Things That Piss You Off

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My youngest son is non-verbal. He has an insanely rare genetic condition (only around 70 cases recorded) called Floating-harbor syndrome. Unfortunately, due to being non-verbal, the first question any doctor or therapist asks is “Is he autistic?”

Luckily there are some good programs that the school provides (his speech therapist, physical therapist, occupational therapist, etc).

This weekend the Department of Education gutted its special education office. So, those are most likely gone.

But, wait, it gets better. They want to shift the money to HHS. Ran by this fucker.

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You know the one compiling an autism database? The one who is floating the idea to send kids to government run “wellness farms?”

Yeah, all of this pisses me off.

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It all pisses me off too. Bad things are on the horizon. I’m sorry for how this is going to hit you and yours.

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I’m so sorry that this is going to hit you, Brant. It pisses me off, too.

I’m worried about my patients and their families.

I worry we’re entering a new Dark Ages.

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The stuff I’ve heard from and about RFK Jr are very nasty. I understand your concern.

Hope everything turns out somehow.

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I have three boys in special ed. Looking into it, the states will still get all of the money allocated to special ed, it will just cut the federal bureaucracy out of it.

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Pissing me off: I am SUPER busy at work right now, which of course means I’m behind on paperwork. I will also have to add in work days to accommodate patients, which pisses me off but is not what I came here to talk about. What I came here to talk about is that I don’t have time to do all the work, work out, and post.

I know I am on the verge of winning the now 20 year old argument about men and women. ON THE VERGE. But don’t have time to address it. And it’s moving along without me!

I also have thoughts on romcom novels and other things.

But off I go to walk the dog and get to work. I have just done 3 of the 12 chart notes I have waiting (with 6 more coming today), which is good, but still. Pisses me off that I am enslaved to The Man, who demands documentation. When I win the lottery (which I don’t play more than once or twice a year, so it may take a while) I’m going to just do therapy for free and not do any paperwork at all.

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It’s not really. Circular argument. Less intriguing than I was hoping.
I wish you luck on the victory though.

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Arguing on the internet is like running in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you’re still retarded.

Kudos on your 20 years of dedication to the cause though :slight_smile:

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I learned a looong time ago to stay away from the PWI section. No good comes of it. :rofl::zipper_mouth_face:

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I took Mr Paul to the eye surgeon once and he said… “Anymore, I’m just a glorified data entry clerk. I went through all those years of schooling to help people, not enter data!”

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Totally. Gonna stick to entertaining threads. Laughter, books, food, and logs. That’s my lane. Gonna stay in it.

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I was joking about winning, but joking aside, I actually feel I’ve had influence over the years, and it doesn’t stress me out to debate this stuff. At the end of the day I know I’m right and if I’m bothering to tell you whatever it is, my goal is your happiness or the happiness of young guys reading, not my own. I’m already happy, because I don’t view the world through the dark and ultimately destructive lenses I see on here.

Occasionally I’ll stop engaging with a poster because what’s the point, but in general I like the debate and it’s my job to understand the assumptions the guys who show up in my office may have.

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You are a better woman than I.

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I also think what you do is valuable. I haven’t had much energy towards PWI -stuff recently.

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I feel this! I get in here only on weekends and there are some threads that I will never catch up on… ever…

So, everyone reading this - if I haven’t “hearted” your posts as much or at all it’s either because I run out of week “hearts” to handout or I’m 300 posts behind in your thread. Y’all need to SLOW DOWN. lol

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I’ve noticed over the past 6 mos. or so that you’ve been less frequent, but never neglectful.

I end up heart bombing peoples logs & threads as I catch up on them, then I get self conscious. Like Pwn or Dani Shugart might get creeped out by me. :rofl:

“Oh boy. Call security. This guy is back on the hearts button again…” :police_officer:

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I feel the same way! I’m in davemcright’s log SPECIFICALLY because I love the way he loves his workouts, and omg, he got to lift with one of his brothers and it was FANTASTIC! And so of course I’m really pleased for him! For both of them! So I heart it. But then the next workout…and the next…and the next… turn out to be just as fabulous. What can I do? I have to heart those, too.

Then I go into throwaway’s log, and he’s working so hard - there’s the proof, right there on the screen, photographic evidence of the work AND the progress. :woman_shrugging:

It can be painful.

So if I’ve hearted your posts in an extremely random manner, say 1 like, then ten just-as-worthy posts ignored, then one more like for the latest post…that’s why. :rofl:

I know it is. I won’t name the poster, but one of the nicest guys on the boards once threatened to beat me up, or invited me to a fight, or whatever. I’ve seen totally anti-women men shift over time. Not all, and eventually I stop engaging with posters who are deep-down ugly, but I do see it shift people over time. Not the way I do in therapy, where people know there’s an issue and that they have to look at themselves to fix it, but I think I’m as effective as I am at work because I engage these debates. It’s a tremendous advantage for me.

When I was dating, and met my husband, I opened that process up on these boards because I needed help understanding where my thinking was skewed, or have help reading the tea leaves, or whatever, and all of the people I was close to were women who thought just like me. Sensitive feminine women. I was working with children and teens at the time, and also knew I was disadvantaged moving into adult therapy with these blind spots. Anyway, getting to weigh someone like @SkyzykS’ input (happily married then, happily married now, but with a train wreck childhood) into relationships and goals against the player types was interesting and helpful. Eventually I think we all, players and nice guys alike, were able to agree on my husband. And I learned stuff, which is good for me and the people who need me to know things.

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I do this too. Random Acts of Hearting… lol

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I believe that when a man thinks women are low-quality, it’s because his interactions are with a specific sub-set of women i.e. low quality women. And the reason for that is invariably that he’s a low quality man.

The same applies to women who complain about men.

So when some-one is down on the opposite sex, there’s zero point trying to change their opinion because the problem is actually with themselves.

Everything I read in PWI from the manosphere posters reinforces this opinion.

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Truth.

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