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……I think I may have to tap out from this, horrorwise?! I don’t wanna but I already can’t listen to it at bedtime and I can tell we’re not at peak scary. Can anyone tell me how bad it gets?

"Do you ever feel like your whole life happened to you in languages you don't speak anymore?"

“The drinks, much like the years, start coming and they don’t stop coming.”

I keep sneaking off to read more of this.

When does this get less…silly?

Lololol, basically the entire field of attachment theory is based on an n=23 study. Which was also — I believe the scientific term is “a methodological shitshow”? Or as the author says, had “the rigor of a middle school science project.”

NBD, it just underpins modern parenting guidance & societal expectations. And gets used to vilify non-white parents before taking their kids away. SIIIIGH.

So many shitty men doing terrible confirmation bias “science” and telling generations of women stressful nonsense about how to mother. (Oh, you didn’t naturally stop caring about everything except your baby? You’re a failure!)

I feel oddly soothed by the interspersed bits about the author’s sleepless newborn, whose endless screaming felt like “an emergency inside my entire body”. Yes!!

Overidentifying with the poor guy who just wants to sit around and read manga and instead runs 'til he barfs and still comes in dead last.

(Read a book about a run club, said Popsugar. Don't they know I (a) hate running, (b) feel guilty about hating running, (c) feel sad about hating running, and (d) hate reading about running b/c my brain chemistry makes me feel like whatever I read about is happening to me??)

Oof, this is slow going.

This is so stressful.

Oh boy, I hope this holds up.

This has gotten so depressing.