Story 1: NTA, *_DO IT AGAIN TO MAKE SURE THE LESSON STICKS_*

Story 1: I gotta be honest, when you piss off a Mama Bear and start screaming in her face…sometimes the consequences hit you in the face (literally)

This woman was screaming in her face and was getting more aggressive in her body language while OP’s wife was holding her baby. She said herself that she hit the Karen before the Karen could hit her, which meant she was concerned the Karen was going to get physical. She was defending her child, herself, and her disabled brother. NTA.

1st story: OP's wife was in the right. She was defending her disabled brother and child. For all she knew, the Karen could have grabbed her child. Not only that, she was getting closer and closer to the wife (who was holding the baby) and screaming in her face. The lady was lucky she left with just a handprint to the face.

1- NTA, Karen is lucky she only got a slap!

First story: "How could a mother let an abomination from gold hold onto an innocent baby" Shouldve retorted with "No worries, I would never let you hold the baby"

"Violence is wrong, people should never be violent, but punched in the face" 🤣Ain't wrong though.

Dyslexia is typically a physical malformation of the communication center of the brain. There's been many studies linking high IQ to it as well... I was punished for being "lazy" in grades 1-3 for not reading but having a high IQ. I simply couldn't read due to my impairment. In grade 3 I was diagnosed and treated for dyslexia. Within a year, I was in my school's honors program and considered one of the top students at my school.

Breakfast story: Theres no way someone orders 4 drinks and doesnt realize their check is going to be massive. All the extra addons everything. It sounds like she was just trying to get away with having someone else pay. I would never go out to eat with that person.

"Abomination of god" Those are the same people who will say god doesn't make mistakes.

As an autistic the first story about makes me cry that people would say such a thing about people like us Ashley is an excellent mom and big sister. That Karen got off pretty easy w just a slap haha

Dyslexia is not related to intelligence. My cousin was diagnosed with it as a child, and after receiving proper help and support to learn how to navigate the way her brain processes reading she became a straight a student. Now she’s fully grown and out of college with a great job in marketing, as far as I know, her disability is an obvious to anyone who doesn’t know her, or even recognizable to anyone who doesn’t know her. She has no intellectual disabilities or cognitive delays, and it’s to the point where I as close family didn’t even know she technically had a learning disability Until someone else offhandedly mentioned it. So with proper training dyslexia is very manageable, and it shouldn’t be seen as an intellectual challenge.

Story 1: That Karen's screaming and abusive behaviour was violent. The mom was right to strike before that nutjob got to her child or the disabled brother.

Story 1: I’m a 240 lbs 6’4 guy who’s build like a gorilla, if anyone, ANYONE called my brother an abomination. Especially my disabled brother. They’re getting the quickest slap to the face. Idc who you are

I lost my mind at 55 burgers, 55 hashbrowns 😂😂

I've gotta disagree that the mama bear was the one to initiate violence. She might have translated it into the physical, but what Karen was saying were very violent words designed to cause damage, and she wouldn't shut up. I don't generally condone getting physical, and I'm not even saying it was for sure the most appropriate call here, but violence has already been employed. All the mama bear did was match her energy in defense of those she cared about. Sometimes that the only way some folks learn how to be civil.

1st Story: NTA. Kudos to OP'S wife for actually standing up for her brother and not letting the Karen get away with her offensive yelling. Like, she got very close, of course instincts kicks in and she had to do what's right! Honestly it was quite funny to see Karen stop yelling just to realize she's been slapped.

1st story: how is screaming at someone not a violent act? It's common assault in the UK. Total NTA. Also the screaming could be hysterical and thus a sharp physical interaction is a remedy.

*First OP:* So, it _wasn't_ OP who slapped Karen; it was his wife. In that case, OP's wife is NTA. She was being a mama bear and protecting her baby and brother from an ableist Karen. *Second OP:* So, Alba can talk smack about OP's seven-year-old son, but OP talking about Alba's stbx husband was going to far? Interesting. OP is NTA. People need to learn to stop messing with a mama bear's cub(s). *Third OP:* If OP's FIL is upset at OP for not paying his (OP's) SIL's portion of the check, then why doesn't _he_ pay for it!? OP is NTA. Now I'm hungry. 😕 *Fourth OP:* As OP stated, they were being fair to their brother. It's not their fault their brother decided to just take the money. OP is NTA. Also, OP telling their mom they'd no longer contribute to her retirement when she threatened to cut OP out of her will was satisfying to read.

Story 3: sounds like she shouldn’t have spent what she couldn’t afford then. You have no prove that either of them was going to pay you back if you covered this ridiculous bill, and tell FIL you’re not sorry that you expected a grown ass woman to pay her bill and didn’t call her daddy to bail her out.

I just graduated with my PhD. I have dyslexia, and I'm also ADHD/autistic. Nothing to do with intelligence. It did take me years longer than many of my peers. But I also got more clinical supervision, and passed my dissertation defense with minor edits (as opposed to major edits) which is uncommon. I was also always told "you're so smart", while also being told I was lazy, needed to "apply myself", and simultaneously made to feel dumb in social situations. I wasn't diagnosed with learning disabilities until more than half way through college. People like that "friend" make me so mad. I love helping others like me who were missed as kids recieve the help they need. Edit: many typos.

Story 2:She's just jealous and she wants you to also fail at life with her,OP Stupid but Good person is better than Smart but Bad person all day NTA

Screaming at a disabled person and telling them they're going to hurt their infant nephew IS violence.

Story 4:He lost the right to say anything the moment he sold you his share,NTA at all

You know, the perfect answer to the thumbnail would be the crazy Goofy meme "I'll freaking do it again!!"

THEY GOT 4 DRINKS EACH?!?! FOR ONE MEAL???!!!

Rslash please stop skipping 'dry' sections. There's good info in there.

Story 2: OP loves Vince because he saved her life. She is even helping him on his career path. Honestly, you couldn't give OP a better man. So it's pretty icky when Alba decides that OP needs a better man, and even kinda insulted the dyslexic son.

1st story - I really REALLY wanted a recreation of that scene in Airplane where there's a line of people slapping the hysterical Karen

Story 1:I would've gave that woman a permanent scar,NTA

1) Mom is good Mom needs new friends

In the first story, the wife needs to drop those mommy and me friends immediately. They are clearly ableist fake friends that wouldn't really be there for your family anyway. Find new friends and move on.

That slap was getting it easy, some people are willing to throw hands to protect their own.

The mom in the final story should get a higher score for treating OP’s brother as the golden child. There’s very blatant favoritism going on there and it seems very deep-rooted

Story 1: okay so I get the thing about only attacking when someone attacks first and that might be where people are coming from. But here’s the thing, Karen was aggressively getting closer and screaming about how she trying to protect the baby. Even though there was no danger, and the brother was clearly in no position to defend himself. You could also argue that she was about to physical attack him with her very aggressive approach towards them so your wife acted in self-defense just before she did . Not to mention the emotional stretch that was being placed on your wife and BIL. Who was being insulted and threatened by an idiot who didn’t know anything about him. And being a good protective sister she wasn’t about to let her keep disrespecting him and potentially attacking him. Which is why your wife smacked him. Anyone on the outside who wasn’t there my argue your wife was wrong. I bet if they were in her shoes or was even there to see exactly what was happening they would understand. If someone attacked my brother like that, I’d do the same thing. To me this boiled down to f*ck around and find out. She made inappropriate disrespectful remarks to that man for no reason other than the fact she’s a stupid b*tch.

Karen was lucky that she only got a slap. Poor Mike 😢😢

Okay, let's get something straight about that first story. OPs Wife did not start the violence, the Karen did! She got up, started screaming, getting in a Mothers face, calling a fellow human being an abomination against God, and refused to listen and deescalate the situation. Being held by an differently abled person wasn't making the baby cry, the Karen was! Delivering that slap was likely the only way to end the violence that was already occurring.

Please stop skipping over stuff because it's "dry" according to you. It's happening more and more, and sometimes you skip over important stuff or things that just would have been interesting to hear. I'm not here for a condensed version of Reddit stories. --And if you really don't want to read over it, at least display it on the screen so we can pause and read whatever is being skipped. EDIT: Holy crap, I was not trying to start a fight with this. I was just sharing something that's been annoying me more and more, and I tried to do it in a nice way. I'm not replying past this post, as I have better things to do with my life, but you're allowed to like something but still find flaws in it. I stand by my constructive criticism. I get some of you like the condensed versions of stories, but I wish it was easier to view/find the full stories for those of us that want it. That's why I like the idea of him posting it on the screen so those of us who want to read it can pause the video and do so, while those of you who want the condensed version can just continue listening. If he isn't going to do that, links to the original posts would be great, but I also know plenty of posts get deleted over time, and rSlash records way in advance. Again, I do enjoy listening to rSlash overall. This isn't an attack against him. For those saying I should leave, if I could only consume things I find zero flaws in, life would be really boring. For everybody with the nice comments or the ones disagreeing with me in a non-rude way, thanks! For the rude ones, don't be toxic fans and maybe go touch some grass. But I'm leaving this drama behind me, so have a nice life, everyone!

Rslash: “Violence is wrong! But punched in the face.” 😂😂😂

Ehhh, depends on how hard the slap was.. If it wasn't hard enough, you're the AH 😂

Story 1: nta honestly screaming at the kid was more dangerous for the baby plus she's lucky that she only got a slap if I was there I would have pinned the Karen to the ground if she didn't back off. Honestly I'd let the flying monkeys sue you just to watch there jaws drop when the case is dismissed.

Story 1: As a "visably autistic" Uncle if someone screamed at me that I was gonna hurt my niblings because I'm autistic I would have slapped her myself. I'd be terrified that she just wanted an excuse to kidnap the kid. So yea, no. Violence was NOT in any way too far. I feel so bad for the brother in this story. He was already so scared to hurt the baby and now he thinks he did.

Story 2 those in Glass Houses should not throw stones

Story 1 nta I heard this one before. Good on the wife for going mama bear.

When a Karen gets slapped, a puppy gets a home.

The thing about the last story that gets me is that on other channels that have read this story, people in the comments will say OP is entitled and an AH purely because they own housing now. They truly believe that if you build the housing for others to live in then it should be free.

My nephews are dyslexic. One helped develop a method of mathematics that worked with dyslexia. That nephew earned a pilot license. Dyslexic people are far from dumb, they just need aid in academics.

As a Christian, we do not claim the Karen in story 1!

I have dyslexia, I use Grammarly to write and I’m terrible at maths, my understanding is bad and I get words mixed up but we also all are very talented

For story one speaking as someone who has special needs myself shouting to the degree that karen was is almost violence in it's own right. There is a reason Mike immedaitely went to cover his ears once he no longer had the baby in his hands and that is because sensory overload hurts like a mother fer. Sure it's not always a physical sort of pain and so you could argue it's not as bad. But in a lot of cases? It is a physical sort of pain. Those with sensory issues don't just take in sensory input differently though that is also true, we often are much more senstive to it than others. We take it more of it. It's like a dog whining and running from a room when someone falls and makes a loud sound. It's loud for us but it is even worse for the dog. Sensory overwhelm can and will manifest as physical pain as well as extreme discomfort like a constant itch inside your skull that also hurts and you can't do anything about it because this Karen won't stop shouting. Add on the emotional distress of after so long of working up the courage to believe you won't harm your nephew if you hold him only to have someone you don't even know shouting in your face that your mere physical contact with the baby is a threat to his health and that you are an abomination simply for how you were born and frankly I'm super proud of Mike for not doing more than just covering his ears while that lady shouted. He even waited until the baby was no longer in his hands to have the instinctual reaction his body was demanding of him! That is a whole f ton of self control from him to have. That Karen deserved to feel the kind of pain Mike was but since she can't because she isn't disabled then a slap is honestly a mercy. She should be grateful she doesn't have to deal with what Mike does on a daily basis because that would be true justice for what she did. I hope that Mike is able to see that he's done nothing wrong and that he did a wonderful job holding Ned and following all the rules he'd been told to follow. He seems like a wondeful person as does his sister for protecting him.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes - slaps in the face, insults on your failing marriage, demolished homes, there’s quite a range here to choose from 😂

Story 3:What a leech,NTA

As someone with dyslexia I tell you honestly it doesn’t actually effect person intelligence it just makes how we absorb information difficult, for example when I was younger I would have trouble with the spelling of “there” and “their”, I could understand the difference in meaning of each word but was fully confident in the correct spelling because of how simple the words sounded

On the 'breakfast' story: FIL says he'd have paid for SIL's meal if asked? Well, good! She can ask him to pay for those season tickets she wanted instead! Same deal. OP wouldn't be out money, FIL still paid for her expenses, SIL gets all she wanted. Let HIM enable the brat.

Dear Rslash. When I get hotel breakfast I also usually have: • orange juice • coffee • tea • water • coke, if available you don't take one sip each and mix it in your mouth, you drink one after the other but place one big order/get everything at once. some people just be camels like that and needa rehydrate after sleeping

I’m dyslexic and I’m a mechanic

Screaming vile shit and pointing closely at people IS violent.

Watch at 2.00 x speed. He sounds like a chipmunk

Story 1: Nope. Karen started it. Never apologize for finishing it. NTA. She acted accordingly. Even the OP would have been justified.

Rslash was feeling extra sassy today and I’m here for it!

Protect your kid OP! Finally a good reddit parent ??!

Breakfast story: if you can’t afford the bill for the breakfast you ordered, then don’t get it so much food. What is a father in law talking about? They apparently could afford a season, pass to wherever, but couldn’t magically afford the breakfast that they gobbled down? The most I have had with the breakfast was like less than $20.

1st Story: When a child is involved, you don't WAIT for things to get violent! That's one of the times you wanna hit first and ask questions later, especially if the child is so young that the young gentleman had to sit down to hold them.

the first story - she had an aggressive, screaming person baring down on her and her baby and disabled brother, so i see it as self defense and i think a lot of people would see it that way.

In the story where Karen got smacked.. OP was totally in the clear.. Karen wasn't protective of the kid, she lost that fight when she called the autistic child an abomination

The last story...my brother is the EXACT same way, he feels entitled to everything of mine (my money, my possessions...etc.) He's actually stolen from me multiple times with his reasoning being "because I wanted it" / "because I should have it". And it all stems from poor parenting. He has been stealing from me since I was 8 and he was 7 years old, but my parents never punished him for it, just replaced the money he stole and so he's learned that anything that belongs to a family member is "his" to take.

I got the reference for 55 cheeseburgerz 55 hash browns 😂

I feel the Karen of the first story was putting the baby in danger because it's unknowingly how Mike would have reacted if Ashley hadn't interfere. Karen could've try to take the baby away and drop him or make Mike drop the baby, or what if Mike had been the one to hit her (still deserved, IMO), so getting slapped by Ashley was the "least worst" outcome for this Karen. Hopefully people that witnessed the situation bring some light in that Facebook post,.

Screaming in someone's face about abominations is more violent than a slap imo. I wish you had read the dry part as I remember it detailing the trauma that poor Mike was going through because of this woman. So much more damaging than a little slap.

Story 2: Dyslexia and intelligence are not linked. My friend's daughter has dyslexia and, while she does get accommodations to help with it, is a straight A student. A child who learns to put in effort and hard work will often do much better than the kid with high intelligence alone. This is a lesson I am trying to instill in my very smart daughter who wants to give up the moment it isn't fun or takes effort.

My husband is dyslexic, and is one of the smartest people I’ve ever known. He’s always been a voracious reader. Majored in English lit in college. His mother was likewise dyslexic and very smart.

An open-palm slap (pain but no real injury) and a punch (actual violence, pain and possible injury) are way WAY different things. Karen is lucky she ONLY got a slap.

Dude. Rslash. This trend of slipping updates becsuse "long and dry" were here for the stories! You dont skip a hundred pages of a book becsue it may be "dry" you hwve almost 2 million subs yet youre reading posts like youre reading them to a single person. Ive been subbed for over 4 years and ive noticed a big change in your content and not in a good way. You dont laugh as much dont cover positive stories and skip updates even on BEST OF UPDATES! your social blade says a lot about this stuff. You gotta see these thing bro

You were asking about dyslexia, as a sufferer, it makes me bad at spelling and reading sometimes math but bit allways. But the issue isn’t with reading and math comprehension is the physical ability to presses letters and numbers on a page/screen. If you read something to me I understand it vary well but not when I have to sound out every letter.

2nd story: The lady is insulting both OP's son & OP's husband, but OP can't criticize this lady? Why?

the breakfast meal story: how do you have those 4 drinks THEN go to the waterpark? that is a recipe for a barfy pool

Lmao Rslash turning into a sports announcer when OP was listing prices

Hysterical screaming that Isa escalating combined with getting closer *is* violence. The wife was afraid that crazy Karen would attack. NTA.

To say the Karen wasn't violent first is minimizing what Karen was doing. She may not have laid a hand on OP's wife but she was being very aggressive and threatening and she was escalating. That slap was in self-defense and defense of others (baby and brother). Sure, it may not have been the best choice given she was holding Ned but in that second she was probably thinking that no one else was helping her by stopping Karen so she had to do something to stop Karen...and she was also justifiably angry, lol. Do I wish there was a better choice to be had? Yes. Did Karen deserve it? Hell yeah. Karen was being aggressive and threatening and there is no excuse for it, religious beliefs or otherwise.

#1 - Karen was getting close and in the USA you can shot for that as it can be called self defence #2 - play stupid games win stupid prizes #3 r/choosingbeggars #4 r/entitledchoosingbeggars

On that last story...but do it for Dan! 😂😂😅

As a young person with dyslexia the only thing that held me back academically was the teachers and adults that surrounded me. Them believing I was going to fail made me well do as they expected. The second I taught myself how to succeed in that their views has nothing to do with my intelligence I started to do better than the so-called honor students. I have now graduated school a year early as an honor student. And I’m going into engineering school. Yes I still struggle with reading and comprehending things as fast as other people but as far as I know, I’m doing better than most of my peers. So never let someone determine you’re intelligent. And make sure the people teaching your kids don’t have biases against your own child.

Time to watch this vid before the Nintendo Direct

I think her slapping the lady was warranted if for no reason but that it stopped the onslaught of noise. Very few people would hit a woman holding a baby and if that was her split second decision to stop the harassment, and clearly it was out of fear and protective instincts, then so be it. A slap won't cause further injury, and it will suck people into silence of only long enough to get them out of your face so you can walk away without them following closely behind you.

Cool thing about people with dyslexia is that they can think in 3D. It’s why they get the orientation of some letters mixed up. Makes their spatial awareness really good.

Just wanting to thank you for seperating the stories with markers. Just got distracted and wanted to hear the story from the beginning again 😊

1st story: NTA, honestly, I would’ve done the same as Ashley. Like who are you to call someone with a disability an “abomination of god” ??? Wtf ?? On top of that, if Karen was getting closer, she could’ve grabbed the baby and considering the situation they’re in shit might escalate like dropping the baby or grabbing the baby too hard and end up getting hurt

Well first off, the situation with the Karen in the first story wasn't nonviolent. She hadn't laid hands on anyone but she was scaring people, and she was shouting to the point that it hurt Mike's ears. That's violence. Second, by the time it escalated to the point that the wife hit the woman, they had already tried getting her to calm down and fuck off. Lastly, depending on where they are describing someone as an abomination from God absolutely rises to qualify as a legal term known as fighting words, which has been used for self-defense justifications

First story: Oh, hell no! That Karen would have gotten more if it were me, and I'd be telling anyone who sides with Karen a few things that would make them go "oh crap".

Both my brother and I have mental disabilities. If anyone called either of us an “abomination” and implied that we shouldn’t have children, I’d be absolutely furious. I don’t believe in violence but I’d definitely be sent to jail in this case.

NTA on the first story. The Karen's behavior was threatening enough and was escalating rather than winding down. Getting slapped for her behavior was mild but effective.

Please stop skipping!!! We WANT to hear the details! Anyone who doesnt can just fast forward

Story 1: Karen was committing assault. Mama bear was acting in self-defense.

Hearing rSlash say "Them fighting words" is the funniest thing I've heard from him.

I was about to go back to sleep for an hour.

Only true fan to this channel are gonna not complain about his takes, and are going to let him have opinions. Just wait, someone will attempt to prove me wrong.

GIVE him a unit? What is wrong with people? His renters pay rent...he pays his mortgage, property taxes, insurance, upkeep...how the hell is it 'free money'?! People need financial education BADLY

Honestly, OP's wife felt threatened and feared for the saftey of her, the baby, and her brother so a slap is something the Karen should have expected. NTA.

Once again a bad take (way too wishy washy) on story 1. The Karen was traumatizing the brother and baby. She wouldn't stop. Karen called a literal human being an "abomination". It wasn't going to de-escalate until it got physical. Wife did the best she could in the moment to get it all to stop.

watching this while dying my hair at 6am