Miscellaneous: Today, my dad demonstrated just how incredibly illiterate he...

By K.. - 07/05/2011 17:38 - United States

Today, my dad demonstrated just how incredibly illiterate he is. He sent me a chain email about the awful lives of people with "Asparagus syndrome". FML

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Today, I heard from my dad for the first time in over six months. It was through Facebook, in a message blaming my brothers and me for his horrible life, and in which he spelled my name wrong. FML

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By hellbound - 12/07/2013 16:35 - United States - San Antonio

Today, I received a text from my dad, which was borderline-incomprehensible due to an insane amount of text language. I replied, jokingly asked if he had a stroke while writing it. A few seconds after hitting send, I remembered the stroke he suffered last month. FML

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By not amused - 19/05/2016 09:01 - Ireland - Cork

Today, my dad woke me up in a panic at five to ten in the morning, because he couldn't figure out how to type the "@" in an e-mail address. FML

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Today, my 61 year-old father snatched a letter from my hands and threw four different fits because he misread it four different times, then yelled at me for "not reading it properly." I had to explain it to him. FML

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By lordoftheweird - 03/11/2023 09:00 - Canada

Today, my dad bought a Bible. He's completely illiterate and is basing his religious beliefs off people on TV saying "It's in the Bible." I miss bacon and am tired of explaining to people that he's an idiot. FML

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By oh my dad - 13/02/2013 16:45 - United States - Florence

Today, I had to convince my dad that text lingo causes brain damage just to try to get him to stop. He actually believed me, and is telling everyone they have, or will receive brain damage soon. FML

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By oh gee, you don't say - 15/12/2012 18:43 - United Kingdom - Southampton

Today, my dad forced the whole family to sit through a two-hour lecture, with supporting research, on how the "Mayan prophecy" is actually a load of shit fabricated by conmen. Nice to know he thinks we're all borderline brain-dead, gullible fuckwits who believed it to begin with. Thanks, dad. FML

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By Anonymous - 04/04/2024 09:00 - United States

Today, my dad accused me of being illiterate when I used a word he'd never heard of, saying it sounded like lazy slang, and that it wasn't a real word. He then yelled at me for being a "smartass who's always right" when I read aloud the definition from his 1978 copy of Webster's dictionary. Guess he's not enthused. FML

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Saturday 7 May 2011 23:07

It's a scourge on humanity! It makes your pee smell all funny! It must be banned!

iAmScrubs 19

Saturday 7 May 2011 23:28

ATTENTION, once you have started reading this, you can't stop. If you do not send this message to 29 people by midnight tonight, an asparagus will appear outside your window an give you asparagus syndrome.

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CitrusGirl 0

Saturday 7 May 2011 23:32

BKs, look it up and double check your information before you make claims about what autism is!

FinnaHolla 0

Saturday 7 May 2011 23:37

Asparagus Syndrome is a serious disease. Please help find a cure.

Rangeriffic 0

Saturday 7 May 2011 23:37

that's not fml, fml for him for having a child that would put down their father for so trivial a thing such as a misspelled email. you are a horrible person OP

YacL 15

Saturday 7 May 2011 23:38

Asparagus is sooo good...

rtxj89 0

Saturday 7 May 2011 23:42

I'm honestly amazed at the ignorance of SOME of these comments. people saying Aspergers is where they're super smart at something, but don't know how to socially interact. Or people that say that they only focus on one thing and are completely fixated on that. Yes, it can involve some of that, the former being relatively rare, however it is a collection of symptoms not just one of those.

technicallyhuman 0

Saturday 7 May 2011 23:50

i'm speaking as someone with it, and from my personal experience its just not being able to tell others emotions, you can be hyper senstive to certain stimuli, you do have obsessive tendencies, you're awkward in social situations. now on to my personal experience, out of three people I know with it. we all have above average I.Q. just not super freaky savant style I.Q. that may just be a select few, but to say it's not a part is just as bad as nlr saying its just obsessive nature...