Highest Rated Comments


jinbtown109 karma

[removed]

jinbtown5 karma

What do you guys think of people who choose to have disabled or medically ill children and/or subject siblings to "early parenthood syndrome" or "sibling-parenthood syndrome"?

How about people who have disabled or medically ill children and use them for clout / start social media accounts to purportedly "raise awareness" of life with a medically disabled child?

jinbtown3 karma

I'll check that out, thanks for the reference. I'm a pretty strong anti-natalist, and...

I'm personally astounded by the number of Tiktok/Youtube/Facebook/Instagram accounts that are "we knew we were going to have a child with a medical issue / mental handicap, but we chose to anyway", especially if it involves an older sibling. ALL the research says this is terrible for the older sibling and terrible for the family.

jinbtown2 karma

Genetic handedness isn't very accurate, so there's still a chance you would have been left handed! Also, our parents age (I'm your age), a lot of left handed kids "became" right handed... That's awesome that it wasn't too much work though. They tried to make me right handed for a bit, I put a stop to that.

jinbtown1 karma

I'm the same way - I'm right eye dominant and play all sports with my right, but I eat and write left handed, and have a bit more fine motor control on my left. But you'd never know I was left handed unless you saw me eating or writing.

I also use a knife right handed, which is so handy - never switch hands while eating + cutting at the same time