u/EggsAndMilquetoast

Seriously. The stage looks like the Exxon Valdez oil spill, often to the point where the slide sticks to it. The sides of the eyepieces: slimed at all times. Adjustment knobs? Gloopy. And then by default, the mouse, phone, and keyboard usually have greasy fingerprints everywhere. And it’s all 3 scopes/diff workstations too, so I can’t even point to one person as the culprit.

I guess I can’t say anything if people genuinely don’t care about working at a slippery, greasy scope and computer, but I wish people would clean it up for the next person. But I wonder whether it’s the problem of “you can’t clean up what you don’t even notice is dirty” versus “you won’t bother to clean up what you don’t think is a problem.”

I thought it was going to be a modern story about how parenthood is going the way of yachts, summer homes, and polo ponies (luxuries of the upper crust) but the article almost immediately takes a dark and selfish turn.

>when the Brewers started talking family planning, two kids felt manageable. And especially after her oldest, 5-year-old Kailo Brewer, was diagnosed with autism, she wanted him to have a sibling to grow up with and to help support him as an adult, after his parents are gone.

Imagine being born just to be a caretaker to your older sibling when his actual parents can’t anymore.

What if this notional, unaffordable baby wanted to grow up to be childfree?

What if this notional, unaffordable baby ALSO has autism? who will take care of this baby?