LiberBEARian
[foster stuff] hahaha our home study has an example scenario of what will happen on your first day with a child and it’s very... Leave it to Beaver-esque is the only way I know how to describe it
LiberBEARian
The people running it were like “oh yeah maybe we should update this”
LiberBEARian
Because it’s under the assumption that I’m a woman with no job and a stay at home mom who will make the kids lunch and wait until “Father gets home”. I look over at Sergio who’s cringing and going like “hey Father.”
LiberBEARian
“Please bring home the bacon and leave your hat and briefcase by the door” “(Sergio groaning noises)”
CricketMomJenn
... oh my goodness yeah that NEEDS UPDATED paosdpufiapwuer
spooky queer
dies laughing
spooky queer
remember to say “honey i’m home,” sergio
LiberBEARian
I think they were also a bit thrown that I didn’t take his last name. Sorry! Update your website so that people can choose more than Male or Female!
spooky queer
what year is it, asking for a friend
Jay
oof, yeah
LiberBEARian
Haha oh man more fun in What Year is This
LiberBEARian
Reading skits for this week’s homework
LiberBEARian
I don’t think I remember when I last heard the term “going steady” unironically
LiberBEARian
Love the skit with the teenage girls fighting too: “I never get to listen to the stereo anymore. She always has her CDs on . When she isn’t playing the stereo she has MTV on”
LiberBEARian
HAHA THE FUCKING
LiberBEARian
Expectation that I would be judge mental about birth control pills
LiberBEARian
And a caution that “the world is changing”
LiberBEARian
I love this packet
spooky queer
😂😂😂
CricketMomJenn
Oh my god did they give you one from the 1990s......
Ptriciadactyl
CDs and MTV, definitely not youtube and tiktok and mp3s
Ptriciadactyl
also THANK YOU for not being judgmental about birth control. speaking as someone whose mother never made me feel comfortable about asking for birth control in high school, even when I was crying from pain due to period cramps.......
Ptriciadactyl
honestly, my IUD has been life changing, and I regret waiting so long to try birth control!
spooky queer
same, my mom never talked about bc
spooky queer
but also irish catholic and very anti-medication
Jay
I'm very fortunate that my mom was all 'yes, get that asap, let's make you an appointment'
Ptriciadactyl
my mom, clearing out her house to move, asked me if I wanted the tampons etc. that were in my drawer in her bathroom. then looked at me in concern for a second when I said gleefully, "I haven't had a period in 2 & 1/2 years!"
Ptriciadactyl
before she realized oh, right, IUD
LiberBEARian
Ptriciadactyl
: were you me because I went through the SAME SHIT except I didn't know until I went to my first OB/GYN at 23 years old that birth control could offset cramps
LiberBEARian
I used to cry at the school nurse and my mom would refuse to come and get me because 'everyone deals with cramps, suck it up'
LiberBEARian
So I just called all her PTA friends until someone was around to drive me home
LiberBEARian
(honestly my mom might not have KNOWN about that, she's pretty open-minded but she was raised by very Christian parents)
LiberBEARian
That first month without pain was like a fucking epiphany
LiberBEARian
"Oh I DON'T HAVE TO CANCEL PLANS???"
Ptriciadactyl
right? I always had debilitating cramps, but then I got fibro and got full body nerve pain every period, which was actual hell
Ptriciadactyl
it's fucking magic not having to deal with that anymore
LiberBEARian
yesss
CricketMomJenn
God my mom put me on the pill almost immediately when my periods got that bad... I am so sorry
pharadyne
the "going steady" is hilarious to me because when i used to visit my elderly relatives in the UK they'd always ask if i'm "courting" and then one time my grandmum said "oh yes, these days they call it...'going steady'" (said in the year 2000)
pharadyne
because all those relatives were born in, like, the 1920s.
Mrs Sheepie
oh my god your elderlies are so cute
pharadyne
i sometimes thing about them when writing Norton because they're that generation of British
Jay
that's adorable XD
LiberBEARian
Awww cute :3