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NameChangedToAvoiJudgement · 16/10/2025 15:26

I do have a PTSD and anxiety diagnosis and my child has an ADHD diagnosis. I claim PIP and DLA etc for us. I’m perfectly capable of working but I have a far nicer life not working. I have my child high caffeine and high sugar snacks before their ADHD assessment.

Cookieandcandy · 16/10/2025 15:40

NameChangedToAvoiJudgement · 16/10/2025 15:26

I do have a PTSD and anxiety diagnosis and my child has an ADHD diagnosis. I claim PIP and DLA etc for us. I’m perfectly capable of working but I have a far nicer life not working. I have my child high caffeine and high sugar snacks before their ADHD assessment.

Don’t believe you

NameChangedToAvoiJudgement · 16/10/2025 15:52

Cookieandcandy · 16/10/2025 15:40

Don’t believe you

Ok 😘

Catsfredwilma · 16/10/2025 16:02

I love it when I catch a cold. The snotty, bunged up feeling, the scratchy throat, the achiness, the sneezing. I really like it.
(Not flu, not tonsillitis, just a cold!)

Thatsalineallright · 16/10/2025 16:11

Catsfredwilma · 16/10/2025 16:02

I love it when I catch a cold. The snotty, bunged up feeling, the scratchy throat, the achiness, the sneezing. I really like it.
(Not flu, not tonsillitis, just a cold!)

Edited

I really don't mean this in a rude way, but this is the weirdest thing I've read on here. I just can't imagine liking that head cold feeling!

DeanStockwelll · 16/10/2025 16:22

pictoosh · 16/10/2025 09:14

I would love for everyone to make a universal decision to scale Christmas right down regarding gifts, spending and excess.
You can have a wonderful festive period without an orgy of spending, waste, gluttony and stress.

I'd definitely join you with that, especially now that Christmas seems to start in September.
I know a few people the do Christmas eve's eve boxes and boxing day boxes! Then complain about the cost of Christmas 🤨

CallBackPlease · 16/10/2025 16:24

Wishimaywishimight · 16/10/2025 13:33

I very much doubt anyone will agree with me here (especially since I am posting on MUMSnet!) however I find the notion of giving birth to be absolutely horrific. For context I am (happily) childfree and not for this reason - if I had wanted children I would have put myself through the ordeal however the whole concept / biology of it - a human being emerging from between a woman's legs. The pain, the gore (which I only know about 2nd hand of course!), the indignity of having strangers peer up your fanny while you lie spread-eagled awaiting the emergence of a head. Delicate bits tearing or being cut. Aaaaargh, just all sounds grim. If I had ever wanted a child I would have gone private and paid for a c-section! Yes, I know that's major surgery but anyone I know who went that route was very much in favour of it for future pregnancies.

I'm not looking for anyone to tell me I'm a freak or need psychological help and no, I have no hang-ups about sex / intimacy or the human body in general!

I agree and had two vaginal deliveries. It’s brutal and barbaric.

godmum56 · 16/10/2025 16:34

NoOneToCallWhenThePlaneLands · 16/10/2025 14:20

Because I believe it’s a symptom of our current lifestyles. More fresh air, exercise and better diets would cure about 75% of people I bet.

do you also believe in the Great Pumpkin?

NoOneToCallWhenThePlaneLands · 16/10/2025 16:36

godmum56 · 16/10/2025 16:34

do you also believe in the Great Pumpkin?

I have no idea what that is.

What I do know is that with the rise of mobile phones and screens we crave instant gratification and constant entertainment.

godmum56 · 16/10/2025 16:40

NoOneToCallWhenThePlaneLands · 16/10/2025 16:36

I have no idea what that is.

What I do know is that with the rise of mobile phones and screens we crave instant gratification and constant entertainment.

ADHD first described in 1796 https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/adhd-history

A Brief History of ADHD

The condition we now call ADHD was first identified in 1798 by Sir Alexander Crichton. Learn more about the history of ADHD and its treatments.

https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/adhd-history

uniqueme · 16/10/2025 17:03

Those people who put up their Christmas decs in mid November then put them down on Boxing Day. I don’t get this at all. If you are sick of the sight of the decs as find it difficult to clean etc, you are putting up your tree far too early!

uniqueme · 16/10/2025 17:07

Working for a supermarket for a number of years. Got customers who moaned about their refusal and hatred with the self checkouts every single time they were in the store. It got tiresome after ten days, let alone ten years!

I wish I could ask them to shut up. But these were the type of customers that complained about me

ThatsNotMyNameAlan · 16/10/2025 17:42

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Jimmyneutronsforehead · 16/10/2025 17:50

uniqueme · 16/10/2025 17:03

Those people who put up their Christmas decs in mid November then put them down on Boxing Day. I don’t get this at all. If you are sick of the sight of the decs as find it difficult to clean etc, you are putting up your tree far too early!

We do this, but it's a practicality really. The Christmas Dec's go in boxes under our beds, and we can't tidy away gifts or find homes for toys until we've put the tree and decorations away, and its the gift clutter that really does my tree in, if you'll pardon the pun.

CarefulN0w · 16/10/2025 17:52

NameChangedToAvoiJudgement · 16/10/2025 15:26

I do have a PTSD and anxiety diagnosis and my child has an ADHD diagnosis. I claim PIP and DLA etc for us. I’m perfectly capable of working but I have a far nicer life not working. I have my child high caffeine and high sugar snacks before their ADHD assessment.

And how did that affect their school reports and Teacher information?

Tryingtolikeyou · 16/10/2025 18:03

Im Jealous to death of my sister.
She had a baby young i laughed she never asked for help and when she did i gave her the middle finger.
Every time something came up i would straight up say you cant you have a kid to look after.
No one would want you with a kid yes i was awful.
All in all i thought i was better than her.

Fast forward 20 years shes free her child is 23 moved on she is now traveling around the globe for her work care free at 39.
In grate shape always happy and not a bad word to say about anyone.
Shes never home great friends.
Self made.
Owns her own home in thailand and a small flat in our home town.
Turns out that all the bulling i did to her she had her head in books and studying at nights to better herself.

Im now a single mum at 42 with 3 kids 8,4 and a 2 year old, gone though a divorce 2 failed relationship living on benefits.
She has the life i wanted and thought i have.
I so jealous of her it eats away at me.
I cant stand it i cant stand looking online at her post so i blocked her.
She has everything going for her and i hate it.
She as my life.

Idrinklotsofcoffee · 16/10/2025 18:09

So much is said about kids going no contact with their parents. So little is said about the parents that could care less. I’m on of them… I just don’t care. Life is so much easier and stress free without my mid-twenties daughter in it. I feel so much relief.

Fairyliz · 16/10/2025 18:11

Pigletin · 16/10/2025 08:58

I have judged a lot of people on this thread 😅

Don’t we all 😂. MN wouldn’t exist if we weren’t all judging other people, or at least it would be a lot more boring.

hippospot · 16/10/2025 18:21

I judge like hell the parents who let their children have phones and tablets in buggies. I believe they'll grow up unable to focus on anything for periods of time, and not at all curious about the real world. Talk to your children, let them see the world, and in restaurants or on public transport if they're fractious, bring out a book and read to them, or paper and crayons.

I dislike Christmas. The run-up is too long and it's all so commercial. If I was in charge the decorations, music etc would start on 1 December and no earlier. I actually buy less than I can afford to spend because the retailers piss me off so much ramming it down our throats and we don't even have a chance to enjoy autumn before it's everywhere. I'm actively avoiding the shops already.

Soveryitchy · 16/10/2025 18:24

Gosh I'm so sorry to read about others as afflicted as me! And thank you for those who have made recommendations I will definitely try the ones I haven't tried yet. I honestly thought people would laugh at me but I feel a sense of relief now.

MorrisZapp · 16/10/2025 18:26

Horsie · 16/10/2025 10:28

Ha! I bet his marriage isn't sexless!

For every woman in a sexless marriage, there's a man in a sexless marriage. My own ltr is now sexless so my DP would be telling the truth if he said that.

Simontownsley · 16/10/2025 18:29

I can’t stand nearly all of my clients. They are all benefit scroungers and waste tax payers money. My colleagues sympathise too much with them and it’s ridiculous that we have targets as to how much more benefit money we can claim for them/get their debts written off. My job isn’t what I thought it’d be but I feel completely stuck.

DeanStockwelll · 16/10/2025 18:29

Wishimaywishimight · 16/10/2025 13:46

@SmallDogsAreScaryAh so there are 2 of us 😁

Make that 3 of us !

PrincessArora · 16/10/2025 18:41

macaroonmayhem · 16/10/2025 14:04

I don’t want to bring my “whole self” to work, and I wish nobody else would. Bring your work self, that’s what you are getting paid for!

I think you work where I do…….I'm very happy people only knowing the work me thank you very much.

NotrialNodeal · 16/10/2025 18:49

Tryingtolikeyou · 16/10/2025 18:03

Im Jealous to death of my sister.
She had a baby young i laughed she never asked for help and when she did i gave her the middle finger.
Every time something came up i would straight up say you cant you have a kid to look after.
No one would want you with a kid yes i was awful.
All in all i thought i was better than her.

Fast forward 20 years shes free her child is 23 moved on she is now traveling around the globe for her work care free at 39.
In grate shape always happy and not a bad word to say about anyone.
Shes never home great friends.
Self made.
Owns her own home in thailand and a small flat in our home town.
Turns out that all the bulling i did to her she had her head in books and studying at nights to better herself.

Im now a single mum at 42 with 3 kids 8,4 and a 2 year old, gone though a divorce 2 failed relationship living on benefits.
She has the life i wanted and thought i have.
I so jealous of her it eats away at me.
I cant stand it i cant stand looking online at her post so i blocked her.
She has everything going for her and i hate it.
She as my life.

Wow.
She doesn't have your life at all! What a ridiculous and non-sensical thing to say! The bitterness here is another level.. Bravo your sister!

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