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Yeah, we suspect ours actually might have benefitted from some bottle feeding after a while too. He looked big enough when we found him, the vet didn’t have any problem giving him his shots or fixing him. But he had trouble for a little bit after we brought him home eating that us and the vet just chalked up to being half froze to death when we found him. But then he started growing really fast, like faster than any of our other cats did. Didn’t end up that big in total, but he got there really fast. We think he was probably a little too young to be away from his Mom and we accidentally stunted his growth by not realizing he wasn’t off momma’s milk already.

My youngest cat also lost his mother. He’s about 4 now and he still tries to nurse on my wife’s stomach when she’s relaxing. No matter how many times we discourage him he keeps trying.

Oh that sounds like a great show!

One! Nothing wrong with me! Two! Nothing wrong with me! Three! Nothing wrong with me! Four! NOTHING WRONG WITH ME!!

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Mine absolutely adores messing with that assumption. I’m nonbinary and she’s bi though strongly prefers women and more ambiguous to fem leaning nonbinary people. She looks like a very Butch lesbian but together our relationship is straight passing since I’m built like a fridge cosplaying Harry and the Hendersons and when my joint pain acts up like the most tips fedora Neckbearded MF to ever haunt the halls of an anime convention.

So when she’s alone and everyone has her pegged dead to rights as a textbook carpet muncher she plays into it going “My partner this, my partner that,” just to see the look on their faces when my literal grizzly bear ass shows up with our 3 kids or she decides to switch it up to mention her husband and kids.

it is hilarious.

Yeah that’s the big one for me too. Places like doctor’s offices, mechanic shop, anywhere there’s a decent chance their phone system is one of those like not quite “corporate call center” but more than “collection of company cell phones”

It’s kinda funny. My partner and I literally couldn’t afford to do this and I had to be a stay at home parent for our oldest. He’s autistic and his special needs meant that daycare for him cost more than I could possibly reasonably make. Like this was back in 2016 before she became disabled herself and needed me available 24/7 but I would have needed to make like I think it was $17 an hour full time just to cover daycare and transportation? So since she had a way better work history than me being a few years older and having been a mid-level government employee back in her home state before she moved while I was just a 2 associate degree having IT grad it made much more sense for me to stay home.

They absolutely want to be “forced” by the national debt crisis to privatize social security so they can funnel all that money that gets spent on it into Wall St speculation. That’s been the dream of the Republicans for decades.

Sorry for the late reply I completely spaced on responding to you. I don’t have a list off hand because we don’t actually have one. It’s something I want to do eventually. But like my oldest has a book called like Crafting with Cat Hair or something like that, my partner is really into Chuck Tingle who often has insane titles like Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt. Basically anything you’d walk past in a book store or scroll past on an eBook platform and it’d make you say “What the fuck?”

One of my favorite decorations is a bookshelf with very prominently featured titles that make people question either my sanity or their own.

I love swimming for that reason yeah. I’d do it a lot more if I had easier access to a pool. I had been looking into places near me to go to but it’s hard to find times that work for it. Might get a little easier once the kids are a little older and we could take them easier.

More importantly though, that’s not being the people in the joke. It might not feel like it, but there is a big difference between seeing someone struggling with a limitation that you also struggle with and offering something that helped you, and someone who has no idea what you’re going through pulling a suggestion out of their ass and making it sound easy. It hits different when your suggestion comes from a place of seeing a shared struggle and mentioning what helped you.

Thanks so much for the kind words. I appreciate it so much. I hope you have a fantastic rest of your day.

This is probably the worst part mentally about chronic joint pain for me. i want to be active, I want to lose weight, but I’m sitting here maxing out what I can physically handle just doing my everyday stuff. On a GOOD day I get about 3k steps in and I’m feeling it for days after. It’s so goddamn demoralizing.

Then in my case I’m also taking care of my partner whose health has been declining and 3 autistic kids. It feels like I’m barely keeping up.

This is literally the face my daughter made, hugging the coffee cup and all the day she stole an entire large iced capp from off the register at the grocery store when she was like 3-ish.

We were getting groceries at Sam’s Club and they at least at this time made you give them your cart to scan the stuff. We had our twins with us riding in there seats on he cart so they went to one side while we paid. Well it happens that some of the managers were doing inventory and one of them had placed their iced capp on the register. My daughter saw it, decided she was having it, and took it. We get the cart back and start walking to the door when we hear that telltale sound of a straw in an empty cup. We didn’t notice it before that because she had the cup in an absolute bear hug hiding the whole thing.

My wife goes to apologize for Little Bit stealing the drink to a look of horror from the manager whose coffee that was saying “That was full…” clearly thinking this kid was about to have a heart attack. This little girl was so sleepy after downing that coffee that she didn’t wake up when we got home, when I carried her to her bed, then slept like 4 more hours.

It’s not actually a homophone, but I was just extending the homophobic/hobophobic joke. Where instead of going from homo to hobo I went from phobic to phonic. Also calling back to the post title.

Nah they just sound similar, it’s homophonic.

Getting ready to possibly have to sue my kid’s school district because the state implemented a cell phone ban and the district refuses to address the fact that he has a documented history of autistic meltdowns where he goes into full on Flight mode and has made it out of the building on multiple occasions. He kept getting suspended because he’d barrel through any adult that got in his way until he finally calmed down. At like 8 years old mind you, he’s 14 now. “Oh we’ll just set up a BIP.” Oh you mean that thing your staff and faculty IGNORED for fucking years because there was never any mention of any of the fucking outbursts you’d call me about regarding him hitting someone because they refused to leave him alone and you did nothing about when he told you? That BIP?

We didn’t even want to get him a fucking phone in the first place! That’s the compromise we made with the district years ago because they kept losing my fucking kid, refused to okay any other kind of tracker, and adding him to our plan with a cheapo smartphone was the the only one they’d okay that we could afford.

Sorry for the rant. I get really angry when I think about the way my brother and I were screwed over by the public school system and watching it repeat itself in New and Exciting ways with my own kids.

Good thing I’m only pretending to be an adult with any idea what I’m doing.