I discussed everyone’s plans with them in a socially acceptable way. Tomorrow I will swoop into the grocery store for clearance items in the bakery.

Right? I said early on the unmarked ones should be treated as kidnappers bc we are drilled to not let unidentified people take us to a second location. Too much?

Or call the real authorities when they’re sniffing around schools and make a real scene because that’s a fiduciary duty.

Idk I’ve seen people say much worse but these are very sensitive individuals.

Especially when the original intent was likely to disenfranchise women. Whoops.

I could do with chocolate. I’m a little old for a pet that’s high maintenance.

You are right. I did fieldwork in a rich school which was very white. They had technicians just to sit with their DD population (behavioral or no) while they outplaced…every.single.one. Then I worked in a poor city school for a couple of years. Where many kids are multi-lingual. Lots of poverty. The behavior problems there were not outplaced. They were remediated as possible, but there were so, so many concentrated into that with limited resources. By the way, outpacing is hella expensive. So the poor kids grow up seeing their peers with conduct disorders or developmental disabilities. The system in those districts is much more strained, they fight against placements because it limits what resources they do have, therefore the large behavioral population has less to work with AND systemic hurdles by admin. So they stay in general education as long as they can, fall behind, engage in increased and varied maladaptive behavior…because they need services from the get go and basically it’s like “there’s a line and we still might say no even though every single person in this line needs help.” A real case of haves and have-nots.

I’m gonna say it. I’ve read enough of your posts to get a good picture. You need independent living skills. You don’t have to go NC but need the ability to say “no” to mom without bending to the narcissism.

Yes well…yes. Very easy for these kids to fall through the cracks. I imagine more so when a profit motive is involved.

Nope. Used them for years. Now I pay a fucky amount of taxes with my high paying job to support them. Use them. We live in a society.

I have seen a young man eat one of those Colby blocks. Mortifying.

No.

When I was a kid my mom send my sister and I to bible camp. I spent time with friends and I didn’t shun the one kid with a developmental disability like everyone else. Not for any particular reason I just got along with him as well as my other friends.

Those motherfuckers gave me a TROPHY.

Looking back it was the beginning of the end of my religious journey. Now I just make the best of it with my fellow normies.

I get a base month of Pto but it’s not designated as a sick day. I just use it how I want (usually for emergencies lol). But I can earn like 2 more weeks as well. Which I know isn’t great compared to a first world country but most of my friends don’t get anything.

Bank card, ID, library card, and maybe a small amount of cash. Nothing that you can’t cancel with a quick phone call or replace.

Genuinely love this.

You gotta fold the big floppy ones in half, silly.

Really that’s how we eat it .

Hey now, I also carry my DayQuil in my lunch box.

This picture is hell for me lol. Reminds me of roommates in my twenties who’d have their desks covered in corner store soda cups.

Great question. I think I genuinely wanted to be with my first partner who I was with from 15-19. After that, primarily the motivator was to pay the bills/not starve. Even in my fieldwork I made a decent wage so I wasn’t necessarily a bad partner financially. But I have received the same feedback from the 2/3 that cheated. I’m too cold, I think I’m smarter than everyone else, and I’m too particular. With that in mind, and no longer having to worry about starving…staying single is my best bet. My previous partner was also incredibly unkind, sort of dealing the death blow.

There are no benefits in it for me. Financially I make enough to stay single. Relationships take a lot of work and I’ve never felt like they added value to my life.

Checked the comments to make sure I wasn’t having one. Thankfully we’re all in this together.

Lots of women who I know and date say “the bar is in hell.” Fr just be a functional adult with good hygiene and emotional intelligence and you are in the top 1%.