Stuff I saw on the internet last week: "this post was very controversial within the heterosexual community"
Happy Monday! I finally got prescribed medication for my ADHD only to find out that my insurance doesn’t cover it and it’s $280 a month out of pocket. FUN! If you’re in Canada, please consider writing to your member of parliament to demand universal pharmacare. And now, let me distract myself by rounding up internet stuff.
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TWEETS!
REDDIT!
People of Reddit, What stupid rule at your work/school backfired beautifully?
Zero tolerance ended shortly after a bully got thrown through a window because "if I'm getting suspended for defending myself I'm gonna make it worth my while."
Your wife is right and also almost all the things your teenage daughter is calling “creepy” are, in fact, creepy:
my wife was visiting her mom and when she came back and we were talking about how I made "creepy" a new no-no word for the kids, she got furious with me.
She was angry because she said I was taking away our kids, but especially our daughter's, ability to express discomfort with anything in their lives.
And that girls especially are taught to not make a fuss of someone is making them uncomfortable and that giving those messages of "you're not allowed to say you feel creeped out" is teaching her a horrible dangerous lesson.
Please let your kids live their own lives:
I secretly apply to British universities, because I want to study English and got accepted. My parents said: ‘Fine, you can go since you got accepted, but you have to promise to come back home after your studies.’ Being 18 years old, I just did what they told me to so I could go without thinking too much about the consequences.
Fast forward to now: After completing a degree in English and Education which took 5 years, I found a job as a teacher in the UK and stayed. This is now my 2nd year of teaching. I have a boyfriend of 5 years, pay for my own apartment and have not relied on my parents (financially) for years now.
My mum demands that I come back home, start living in their house and find a job in France.
It’s hard to say if this is what the girl wants or if it’s a helicopter mom situation, but either way, it’s not good:
Before the meeting, she said that she was shy. I said that I was shy too. I didn’t think that she’d be this shy that her mom would be in our meeting. I barely talked to my classmate. Whenever I talked, the mom responded for her daughter as if she had anything to do with this project, which of course she doesn’t.
3 years ago, his dad told him he wanted him to marry this girl, who I will refer to as Juliette. Neither of us comes from a culture where arranged marriages are normal, although in his family there have been a few cases in the past where marriages have occurred for strategic/business purposes, so we were both shocked and angry at his suggestion. My boyfriend immediately refused but eventually, his dad said something that convinced him to at least meet her. To cut a long story short, they got married 2 and a half years ago. I didn’t go to the wedding, but it was everything I had always wanted, and it hurt seeing him marry another woman.
Before they got married my boyfriend told her all about me and explained he didn’t plan to break up with me even if they got married. She was fine with it as she didn’t want to marry my boyfriend either but was being forced to by her uncle. All three of us met up a few times to figure out what things would look like after they got married.
My boyfriend and I started keeping our ongoing relationship a secret from his family and our friends because we knew there would be a lot of push back from everyone. This meant I had to move out of our shared home and had to go back to the job I had given up two years prior.
Grief is complicated, but this is still some terrible parenting:
I asked all three of my kids (17M, 14F, 11F) if they wanted to go, I wanted to give them a choice since I knew this was also hard on them, my son said no. I wasn't really expecting a no from any of them so this kinda shocked me.
recently I found an old toy in his room that belonged to his grandpa, I asked why he still had it since he did really care when he died. he was taken aback by this, I told him that not being there for me at grandpa's funeral, when I needed him, was similar to when my parents didn't come to my wedding and was something I could never forgive.
TUMBLR!
(via wrathofthegiraffe.)
(via bpdmemes, thread found here.)
(via unfollowfriday.)
(via just-shower-thoughts, thread found here.)
(via badjokesbyjeff, thread found here.)
(via methlabrador, thread found here.)
TIKTOKS!
I did it — admit it, you did it too.
I’ve never been this good a roommate.
“It’s a shame Venus fly traps aren’t real.”
“You know what?” “Yes.”
What type of plant is this?
Is this even allowed?
“No, it’s my fucking cat, bitch.”
ARTICLES!
Dr. Do Nothing: The popular daytime TV show seems to exploit the vulnerable people coming on the program for help, BuzzFeed News
I Forgot How to Hang Out, The Cut
That’s all for me today, gorgeous! Talk to you soon.
Love,
Kat
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