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AITA for causing my sister to no longer have her college paid for?quote:My(16f) sister(18f), May, is going to college next year. She applied early decision to a prestigious school she's always wanted to go to and she got in. When she applied and when she got in our mother had said that she would be paying for my sister's college expenses. She can afford to completely pay for what May’s college fund doesn't cover. Our father cannot, and May would have to take our student loans.
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therobit posted:AITA for insisting that my daughter's eyesight is fine and her teacher was wrong? This one's a bit personal for me because when I was a kid (second grade, I think) we all got eye tests and I got told I'd need glasses. The glasses just gave me a headache, I kept refusing to use them, and later my parents told me they suspected it was all just a scam put on by the optometrist who had come to my school and who they knew was a friend of the principle. To this day, in my early 40's, I've never had any issues with eyesight. I imagine at some point I'll need reading glasses, but it hasn't happened yet. Also sometimes learning disabilities (lack of concentration, dyslexia, not being able to follow an overbearing teacher's overly-complicated instructions and loving up because they're just a 12-year-old and maybe this class is over their head) can be misdiagnosed as eye problems. On the other hand there's the other extreme where parents refuse to accept that their perfect little babies might have vision problems and refuse to get them help when they're struggling to read poo poo.
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Jan 15, 2022 05:38
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therobit posted:AITA for causing my sister to no longer have her college paid for?
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Jan 15, 2022 05:45
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therobit posted:AITA for insisting that my daughter's eyesight is fine and her teacher was wrong? The princiPAL is your pal.
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Jan 15, 2022 05:57
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Blastedhellscape posted:This one's a bit personal for me because when I was a kid (second grade, I think) we all got eye tests and I got told I'd need glasses. The glasses just gave me a headache, I kept refusing to use them, and later my parents told me they suspected it was all just a scam put on by the optometrist who had come to my school and who they knew was a friend of the principle. To this day, in my early 40's, I've never had any issues with eyesight. I imagine at some point I'll need reading glasses, but it hasn't happened yet. The kid telling the teacher "I can't see the chalk board" seems pretty clearcut.
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Jan 15, 2022 06:04
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mind the walrus posted:Why the gently caress isn't "divorced kid chess" more of a plotline on drama shows? This poo poo is juicy as hell with clear oceans of information being left out. Throw some Postal Service on the soundtrack and set it in the 'burbs and you have the hottest HBO show or Focus Films of 2004. the only TV show in history to ever capture this accurately was mad men
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Jan 15, 2022 06:27
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therobit posted:AITA for insisting that my daughter's eyesight is fine and her teacher was wrong? *deep breath* FUUUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUU BIIIIIITCH GET HER A loving EYE APPOINTMENT
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Jan 15, 2022 06:35
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AITA for making a joke about a friends infertile wifequote:I know the title sounds bad But hear me out!! The rare 'title sounds bad but hear me out' where they're completely fine.
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Jan 15, 2022 07:38
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ChickenDoodle posted:*deep breath* Yuuuuuup. My 2nd or 3rd grade teacher told my folks I was having trouble seeing the chalkboard. My folks, not being total assholes like that guy, took me to the eye doctor. Being a child, I had no idea there was any way to see but the way I had always seen, so I hadn't told my parents I had trouble seeing anything. When the doc did his click clacks and took the lens apparatus away from my face, I cried a bit because I had now experienced how sight should be. Then I got glasses and could see ok. Seems like an easy parental layup.
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Jan 15, 2022 08:04
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Silly Newbie posted:Yuuuuuup. When I got my first pair of glasses I was amazed I could see the needles on the pine tree across the street. That memory still feels fresh, it was my first exposure of what I'd been missing.
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Jan 15, 2022 08:10
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Silly Newbie posted:Yuuuuuup. For me it was my dad that noticed how closely I was holding reading material when I was about 13, but I managed to play it off until I was 15 and he cornered me and was like: “You are holding that magazine a few inches from your face. You probably wouldn’t be doing that if you could see properly,” and then took me to an optometrist. It was definitely a shock to see things clearly.
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Jan 15, 2022 08:19
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Blastedhellscape posted:This one's a bit personal for me because when I was a kid (second grade, I think) we all got eye tests and I got told I'd need glasses. The glasses just gave me a headache, I kept refusing to use them, and later my parents told me they suspected it was all just a scam put on by the optometrist who had come to my school and who they knew was a friend of the principle. When you got told, did you make a separate appointment with the same optometrist to get a prescription? Did you ever see the Rx and was it really light? Or did they really give you something way beyond what you'd need?
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Jan 15, 2022 08:57
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Bruceski posted:When I got my first pair of glasses I was amazed I could see the needles on the pine tree across the street. That memory still feels fresh, it was my first exposure of what I'd been missing. Is 3rd grade in the US and seeing leaves a common theme for kids? Because this is exactly what happened to me - 3rd grade teacher told my mom I wasn't able to see the math flashcards, I got glasses, I remember marveling at tree leaves.
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Jan 15, 2022 09:15
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My parents were both nearsighted. It came as no surprise to anyone when I had my face literally 3 inches from the TV at the age of 4 years old. Off I went to the optometrist. Any kids are absolutely getting their eyes checked.
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Jan 15, 2022 09:21
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Involuntary Sparkle posted:Is 3rd grade in the US and seeing leaves a common theme for kids? Because this is exactly what happened to me - 3rd grade teacher told my mom I wasn't able to see the math flashcards, I got glasses, I remember marveling at tree leaves. 3rd Grade is when teachers start noticing kids having trouble seeing the easiest, because the younger kids in lower grades have more difficulty paying attention in the first place, even if they can see fine. So it is a very common age for kids to get glasses for the first time.
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Jan 15, 2022 09:51
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Boyfriend has a thing for my mom??quote:So I found pictures of my mom on my boyfriends phone as he was showing me memes he had saved. Nothing revealing or anything, it’s just pictures from her social media. He had about seven saved. I asked him why he had them and he flat out told me he likes to please himself to them. He tried demonstrating it to me once and I sat there in shock for 5 seconds before storming out crying. I am so torn. Why my mom? Am I being dramatic for being upset about this? Would you consider this cheating?
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Jan 15, 2022 09:56
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Mx. posted:Boyfriend has a thing for my mom?? When angling for a matroyshka three way goes wrong
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Jan 15, 2022 10:01
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Mx. posted:Boyfriend has a thing for my mom?? Props for his honesty but the biggest  for not only admitting you crank your hog to pictures of you girlfriend's mom but trying to masturbate right then and there to the pictures in front of your gf. It was such an easy thing to lie about since she was clothed and his gf was looking for an innocuous reason but nope. The excuse of "porn addiction" afterwards was a nice touch.
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Jan 15, 2022 10:13
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Involuntary Sparkle posted:Is 3rd grade in the US and seeing leaves a common theme for kids? Because this is exactly what happened to me - 3rd grade teacher told my mom I wasn't able to see the math flashcards, I got glasses, I remember marveling at tree leaves. I think tree leaves in general are a thing for people just getting glasses. I got them for the first time in my freshman year of high school and the fact that I could see leaves on trees just totally blew my mind. Up until then, I had assumed everybody just saw trees as vague green blurs on top of brown sticks, like a kid drawing a picture of a tree.
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Jan 15, 2022 11:10
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My parents were really happy to find out I needed glasses at the age of 4, because, in their words, "you kept walking into things like glass doors and we thought you were just retarded." Sometimes parents need a third party to tell them what's up.
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Jan 15, 2022 11:34
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Khizan posted:I think tree leaves in general are a thing for people just getting glasses. I got them for the first time in my freshman year of high school and the fact that I could see leaves on trees just totally blew my mind. Up until then, I had assumed everybody just saw trees as vague green blurs on top of brown sticks, like a kid drawing a picture of a tree. same, i got mine in tenth grade; it took so long in part because my vision isn’t that bad (and hasn’t changed since then tho i expect i’ll need readers at some point) and as is appropriate for this thread my parents didn’t really give a gently caress about us the leaves were what really blew my mind. just so much detail. really crazy to just instantly experience what most other people get to.
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Jan 15, 2022 11:40
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Nearly everyone in my maternal family has glasses or contacts so it wasn’t a matter of if, but when. Dad has glasses too. And yeah, third grade for myself. Weird!
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Jan 15, 2022 12:18
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i love ra Fiancé changed his number quote:My fiancé changed his number 2 months ago and will only communicate with me over social media when I say this is a problem he asks do you think you deserve my phone number? But he doesn’t think this is toxic or manipulative and I don’t love him if I leave him for this
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Jan 15, 2022 12:27
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Mx. posted:i love ra This is some Big Brain thinking. "If I get rid of all ways to contact me, my girlfriend will have to spend all her time with me!"
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Jan 15, 2022 12:50
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limp_cheese posted:Props for his honesty but the biggest Yeah I was liking the fact that he owned it and didn’t try to weasel out of it (a thing we see rarely in this thread I think) but demonstrating how he jerks it to her mum is loving hilarious.
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Jan 15, 2022 13:07
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Mx. posted:Boyfriend has a thing for my mom?? You don’t understand, I jerk off to pictures of your mother. Wait, I can show you! And regarding parents being assholes about glasses, they often see it as their child being defective and that can’t possibly be the case. Similar to my aunt being told by the school counselors that my cousin is autistic and her responding “My son is not r*******!” She never got him any help and now he’s incapable of taking care of himself or talking about anything except video games at twenty years old.
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Jan 15, 2022 13:34
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Pope Corky the IX posted:You don’t understand, I jerk off to pictures of your mother. Wait, I can show you! many men feel the best compliment they can give any woman is "i use your image when masturbating." AITA for not letting my husband accept a job offer? quote:Re-upload because title wasn't correct - not stolen!
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Jan 15, 2022 14:05
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for not letting my husband accept a job offer? "I have a firm and dedicated vision. My competence is astounding. I will use every available resource and work insane hours to achieve my dreams. But I won't plan for contingencies, and just assume my partner shares my values 1:1, because we're both so smart and career-oriented and successful that there couldn't possibly be any difference in our visions."
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Jan 15, 2022 15:12
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Cowslips Warren posted:many men feel the best compliment they can give any woman is "i use your image when masturbating." Fuckin, laffo, you sound rich enough a full time live in nanny is a speedbump in your income
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Jan 15, 2022 15:14
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Involuntary Sparkle posted:Is 3rd grade in the US and seeing leaves a common theme for kids? Because this is exactly what happened to me - 3rd grade teacher told my mom I wasn't able to see the math flashcards, I got glasses, I remember marveling at tree leaves. Hah, same for me except 4th grade. Trouble seeing chalk board, and a rough season of little league. Tree leaves were such a revelation, I vividly remember how almost overwhelming it was being able to see them all so clearly. Probably spent a few hours in the yard just being amazed. Getting LASIK 25 years ago was almost as good. Waking up in the morning and being able to instantly see everything perfectly clearly is still a good feeling.
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Jan 15, 2022 15:32
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Barudak posted:Fuckin, laffo, you sound rich enough a full time live in nanny is a speedbump in your income She's a surgeon and he's making 50-75% more than her, so I'm assuming the combined income is somewhere near $500k They can afford a drat nanny rich pieces of poo poo 
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Seth Pecksniff posted:She's a surgeon and he's making 50-75% more than her, so I'm assuming the combined income is somewhere near $500k You're right. Two nannies
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Jan 15, 2022 15:38
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Neito posted:To be fair, "dog" people and "doggo" people are wildly different things. Dog people are willing to put in reasonable trainning and care for their pups. Doggo people are like the mom who ignored her kid poo poo-stomping another kid on the bus: they only care that their hekkin chonker or whatever gets whatever it wants, whenever it wants, and refuse to discipline it or do anything that might admit that it's not perfect. forum posts are supposed to be funny, not really fuckin weird
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It's not an afford thing, the husband doesn't want a stranger raising their baby. It's not clear if this is for real human concerns or weird controlling rear end in a top hat concerns. Op says he isn't against it, but I don't know what else you'd call it when he refuses a 200k+ per year dream job in order to stay home with the baby and his only acceptable alternative is op taking his place.
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Jan 15, 2022 15:52
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Barudak posted:Fuckin, laffo, you sound rich enough a full time live in nanny is a speedbump in your income She covers that. He's dead set on one parent staying at home with the kids, and since he can earn more he reckons it should be her. Since she won't he thinks he has to. Guillotine anyway, but she doesn't seem to have any issue with getting a nanny in.
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Jan 15, 2022 15:54
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Enos Cabell posted:Hah, same for me except 4th grade. Trouble seeing chalk board, and a rough season of little league. Tree leaves were such a revelation, I vividly remember how almost overwhelming it was being able to see them all so clearly. Probably spent a few hours in the yard just being amazed. I figure in childhood there's enough magic mushroom-style chemicals kicking around your brain that clearly seeing the detail in a tree's leaves is just gonna shut you down for hours
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Jan 15, 2022 16:09
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I remember taking the colorblindness test in sixth grade and the nurse outright calling me a liar because I passed the year before but I simply could not see most of them by then. Apparently it's a thing that boys can become colorblind while going through puberty.
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Jan 15, 2022 16:19
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Pope Corky the IX posted:She never got him any help and now he’s incapable of taking care of himself or talking about anything except video games at twenty years old. What's his account name?
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Jan 15, 2022 16:22
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Cowslips Warren posted:many men feel the best compliment they can give any woman is "i use your image when masturbating." guy's been spinning his wheels for a year and just casually lands a $300k+ job that he's willing to throw away? feels like he's lying to strongarm her, bet you anything if she went along that there would be an "oops well shucks I guess they didn't mean that much right away but I'm sure I'll be making the big bucks any day now" moment.
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Surgeons make more like 300-500k so we’re taking a 500-700k job (Although if it’s neuro it’d more like 1.2mil)
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