BeefSupremeJr said:

sloug I hope you don't feel like I'm attacking you personally in the quick questions thread.  This streaking debate has been going on a lot longer than I think you've been around. I really just need to shut the fuck up about it, revised the hitchhiker, and write my own tek.

Anyway I hope you know I think the world of you as a person

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not in the slightest my friend! nothing but love over here.

ive been lurking these forums since 05' ish. my first grow was pf cakes incubated in a cooler sitting on a heating pad then fruited in a 10 gallon fish tank "terarrium" with  lava rocks over water and an airstone... ive witnesses all the debates over the years hah. including wether or not to boil the lava rocks before using em!

when i feel confident in something from personal experience, ill voice my opinion on it in hopes to help a fellow cultivator. a lot of these questions cant even be answered with absolute certainty either way. im always open to being wrong and even after all these years, im still constantly learning and evolving my own technique everyday

           

boxtrotalpha said:

My wife and I are dealing with a very similar situation with my sister in law and niece olddad. It sucks balls because we can't directly intervene. We've been trying to convince SIL that there's something going on and to get niece into counseling and or a shrink because once she's got it on file she could get an IEP with the school but until SIL actually listens to us our niece is just the pain in the ass kid who the teachers won't put up with. I don't have any real advice to offer you besides just keep gently suggesting it but I figure you should know I feel for you man and it fuckin sucks

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el53 said:

You should know that like MS and a host of other illnesses and disorders there are no tests to prove or disprove that exact diagnoses. It is more a matter of ruling out other causes. Calling it fetal alcohol syndrome is the far end of the conditions associated with prenatal alcohol expose.  In later diagnosed cases the diagnosis is pretty much the booby prize. Just a label for a condition we don't have any great treatments for. We don't even know why some children of drinking mothers  have no issues and others have birth defects.

You will only drive an ever deepening wedge between your brother and yourself if you insist he accept your non medical opinion. Better to encourage him to make sure she stays in public schools where with a little luck she will get the help she needs.

Honest story- when I was about 9 years old my mother was shocked that my teacher thought I was learning disabled and could barely read, write or do math. This was all news to my mother since I had began reading the newspaper aloud to my grandmother at breakfast before I was 4. The class work bored me into a daydream land and I was very shy with adults. You never know what is really going on with a kid until you can get them to talk to you and even then you may have to weed through and interpret.

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DERRAYLD said:

Shit parents, pos dad.

Sorry.

No pity or holding punches when I read shit like this.

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OLDDAD77 said:

DERRAYLD said:

Shit parents, pos dad.

Sorry.

No pity or holding punches when I read shit like this.

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Yeah my wife and I feel that too.

I looked up how common the denial in parents is and it was like reading a report about my brother.

Literally everything he does was pointed out in the reports I read.

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DERRAYLD said:

Let's not start about pos dads, I'm thankful my dad was a cunt.
He made me a better man because I never wanted to be like him.

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LadysKnight said:

DERRAYLD said:

Let's not start about pos dads, I'm thankful my dad was a cunt.
He made me a better man because I never wanted to be like him.

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KlarnEvil9 said:

WAAAASSSS UUUPPP MULLLASUCKAAAAASSSS!!!!!

I'm back, bitches! Had the most life affirming, positive, wonderful time out in the pines with my people. Met all sorts of fantastic new weirdos, one of whom will be joining us here!

My heart is overflowing with love, so I just wanted to pop in and say hey while I catch up on 17,000 posts.

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DERRAYLD said:

Too many people have no interest in self-reflecting.

I've made the biggest changes in my life when I focused on reflecting and gaining knowledge from those around me.

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