stepdad’s.

Yep, 99% of dogs beat 99.99999% of people. And 99% of cats do the same.

Yeah, our struggles definitely pale in comparison to marginalized groups. And no worries! I didn’t think you were, I just know how much my brother-in-law struggled with dyslexia, though he didn’t have a very supportive family so he didn’t even get diagnosed until he was an adult.

They think my nephew is showing early signs of it too, but hopefully his experience will be closer to yours since he’ll get support early on.

Auditory processing disorder is such a weird one. In a lot of contexts I actually like it, it’s like having earmuffs without wearing anything. I just wish I could turn it on and off intentionally. Sometimes I need it because the unfiltered background noise is too much but it won’t turn on. Sometimes I’m trying to take in audio and don’t realize it’s turned on and I missed a bunch.

I’ve also realized that I actually read lips a lot to compensate for background noise, so I’ve been trying to hone that skill more intentionally. Another thing that’s maybe a benefit of the disorder.

Damn that sounds rough. I’ve got some dyslexic family members and I can’t imagine combining their struggles with auditory processing disorder.

Other conditions exist. I have auditory processing disorder and one part of it is an involuntary disabling of my audio processing when my brain is trying to focus on something, particularly anything else to do with language like note-taking. My ears will “hear” but my brain won’t.

It wasn’t completely debilitating, but it made certain kinds of classes inordinately difficult for me. Discussion based classes were a nightmare for me, and no amount of practice could change how my brain works. So instead I pursued STEM where the notes are math and I could work ahead and tune in if I got stuck.

That being said, handwritten notes are still definitely the way to go in math!

My one that I share with my mom is that jalapeños taste like mold. I don’t get it with other kinds of peppers, and vinegar will mask it so pickled jalapeño or hot sauces with it are usually okay. But it’s always just a bit there.

Really didn’t expect them to fly off the handle like that. We’re doing okay, my mom just has a lot to deal with right now. We’ve all been uncomfortable around my grandparents for a while, even before MAGA. I’m not above cutting contact, I already did with my older sister. But my mom is different and she needs to keep a relationship with her parents for her own sake, so I gnash my teeth in private and vent to my wife and we all keep the peace.

My uncle is a different story. He is very much not MAGA, so his cancer diagnosis is just a really shitty cherry on top.

You need to calm down and shut the fuck up about my mother.

Uh, okay. Turns out she’s a person who has experienced a lot of trauma and doesn’t want to cut out her parents who are probably not going to live much longer.

Calling her complacent in all of MAGA because she’s trying to do her best to hold things together for her increasingly dementia-affected father and disabled mother while her brother is dying of cancer is, oh I don’t know… extreme, cruel, and heartless?

Perhaps everyone you know and everyone they know should cut contact with you for being such a hateful person.

Sometimes it’s bigger than yourself. My mom really struggles with anxiety and losing relationships. If it weren’t for her, I don’t think I would talk to my MAGA grandparents anymore. I just can’t stand the hypocrisy and constant attempts to guilt-trip over religious bullshit I don’t believe in.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

I didn’t know that term either. Now that you’ve defined it, I’m trying to make sense of that commenter. The best I can come up with is “You’re not allowed to call out Israel for murdering children because in the past they were persecuted for a wrongful claim also involving murdered children.” Which is an absolute bonkers claim.

So, El? That sounds an awful lot like the Canaanite mythology that Judaism sprung from. Yahweh was just a hotheaded war & storm god in a wide pantheon headed by El.

Dude, you’ve been insulting in every reply. You fucking do better.

You were the one who fired the first shot with your first comment, coward.

Is there somewhere we can go that isn’t invaded by sycophantic corpo-Dem bootlickers? I’m really tired of them acting like everything is fine as long as they vote D and demonize any opposing opinion.

You’re what’s wrong with the Democratic base. You are actively hurling this country into fascism because you don’t care what happens as long as you feel morally superior.

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