That warm blue does look cozy, in that it looks like the color that your dad’s old too-short shorts were in the 70s.

I’m not trying to be a jerk here, but what’s an example of a warm blue? I can’t imagine it.

What evidence do you have of that?

I think you’ve put more thought into his policies than he has

If you don’t think to bring something with you, you have to go back and get it (for example)

Are you allowed to not use the title? Like, could a newspaper call him starmeyboy?

Incredible username

The max is 24, and when they overstepped that with 48 strokes once, the recipient had to be hospitalized. I don’t know how it’s so harmful, but it is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore

They can even talk back!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Alpha

Some of them are alphas (?!)

Doctors also influence the avoidance of holidays there

To be fair, that would be a good source of riboflavin.

Yeah, I was in therapy at 27 for my ADHD, which was diagnosed fifteen years earlier, when I learned how to make an ADHD-friendly to-do list.

In those fifteen years I never thought “maybe to-do lists are so frequently recommended because they’re actually valuable” and no other therapists or mentors had thought that I might not know that to-do lists for people with ADHD are different from the ones that work for neurotypical people (my list doesn’t say “wash dishes,” it says “collect dishes from the bedroom and kitchen, soak silverware in a pot with hot water, stack plates next to the sink, soak any cookware or cups that need it, wash plates and bowls, wash silverware, wash cups, wash cookware”).

It’s so obvious in hindsight, but I felt almost condescended to when people told me to write a to-do list. Finding out not only were they right, but I need a to-do list that’s broken down into smaller steps than normal was humbling in a good way. I hope I’m less dismissive of seemingly basic ideas now.

I think if someone had seen my therapist’s notes to me and made fun of them, I might not have been able to be open to their advice. Or maybe I’d just be embarrassed about the experience, instead of grateful.

“Snuck in” is a very strange word to use for asylum seekers

It would be so uncomfortable to use 😬

Is there a native Portuguese speaker in the child’s life? Otherwise it’s a little dicey, because they’ll inherit your errors, but if you’re really careful about it and flood them with Portuguese language input from native speakers in the form of songs and audiobooks that you can read along with in person, you can still give them a good linguistic foundation.

Basically

I could spring from my ankles, but getting my knees involved made me mess up the timing and I got no lift.

I used to be unable to jump, but then I did Morris dancing. I learned how to jump normally at 27.

I believe both of those are considered types of dowsing