Doreen Michele

I have a serious medical condition and as is the norm for my condition, I was a bag of bones as a child. At the same time, I've always been big for a girl, starting with being nine pounds at birth and my mother told me that when I was five, doctors wanted to put me on drugs to slow my growth because they felt I was too big. She told them "No, she's not THAT big." I ultimately ended up 5'9" tall and was still a bag of bones when I hit that height at age seventeen, at which point I started taking hormonal birth control pills and gained about fifty pounds in one year. I met the future ex at age sixteen, so he knew me when I was still rail thin, but I married him at age nineteen after gaining a bunch of weight. He and my mom were always critical of my weight but a lot of men made it clear that I looked just fine, honey, and if he didn't like it, I could always call them if I wanted some positive strokes, which I mostly declined. I finally got a proper diagnos...

I want to design a better culture. A better way to feed people than what we currently have that adequately nourishes people without chaining women to the stove and a second class citizen status. I want to make clothes and change housing . I don't need all jobs and housing and food everywhere to change. I just want planet Earth to ALLOW a new option to exist for those who want it.

320 points Generally speaking, toxic substances are only "cheap" due to externalizing many of the costs involved... 202 points   It's important for a sub for disabled individuals to have mods with that disability. Footnote   I previously published a list of Fourteen Comments on HN with more than 100 karma and added a fifteenth comment in a footnote. The fifteenth comment and the one above with 320 points are actually related to my career aspirations.

I grew up in the Deep South which defacto uses honorifics that are peculiar to the local culture. It's well known that Southern culture is shaped by that region being historically more strongly Christian than most of the nation and Southern manners are typically attributed to that influence. My understanding is that a lesser known factor is European nobility establishing an expectation of court like respect and diplomacy. It's a political heritage, not just a religious heritage. My political views and ideas on what makes sense politically boils down to looking to treat ALL people with a certain baseline respect for bodily autonomy as a means to promote health of individuals and bigger picture health at the societal level and into the future. See also: 1.  Paternity   2. r/Imnotyourmommy, starting with this piece . 3.  Politics  on a site called Formulary of Life. 4.  The Rot Killing Society, IMO . I'm not looking to run for office or be in charge of anything. I...

My maiden name is Irish in origin and it's possible my first name is basically Irish for "Little (my Mom's middle name)".  The above linked comment by me on Reddit is about a month old or so. After all these years, I'm still learning new things about myself and my past on topics I thought I had thoroughly covered already. My father was very tight lipped about a lot of things while running his mouth a lot. He was career military and routinely told lots of anecdotes about his career. He was dead before it occurred to me that while he told humorous stories about his time in Vietnam, he told no stories about his service in World War II.  He was extremely talented at saying nothing with a blizzard of words. My dad wanted four kids. My mom told him "You'll be lucky to get two out of me." I'm their third child and a surprise package that no one thought was possible. I'm about 4.5 years younger than my brother and 6.5 years younger than my sister. M...

Keep it among consenting adults. There are circumstances under which a legal adult may be considered incapable of giving meaningful consent, such as when they are too drunk to consent. I write really in hopes of helping others figure out what I never did: How a couple can find their way to a happily monogamous relationship... My writing is sometimes supportive of things like polyamory or open relationships to some degree. Sometimes the journey we take is not as straightforward as we might like. It's also sometimes critical of such practices because often people practicing such things aren't doing so ethically.  I also take a critical eye to heteronormative relationships and all the ways those go wrong. I'm not your friend. We don't know each other. I don't "approve" of your alternative lifestyle. I can't meaningfully approve of something when I don't actually know you personally and the details of what you are up to. I have had relationships that...