I'm gonna explain something here, I had meds, was stable and working. But even though I applied for other positions in the district I couldn't get out of part time work. Didn't even have calpers. soon as possible I found a position as a library assistant and got calpers ditched the dead end job 11/?

The tricky bit being stuck in a parttime job that doesn't give me insurance, doesn't provide me with enough money to move out. Besides where would I go during the quarantine? BTW I worked as a paraprofessional at an elementary school. Work was locked in and secure but again no upward mobility. 10/?

And provided an better Healthcare plan than medi-cal. But time was running out. The pandemic happened, shutdown, Trump was ousted in 2020 then vaccines. Mind you I'm still disabled living with an evangelical religious family that's p much never going to understand me. The tricky bit is next 9/?

Kinda just thought that I just needed to keep on trucking and get a better job. A job that got me off medi-cal and food stamps and allowed me to move out of my parents house. Oh yeah forgot to mention that I've never moved out. Couldn't really too awkward, couldn't find a job that was full time 8/?

1st trump term was horrible for what he set in place obvsly more on that go here
youtu.be/CVgNJf6CsBA?... AOC on billionaire tax cuts. Here's the problem tho I could see and sense overt racism was getting normalized & more bigoted but didn't really know how to combat it. 7/?

Then as if by some miracle I qualified for Healthcare under medi-Cal /Obamacare. And i figured out the food stamps thing. Got stable mentally, got a part time job. It was good decent even. Obvsly trump won in 2016 but I didn't really know how to fight that. Vote blue no matter who ofc right? 6/?

In the interim 2012-2015 I literally couldn't hold down a job, didn't qualify for disability (didn't findout until l8r i was only rejected because i had a roth IRA worth more than 2k). Wrote ALOT. spent time on tumblr wrote fanfic, meta. Babysat some. Grandma gave me 🍬 money. An allowance lol 5/?

That was terrifying having lost that connection to college friends/queer culture overnight. My bestie went on w/o me to finish college get her masters and eventually get straight married. I kinda did nothing but barely exist for 3 years. Bestie called me a hikkikomori. Then Obamacare kicked in 4/?

Lots of Hope back then. In college I learned about how the Christian right had been gaining power during the past 20+ years. But it didn't seem *relevant*. I honestly thought well I'll come out of the closet when I become financially independent. & then I dropped out of college in 2012. 3/?

bio: I'm queer, latine woc, bipolar, and fat. I'm used to not belonging. Very briefly I had a QPR in college with my bestie. She called me her wife, I was happy 😊. Home life sucked my family is evangelical, queerphobic, rigid. But college was the Obama years specifically the first term 2/?

I think about this tweet constantly