I'm Prone to Finding Rabbit Holes

             I seem to have a knack for finding new rabbit holes to fall into. I'm not sure if it has anything to do with my propensity to leisure scroll or if I just have an unknown and useless talent. (Perhaps both?)

            One of the most recent spirals was the "AITA" forums. If you don't know what AITA stands for, it's "Am I The A$$hole". (Honestly, I feel like if you have to ask...)

            Generally, these people will post on a forum like Reddit, or some other forum that shall not be named (mostly because I don't know any others). Then, because this is the age of video media someone will make a channel devoted to reading these stories and giving their opinion of the assholishness. Sometimes they have ratings or cool red flag graphics, but they are generally just time wasting videos that kill brain cells if you watch too many in a row. (Brain cells are overrated, right?)

            If you ever want to lose faith in humanity real fast, listen to some of these AITA stories. I swear to God, I thank my lucky stars that I don't have to deal with the level of dipshittery that these authors have, because there's ALWAYS someone who definitely is an A-hole, regardless of whether it's the OP (the person who posted it) or the one the story is about (the culprit 91% of the time). Sometimes there are multiple D-bags in a single story. (Yikes, you need to surround yourself with better humans, STAT!)

            I thought that I was pretty much a realist, but these posts show me that I really live in a rose-colored glasses kind of world. I'm just la-la-la'ing my way through life compared to what some of these people deal with on a daily basis. Toxic mother-in-laws seem to be so prevalent that I am praying to ALL the gods that I will be a better M-I-L to the partners that my kids choose. Some of the things that have been posted are not even borderline bad, but straight over-the-line-by-a-mile evil. 

            The second most stories are about controlling or abusive behavior from partners or family and generally within the first paragraph you have identified 11 red flag behavior patterns. These just make my heart sad for the people being victimized. Sometimes I can't finish hearing them and have to scroll on until I reach the vacation or foodie part of my algorithm again. 

           I think that my main takeaway from all of these stories are:

           1.) There are there are a lot of stupid and/or entitled people in the world.

                (Holy crap. So many.)

           2.) Victim blaming is a competitive sport.

                (Some of these people have gold medal level blame skills.) 

           3.) There are a lot of dysfunctional families out there.

                (Don't worry, they put the "FUN" in dysfunction.)

           4.) People are really unsupportive of the humans in their life.

               (Like 1,000% unsupportive.)

            5.) With friends & family like these, who need enemies?

                (Please watch your back in all AITA scenarios for quality assurance purposes.)

            Sometimes these videos make me feel like humanity is screwed and we are in desperate need to have Mr. Rogers back as soon as possible. I need reincarnation to be real and he needs to make a cardigan-ed appearance NOW.

            Alternatively, does anyone know a good voodoo priestess? (Unrelated to the urgency of the previous request of course.)

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Want to tell me your AITA story? Send an email: modernmommayhem@gmail.com.