Insomniacs can now blame their parents and not meh

Kidsandliz shared a link said Wed, Jun 14th 2017 at 2:13pm ET

Considering how many people post in the middle of the night, one might think these forums are addictive. Wrong.

The good news is that meh is still meh and there needs to be no black box warning that the forums are addictive and thus dangerous to your health (to your wallet maybe, but not to your health). Instead you can likely blame your parents (so it is the goat’s fault you didn’t choose different parents!). There are 7 genes now linked with insomnia.

http://newatlas.com/insomnia-genes-found/50034/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=b4943d49df-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-b4943d49df-90439761

Of course correlation is not causation, but ignoring that now you can blame your parents when someone yells at you for waking them up at 3am when you are rattling around the house unable to sleep. And the goat can escape blame when at 3am you post blaming the goat.

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Thumperchick said Wed, Jun 14th 2017 at 2:14pm ET:

At least we can confirm that every woman in my family has insomnia for a reason.
/giphy at least I have that going for me

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Smitty2525 said Wed, Jun 14th 2017 at 4:24pm ET:

YES!

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2many2no said Thu, Jun 15th 2017 at 12:32am ET:

That article refers to insomnia as a “debilitating condition.” Only if you fail to structure your lifestyle around your ability.

I don’t have trouble sleeping, but I do have the ability to stay up all night. I don’t mind staying up until sunrise, I just don’t want to get up to see the sun rise.

Of course, now I can blame somebody else. Ain’t it great?

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WTFsunshine said Thu, Jun 15th 2017 at 1:28am ET:

I was a third shift worker for a long time but even when I switched to second shift (1400-2200 with a crap ton of overtime) I still had a hard time getting to sleep. Now I’m up through the night and sleep through the day and no form of conditioning can change that. I have gone to a sleep study but failed because I couldn’t fall asleep during the study and I even went to a course to try to change my lifestyle (only lying in bed to sleep and getting up and moving to a quiet place then trying to go back to sleep, etc.) and I failed that as well. So, thanks to your article at least I can try to stop feeling like a failure. But I’ll probably fail that too.

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thismyusername said Thu, Jun 15th 2017 at 1:55am ET:

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Fuzzalini said Thu, Jun 15th 2017 at 7:06am ET:

I can remember waking up at night as a child to find my dad on the sofa reading. He had the same problem I do, I wake up and then I’m up for a couple of hours. I’m glad I found meh, it gives me something to waste a short period of time on.

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