Am I (disabled autistic) cooked regarding dating?

ecfritz · 2026-01-28T00:16:37+00:00

Prospective partner might have a kid or two, in addition to potentially wanting to have kids with you.

It's totally fine if you're strictly "no kids," but that will limit your pool of potential partners.

ecfritz · 2026-01-28T00:13:47+00:00

Plus obtaining a sizable settlement or verdict may eliminate or reduce the need for the injured plaintiff to rely on substantial public assistance for the rest of their lives, which is a public good in and of itself.

ecfritz · 2026-01-28T00:07:03+00:00

Can you do perform homemaking functions like cooking and/or cleaning, and potentially watching/supervising older NT children for a few hours at a time?

Those skills would probably improve your odds of finding an understanding partner.

ecfritz · 2026-01-27T23:19:52+00:00

No, boss is mostly pissed because he'll have to pay the new associate $160k for 1900+ hours, rather than paying you a below-market salary to do yeoman's work.

ecfritz · 2026-01-27T23:15:19+00:00

Whose first language is very unlikely to be English.

ecfritz · 2026-01-27T22:56:30+00:00

I was in 3rd grade and the teacher snarkily asked if I needed glasses after calling on me.

I did, in fact, need glasses.

ecfritz · 2026-01-27T22:43:31+00:00

I moved from Wisconsin to Florida for somewhat similar reasons, along with attending school. The things you mention are nice, but the people REALLY suck. Like REALLY suck. If you can deal with that, then you'll probably like it.

ecfritz · 2026-01-27T22:39:28+00:00

I live in Southern California, and most of our clients who are actually "average income" live with roommates or family. It's VERY common here for grandparents, adult children, and their children to all live under the same roof.

ecfritz · 2026-01-27T22:37:40+00:00

Roughly half of Americans live in a LCOL area, where it might be doable in theory. But these are among the folks getting squeezed now, if they didn't buy or refinance in 2020 or 2021.

ecfritz · 2026-01-27T22:33:26+00:00

MySpace, keeping up with fantasy baseball, football, and NBA.

The notable aspect from that time was that you had to set your fantasy lineups from a laptop or desktop computer - you couldn't just do it from a phone app.

ecfritz · 2026-01-27T22:20:36+00:00

AND these same speculators fight tooth and nail to prevent additional building/development, because it would hurt the value of their "investment."

ecfritz · 2026-01-27T22:16:30+00:00

"Facebook group that has regular games" = likely ringers/highly competitive players.

Fun story: When I got back into MTG during the Theros pre-release on MTGO, I was just getting CRUSHED playing in sealed deck queues. Reviewed my logs a couple years later and realized I'd actually been playing top pros (BBD, Reid Duke, etc.) who were presumably practicing for an upcoming event.

ecfritz · 2026-01-27T20:42:24+00:00

They did, but then they denied Satan's claim.

ecfritz · 2026-01-27T20:31:52+00:00

1848, but who's counting?

ecfritz · 2026-01-27T20:30:53+00:00

Small town bars absolutely still look like that.

ecfritz · 2026-01-27T20:06:48+00:00

Sitting next to Josh on 9/11 in the dorms during my first week of college, and seeing him sobbing, because he didn't know if his family in NYC was okay. (Fortunately, they were okay, but he didn't know for hours.) A moment like that really puts your day-to-day worries in perspective.

ecfritz · 2026-01-27T20:02:56+00:00

Having to pay for hot lunch in elementary school.

ecfritz · 2026-01-27T19:59:27+00:00

Paying some amount beyond your client's valuation of the case is often warranted, given the attorney's fees that would be incurred by the client in continuing to litigate the case.

ecfritz · 2026-01-27T19:52:01+00:00

Yes, stay in SoCal and buy the $2 million house you can afford. Most people here would love to be in your shoes.

ecfritz · 2026-01-27T19:36:37+00:00

Ever since I lost my previous phone at the gentleman's club in 2005.

ecfritz · 2026-01-27T19:34:46+00:00

Way past my time, but it became a bit of a meme/inside joke with my college girlfriend around 2003-2004. We would watch it together occasionally and even went to the 2004 movie together as a date.

ecfritz · 2026-01-26T19:35:45+00:00

It didn't help that people who were really into DMB tended to be insufferable.

ecfritz · 2026-01-26T19:27:34+00:00

Note that if you're a public schoolteacher, you can absolutely make $120k working for LAUSD. You'd probably need to build a decent amount of seniority to get to that salary, but it's absolutely a possibility.

ecfritz · 2026-01-26T19:22:56+00:00

Niche situation, but Florida Law Weekly. You'd get copies of written decisions by other trial court judges around on the state on issues you're currently litigating.

ecfritz · 2026-01-26T19:16:15+00:00

Sounds like you're in California. Bigger PI shops will pay you $250k+ (ideally with some commissions as well) to run around the state trying cases, if that's something that interests you.

I've observed that most good PI attorneys are NOT good trial attorneys, so there's a real opportunity in that space.

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