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...is Ask Metafilter.
People post all kinds of questions on there, from 'How much alcohol can I have in my checked in bags if I am connecting through LAX?' to 'What's a good free font that I can use to replicate the mechanical font used on boarding passes and concert tickets? It generally looks like it's made up of dots.'
The Metafilter community is intelligent and informed (as Time magazine put it, "MeFi has the public-spirited flavor of a small town or good university.") I have spent countless hours on this site.
I never forgot one post. Before I had a baby, I wondered if it was common to have a baby and feel...nothing. I was very afraid that my maternal instincts would not kick in (as it turns out, they did, big-time, but of course there are many reasons why they do, or do not, kick in.)
Anyway, this post, and the caring, thoughtful answers it elicited, made me cry. It was two years ago and I'm going to ask in a post if the poor mother who wrote this eventually felt better.
If you are able to find out, I hope you'll share it with us. I'm a guy, but I'm a big softy when it comes to kids and I can sort of relate to her. I felt like it took me somewhere around 6 months before I could really say that I loved my first son. That feeling is so foreign to me now and it breaks my heart for her to feel that way (hopefully...to have felt that way) :-)
Posted by: Michael | October 16, 2009 at 02:39 PM