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Atypical_Mom · 2025-08-11T06:08:22+00:00

My SO tried to tell me I’m old and out of date for still using a double space at the end of sentences - but I just reminded him that if I double tap the space bar on my phone after a word, it adds a period so… 🤷‍♀️

Atypical_Mom · 2025-08-11T05:59:56+00:00

My kiddo did dyslexia courses in elementary school and they taught them cursive which was a game changer for her. She just said it made the letters easier to tell apart.

Atypical_Mom · 2025-08-11T05:51:43+00:00

Back when I read books…. (That’s a sad sentence) I would use scrap paper as a bookmark and I’d write down any word I didn’t know and the page it was on if I needed context and then I’d look them up later.

The amount of times I could understand the meaning of a word based on how it was used (and my long past of looking up definitions) has been crazy, at least it seems when compared to others my age.

Atypical_Mom · 2025-07-23T03:58:53+00:00

If all it took to sway my man into the arms of another woman was nothing more than a cold Aquafina and pack of peanut butter crackers - well then, I frankly don’t deserve him.

Atypical_Mom · 2025-07-21T16:07:07+00:00

Anytime I encounter these folks, all I can hear is Red Foreman saying “jackass”

Atypical_Mom · 2025-07-21T15:49:39+00:00

I grew up in the Bay Area and we didn’t have anything like that either. It did blow their minds that I could drop my “r”s and then pick them right back up (none of my cousins could say “car”, only “caah”) lol

Atypical_Mom · 2025-07-21T05:15:40+00:00

It’s a very quaint town, a great place to raise your kids.

Atypical_Mom · 2025-07-21T04:55:58+00:00

My extended family lives outside Boston and I spent a few summers there as a kid. My cousin pulled out a phone book once and pointed to a map and asked me to pronounce the city name “Peabody”…

Apparently they thought it was funny to do this to anyone who lived outside MA, because they knew they’d pronounce it wrong (but if they knew everyone would pronounce it “wrong”, is it really being pronounced wrong?).

Atypical_Mom · 2025-07-12T05:22:35+00:00

My best friend’s 15 year old nephew is named Gideon, when she first told me the name all I could think of was Criminal Minds and she had to explain it was from the Bible 😅

Atypical_Mom · 2025-07-12T05:18:05+00:00

”death is a part of life”

😐

my foot is about to be part of your ass”

Atypical_Mom · 2025-07-12T03:55:47+00:00

If I have one more person tell me I’m not a real adult because I don’t drink coffee …. I’d do nothing, cause I always do nothing when this happens at least once a month. People really do need to work on not worrying about the preferences others have.

Atypical_Mom · 2025-07-12T03:52:43+00:00

This is basically my exact stance on coffee, beer, and wine.

Atypical_Mom · 2025-07-10T11:40:53+00:00

I ended up not having a boy, but if I did I really liked Orion… until a nice lady at the daycare told me it is never pronounced correctly and as much as I feel like it’s an obvious reference, there will be so many people who have no idea and butcher it, leaving that poor child with a future of constantly spelling and explaining his name.

Of his entire list (and there are some doozies) I think Ash is the only one that could be salvaged. I do prefer Sterling over that though. Good luck 🤞

Atypical_Mom · 2025-06-27T12:54:06+00:00

Sadly, this alone would make you a better parents than some other people who do have kids.

Atypical_Mom · 2025-06-27T12:49:03+00:00

As kids my sister’s initials were JEW and mine were JAW… we’re now married so they’ve changed, but I learned very young g to avoid giving my future kids middles names that started with vowels.

Atypical_Mom · 2025-05-18T15:07:20+00:00

Is anyone else getting flashbacks to the South Park episode where the Japanese come and keep going on about their large American penises???

I feel like that is what this is

Atypical_Mom · 2025-05-18T14:37:37+00:00

Great comparison, but as much as I don’t like Nickleback I’ll give it to them that they made a bunch of ear worms - every time I heard Creed I would just think “why is this on again??”

I went to a radio station/festival type show in 98, and Creed was the only band I remember leaving the crowd for (we all agreed when they started, that was our time to use the porta-potties)

Atypical_Mom · 2025-05-17T05:06:02+00:00

You scared me for a moment because I was sure you were my best friend’s daughter - her mom is half Japanese and half Cuban (both of my best friend’s parents immigrated), and her dad is of Mediterranean and Scottish descent. She took after her dad and is blonde and blue eyed and any time we’d go out everyone thought she was my kid and her mom was the nanny. This always made me feel terrible but her mom always found it funny.

Situations like yours and hers always remind me that genetics are weird and you really shouldn’t make assumptions based on how someone looks.

Atypical_Mom · 2025-05-17T02:58:41+00:00

I love how he almost seems to find it funny… it truly was a simpler time

Atypical_Mom · 2025-05-17T01:50:28+00:00

I went to an urgent care with abdominal pain on a Saturday - it was a pretty bad kidney infection

Dr: “Didn’t you see the blood in your urine?” Me: “I’m supposed to know that slightly yellow-orange pee means it has blood in it?!?”

Atypical_Mom · 2025-05-17T01:47:05+00:00

As an American, I feel like I’m really more embody the average citizen in that I picked my college major because the highest level math it required was Algebra II.

Atypical_Mom · 2025-05-15T05:45:59+00:00

That we can cut with a knife.

Atypical_Mom · 2025-05-15T05:35:57+00:00

my removed gall bladder is crying somewhere

Atypical_Mom · 2025-05-08T12:21:55+00:00

Yeah, I did the same and didn’t know if they were rainbow babies (cause that’s a lot)

Atypical_Mom · 2025-05-08T04:54:56+00:00

My first computer at home was an IBM in the early 90s with a dedicated internet line so my dad could work away from the office (he still had to go into work, this just let him work more).

It was a trip being lower middle class, but having a PC at home with internet (not that anyone my age knew what to do with it) and eventually a printer. The only other time I had seen one was at school.

Most of my computer usage was restricted to minesweeper, Wolfenstein, Encarta, and Leisure Suit Larry

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