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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 139 points 1 year ago

This is what happens when your social adolescence happens in an unmoderated forum where the edgiest edgelad wins attention.

[–] [email protected] 137 points 1 year ago (2 children)

anon finds out they are autistic

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Or it is time to have that ADHD diagnosed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I seriously hope you're joking around.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Real life shock to learn the empathy that online interactions lack.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

*unecessery emotions that suck anyways\s

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Caring about family members?

You mean the only thing that allowed you to survive into adulthood?

How sad must it be to be so withdrawn from empathy that you can't even realize how dependent you are on it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

More likely a coping mechanism to deal with real life shock.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Women, "I miscarried last week, my husband and I have been trying for years and we really thought this was it."

Men, "You think that's bad? Have you been to the DMV?".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of that old joke about how guys will get the flu and be like “this is the worst experience anyone has ever had happen to them OMG”

Meanwhile women and people AFAB literally have periods and may even give birth…

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Poor anon. Should've said that research found miscarriages to be more common than previously believed and that this specific one likely wasn't the first and definitely not the last.
It's these little details that make all the difference...

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"I know this is awful, but it'll probably happen again."

I don't know, chief. Probably not the best approach.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Comment was sarcastic and dunking on op for being socially stunted.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Look on the bright side, now you and hubby can have your DNA tested and find out how incompatible you are and that you have about a 25% chance of producing a healthy offspring. Yay, knowledge!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Well thynk you, now everybody knows I'm not working on the task at hand.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depending on the woman, this will either help, or shatter them.

The actual odds are around 50% self abort. Mostly within the first month. 10-20% happen between 1 and 3 months. Critically, almost none of the risk is down to the mother. It just happens.

I couldn't get the fear out of my wife's mind on this. All I could do was quantify it, and lay the groundwork that it wasn't her fault if the pregnancy failed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When I had a colleague who had 3 heartbreaks, and she was expecting her 4th we treated her with proper kid gloves, no carrying, no stress. It felt like a team effort.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It's best to just drop the factoids and offer emotional support in situations like this.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Department of motor vehicles.

Kraftfahrzeug-Zulassungsbehörde

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Sehr edel Zuhausi.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol anon's a dumbass. I work in healthcare and miscarriages are pretty common and for most people it's pretty easy to get pregnant again, by the story she wasn't admitted to the hospital so the pregnancy couldn't be very far. So it's not that big of a deal. That said, even if it isn't a big deal if you see someone crying you don't crack jokes lol. Have some tact and empathy. All that if the story was real, which it isn't.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

The problem was the joke sucked. He should have reported her for murder to the government of Alabama, as a prank.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Their fam is partying it up in the dmv line

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Too many people today in situations like Anon’s. Society needs to change.

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