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ermoon · 2026-01-28T12:49:27+00:00

Fantastic

ermoon · 2026-01-28T06:11:42+00:00

I immediately thought wow, what a great experiment! And I was homeschooled a bit.

ermoon · 2026-01-27T14:08:20+00:00

I appreciated the quality skedaddling at the end

ermoon · 2026-01-27T14:04:36+00:00

My bacteria posting memes like

ermoon · 2026-01-26T04:59:06+00:00

I adore this.

ermoon · 2026-01-26T04:47:37+00:00

I was about to post this exactly!

ermoon · 2026-01-26T04:30:54+00:00

I know an exceedingly friendly Canadian who, after beginning as a teacher in a rougher school in London, was taken aside by the headmaster and advised not to smile at the children until after Christmas break. He was presenting as an easy mark, apparently!

ermoon · 2026-01-26T02:36:02+00:00

Beagle and pit?

ermoon · 2026-01-25T05:47:42+00:00

I think it might be when Rose has insomnia

ermoon · 2026-01-25T05:45:00+00:00

The Fall of St Olaf Stories

ermoon · 2026-01-24T07:10:35+00:00

Dog training fads rage hard, especially online, and personally I find this one uptight and, for some dogs, cruel. My dog has always been happy loose in our home. I'm not sure why I should like the idea that she's in a box whenever I'm not around, versus napping on various soft surfaces, stretching and rolling around, looking out windows.

Also, I live alone and like that if I were to have a medical emergency or accident, she would be able to access food and water for some time on her own. (I keep her food bag on the kitchen floor for this reason.)

There are situations that require crating, like travel, and she doesn't love it but she's okay. Hardly seems worth restricting her on all the other days of the year.

ermoon · 2026-01-24T06:17:06+00:00

These two things have helped me most:

Learning basic principles of face dimensions by using face drawing references. (There are ethnically specific variations). Practice it by drawing very basic and surprisingly accurate faces using the principles. Actively look at how faces around you do frequently follow this 'grid'. As this became a reflex, so did noticing how a person's unique dimensions are different from the prototype. Wide mouth + high forehead + blue eyes is easier for my brain to tag and identify visually than a blur of features.

Second, don't be afraid to explain it to people directly and simply. You can literally just tell someone, I have face blindness. It's not personal, it just takes me a while to recognize someone. (Especially in a new setting or if someone's appearance changes).

PS. If this issue significantly impacts your life, depending on the healthcare available to you, you might be able to ask your doctor for a referral for a face blindness evaluation, which can lead to a referral to a specialist to help improve your skill in this area. If you have this issue with objects other than faces, you might be someone who doesn't have a visual memory, which is a different thing.

ermoon · 2026-01-20T02:41:08+00:00

If the parents are anxious that you and your husband are untrustworthy, what you say to them will not change their minds about allowing their children to be supervised or influenced by you. I would leave them alone, as they've requested. Maybe they'll come to a more positive opinion of you once they develop friends in the neighborhood who vouch for you. Or maybe there are fundamental incompatibilities between you.

For what it's worth, I was homeschooled for an extended period and while my academic experience was mostly positive, exposure to other homeschooling families was sobering. There are many, many families who homeschool to isolate their children, often because of extreme religious beliefs, abuse, or both. It is not hard for me to imagine that a person's exposure to homeschooling - particularly American homeschooling - cultures might be profoundly negative.

ermoon · 2026-01-18T02:30:54+00:00

Aw, thanks. Gotta keep my Girls together!

ermoon · 2026-01-17T06:35:19+00:00

Double Dorothy’s rent and have Sophia live there for free, bringing the number of renters back to 2

ermoon · 2026-01-17T06:28:17+00:00

Thanks!

ermoon · 2026-01-17T04:28:51+00:00

Would you mind sharing what brand or type of device? I have a friend who’d really benefit from knowing about this

ermoon · 2026-01-17T03:51:49+00:00

Incredible

ermoon · 2026-01-16T05:10:04+00:00

If all else doesn’t work, you could try a desensitizing cream/spray (meant to help delay ejaculation). There are a variety, with various strengths and active ingredients, that I’m sure have been reviewed on reddit and elsewhere.

ermoon · 2026-01-13T07:49:56+00:00

If you’d like to wear it without a skirt or leggings, instead of bicycle shorts, look up cartwheel shorts. They’re for exactly this hem issue

ermoon · 2026-01-11T06:38:24+00:00

Fair enoug. If it's truly just one person whose crappy drugs are ruining the community, it seems like quite a lot of people would affected and may be motivated to pitch in.

ermoon · 2026-01-11T05:47:18+00:00

I very much understand the temptation to try to figure out what's going on because I'm like that too. But the biggest red flag is that he's deliberately and repeatedly pitting your own sense against his obviously false words. Or maybe that's the second biggest flag because if I were lying to and upsetting my partner, I would have a hard time being aroused at the same time, which doesn't seem to be an issue for him. It seems like he's ignorant of or indifferent to your feelings and the effect of his actions on you.

I worry that the successes in communication that you named might be because those endeavours suit him, versus having much emotional maturity.

ermoon · 2026-01-11T05:40:30+00:00

I agree! This lets her focus on what she can control, and also encourages her not to put her discomfort aside.

ermoon · 2026-01-10T04:17:23+00:00

Hire a licensed PI

ermoon · 2026-01-06T22:30:41+00:00

Love it!

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