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Honestly I’m not sure but I don’t think it was particularly detrimental either. I’m glad that it reassured you! I was already pretty grounded in scientific thinking/materialism without knowing that’s what it was explicitly so I eventually just accepted it wasn’t real.

Probably not helpful in this specific case but I identified as otherkin about 20 years ago as a young teenager. For me it was escapism from a hostile home environment but I did get over it after about a year. My friends eventually (correctly and mostly lovingly) mocked me for it.

That’s awesome haha. I’m excited for my kids to start writing & reading.

Thanks! They ended up leaving without apologizing so I just finished dropping off their shit and took my car back I lent them. Good riddance.

Gotcha, agreed there for sure.

Definitely, not arguing against the outcome either way

Do they actually care if they lose, is it really a punishment? Feels like they’ll just continue Republican policies whenever they’re next in power and keep willingly being dragged to the right.

Never spent much time in the panhandle, only drove through part of it when driving to Albuquerque a few times a year. San Antonio at least wasn’t as chuddy as the more rural areas but it wasn’t far off. I lived in Kerrville and boerne for a bit before moving into San Antonio and that sucked.

That’s definitely bittersweet but pretty cool of them too. Not to romanticize it since I know it’s not all fun but I do kind of envy people who are able to not be tied down to one place. Never thought I’d have kids and be living suburban dad life but I’m making the best of it and trying to be a good dad, hopefully succeeding so far. I’d definitely welcome an anarchist vegan food truck in town though

Yeah that’s totally fair. It’s not something I make a big deal of, more just trying not to buy it when I can help it. I’ve found myself erring on the side of caution more after having kids.

I haven’t had a big red in ages! Should just be Big Red 40 I guess, ha. You’d think if it did make the ADHD worse it’d be a strong effect so maybe that’s why the evidence is mixed.

Ughhhh

Can’t get it to send on the original reply so I’ll try to send it here:

Kudos to you for making it work with your partner! Hopefully they come around eventually.

That’s really good for Texas. I lived in San Antonio for 5 years so that blows my mind you have that many options. I left almost a decade ago now though so maybe the scene has changed.

It makes no sense at all. Though I have read there’s some evidence red dye can make symptoms worse? I don’t recall it being particularly damning but enough that I was having our toddler avoid it because we suspect she might have ADHD.

From what I remember you writing about them trying to rule out Lyme disease and possibly other bacterial infections I’d definitely take the second opinion on the way out, cover bases as quickly as you can

Good luck! Hope the other school works out.

That’s easily the worst part about most suburbs. Never thought I’d end up in one myself. We have a couple in our neighborhood but they’re pretty small.

Toddler started preschool and is thriving and she’s basically potty trained at this point. We really lucked out, it’s 3 minutes away with an amazing teacher. She’s only going twice a week because it’s still expensive as hell even if it’s cheap for the area.

It was her birthday yesterday and we took her to an animal sanctuary in the morning, Pasado’s. Place was incredible, very clean and well run. She got to interact with tons of animals and just had a blast. We’ll definitely go back, way better than the zoo esp since we’re all vegan.

Currently my in-laws are visiting and I could write forever about them. They caused a scene yesterday evening after presents were done being opened and left back to their Airbnb in a huff. Wife has clearly communicated they need to apologize or they aren’t welcome anymore (lots of backstory including physical abuse).

Her mom is trying to pretend nothing happened and her dad won’t even look at her, par for the course, but we’re about to force the convo after my wife finishes napping so we’ll see how that goes. I won’t be the least bit upset if I never see them again, if they were my parents they wouldn’t even be in my life.

Glad you had a good time, definitely could’ve gone way worse it sounds like! Sorry I haven’t replied to your other comment from the other week, just haven’t had the energy yet.

Got mine last year at 34, inattentive type. Never had a sweet tooth at all

This is perfect, I’ve just started reading these to my toddler since someone in the parenting community recommended them

That sounds difficult tbh, I’ve always wondered how I’d manage in that situation. Sounds like you’re handling it pretty well though if you’ll even help your partner cook meat, that’d be hard for me at this point.

Ugh we’ve run into so many people like at your scouts meeting, especially from my in-laws at first. Luckily I shut that shit down right away. They make faces or talk about the food behind our backs but that’s it. The area we live in isn’t very vegan friendly either so that gets tough, we eat out once a month and we’re kinda of bored of the same three options.