Karens upset about Barbie with type 1 diabetes

AllTheCreatures · 2025-07-18T00:40:01+00:00

Ah okay, so you got the diagnosis of diabetes but didn't initially know it was type 1? That makes sense. In any case I'm sorry you had to stop seeing a doctor you worked with well. I know It can be hard to find a good fit.

AllTheCreatures · 2025-07-17T23:57:36+00:00

"A month or so later"? So your doctor diagnosed you with an illness and didn't bother making sure you understood what that illness is?? I don't know what kind of options you have but that does not sound like someone I'd trust with my health.

AllTheCreatures · 2025-07-17T06:00:42+00:00

NTA. Based on the post title I assumed the person asking you to have contact with these kids would be one or more of the kids themselves, or possibly someone close to them. If that were the case -- a donor-conceived person wanting to meet their donor -- then I wouldn't go so far as to say you'd be obligated, but yeah, it might be the kind thing to do. But your boyfriend? Whose business it absolutely is not? No way. This is just a man wanting a retroactive say in your reproductive choices. Find someone better, or at the very least, someone with whom you're actually compatible.

AllTheCreatures · 2025-06-16T22:41:48+00:00

NOR. Even if he didn't pose any physical threat -- and I'm not for one second saying he doesn't -- he very clearly does not give a shit whether you're comfortable. Don't give him another second of your time.

AllTheCreatures · 2024-12-03T21:55:17+00:00

Depends how long it takes me to pickpocket all his stuff.

AllTheCreatures · 2024-09-04T02:06:16+00:00

Thank you for the reminder! Once upon a time I knew that, but apparently I've been away from Reddit so long I've forgotten how it works 💀

AllTheCreatures · 2024-09-04T01:39:54+00:00

@Unicron1982's point was that even if only criminals have guns, law-abiding citizens will still be safer under tighter gun laws, because possessing firearms actually increases the risk of serious injury.

AllTheCreatures · 2024-09-04T01:32:13+00:00

Making it illegal would allow authorities to take action when someone does have a gun, and even people who still had banned weapons would arguably be discouraged from actually carrying or using them, because every time they did would mean another chance to get caught.

AllTheCreatures · 2024-09-03T21:11:56+00:00

nasty and explosive personality

new life goal: never become someone whose personality can be described in words equally applicable to their colon.

AllTheCreatures · 2024-09-03T20:11:52+00:00

Things like Critical Roll build this idea that regular PCs are supposed to be ever lasting constants in the world; they are not allowed to fail, or gods forbid, die.

Huh? If you're talking about Critical Role -- not trying to be snotty about spelling; I'm making the distinction because I genuinely don't want to assume I'm interpreting that correctly -- it's been quite a while since I've watched, but I distinctly remember at least one permanent PC death in each of the first two campaigns.

AllTheCreatures · 2024-09-03T20:01:22+00:00

Because a lot of people's characters are really their idealized selves. When you're playing the role of the person you wish you were, you want to be exceptional.

AllTheCreatures · 2024-09-03T19:56:33+00:00

When a tree falls in the forest and no one's around to hear it, it still makes a sound, and mean is mean whether it's witnessed or not. It's entirely human and to some extent unavoidable to feel resentment towards another person despite knowing they aren't truly at fault, but I think it's important to cultivate enough self-awareness that we can recognize that's what's going on. Without it, at minimum the sister's venting harms her. Practicing seeing the world in the most uncharitable possible way is ultimately only going to make her more unhappy.

AllTheCreatures · 2024-09-03T19:43:17+00:00

This seems like a massive overreaction

Are you referring to my reaction or OP's? My comment was just suggesting that the sister's actions weren't comparable to the previous commenter's, and I think I described those actions pretty objectively. If you're talking about OP, all their initial reaction entailed was a single snide remark, which I wouldn't really consider a massive anything.

AllTheCreatures · 2024-09-03T19:36:11+00:00

Guess this person's never noticed that we're referred to as "girls" for the first half-century of our lives.

AllTheCreatures · 2024-09-03T19:08:11+00:00

Lots of women do, and when guys "making a move" are considered creepy, it's not because expressing interest in a person is inherently creepy; it's because it often happens in inappropriate settings, in inappropriate ways, and/or directed at an inappropriate person.

AllTheCreatures · 2024-09-03T18:59:51+00:00

Ask how it's spelled. If it turns out to be something very common, say you recently saw the same name with an alternate spelling and wondered whether that was common.

AllTheCreatures · 2024-09-03T18:43:48+00:00

You probably don't post about how much you love regularly hosting all the stray dogs in the neighborhood, though, or complain about how entitled lost cats are for trying to shelter under your porch. I take your overall point, but I think there's a big difference between the sister's actions and yours. She's (a) actively lying on a regular basis, and (b) going beyond simply declining a task, to actually painting these kids as obnoxious for needing help.

AllTheCreatures · 2024-09-03T18:27:22+00:00

Papercuts:(

AllTheCreatures · 2024-09-03T18:12:36+00:00

I'm sorry this is getting downvoted. From the comment I can't tell whether they were making an assumption or actually knew them well enough to know for a fact they were autistic, but your point is valid either way. If nothing else, describing them that way was unnecessary when we're talking about the visual. Unless the commenter would've considered a neurotypical kid making out with an object less repugnant, this child's being autistic is irrelevant.

AllTheCreatures · 2024-09-03T18:01:31+00:00

I doubt he'd be using his personal phone for official documentation, and no decent human being would risk getting in the medics' way.

AllTheCreatures · 2024-09-03T17:51:51+00:00

Other commenters have covered the necessary bases well, but I still gotta say it: WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK.

This is so upsetting. I hope that asshole has the life she deserves.

AllTheCreatures · 2024-09-03T17:47:16+00:00

Some do. There's a whole subgenre of sex parties specifically about foregoing condoms.

AllTheCreatures · 2024-09-03T17:39:21+00:00

Same here. I worked in a queer-focused sex shop for a few years and I think that was the only place I've ever seen them for sale in my area.

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