Remember that time I asked Ask Metafilter how to form meaningful relationships with children even though I don't have any of my own and everyone called me a gross weirdo
Because buddy, I sure do
@pts jesus. Yeah uh I too have been blood in the water when AskMefi suddenly becomes a weird shark feeding frenzy
@markpopham usually it's fine! And once in a great while it's like YIKES
@pts yeah honestly it feels like one person with respond to a question uncharitably and then it SNOWBALLS
@markpopham yeah it's like, that one person gives everybody else who's been kind of squinting at you permission to unload on you
@pts I apparently missed your Ask, but FWIW I think Diego would be pretty into that, particularly if you picked out a book for him to read / correspond about.
@signalnine Hey! That would actually be very cool. What's he interested in, these days?
@pts We've been reading some Terry Pratchett and Louis Sachar together. On his own, he's been enjoying the Mouse and the Motorcycle, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and the Origami Yoda series. He also has been reading a lot of science nonfiction and has been drafting an outline of an extremely complicated time travel murder mystery he wants to write this summer.
Had to actually beg people to stop "answering" the question, I felt like such a fucking chump