#actual conversation with my mom

[i-am-a-secret-ssshhh]

My mother: We're going to have (dish loaded with soy) for dinner, what do you want?

Me: I'll probably just eat like, a party pizza and eat it in my room.

Her: No, we're cooking it outside.

Me: You're eating inside?

Her: Yes.

Me: I'll eat it in my room.

Her: It makes me feel bad when you say stuff like that.

Me, with a soy allergy who gets nauseous and headaches at the smell: That's, the point!

[zombiealienx]

Me and my mom registering me in school

“Is your child on anything…what does that even mean”-my mom

“Probably like medication”-me

“oh Ik what ur on”-my mom

“I don’t take any medi-”-me

“The spectrum”-my mom

“WHAT HAHAHAHAHAHA”-me

[heybiji]

That causes Dande’s resolve to soften somewhat...

[tapestryundone]

quiet follows his dreams

[braxix]

Maglor: Can I assume this food is for me?

Celegorm: You can, but you know what they say about assuming!

Maglor: Can I-

Celegorm: Assume!

Maglor: Can you stop saying that?

Curufin: Please stop.

Nerdanel: Do I need to whack you?

Maedhros: *Walks in and whacks Celegorm*

Maedhros: Why did he need whacking?

Celegorm: You whacked me for no reason?! Just because you heard I needed to be whacked?!

Maedhros: Well?

Maglor: He kept saying "You know what assuming means" and then I asked him to stop and then Curufin asked, and then mom threatened to whack him.

Celegorm: Why does Maedhros not whack anyone else?!

Maglor: We try to not give him a reason to.

[aqun-athlok]

i can't believe solas has like four messy as hell divorces and rook gets thrown in the middle of all of them

[covington-shenanigans]

christ alive I love my parents and I'm glad I got to see them but they are just. so fucking exhausting

[icantthink-ofagoodname]

Rin: dude that licence plate says kidneys!

Bon: that says kindness...

Rin: oh

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

with a few minutes' reflection and a second conversation with my parents I have realized that I may have overblown things and overreacted a bit and also in some ways they're correct even if I think they're also harsh about it

[naivety]

okay i need feedback from the autism mentall illness website um. this is going to read like an AITA post. brother vs half-sister (who are currently my dependents do to their own individual disabilities + ptsd/depression) spat i will skim the details on but i'm worried my sister will discount my take since i'm not autistic myself so. am i crazy to call it ableist to look at an autistic person (23) who is clearly going through it dealing w long term depression, a world that doesn't give a shit abt him, unemployment, very self-isolated and burnt out barely leaving his room because the world is an ableist dumpster fire with zero opportunities for him, and then bring up childhood abuse he's suffered and his diagnosis as reasonable factors on top of this to worry he'll [checks notes] abuse my cat just to hurt me or even worse have a breakdown and kill me and his other sibling in a violent episode, a train of thought i probably wouldn't even be having were he not [checks notes] mad at me for the first time in my life?

like i don't have any other read on this kind of fear-based characterization other than ableism. like those are very real things in his life but she never points out any current violent behavior, of which there are none, only the one (1) instance of him lashing out when he was like 14 and Officially Diagnosed Low Empathy she thinks is a concern and Hateful Looks toward her since he stopped getting along with her, that's it. i tried explaining to her why i, someone who's lived w him his entire life, can vouch for how unlikely he is to do anything like that, especially when it's again not based on anything he's actually currently doing except for isolating in a way that is much more indicative of him potentially being a danger to himself than anyone else, and being cold towards her specifically, and i thought she had let it go, but when i brought it up off-hand in a conversation tangentially related, she continued to defend and justify her Concern about the potential directions his behavior could lead to because [checks notes] other people in similar situations have lashed out and killed their entire families according to. true crime books or videos she's watched on youtube as far as i'm aware. ignoring the fact that her and i have had the same or Worse childhood abuse and have acted similarly isolated in the past, or for her literally just as currently as him, and she's not expressed any worry past or present about either of us doing anything like that, in my opinion obviously because i haven't cut her off due to our differences like he decided to. like am i big sibling biased because this is pissing me off so bad.

[nat-seal-well]

I have names and everything i know it’s silly

[i-am-a-secret-ssshhh]

Me: I'm going to the store, do you need anything?

My mother, who has been waiting for this all day: FRUIT!

[quaranmine]

unintended consequence of introducing my mom to reddit in 2019 is that 5 years later she is 10x more of a redditor than anyone i know now, and also has zero concept of the general reputation of reddit among normal people. everybody stares blankly when this woman in her 60s starts talking about this post she saw on reddit. she brings it up CONSTANTLY. like nearly every conversation. i'm like mom please. these people only know reddit as the incel site, if they know what it is at all

[itspileofgoodthings]

They should invent a Love Actually that is watchable with my mom.

[megumi-fm]

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[justalittlebluetiefling]

I bought my mom a kindle unlimited sub for christmas and wrote "enjoy reading smutty romance books for the next year" and then signed both my name and my partner's name to the gift message and did not consult anyone beforehand. She'll think it's funny.