«How about you send the kids and you can do your own thing»: Grandparents exclude wheelchair-using son-in-law from their Christmas vacation

It’s abundantly clear that we don’t live in a particularly accessible world. According to the American’s With Disabilities Act, an «accessible» place is «a site, facility, work environment, service, or program that is easy to approach, enter, operate, participate in, and/or use safely and with dignity by a person with a disability.» Despite the ADA …
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Teenager Screams at Her Disabled Cousin For Cutting Up All of Her Dresses With Scissors

When you’re a teenager, it can be super difficult to regulate your emotions, especially when a genuine injustice against you occurs. You can get so angry that you can’t help but snap at the people around you, even if they are not wholly to blame. You can do the opposite, where you sit back and …
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Entitled Karen Demands Teenager With a Prosthetic Leg Give Up Her Train Seat For Her

You can’t assume anything about someone just by looking at them. They might look young, healthy, and happy, but looks can often be deceiving. You would think that people would internalize the message of «don’t judge a book by its cover» and carry it into adulthood, but that’s just not the case.  I can’t tell …
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Cruel Stepfather Refuses To Celebrate His 17-Year-Old Nonverbal Stepson’s First Words

It’s normal not to feel the same emotions as your partner while reacting to the same situation. Being in a relationship doesn’t automatically make you the same person. However, it’s important to recognize and notice when something is important to your partner and react appropriately. If your wife says Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory …
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Dog-Hater Forces Woman Away From Her Service Dog, Doesn’t Care When Owner Gets a Seizure

Regular dogs do not belong everywhere. I was riding an incredibly crowded subway this weekend, and a pug was sitting in one of the seats. While the dog’s presence amused some subway riders, I was slightly annoyed. Why the owner couldn’t put the pug on her lap so somebody else could sit down, I don’t …
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Elon Musk Accuses Former Twitter Employee of Faking Disability

Elon Musk doesn’t have an excellent reputation for treating employees well. He’s been laying off entire teams at Twitter for months, and the website is suffering for it. Just yesterday, most of the images on the app weren’t loading! Even Elon Musk’s most loyal devotees are not being treated well. Do you remember the employee …
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Wicked Stepfather Refuses To Celebrate His 17-Year-Old Nonverbal Stepson’s First Words

It’s normal not to feel the same emotions as your partner while reacting to the same situation. Being in a relationship doesn’t automatically make you the same person. However, it’s important to recognize and notice when something is important to your partner and react appropriately. If your wife says Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory …
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Woman Annoyed At Instacart Driver Replacing Items Shows up at the Store to Confront Him

Is it ethical to use food delivery services for your groceries? This question has been bobbing around Twitter since the beginning of the pandemic when the number of people paying others to get their groceries increased immensely. This new reality where we weren’t supposed to go outside brought up some quagmires that are worth contemplating. …
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