abbadon420

I also bought some spare parts from AE, because they were literally nowhere else to be found except for other, more shady chinese websites. I would get spam mails from AE for months though. They'd send it from a different email adress everytime. Multiple mails per day that were unblockable.

So yeah, it s a legit business, but it's not a good business. Might be worse than amazon.

This is why i dont trust the likes of aliexpress and temu. Well, it's one of the reasons

Screw word. I'm studying Software Development, but I have to write all these management reports for various classes. I'm just writing them in LaTeX now, so it feels like I'm coding while I'm writing a paper. Implement some new fancy features every time that I than have to debug like I do with code.

To boldly go where no man has gone before

Might be an exposure thing. If you're vegan and you go online for the explicit purpose of talking about veganism to sttangers, you're going to attract haters. That goes for anything. Politics, veganism, parenting, car enthousiasts, movie fandoms, etc..

If you keep to your own, you won't experience the same hate.

I'm not saying you should hide your opinions, but you should mind the context in which you out them. Also, just brush it off, don't let others define you.

I did not know his name was Bernard Hill.

I think that's an addition, since I fell for it as well.

I see were this is going wrong. The last sentence of OP's post says:

(He's likely on the spectrum)

That wasn't there yesterday.

Quite the contrary. It's abusive to only feed your kids mcdonalds, because that's the only thing they want. You're telling someone who doesn't have the nerological capacities you do that they can decide whatever they want to eat.

My kids get a varied diet with all the nutrients they need. They can choose not to eat it, that's fine, but I'm not going to give them mcdonalds instead. Mcdonalds does not provide the same nutrients as a well balanced meal.

Sometimes I persuade them to "just eat a few bites" and than they can have desert as reward.

Sometimes we go to mcdonalds or some other fast food thing. But that's my choice, not theirs (mostly). And it's an occasional thing and a family event, like maybe once per month.

Maybe this approach doesn't work for neurodivergent kids, but I never claimed it did. If you have a neurodivergent kid, you should maybe look into other methods. I should add that I also don't know if this works for children of all ages, genders, races, handicaps, species, planets and dimensions. It works good enough for my kids and I'm taking that as a win.

No, I guess I should've mentioned to not abuse your child this way. Just like a microwave manual mentions that you should not put your cat in a microwave.

It may be spartan, but giving them a regular plate of homecooked dinner (with vegetables of course) and nothing else until they've finshed it, works most of the time. If not, they go to bed hungry which doesn't hurt them (it hurts your sleep though) if it doesn't happen every day. Like you said, they'll likely come around, but you have to out-patience them.

Purpose is the most important. It is clearly observable that you fade away when you "sit behind the geraniums", as we say in my country. Pointing at old folks sitting behind the window, with geraniums in the windowsill, staring outside all day.