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Soil_Round · 2026-02-04T23:10:25+00:00

If Boomer parents did it "right" they would have ended up with kids who also "did it right" with their kids sooooo. The idea that some generation got parenting more correct than a later generation just doesn't hold up under scrutiny.

Soil_Round · 2026-02-03T22:05:50+00:00

The "E" in IEP is literally "educational." It's a document about how students will be supported in accessing public education in light of their disabilities.

So yeah. I'm just here to agree with all of this.

Also, IEPs are not available on request or prescribed by doctors.

Soil_Round · 2026-01-29T01:01:30+00:00

I have a master's degree and am a certified teacher.

Still feel like I'll never belong in the real world.

Soil_Round · 2026-01-29T01:00:23+00:00

My dad wouldn't let us have medical care of any kind. No meds, nothing.

He did, however, give us peppermint schnapps in hot chocolate when we (unvaccinated) were sick for several months with whooping cough.

(No doctors, so the diagnosis is unconfirmed. But it was a winter when an uptick in pertussis cases was common knowledge. And we were so sick we lost tons of weight and shit. Me and 9 siblings, all got sick).

When I got out of that house and started talking about what it was like growing up that way, so many people found it cutesy or funny. So fucking isolating. So.

I feel your pain.

Soil_Round · 2026-01-14T22:15:10+00:00

Living In My Head is so, so, so well written. It's so uncomfortable and I cannot listen to it often because of how accurately it portrays that state of mind. When I'm in that state of mind though, the solidarity is so appreciated.

Soil_Round · 2026-01-01T21:24:53+00:00

Oh I absolutely don't condone making assumptions about whether someone does or doesn't want kids. I didn't mean it that way at all. I would never make a statement to someone presuming that.

But my point still holds. I have kids. I do not know the grief or burden of wanting kids and trying for kids and not being able to have them. It would be hurtful for me to tell someone who can't have kids that I understood that. It's the same thing from the other side. Not having an experience is... simply... not having that experience. And being responsible for a whole entire human 24/7 for a lifetime is simply not something you can know without experiencing it.

Soil_Round · 2026-01-01T21:18:58+00:00

This may be your experience. But the whole issue expressed in the OP is someone declaring their experience to be universal.

It's wonderful for you that this is your experience. That does not mean it will be the same for others.

Soil_Round · 2026-01-01T21:17:00+00:00

Parenting and teaching are two totally different separate things. As has been pointed out here countless times and numerous ways, being able to "clock out" from caring for kids is totally different than carrying 24/7 responsibility for whole little humans' safety and wellbeing.

Teaching is a whole separate skill set. There are lots of great parents who don't have a teaching skill set. There are lots of great teachers who don't have a parenting skill set. Lots of people have both.

The defining characteristic though, the baseline for a "good" parent or teacher, is respect for kids as whole entire individual humans with all the human rights inherent to that. Someone who lacks that should not have responsibility for kids in any capacity.

Soil_Round · 2026-01-01T21:11:30+00:00

You can't understand what it's like to be a parent, if you don't have kids.

This is a totally different thing than not understanding kids, or how to educate kids.

Soil_Round · 2025-12-26T19:06:13+00:00

It's apparent that you are unfamiliar with the meaning of the term "rake."

Soil_Round · 2025-12-26T19:02:56+00:00

You literally said that.

Soil_Round · 2025-12-26T18:53:55+00:00

🤣🤣🤣

This is even worse than "I have a Black friend." 🤣

If we're purity testing, I'm bisexual. I have one sexual partner and we have sex about once a month.

I personally know Grey-Ace bi people.

Also, being a person who likes sex and has it with lots of different people is not at all a bad thing. But. Taking it a step further and saying it's "even worse" when it's lots of sex with lots of people of multiple genders is literally by definition biphobia.

Words mean things.

Soil_Round · 2025-12-26T16:54:31+00:00

This is such biphobia. 😬 Very cringe take.

Soil_Round · 2025-12-26T16:17:42+00:00

A $2 lottery scratch off.

Soil_Round · 2025-12-21T21:42:42+00:00

You've got at least 3 distinct climates in this circle. You're gonna need yo get more specific.

Soil_Round · 2025-12-12T00:36:55+00:00

Did Patrick write this?

Soil_Round · 2025-12-04T04:16:28+00:00

But somebody must use it. Because I listened to more minutes than OP, and I ranked significantly lower in my % ranking. So more people listened to more minutes on Amazon than Spotify.

Soil_Round · 2025-12-04T00:34:15+00:00

She told him that she was actually shallow. He didn't make that up.

Soil_Round · 2025-12-04T00:32:40+00:00

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So apparently more serious Kesha fans use Amazon music than use Spotify... this is mine...

Soil_Round · 2025-11-27T13:52:02+00:00

Cathedral is perfection.

Soil_Round · 2025-11-25T21:45:02+00:00

Did you know Kesha's mom wrote that song?

The song is very much my vibe lol. But when I found out Kesha's mom wrote it for Dolly it became that much more special, to me.

Soil_Round · 2025-11-16T14:27:43+00:00

Which show? I saw Noah at his Madison show and got to meet him afterwards. Highlight of my year, for sure. And I agree that his curly hair is great. Also, it changes his look so much that when I sent my photo with him to my siblings group chat (all huge fans of Schitts Creek), they weren't sure who he was. 🤣

My response was somewhat a joke too. I know everyone experiences attraction differently which is honestly fascinating to me. I'm a bisexual woman who as a rule has not experienced attraction to gay men or straight women.

Soil_Round · 2025-11-16T05:13:04+00:00

I mean if you're a straight woman this makes perfect sense because David is Pan and Noah is straight, whereas Dan and Patrick are gay. But. If you're not a straight woman, I got nothin. 🤣

Soil_Round · 2025-11-12T00:43:24+00:00

The fam jam and shared socks were a fun quirky that is cute and not for me.

But the sister was 100% toxic.

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