Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Oh, yeah! Just dealt with that one a year ago when my baby was born. The only thing I didn’t research was that blood test, the PKU. I told the staff I didn’t want to do it. Mind you, they told me at 2 am when they were coming in to do it that they were just popping in to draw some blood. I said, whaaat. Nope, you’re not doing it. I kid you not, there were multiple doctors, nurses and midwives that visited us telling the importance of the PKU test. After a heated conversation with one of the “medical professionals” she hesitantly admitted the only people who deny it don’t trust the government. 😂. I looked right at her with all seriousness and raised my hand. I still regret that we gave into that test. We refused absolutely everything else and even signed paper work for early discharge against the hospitals will. My spouse and I put our tinfoil hats on and said that if we do this test then our baby will at least be blood banked with us and her siblings, hopefully keeping us together in some sort of weird end of the world hunger game type sorting. Very SIFi, I know, but we were sleep deprived and already fighting the system on all sides. She’s our first that we’ve denied everything with (we didn’t learn about all the evils until my other children were 3 and 5 years old) Let’s just say they were very happy when we were discharged. When we left they told us we should think about home birth if we have another child.
Our daughter did not turn out autistic, but then again girls are safer from that than boys. She does have a slight peanut allergy and occasionally suffers from hives and other skin conditions. I'm certain that this is from vaccines. She was born in '08, and I understand that the number of vaccines has only increased since then. I swore to her that she will never again get a vaccine. The stuff in the mail about the tetanus booster, HPV, and COVID shots were all pitched in the trash. Never again.
Same with all three of ours. My oldest got all of them including the kindergarten shots. We homeschool now and have a fantastic D.O. who supports our no vaccine lifestyle. Never again will they receive a shot.
I've shared on here several times already how it was the tetanus shot that wrecked my childhood. I was 4 and it gave me such a high fever that it cooked my coordination and I've never been able to play sports because I'm such a klutz. Then after we went through the vaccinations with our daughter, I expressed my concerns over the MMR (at the time that's the only one that was being focused on) and she told me that it was the reaction to the tetanus shot that gave me that high fever as a child. Then as time went on, I realized it was pretty much all vaccines that are bad. So I stopped getting an annual flu shot thanks to watching Infowars on YouTube. Never again! People can say what they want about Trump and his "Warp Speed" crap, but thanks to that crap, the anti-vax movement has gotten so much bigger and stronger!