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4 hours ago, Mrs Tiggywinkle Again said:
His NP is concerned about MS and is going to aggressively pursue that I guess; she just called. He apparently has been having right sided arm numbness and weakness and didn’t tell anyone.
The personality changes are…new since January and significant. Not at all dangerous or unsafe, but frustrating to me.
I hope you get some solid answers
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2 hours ago, Ginevra said:
Jean jacket on top, Jean pants/skirt on the bottom.
That’s a Canadian Tuxedo.
Add cowboy boots and maybe a bolo or big buckle, it’s a Texas Tuxedo.
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4 hours ago, Catwoman said:
Hasn't anyone ever struck up a conversation with a man they didn't know, unless
You seem like the type that has never met a stranger (that’s a compliment, BTW. Seems that people are mistaking basic conversational conventions as attacks).
I like to talk to random people, too.
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39 minutes ago, Catwoman said:
I'm also not sure why it would be so dangerous to meet a hunter in the woods... or why Chad the avid hiker with vegan snacks would seem safer than the hunter. Both are men, right? And both would seemingly have equally valid reasons for walking around in the woods.
And the odds of meeting a serial killer in the woods (like in Criminal Minds) would be infinitesimally low. I'm not sure why a serial killer and a hunter would seem to inspire the same level of fear.
Probably bc Chad has rejected the the violence of meat so he certainly couldn’t be violent to women.
🙄
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2 hours ago, Teaching3bears said:
They like reading (but we do that all year), going to shows (we do that a lot on weekends), going to new places, walking around cities/ downtown, meeting new people and being given the opportunity to do new things even though they usually can’t tolerate doing it.
Clean up XYZ Days…Google “clean up” along with your city, town, neighborhood, beaches, waterfronts, etc. There are often organized days where lots of volunteers gather to work for a day. You could also reach out to a parks & rec dept and see if they’d organize one.
Free Summer Concerts…Google these too, along with name of your town, etc. Lots of places have outdoor concerts in summer. You’d be in open air and could leave whenever you needed.
Library Summer programs…these might not be appropriate for your sons, but sometimes there are visitors (ie: mobile zoos or performers) that you might be able to find OTHER places the visitors are going that might be more appropriate.
Respite Care…I’m not sure if you’re eligible for it but perhaps you can call and see if the respite providers have any ideas for you
“3 Bears Summer Project” Pick an organization to collect for. As an example, dog & cat rescues always need old towels and sheets. Connect with an org and then do a neighborhood collection. Pass out flyers and ask to put out towels and sheets on a certain day, then collect on that day. Ask libraries and friendly businesses if you can leave a box with a sign in their lobbies and tell them you will collect once a week. Your kids can map out the different routes to each collection place and figure out the fastest and/shortest way to do their weekly collections.
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11 hours ago, Just Kate said:
I’m actually going to try this! I looked it up and it sounds hilarious. Thanks!
I hope you enjoy it!
It’s low-key funny through most of it, with some LOL moments.I’ve listened to it twice. If it helps you, it is slow enough that I listened at 1.25 speed and it was easy to follow and didn’t sound distorted.
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30 minutes ago, Scarlett said:
And that is that we HAVE to assume the man is dangerous.
Yes, this is the DESIRED AND WANTED response to the question, for all the people who are anti-men and just push that idea ad nauseum.
Thank God not everyone answers that way!
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4 hours ago, Scarlett said:
Thank you all.
You are so very welcome!
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6 minutes ago, KungFuPanda said:
Yeah, but statistically a women is WAY more likely to be killed by a man she knows than a bear.
That’s bc most women don’t know many bears.
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2 hours ago, Scarlett said:
Maybe true crime, history or possibly psychology
Who Sh*t on the Floor at my Wedding?
It hits all your categories. 😂
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1 hour ago, Heartstrings said:
I don’t think it is though? 🤔. Maybe I’m wrong, but a person who just disappears from a child life isn’t committing a crime. The courts might be willing to remove parental rights after a certain time, or allow a step parent to adopt the child, but is the absent parent ever charged with a crime?
We might be talking about different things. I’m talking about non custodial parents who just goes no contact with their children for years at a time. The kind who “go out for milk” and never come back. Absent fathers, though mothers can do it too.
Am I just unaware of a criminal charge for being an absent parent?
OK, I get you. I was thinking of abandonment as leaving a baby or child with NO ONE ELSE to care for them. Which is illegal and immoral.
You meant a parent who absents himself from a child’s life, but the child is being cared for by another person. AFAIK, this is immoral but not illegal unless that parent also has a child support order that he is not paying…there can be criminal and civil penalties.
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31 minutes ago, Heartstrings said:
I wonder what those numbers would look like if abandonment was considered neglect? Like, if abandoning your children with their other parent and just getting out of dodge was considered the same as criminal neglect. 🤔🤔.
ETA: I’m being genuine, I’m aware that mothers abandon children too, usually with grandparents. It’s just an interesting question to me.
What do you mean? Abandonment is abuse and it’s illegal. It’s in the numbers.
Abandonment IS neglect
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It could be stress too
Wouldn’t be unusual given his occupation and now marital issues
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42 minutes ago, pinball said:
Mothers abuse and neglect their own children more than fathers.
I think one reason for this is that many more mothers are solo caregivers than fathers.
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19 minutes ago, Katy said:
No, statistically women physically harm children far less often than men do.
Mothers abuse and neglect their own children more than fathers.
I think one reason for this is that many more mothers are solo caregivers than fathers.
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I love people…men, women, kids, babies, the unborn…
I know this makes me unique on this board, given past threads…
Other people have said it in this thread this whole exercise is anti-male. There have also been threads filled with posts from women who claim not to like women, only men.
It’s tiresome.
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18 hours ago, Katy said:
No. Most people in the world want to think of themselves as good. Only 10% of people have something approaching a personality disorder, and only about 2% are malevolent. I probably have a more suspicious view because I was raised by a cop and always had a police radio in my house, and because we’ve been foster parents. So I’ve been exposed to more of the bad than most people.
So I wouldn’t say that there’s something wrong with how you view the world. But I would say if you haven’t experienced this kind of daily fear, you’ve lead an extremely privileged life. And good for you. I hope in the future everyone can be so privileged.
5 minutes ago, Katy said:Maybe that’s the difference. I know multiple men who have attacked or SA’d women and children. And I know multiple women who were attacked by strangers. We’ve had multiple kids in our house who were victims of abuse. I was nearly kidnapped as a child, and escaped only because a police officer happened along. I don’t live in fear, but I am aware and I trust my gut.
You sure did imply that your background led you to live with “daily fear”
You ever went so far to say that if someone didn’t have this daily fear, she was privileged
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If you really want to be thorough: do an EEG
Headaches and dizziness can be postictal symptoms. Some people also get “auras” that present as headaches and dizziness.
But constant dizziness with no other big seizure symptoms would be weird
i wondered why you said you were moving back to your old house…
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6 hours ago, Katy said:
There’s a TikTok going around asking if a man would rather leave his daughter alone in the woods with a man or a bear. The conversation afterwards about how women feel daily, even with something as mundane as walking to their cars at night, is fascinating.
17 minutes ago, Carrie12345 said:Honestly, it was more of a rhetorical question 😆.
Yeah, we’re in black bear country, too. Our backyard borders completely wild forest. I do not enjoy being surprised by them, but of course we don’t mess with them.
The specific TikTok mentioned is in response to the general question going around the internet to women - would you rather run into a bear or a man in the woods - and some men’s outrage to the response, which has been bear. Bears almost never attack unprovoked. Women (as a whole) are frequently attacked by men (as a whole) in comparison.
The first post in the thread doesn’t say this…it says the TikTok is asking if a man would rather leave his daughter alone in the woods with a man or a bear. Which, IMO, is completely different than what I bolded in your thread.
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4 minutes ago, Heartstrings said:
we don’t know which ones.
It’s usually the one you’re married to, living with or having sex with.
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6 minutes ago, Catwoman said:
most people would also be wise to be cautious around strange bears
Did you see the ignorant people who pulled the baby bear cubs OUT OF A TREE and took pictures with them?!
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1 minute ago, Catwoman said:
We have black bears in our yard all the time, and I'm not afraid of them
OK, Snow White
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4 minutes ago, Katy said:
My line of thinking is that people are sexually assaulted by other people daily. But bear attacks are very rare
My line of thinking is that people are in close proximity of other people constantly.
But people AREN’T around bears at that level at all…and that if they are, bear assaults might be much more common
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2 minutes ago, Carrie12345 said:
What percent of bears are driven to hurt humans unprovoked?
Ask @Katy
She’s the one throwing out random statistics.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics that pull people out of their ear
Obama (the cat) is missing
in The Chat Board
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You can with their permission.
”Hi, I’m Jane. I live at 33 Oak Lane. My cat is missing. May I look in your yard for it?”