Conversation in car service today:

Mommy: ...and I don't even know what Trump is thinking.
Me: Hey! I've asked everybody not to say the T-word*.
Eva: *whisperwhisper*
N: Oh, you mean... DONALD TRUMP!
Me: NO T-WORD!
Eva: How long has he even been president anyway?
Me: One year. One interminable year.
Eva: Really? I could've sworn it was longer, like, at least two. Anyway, until he's gone, I'm telling everybody I'm straight.

* I have, but don't tell the girls, I mostly do it only to amuse them.

Ana discovered Hamilton

I know this, because she came home and told me that literally everyone in her school already knew about it, and she felt so out of it and it was my job to tell her about the cool things.

She was a little nonplussed when I did the math, told her I was almost 34 and had never been cool, and the mantle had firmly passed to her. She is required to tell me the cool things.

But she didn't argue!

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Kids Start To Test Surprising Claims By Early Elementary School

Tiny KFC serving miniature food opens in Portland

How a Brewer and the Government Killed Colombia’s Ancestral Drink

Civil War Reenactments Were a Thing Even During the Civil War

One of my favorite C&H strips this time of year

Neon City: Where weird Austin and techy Austin meet

Alamo Drafthouse is launching a crazy new thing called a "video store"

How Hallmark took over your TV every Christmas

The rise, fall and return of Dance Dance Revolution in America

Birds learn from each other's 'disgust,' enabling insects to evolve bright colors

Someone needs to do a linguistic study on people over 50 and how they use the ellipsis. It’s FASCINATING. I never know the mood they’re trying to convey.

Figure Skating in Detroit is aiming to change the color of the sport

FarmCrowdy raises $1M round to bring Nigerian farmers online and to market

Global effort to get kids out of orphanages gains momentum

11 Things Women Couldn't Do In The 1920s

The “backlash” against Star Wars: The Last Jedi, explained (With spoilers!)

“Now I’ve shot so many Nazis, Daddy will have to buy me a sable coat.”

My Do-It-Yourself Language Immersion, Prison-Style

How To Survive Climate Change? Clues Are Buried In The Arctic

Admin can't block undocumented pregnant teens in US custody from seeking abortions, judge says

Long-term wildfire evacuees face holidays away from home

Brain lesions, criminal behavior linked to moral decision-making network

Republicans Have Lost Touch With Blue America

We’re witnessing the wholesale looting of America

Lack of transparency clouds Texas spending after Harvey

Trump touts infrastructure plan after derailment, but proposed budget would cut Amtrak funding

EPA cuts could risk a public health emergency

Mass occupation underscores Brazil's poverty, creates angst

Federal investigation finds ‘significant issues’ at immigrant detention centers

As a Doctor, I’m Sick of All The Health Care Freeloaders /s

On the front lines of drug crisis, US police split on Narcan

‘We feel like our system was hijacked’: DEA agents say a huge opioid case ended in a whimper

For five months, The New York Times tracked 21 public hospitals in Venezuela. Doctors are seeing record numbers of children with severe malnutrition. Hundreds have died.

A while back I said to somebody

that many autistics I know seem to have at least one narcissistic* parent. (Edit: It's more specific. The ones I'm thinking of have one narcissistic and one probably-autistic parent. I didn't think of it because, duh, you expect autistics to have autistic parents.) And then I went back and edited to say "anecdotally".

And ever since then it's been percolating in my mind. Is this some sort of fluke of the autistics I know, or is it a legit trend? Am I perhaps in my mind blowing up a couple of people into a pattern that doesn't even really exist among people I know?

Hard to say. Has anybody else noticed this, or do you think I'm full of it here?

Edit: I crossposted here and you may want to read Lucy's comment. Additionally, google suggests other people have noticed this trend. And I had to wade through a lot of shitty "is autism really narcissism????" links to find anything useful, so you can thank me for that!

I need better numbers. It's all well and good to say "I think you're wrong, only 10% of the autistics I know are in this situation", but if only 3% of non-autistics with no autistic siblings have a narcissistic parent, well, that's your correlation right there. But I just pulled those numbers out of my butt because I don't have numbers.

Maybe I should go back to google with better search terms.

* Here used in the more informal sense of "unpleasant and/or actually abusive with these character traits" rather than a strictly clinical sense, though I imagine there is some very strong overlap.

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