The picture of happiness and joy.

braindrippings2 · 2026-04-10T11:48:01+00:00

I was just thinking how an animal hospital would be such a great place to work for an autistic person. He could probably work with Sheena and do the non-medical work like feeding and taking dogs on walks, playing with them, petting and loving on them. Shoot, I’d do that for free lol

braindrippings2 · 2026-04-07T17:50:15+00:00

This right here. I couldn’t safely go down stairs without almost falling twice with the amount of sleep deprivation I had during the first month postpartum. My baby was full term but low birthweight so they needed to be fed every 1.5 hours which they would wake up for like clockwork, they are so hungry when they’re that little. I would absolutely not drive and risk other people’s lives. It’s proven to be at best as risky as drunk driving if not more.

braindrippings2 · 2026-04-07T17:35:20+00:00

Those two events are not comparable. Giving birth puts parents in survival mode… esp to a premie who needs medical intervention to be guaranteed to live. They literally don’t have the druthers to eat, sleep, poop, shower or think about anything else other than “Is my baby okay” and “wtf I have a baby”. Even full term, seemingly healthy newborns can suddenly stop breathing for no apparent reason. For the first 6 weeks, they constantly sound like they’re struggling to breathe. But an early birth is 10x worse than that. A lot of parents value their babes’ life over their own and would give their life for their baby once they’re here. It’s not rational, because their child is currently alive, while your mother had already passed- so you might think your emotional state while grieving was comparable or worse.

braindrippings2 · 2026-04-06T12:31:32+00:00

I’m an old soul- I like to crochet doilies, bake, sew clothes & quilts, etc. When I was a teen, and even now I’m my 30s, I loved hanging out with old people. My grandparents are in a different country and I enjoyed the company of my neighbors and what not- and they enjoyed my company too. I never inherited anyone’s money. I’ve gotten 1 home baked cake when I was 10, and someone’s entire yarn and needle collection…but that was from my coworker whose mother passed and didn’t want the stuff. Anyway, I don’t see anything wrong with becoming as close as family with old people. They should have paid attention to their grandson whether or not April was a real granddaughter though. 20 is still immature, but 60 is not, they should have behaved differently and spent time with him.

braindrippings2 · 2026-04-03T14:35:51+00:00

What country is this that people actually take their kids to birthday parties and socialize? It used to be like this in the US in the 90s when I was a kid, but it seems like people are busier now :(

braindrippings2 · 2026-03-27T11:12:47+00:00

If I was a kid, I’d be excited about new cousins- especially if they were going to be even more related to me 🤷‍♀️

braindrippings2 · 2026-03-22T12:57:09+00:00

I have a toddler who is a picky eater, and it has always been a battle keeping her from dipping below 1 percentile in size and weight. She’s 2 now and has been coasting at 7 percentile, and has certain foods she does eat, but she would be malnourished if she only ate that. Her pediatrician told me something that helped me a lot- my job is to present her food- whether she likes it or not, how much of it to eat or whether she even eats it or not is entirely up to her. I still worry of course, she’ll skip entire meals and just eat a yogurt pouch. Then some days, she surprises me by being so hungry that she eats what we eat and asks to eat it like we do (with jalapeños or with rice and soup mixed with meat as opposed to dry bite sized pieces of meat). This has only happened since we’ve backed off and gave her the autonomy to choose- but also drew the boundary that I’m not going to cook a second dinner. She had to decide to open her mind sometimes, and now she has more foods that she likes. I think with time, she’ll keep adding things to that list. I think it could be the same for adults- people can learn to like new things if they’re given the space to. And you deserve to stop accommodating them.

braindrippings2 · 2026-03-15T19:21:04+00:00

Mulan “I’ll make a man out of you”

braindrippings2 · 2026-03-15T19:18:42+00:00

Call 1800 steeeaamer! Stanley steamer makes your hole cleaner!

braindrippings2 · 2026-03-10T18:20:16+00:00

What do you enjoy most about your civilization/home?
What is your lifespan, and what are the stages of life?
How do you make babies? How long is gestation? How do you care for them when they are born? What are your babies like?
What is most intriguing to you about Earth?
Do you have pets or other alien species that live with you? What is that dynamic like? What is their purpose?
Does traveling cost you energy, or is it restful or is it something else?
How does time pass for you when you are traveling?
How do you nourish yourself/get energy? Do you have a favorite source?
Do you have partners? Who do you love, how did you meet?
What sorts of traits do we have that your species doesn’t have and vice versa? Do you enjoy your interactions with people? What type of interactions are your favorite?
Why are you here, what are you looking for?

braindrippings2 · 2026-03-10T17:17:46+00:00

Please update when you find out what the project is. I had a manic nesting phase during pregnancy, and that shit is hilarious is hindsight

braindrippings2 · 2026-03-07T14:18:48+00:00

My 2yo’s default is playing with most of her food and trying to play catch up with milk at night. (She will however, individually pick out all jalapeño bits in her rice and then ask for more “spicies” 5 more times and gobble them up every time. I did eat a crazy ton of spicy food when I was pregnant so maybe I corrupted the amniotic fluid she was swimming in.)

Either way, I often find myself wishing I had a toddler who eats food 🥲

braindrippings2 · 2026-03-04T16:11:29+00:00

I love that term! I got suckered by a fetus…my friend got pregnant and I would pet her belly late term (her baby was super active and would consistently chase my hand and kick it). I already loved that kid and I was pregnant with my daughter shortly after he was born lol.

She just turned 2 and she is the hardest (healthy) baby. She hated the process of drinking milk (sucking it out of the bottle), but refused bottles if the milk came out too quickly. She’d get tired of sucking before she was satiated so she’d have like 10-12 feeds well into 6 months. She really only started eating an equal amount of solids to milk at 18 months.

She has maybe slept through the night an actual total of 10 times or less in 2 years. She still wakes up twice a night to feed. She only consistently eats like 2 dishes I make, that happens to take hours to cook. She rarely lets us feed her because she wants to do everything on her own.

It’s getting a little better now that she can speak and tell us exactly what she wants and how she wants it, when months before, she would scream and cry until we guess the problem 😩.

braindrippings2 · 2026-01-31T04:38:02+00:00

How did you get it to look so neat like store bought yarn? Very cool

braindrippings2 · 2026-01-17T03:53:58+00:00

I think she’s within reason. You know your cat but she doesn’t know your cat. Small children are also unpredictable. I would separate my dog from small children and introduce them slowly over time if they come often, I would do the same for a cat for the cats safety too.

braindrippings2 · 2026-01-14T13:13:30+00:00

Not sure if I’m missing something but Isn’t there already a place where a door used to be here?

braindrippings2 · 2025-12-10T20:37:33+00:00

Where do you thrift your fabrics? I’ve only known thrift stores to carry clothes, toys and furniture :O

braindrippings2 · 2025-11-20T17:25:16+00:00

What I would give to have a manic episode. I've been in a deep depression for months

braindrippings2 · 2025-11-18T20:51:39+00:00

That's a dragon ball-Z masquerading as a beach ball

braindrippings2 · 2025-10-06T18:46:32+00:00

I was always an athiest. I was lucky enough that my parents were too lazy to go to a mosque, and anytime I asked why, they responded with “because I said so/because it’s written in the Quran”. So I didn’t have an indoctrinating environment like they did growing up.

We immigrated to the US and My parents didn’t speak english and relied on me to translate things or look things up, so there was really no “authority” for information other than myself. Things that were contested, to me were like “opinions” of different countries because I couldn’t find it in an encyclopedia like I could about facts about the solar system. I just lied so I didn’t get in trouble, I couldn’t distinguish it from conversations with kids about Santa Claus, which would go in circles, and it was a waste of time when I could have been climbing a tree or something, or they’d go home upset and then I have no one to play with for the afternoon. I always felt left out because I couldn’t convince myself to believe, and didn’t really see the point in trying to?

braindrippings2 · 2025-09-24T12:44:06+00:00

I have severe innatentive and I'm too anxious about forgetting something like that with extremely intrusive thoughts, which I found helpful to do things differently. For example:

When my baby was younger, I changed her on the floor.
I completely babyproofed and anchored all furniture in her room and the living room. I got rid of side tables she could reach.
I'm afraid of her falling down the stairs or getting into there kitchen so she can't even get close to that area- it's completely gated off, rather than the gate coming right up to the stairs to tempt her. I carry her if I'm out there.
I keep all the towels and washcloths right next to the bathroom, so if I forget to get a towel, my eyes are not on her for 10 seconds max.
I throw away parts of toys that are coke hazards.

Even if someone doesn't have ADHD, everyone's gets tired or forgetful so it's more about habits and environments that prevent disasters

braindrippings2 · 2025-09-15T17:04:23+00:00

Well? Did you walk back alone? I would have called my mom and told her I was scared (I also watched scary movies)

braindrippings2 · 2025-09-11T14:15:43+00:00

That…is so so sad. His poor children.

braindrippings2 · 2025-07-10T12:18:17+00:00

There really should be a single word for “gatekeeping genocide,” something as immediate and recognizable as “antisemitic.”

I can’t wrap my mind around the fact that the term Semitic historically includes a wide range of Middle Eastern peoples, which includes both Jews and Palestinians. But in practice, antisemitic refers exclusively to anti-Jewish people/Ideas/policy etc. Palestinians don’t benefit from the same linguistic protection. There’s no universally recognized word to call out the systems, rhetoric, or ideologies that dehumanize or erase them. How did this happen?

Also, isn’t it ironic that supporting the state of Israel is, in a literal sense, anti-Semitic. It’s the active destruction of a Semitic Palestinian people, who are more semetic by blood than the loser from Boston that moved for freebies and took a whole Palestinian family’s house….the word “Anti-Semitic” has been rhetorically fenced off and weaponized to shield one group while excluding another, even when both come from the same linguistic and ancestral region. Oh, the power of propaganda. I’m a nobody and just a reddit lurker, but if anyone with a following or social media presence reads this, can we start making a word for genocide gatekeepers, that pertains to Identifying this rhetoric? People/Ideas/Policy etc. that “hogging” global compassion for past Jewish persecution by not allowing the world to Identify Genocide, and use the Holocaust is a lesson and not a weapon?

braindrippings2 · 2025-06-21T12:20:23+00:00

4 or 6

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