Another one, a wild leap of lack of logic. I am not training service dogs for others, I have trained two for myself over the years. Also, that talent might be worth money in the open market, but not a whole lot - especially in the current economy.
Sorry to disappoint you, I am not bipolar or something like that. I also don’t know anything about SSI and how folks get it. As for impaired mobility, most disabled people can still drive cars. You know, that’s why there are those blue signs with white wheelchairs all over?
Even if I was paid for it (I wasn’t) what difference would it make?
It’s not a baby, it’s a seven? year old standing in the lot screaming at her mother? because she wants something? doesn’t want something? Can’t tell, I can just hear the word NO!!! from her quite often.
See how the short form doesn’t portray the reality? And what I wrote above probably doesn’t fully either - it’s really been quite a full on brat-fest. It’s what made me remember to check here…
Dear god, you are such a fucking liar. You specifically said you did it all in one day.
Where?
Meanwhile, I’m in a restaurant surrounded by three tables of families with their children and none of them are doing anything untowards. One’s coloring, cute little pigtailed girl is talking about kindergarten, and a pair of twins are currently ordering milk. I’ll mention I come here often after work and it’s always like this—families, singles, the whole city—and I’ve heard one crying jag I can remember (a one year old, probably), whose mother took him out of the restaurant about 20 seconds after he started.
That’s why I’ve even piped up in this thread—your anecdotes portray a world I don’t believe really exists.
I haven’t really been following this thread since it became pretty much a slagfest. But I am getting the sense from some that not liking children = bad person. I don’t like children and never have. I’ve seen many a child acting up, and I’ve seen many a well-mannered one. I’ve seen enough bad-acting ones that I know not all parents are responsible parents. I’ve even seen irresponsible parents claiming what wonderful parents they are. But regardless of the behavior or the parent, I simply don’t like children and am uncomfortable around them. I never will understand why some people have a problem with that, but it’s definitely their problem and not mine.
You said it right in your that post that keturah quoted:
You wrote this in the past tense. “It WAS me driving up there…” What is that supposed to mean, other than that was what you did?
Yes, several people in this thread have stated undeniably that in their opinion people who don’t like children are bad people or at least mentally defective. Since those of us who don’t like children aren’t interacting with children or hurting them, I don’t really get the outrage. When you try to reason with them, they call you a sociopath for not taking responsibility for your actions… although what those actions are, I have no idea. That was back on page 9 or something, I’ve really lost track.
I wouldn’t bother. At this point, it’s obvious that she’s a liar and a troll. There may have been a shadow of a doubt before.
No they didn’t. Some people (I don’t remember who) said that idiots like you, people who spend pages defending their hatred for an entire segment of the population, are those things. It had nothing to do with people who just don’t like children all that much.
There you go again, assuming the words she typed are actually reflective of what she means to say. That would mean she would actually have to admit to a fact from time to time. It’s so much easier for her to argue when she never has to submit any evidence that could be verified or contradicted. It’s Dick Cheneyesque.
The OP said so.
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To be fair, he seemed to mean those that would spend countless pages ‘spouting drivel’ as you say, but he did say that the childless by choice are less human.
Since I don’t care to go back and read this whole thread again, I’ll take your word for it. It has definitely been said though that people who dislike children are mentally defective, that people who don’t have children are less valuable and less human and lead less fulfilling lives, and **LHoD **says that I’m a sociopath who doesn’t take responsibility for my actions. (Again, I’m not sure what actions those would be, but if someone would kindly point them out to me, I’ll be sure to put them on the List Of Stuff Betsy Is Responsible For.)
ETA: **Antinor01 **got there first.
No, he clarified later that he meant people who hate children, not just anyone who was childless by choice.
I doubt if much of any of those things were actually said. You seem to remember what LHoD said, so I’ll give you that one. Otherwise, not so much.
He also clarified that he meant people who jumped into every thread about kids and talked about damaging them physically or psychologically or something, and who constantly complain and whine about kids stepping on their shoes. As a lurker, I don’t do any of those things. In fact, I think I started out in this thread with like 110 posts.
Jimminy Cricket, dude. The OP says childless people are less human, less valueable, etc. On the first or second page somebody was all, “OMG! How can you not like small creatures of your own species???” Paraphrased, of course.
On page 5, post 288, LHoD says: **“At best, you’re just defective, like someone who hates homosexuals or Mexicans or paraplegics or Downs Syndromes folks but stays quiet about it: you suffer from a mental disorder. At worst, you’re a raging asshole.” ** But to be fair, in this post he was referring to me specifically, and I do indeed hate kids.
On the same page in post 290 he says: "Your belief that your behavior is other people’s problems, not yours, is literally sociopathic."
Later there’s a thing about children laughing and headaches, a thing about comfort zones, **Jettboy **reccomends I go to therapy, **keturah **starts spewing crap about getting dirty looks in restraunts, and it devolves from there. **Curlcoat **steps in, and the flamewar continues. Nearly everyone has agreed that it is somehow wrong to dislike children, and that those of us who hate them are psycho, intolerant, bigots, etc. (Because the fact that I hate kids automatically means I hate gays and blacks and Jews and short people. That speech I gave last semester at my school supporting gay marriage rights? I was totally faking it.)
Yet, it isn’t just me who report these sorts of anecdotes, is it? We are all lying?