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I'm a mom of 3 kids in a long term relationship. I like to think I'm fairly smart(IQ 131), but I definitely don't know everything. I work a regular job, finished high school, but dropped out of my first year of college. I'm not religious, but I think of myself as pretty spiritual. I'm always watching and reading new things that interest me, because I love to learn new things. I guess you can really ask me anything, I love to give advice. I'm sure the people that will benefit best from my advice are other people like me, but don't take my word on it ;)

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Does it hurt to get tounge pierces?

Bite your tongue really hard. It hurts, and so does getting it pierced. Everyone has a different pain tolerance. For some people, pain is nothing they can't handle, other people can't handle it. So... the question is, how do you handle pain?

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17/f, 129 lbs, approx. 5'2".
I've lost around 20 pounds in approx 5-6 months). I want to lose another 9 or 15 by May (for prom!). I'm more concerned about my appearance, than my end weight.

I've read that running (no hills, my treadmill can't do incline anyways) is a good way to lose fat/get skinnier, or it's a way to have the legs 'bulk up'; which I don't want to happen. So it would be nice if someone would clarify on that.

Thank you~

Your legs could bulk up, but it really depends on how you gain muscle. Not everyone bulks up. For what you want, I would suggest an aerobic work out video you could do at home. They have some great, fun dance-aerobic videos that will slender you up while having fun in the process.

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So now that im in high school, people and some of my friends are loosing their virginity or something, like getting fingered. Nothing like that has happend for me yet though.. But besides that when it does happen Im scared that i will scare them or something because I have razor burn scars down there! Like I have this big one, than some smaller.. Im scared that i would turn them off or gross them out!! I mean not everygirl has that, but me of course.
Anything i can do!? Do you guys think it would scare a guy? And i dont want people to think i have a disease!


thanks , xox

I have very sensitive skin like that also. You really don't need to shave bare, i dont know what girl's obsessions are with it. Get a little electric bikini trimmer and just keep your hair trimmed short. It looks nice and clean, and you don't get razor burn. Guys aren't going to freak out if you aren't shaved bare, they have hair too, and they don't shave it. I haven't met one guy that ever shaves bare.

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so last week i was having sex with my boyfriend when right after i started to feel really dizzy and light headed with a horrible stomach ache. i had to sit down for a while and drink some water because i couldnt even stand up. that night i was doubled over in pain because my stomach hurt so much and i went to the doctor the next day, got a ultrasound and some tests done because i thought it may have been an ovarian cyst (during the summer i had a ovarian cyst rupture worst pain ive ever had! so i was nervious) but he said nothing was wrong with me. now i dont really trust this doctor because he was in a hurry and the same doctor misdiagnosed me as a tumor inside my mom and put her on anastesia! but anyways, its been a few days and i am still feeling pain in my stomach when i make abrupt movements. i dont know why i am feeling this way if anyone has any idea please let me know! im planning on going back to the doctor too. thank you

It could be something simple like a pulled muscle in your stomach from when you were having sex. I would also get a second opinion from another doctor. Explain everything that happened in detail to the new doctor, let them know about the cyst also. I wouldn't go back to the same doctor if you don't trust him.

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Hey guys, i am desperatedly looking for a knitting pattern for a hooded cardigan - but seriously i have been through hundreds of patterns and can't even find one decent pattern. It just needs to be a simple cardigan pattern with a hoodie. Oh there's hundreds for children, but none for women!!!

Can anyone help me find one please!!!

I'm not sure what age range you are looking for, but I'll post some and see if you find something you like ^^

http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEfall03/PATTbpt.html
http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEspring03/PATTjanda.html
http://www.quamut.com/quamut/knitting_project_mohair_hoodie
http://www.tahkistacycharles.com/media/File/43:32_FreePat127Psweatshirtwhoodpat.pdf
http://danadoodle.wordpress.com/patterns/zip-hoodie/
http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/khs-hoodedSweater.html

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I don't think I been test for BV I will talk to my doctor about it.

I don't have pain, but I do when I have intercourse in certain positions (like if it is too deep). I do spot from time to time. I also have a IUD since April 08. Back then the smell would only be noticeable after intercourse, now it never goes away.

IUDs can cause PID. I had one put in recently after the birth of my 2 month old. If the smell started after the IUD, then it is most likely the cause of the problems. Many women have a lot of problems with IUDs, some women's bodies just can't handle them.

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why would i go to the police? i mean he already has a girlfreind and i don't think anyones that stupid to go out with the guy i mean he's so creepy and weird. do you have any other advise?

(don''t take this the rong way i wasn't trying to be mean or anything)

Flirting with students, or anyone for that matter, if it is unwanted, is sexual harassment. Whether anyone is stupid enough to date him or not doesn't even matter, he is commiting crimes against minors. If you feel uncomfortable going to the police their are other ways you can go about it. Is there another teacher that knows about this or has witnessed it? I know multiple students know about it. If there is a woman teacher you are comfortable with, I would talk to her about it. A male teacher may not want to turn in another male teacher. Otherwise, you can go straight to your principal. Bring multiple students with you that have witnessed this, girls and guys. Don't be afraid to turn in this teacher, there are way too many pedofiles in this world. Think how you would feel if it was your daughter. Personally, I'd wanna kick that teacher right in the balls, but I have kids and know what its like worrying about their saftey.

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i have this really perverted teacher who is hitting on my friend and making really disgusting remarks to me and mt friends and its really starting to freak me out. should i go to a guidence counslor about it so she can do somthing about it? if i do than the problem is i went there last year about a teacher and she might think i have teacher problems.

You should NOT go to your guidance counselor, you SHOULD go straight to the police. If he is hitting on girls, there is a good chance he may be having relationships with them too. He is a sick person, you need to turn him in right away.

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I think it's an older movie.
But this one girl is like sent away to live with her grandparents on a farm. Shes around 15/16.
And her grandparents own alot of glass dolls upstairs,but its just a small hobbie.
and at night those dolls come alive and kill people. The dolls are like dressed all gothic, and they come alive at night,
and I remember one part of the movie where its a thunder storm out at night, and the dolls are running around upstairs getting ready to kill.
What's that movie called?
It's really bugging me :(
Anyone no?

I know I've seen that movie before, and I believe it is just called Dolls.

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Does anybody know why KoRn titled their band "KoRn"??

I found this at a website, not sure if it is absolute true, im sure there are plenty of rumors.

KORN - There are many stories as to how the name originated, however the most believable is that Korn starts with Kern County which is where Jonathan worked as a Coroner. From that came "KoRn". It was then decided that it would be written like a child would write it, hence the K
instead of a C, and the backwards R.

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I been to the doctor many times, I been treated for multiple UTIs I am now clear of any infection but I still have this TERRIBLE vaginal odor, sorry if TMI but yesterday I took a shower and as soon as I dried myself a drop felt on my leg and it smelled very bad. I am scared. I once had a colposcopy done but they couldn't take a biopsy because I was pregnant but the doctor said I had HPV. I have gotten GYNs after that and nothing more than a UTI comes up. What could it be? I have an appt next week and I am scared.

you could have chronic bacterial vaginosis, it causes a grayish milky discharge, and a fishy odor.
what other symptoms do you have? any pain in general or during sex? any bleeding? more info if there is any might help. Did the doctor test you for pelvic inflammatory disease?
http://symptoms.wrongdiagnosis.com/cosymptoms/vaginal-odor-all.htm
That page shows 15 causes for vaginal odor. If it isn't chronic BV, yeast infections, or PID, this page has every cause of vaginal odor. You can look into other things with your doctor. Let me know if you and your doctor figure it out.

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Okay, so last friday my boyfriend and i were sitting in our friends van skipping resource and our dean pulls up. he noticed there was mucinex like everywhere so we had to go to the office and get searched and simple tests done to see if we were high. He was, and he had pills on him, so he got arrested and expelled for a year. I wasnt but i had a knife on me and i had to go to STOP which is like school at the detention center and my mom serched my room and found pipes for smoking marijuana, condoms and a bunch of other stuff. so im really groundedlike i cant shut my door cant go on walks i lost my privilage of smoking cigarettes, i dunno but me and my mom have been constantly fighting and ive noticed i like..pull my hair out. I dont even realize im doing it half the time. but my hair is noticable thinner now and i dont like it and i dont think its normal...what should i like do about it. Also, i bite my fingernails till they bleed, which is also not normal..

you may just need some counseling. depending on the drugs you were doing, I would suggest rehab. I know it may feel good at the time you are getting high, but it really ruins your life. Many people get hooked as teens and never recover. Believe me, you don't wanna be living off your friends and family to get high, because you can't find a job cause of a drug addiction.

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when i try to babysit my younger siblings or any other peoples kids they never listen to me! i know that i'm not supposed to yell or i will get in so much with the parents or mine which im not that happy about. i don't know what to do and i am babysitting more often now because my mom isn't home much anymore.

when you babysit, you need to talk to the parents to find out how they disipline, and what they agree is appropriate for you to do. You don't need to yell, time outs are the best solution for baby sitting. They won't listen to you if you don't follow through with it. If one child hits another, you say, Hitting is not nice, it hurts people. If you do it again you are going to have a time out. You pick a corner, chair, or someplace to designate as a "time out spot". Now this is the hard part, it will take some time. If they hit again, you say, Hitting is not nice, you are going to sit in the time out spot now. You put the child in the time out spot, if they are young, then only put them there for a few minutes, it they are older a little longer. Now most kids that won't listen to you are not going to stand there for you. You may have to repeatedly put them back there over and over until they stand there quiet for their time out time. If you stop and give up, then it's over for you, they know that they have the upper hand and they won't be in trouble. It's gonna be hard, I wish you the best of luck, and don't forget to reward them when they finally sit through their time out quietly. Always reward the kids when they are behaving good.

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I was having a heart to heart talk with my mom last night and she mentioned that maybe I should go to a psychiatrist. At first I thought she was joking, and then I realized that she was serious. I was (well still am) really hurt and shocked. I don't think I have a problem at all, and my mom really isn't one to go to psychiatrists which is why I'm so hurt because my mom thinks I'm so messed up that I need professional help.

I'm very upset, I don't think I have any problems, and I think that there are a couple people in this family that need help way more than I do. I just feel attacked and sort ostracized by my own mother right now.

I just need a pep talk or just any feedback would be nice. Thank you.

17/F (But I'll be 18 in less than two weeks, so I doubt my mom will be able to make an appointment before then because I am NOT going, and at 18 I can legally make my own choices.)

I'm sure she didn't mean to hurt your feelings, she probably thought you were reaching out for help or advice. If this really is bothering you, you should tell your mother exactly how you feel. She is the one person in this world that will understand.

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Hello,
I am 18 years old and about 4 months ago i found out i was pregnant, my questions are
1) how could i hide my growing belly?
2)what should i do about my swelling breast?
3) is sex okay during pregnancy and how how often and how hard?
thanks!

You are an adult now, so I see no point in hiding your belly. Many women get married and become mothers when they are 18. Your breast swelling really isn't so much that anyone will notice but you, and they may be more tender. Sex is perfectly fine all the way up until your water breaks. You can do it as much and as hard as you want, it will not effect anything.

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I lost my virginity over the weekend. I'm not sure if he broke my hymen or not, it did hurt some but it was very very short.

It's been two days. It hurt a lot "down there" and for the last two days, it burns when I pee and sometimes just randomly. Is this normal?

Did you make sure that he was clean of STDs? It sounds to me you may have an STD from your boyfriend, or it may possibly be a UTI. I would go to the doctor to get tested right away. If that means you will have to tell your parents, you are just going to have to get the guts to do it. Some STDs can be very serious.

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I'm 15, female, and am very skinny. The only place on my body that's "fat" is my face. My face has always been a bit bigger, but ive been looking at pictures of myself from throught the years and i noticed my cheeks just keep getting fatter! i'm on zoloft (for depression) concerta (for ADD) and ampicillin (for acne). Do any one of these medicines cause weight gain in the face? And what are some things I can do to get rid of my face fat?

Look at the other people in your family, everyone, not just your immediate family. Does anyone else have a face like yours? If yes, it's just because you inherited genes that give you a round face. If your face feels swollen or puffy, then I would say it could be a reaction to medication. I'm pretty sure that those medications don't cause side effects like that tho.

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14/f

Ok so this guy is a junior and I'm a freshman. I don't really like him. I don't think. I'm just so confused. He is one of the coolest guys I know and he is my friend. Like he is says some other girl is hot or something I really don't care because I don't have those feelings for him I guess? But I love being around him and I think about him all the time. For one thing, I would never go out with him because I love how it is right now and he is so easy to talk to. I think he is cute but I don't like him I guess. Its either I'm fighting it or something. But I'm just so confused. Maybe I'm just in love with our friendship? haha I know this might be a little confusing but I just need to know if like I love being around this guy and love talking to him and think about him alot. Do I like him? I just don't feel like I do. Thanks for any help at all.

There's nothing wrong with only being friends with a guy. Seriously, I had more friends that were guys then girls, and they were the best friends I had. No gossip, no girly crap, just straight forwardness and fun times. Friendships can turn into romantic relationships, but don't push it. If you like it the way it is, keep it that way. Some guys are just better as friends.

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When I was 10 years old I used to go to a private christian school, and the teacher was a real bitch. I have never really have been interested in playing with other children, so I used to go play by myself in the playground and go across the field and lie around over there. My principal/school teacher noticed, and she would always get on my case. She'd take me out of class and lecture me for literally over an hour, talking about how my heart must heart, and how lonely and sad and deprived I must feel, and didn't I care about things?

This school always gave us long homework, filled with bible verses I'd have to spend hours memorizing. I've always been lazy, and one day I got an idea on how to get out of my homework and told my mother that I wanted to die and felt depressed, and all sorts of things I had seen depressed people say online and what my teacher had told me I felt. My mother pulled me out of school immediately, and took me to see a counselor. I was rapt.

I was worried about realism, so I continued it on and on, and even acted strangely at my new school to make it seem very real. I looked online, at fictions and forums were depressed and socially dead people gathered and mimicked them. I pretended to try to choke myself with curtains at school, I cut at my arm with scissors and pinched myself and I wrote poetry about how I wanted to die, which I gave to my teacher to read. My new principal got involved and tried to help me out and find friends. I made it my goal to score medication from the counselors (I was now also seeing a youth specialist, book writing psychiatrist) and I ended up getting Fluoxetine for my troubles. I was diagnosed with childhood depression and aspergers and avoidant personality like traits.

Yet I continued it, into high school, acting awkwardly and inciting pity from most of my teachers. Most of my teachers would go out of their way for me, and talk to me during school trips. I almost forgot I was acting, even though I knew all my emotions weren't really there. I never felt a thing. At 14 I changed high schools, and at this one I started to cut out the act, but never truly acting as I am. I started to get bored of school, of having to get up every morning and stick to a routine. My parents were having martial problems (My Father is emotionally, and occasionally physically, abusive) so I tried to take advantage of that, but it didn't work after a while. I faked a suicide attempt, knowing it would get me out of school and also depress my mother, who I was angry at.

It worked and I started to home school, and I saw another psycharatrist, this one a major book writer and youth specialist who even had a school or something named after him, and he diagnosed me with borderline personality traits and found me deeply insecure and almost anhedonic (I was hinting heavily at how I felt, and dropped hints and told a truth; I honestly couldn't be bothered. I still think he got it wrong by a long shot, as my emotionless doesn't stem from depression).

I saw my old one, who diagnosed me with the same old same old. After a while at home I got an idea of tricking the teachers in the school into thinking I was anorexic, so I talked to my mum and got back into school. I tricked students into thinking I had a eating disorder, but in the end I got annoyed as I had been away for to long. I didn't know what they liked or how to act as it had been almost a year, and I couldn't be bothered with it all so I faked depression and got out back into home schooling.

During this I was not thinking in the mindset and plotting way I do now and have in the past; but though I cried I felt absolutely nothing at all.

My Father is emotionally abusive and has hit me before for stupid reasons, such as throwing a picture away he liked, or sitting in 'his' chair. For revenge while we were away on holiday I pretended to be drunk and high (my eyeballs were burnt, which were a plus). I knew drunk people revealed secrets, so I planned.

I was speaking to a young mother, and before I did mention anything she said that she thought I must be very sad by the way I spoke. So I lied, and I faked a past and told her all my friends had ditched me after I gained weight, and 'confessed' how insecure I was. She comforted me, and I then told her about my dad. I lied about my emotions, but not about his acts. She was shocked and thought he was crazy.

He is. He thinks he can speak to god and sees angels, demons and the dead. When I was a child he told me that the dead would crawl into the bed with him and walk through the house. When I was younger I would have nightmares on a daily basis. When I was younger he told me he saw demons in my eyes.

At youth group I got the attention of a young leader, who wishes to be a counselor and stills sees me today. She thinks herself a good judge of emotion and character, and thinks that I am insecure and shy. I told her I saw things, and she fell for it and told me I have a special gift.

My parents are divorcing at the moment (more like my mother is making plans and seeing womans refuge behind my fathers back), and I don't feel a thing. I thought I'd feel truimph as
I absolutely despise my father, and I know he'll blame it on me which will make it even more of a victory, but I don't. My mother cries all day and though I comfort her I don't feel sympathy or anything. I looked through her emails to see what was going on with her leaving my father, and she was talking with her friend how messed up I was because of it. I told her I lied a year ago, but I know she most likely doesn't believe me.

I don't feel emotions or guilt, and it's as if I am just a shell with a mind. I can't be bothered brushing my hair and going out to places, and I contemplate suicide because I am honestly bored out of my mind.

For the record, my emotionless is not the sad kind, but the literal just no emotions at all kind. There is nothing, and I am not even worried or bothered about my mind set. Merely curious as to how people will view it.

There is definitely something going on that the counselors are missing. Everything you have done most people would never do, or even think of doing. To feel no emotions at all is very serious. When you feel no emotions, you can't judge what is good or bad, right or wrong, etc. Are you sure something didn't happen when you were very little that you may have blocked from your memory? Many times it is a very traumatic experience/s that can cause this. I would suggest finding a very good psychotherapist, not just a counselor, and even try a hypnotherapist. I know with the way you feel it's most likely you won't pursue these things, but if you don't want to be an "empty shell", please try it.

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What kinds of things do boys find attractive in a girl? What are some turn ons? Nothing dirty please!

What I have heard from many guys, is they love girl's eyes. Every guy is different, but this is a very common answer.

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