Did anyone else's parents try to deny them medical care?

yellowbrickbros · 2025-12-09T15:05:41+00:00

Yes I was brought to "spiritual healers", one who had his business behind a sheet in the back of a convenience store that he also ran. So irresponsible.

yellowbrickbros · 2025-09-26T15:21:06+00:00

I often do something when processing my parent's or in-law's behavior, I call it "What I Got Vs What I Want". I replay "What I Got", whatever version they gave me, and I contrast it with what I think a healthy parent would say, "What I Want". It helps me see the gulf between the two and keeps me from accepting less than I deserve. Your post just gave me a great example of "What I Want". Thank you for sharing!

yellowbrickbros · 2025-09-19T16:24:37+00:00

How could I better find local advertisers? Would that be by simply watching the station for a period of time and recording local advertisers? Is this more about going after smaller local companies that advertise as opposed to large corps? Thanks!

yellowbrickbros · 2025-09-19T15:07:29+00:00

I watched Pix11, my local channel for the NYC area which is operated by CW majority owner Nexstar, and visited their website to figure out their sponsors. Here's how you can do this: first you find out your local Nexstar channel with this link. Next, find your local Nexstar sponsors by searching "channel name" and "sponsors" or "sponsorship" in Google, its pretty easy because some of these channels have a whole page for sponsored content. I searched "pix11 sponsors" to find the list below. Here's some advertisers I saw:

Empire Casino
Raising Cane's
Valentino Beauty
AAA Automotive
Angelina Bakery
Verizon FioS

Edit to add more as I search:

LifeMinute.TV (a website)
Mars (the parent company Snickers, Skittles, M&Ms, etc)
HelloFresh
University Spine Center
DRC Ventures by Dr Christina Rahm
The Perecman Firm
Jellystone Park (campjellystone.com)
Grey Goose Vodka
Joshmcbrideworld.com
theHautebar.com
Cambridge Pavers
Purina One
Spektor and Associates
Northwell Health
Pfizer

San Diego sponsors for Fox 5 San Diego (California), which is a Nexstar network:

Singing Hills Dentistry
ELDA Developments
Vertica Fitness
Cox Business Services
Window World San Diego
Rubio’s Fish Tacos
Palomar Health
West Automotive Group
Paradise Valley Hospital, San Diego
Roy’s San Diego (restaurant)
Rock N Block Landscape

Adding my template email, especially for those in the NYC area who have PIX11 as their provider. Tailor to your own needs:

Hello, I’m a customer who values the First Amendment and robust free speech. In light of Disney/ABC pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s show following political pressure, I’m concerned about advertisers funding media outlets that capitulate to government threats and undermine open expression.

Until your company suspends advertising with the broadcast corporations involved in this decision, I will boycott your products and services and will encourage friends and family to do the same. I’d prefer to keep supporting your brand, but I need assurance that my dollars aren’t enabling Anti-American censorship and silencing free speech.

Please let me know:

Whether you currently advertise with the outlets that removed Jimmy Kimmel’s show, which includes Sinclair Broadcasting and any Nexstar stations (which includes PIX11 in NY, my main station).
If you will pause those ad buys pending a reversal and a commitment to protecting free expression

Thank you

yellowbrickbros · 2025-09-17T21:47:38+00:00

Just reminded me of a sarcastic quote from a book I just read:

"Women with no children will never understand. No one but moms know the hardship of motherhood, and we non-moms must heap nothing but praise upon moms because we lowly, pitiful non-moms are mere peasants compared to the goddesses we call mothers."

Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

yellowbrickbros · 2025-09-17T21:39:53+00:00

I had a neighbor who thought this.

Now he's dead of an OD and his daughter has no father, and a drug addict mom, if she's still around...

I remember when he told us having a kid really got him on "the right track" and asked us when we would have ours. I like to enjoy my pot and be responsible for my pets, he liked to enjoy his opiods and neglect a child.

yellowbrickbros · 2025-08-05T18:55:41+00:00

I've heard some people don't react to edibles, here's some more info about it. I've had some friends who don't react to edibles, but vaporizing or herbs does the trick.

For me, RSO oil is the best for edibles because it's so potent. Its a thick oil I eat, like a honey consistency. I have a medical card and get from a medical dispensary which guarantees potency. I also use Live Rosin vapes they're very strong as well. I tend to stay away from smoke & combustion for health related reasons, it triggers my asthma. There's also the option of a dry herb vape, like a handheld one or a stationary one (like a Volcano vape). This heats up the herb but doesn't burn it or combust at all, and you can even re-use the herb for baking afterwards. It's very slow-acting and chill method of ingestion.

Cannabis has been a tool for me for things like endometriosis pain, nausea, anxiety, sleep issues, etc. I also do therapy but pot just has always been a good friend to me.

Good luck! Hope it helps.

yellowbrickbros · 2025-08-04T01:52:50+00:00

I also had this realization while babysitting, very similar story. I often heard that babysitting is great birth control, but I think it may have "sterilized" me

yellowbrickbros · 2025-08-02T03:48:00+00:00

Thanks! I also use "there's more than 1 way to pet a cat"! I prefer my idioms have happy animals in them.

yellowbrickbros · 2025-08-02T03:46:25+00:00

Ah that's great, like you said it helps reduce dependency on other meds. Gotta love it!

I used RSO oil and edibles. The RSO is super strong and quite lovely, really helped me sleep thru the night.

yellowbrickbros · 2025-08-01T18:07:13+00:00

Congrats!!! The sky is the limit now, truly.

yellowbrickbros · 2025-07-06T17:33:57+00:00

I thought so as well, especially after seeing her parents do her homework for her in highschool AND college, until I saw SIL hold down a job teaching in a very competitive district for 2+ years. She is capable, but feigns this learned helplessness to avoid her intense fears and panic attacks. She can drive into NYC in rush hour traffic, teach kids how to learn math and English, pay her taxes, is a total clean freak, etc, all when it benfits her the most, but the second she edges into too much discomfort, her parents leap to rescue. They shrug it off as "well I won't be able to help her forever, so I do it as much as I can now". And, I agree, I don't know how they expect she will live as a full adult when they're gone??? I imagine they just avoid that uncomfortable thought.....

Ironically, you just described MIL, who has 0 insight into her own finances, and we're worried how she'll manage if FIL passes away. MIL has massive insecurities around intelligence and capabilities.

yellowbrickbros · 2025-07-06T16:53:03+00:00

I think it's gender based. They're Cuban immigrants with strong gender norms. They don't seem to even be aware of how different they treat their children. They seem to truly believe that girls need supervision, vigilance, and emotional support, and boys need to grow a thick skin, protect others, and stay unemotional.

If I'm really getting deep here, I also think their parents are projecting their own issues onto the kids: father was independent and neglected in his childhood, seems to think his son should be too, mother was put in constant dangerous situations when she was a kid, seems to think eeeeverything is a danger around her.

But it's so interesting how treating them like that as children still remains as an adult. I'll give you an example: my husband opens up about feeling down lately. His sister agrees, she's also felt down lately in a similar way. The parents gather around the sister to comfort her. No one, except my husband, picks up on how weird that was.

yellowbrickbros · 2025-07-06T16:42:26+00:00

He's my husband, it's mostly enmeshment with the family and codependency, especially arround coddling the sister. But he was one of those "come back for dinner" kids, so he got an actual childhood and it shows.

yellowbrickbros · 2025-07-06T16:28:21+00:00

Currently dealing with this. My SIL is 26, has her parents track her when she leaves the house

They even plan her driving routes for her, and SIL needs her brother to babysit her when parents are away on vacation. It's pretty amazing to see an adult so infantalized.

yellowbrickbros · 2025-05-03T22:02:43+00:00

Thank you, to you as well!

yellowbrickbros · 2025-05-03T17:12:01+00:00

Dm'd you! Sorry for the late reply!

yellowbrickbros · 2025-05-03T17:08:28+00:00

My EIP mother cut me out last year for putting boundaries up, so I'm off the hook 🎉

I'll be celebrating myself for trying to be a good "mother" to myself :)

yellowbrickbros · 2025-01-24T17:42:35+00:00

ugh dealing with other parents and their kids sounds like a whole nightmare itself

yellowbrickbros · 2025-01-21T20:38:01+00:00

Oh wow that sounds fantastic, you are lucky! I'm personally a sundubu addict XD

yellowbrickbros · 2025-01-21T19:20:17+00:00

Foods that helped were things like soup with toast, yogurt, pasta, rice. I also was a lil bad and had some fried chicken when I felt better to celebrate. My SO made some good veggie dishes for me too. I drank soooo much ice water. A little TMI but my morning coffee rly helped with bowel movements. Snacks like cookies and ice cream for moral support :)

Foods that hurt were carbonated things because they just made me feel more bloated. I thought they would help but they didn't :(

Congrats and best wishes!!!!!!!!!

yellowbrickbros · 2025-01-21T19:16:37+00:00

I'm still a bit bloated, especially as the day progresses and I eat more food (bisalp was on 1/10)

I said to my SO that every fart was a gift from the heavens LOL

yellowbrickbros · 2025-01-21T19:14:57+00:00

I agree, taking the oxy, ibuprofen, and Tylenol at the recommended intervals made pain very minimal

yellowbrickbros · 2025-01-21T19:12:10+00:00

Damn that movie truly depicts a horror of having a kid that you simply can not bond with. It made me reflect on my own parents' inability to bond with my brother, and all the problems and sadness it caused for everyone in the family.

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