It’s honestly just who I am, I don’t understand moderation. I’m from the US and moved to Germany, and it’s exploited a lot less, which is nice, but I either give everything or nothing.

Yes, from his least favorite ex-wife.

Yeah, I don’t know if they do the right a/e sound there, but that’s 100% how I pronounce it in English (I’m from New England, so I would assume it’s pronounced more correctly in Texas, but maybe not).

his daughter

I nominate Tiffany

Tbh, excepting maybe bail peprs, I think they’re all written phonetically for the local accent.

Maybe it’s just chemistry professors. I had one try to expel me for plagiarism because my lab partner and I had the same measurements on our lab reports (no overlap other than the numbers, which weren’t open to a lot of interpretation). You know, because we had the same experiment.

Luckily, part of the process was sitting down with the professor and the head of the department, and as soon as the professor explained what the problem was, the dean rolled his eyes, asked why my professor didn’t even report both of us, and told me someone else in the department would grade my exam, then let me leave.

Yep, basically what I was getting at. It’s not perfect, but it’s good enough to use as your primary method of transportation without fucking your life up.

Reliable enough for what? I wouldn’t use it to transport organs, but if you use it to commute to work in/around even small cities, you won’t get fired for being late all the time. I know DB isn’t perfect, but I’m very glad for it on a regular basis.

I also moved here from the US, where my 45 km commute between neighboring cities on the most traveled corridor in the country took two and a half hours by public transport, so you know, lowered expectations…

Legal documents tend to just specify things like that as a matter of course. Boilerplate is easier to adapt than starting from scratch every time.

Come to Germany. The monkeys paw drawback is the INTENSE eye contact

That’s a great way to make sure nobody can find their family members. They should fuck up everything but the names

Just one shoe

Honestly that’s a better deal. If I could just skip infancy and early childhood to parenting young adults, that would be ideal.

I just don’t manage my autism well enough for constant yelling and stickiness (I struggled with the phrasing on this, but I’m very sure about what I settled on- my symptoms are not so severe that I am inherently incapable of parenthood, but it would take enough out of me that I would turn into sally field in Mrs. Doubtfire). Being able to spoil them, and knowing that there’s a handover coming and they’re going home would make it a lot easier.

Of course, grandparents end up as primary caregivers not infrequently and there’s no guarantee that it’ll stay a more removed relationship

I just pretend I’m working on something for a new hire. I don’t believe it, but really playing it up helps. If I’m alone, I’ll straight up narrate my actions to an imaginary person.

Most of the other “trick yourself” things don’t work for me though. I also can’t really reward myself after doing something to incentivize it, because I tend to get so distracted thinking about the reward that I convince myself I’ll work better after having it. Worse, even if I’ve actually gotten something done, I still don’t really ever feel a sense of accomplishment.

Is it possible and helpful for you to pretend you’re training a new hire and you have to show them all the steps of your job, including answering emails? I can do incredible things with the mom friend override, even if unmedicated.

I’d honestly be surprised if there were more kinder egg injuries than avocado pit related injuries, given how frequently people stab themselves in the hand trying to remove them. I get that those are mostly adults instead of kids and less likely to be deadly.

Yeah, that makes sense. Ohio has a weirdly large number of nationally known cities. I’m from Connecticut and I think I know about as many cities by name in Ohio as in California, and I only know more municipalities by name in New York and New England.

It doesn’t hurt elementary school aged children and having them move their chairs back and forth requires potentially chaotic transitions (kids get distracted, they hurt each other or themselves with the chairs, and there’s a bunch of noise that can distract other classrooms). The desks add a level of separation and distance that makes it hard to do some activities, like reading a story to the kids, and young kids really benefit from a transition between activities (we all do, but it’s more important the younger your learning group), which moving to a different part of the classroom creates.

Where I’m from, it’s also common to have kids circle up and do light calisthenics or stretching throughout the day to even out their energy levels, so this could be a stage immediately beforehand or afterwards.

Size-wise they look like high schoolers, but the classroom looks like it’s for young primary school students.

asking for help moving boxes /eyeroll

Just as an aside, I would do this regardless of my interest. If I’m moving and there’s someone watching, I’m going to try to enlist help. They can say no and I won’t be offended in any way, but I’ll give it a shot, because moving sucks and it’s faster with more hands. I won’t gush about how strong the movers are or anything, but I will offer them beer/pizza afterwards.

It describes the water breaking