Eh. When I was in elementary school, literally one kid was being medicated for. Dude was my best friend at the time.

Or grrm.

I largely down voted you for the condescending edit.

...how old were you? That's really not something a kid should be exposed to. It would be difficult enough for an adult.

Congratulations, by the way. B

My dad probably has this, though his official diagnosis is just PTSD. he's willing to accept that he has ptsd due to being my disabled mother's primary caretaker for the last 15 years of her life, spending practically every waking moment with her during that time. He absolutely refuses to accept that his childhood had any lasting impact on his mental state.

Once I was old enough to think critically about the stories my father told me about his childhood, it frankly fucking horrified me.

And it's also the reason why I don't bother pointing out the flaws I noticed in my grandfather from those stories (he died a little over a year before I was born) due to the fact that my dad idolizes his father. The only result of doing so would be a fight between us.

The closest that I've come is suggesting that the reason why he became a long haul trucker after leaving the marine corps was to get away from my grandmother. Which my dad agreed was a possibility. I simply didn't bother finishing the thought that if he had been worth a damn as a father he would have divorced her and insisted on full custody of my dad, and possibility the rest of his siblings.

To be clear, from the stories that my dad told me, my grandfather was largely guilty of neglect. The abuse came from my grandmother and my dad's six brothers. Which my grandmother did nothing to stop.

It was the fault of the idiot that designed the ship.

Okay, xenu.

Well, cats ARE serial killers...

We have excellent doctors. The problem is that almost no one can actually afford them.

I apparently already had them on ignore. And I generally only do that if someone is exceptionally vile or stupid.

I recall reading a book about the history of England that spent a chapter or two on the story of King Arthur, basically saying that they did their best to try and gloss over that he was Welsh because they were in the process of conquering Wales at the time, heh.

William the Conqueror, which is who he was talking about was from Normandy, and descended from Vikings.

Before him, there was also King Cnut, who was king of England, Denmark, and Norway.

Fuck berkheimer.

Himalayan salt?

...you sure he wasn't a king of Belgium?