It did! I’ve watched a few friends go through this process and it’s always so lovely to watch people become more themselves. It’s always 🤯 to see the changes.
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None of this is new. It’s just the first time too many of us have felt its impact. For marginalized people (people of color, the lgbtqa community, the disabled, and the poor) this is their lived experience and has been for as long as any of them can remember.
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It’s on us to understand our roles intentional or not in what’s happening now. It’s mind boggling how few of us know our own history, and the history of this country. The shock and dismay I see other white liberals engaging in. Like the cruelty and hate they are seeing is something new. It’s not. 🧵

Now I fight by offering my home as a safe place. By making local conservatives froth with rage. By pushing fellow white liberals to leave their comfort and use their privilege to help others. Turns out middle class white women don’t like knowing their inaction helped pave the road to Trump.
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sexists, and bigots.
Now I’m borderline disabled. I no longer attend the protests or show up where they congregate to start and finish fights. I’m too sick.
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I have a helper starting at 4 pm which is a relief.

Sully got out a few years ago and discovered that there is open cat food across the road. Now he makes a break for it every chance he gets.

The show is going just fine, my body just sucks and my normal helpers aren’t available.

Sully is a damn idiot however.

No worries he’s back. He let me stumble around in the dark shaking treats and yelling his name for a good 20 minutes before appearing on the front porch.

I’m always worried about my son’s meds.

I’m in good company the vast majority of chronically ill people I know are in the same boat.

I’m definitely hoping to get the following I have on Insta and FB here so I can drop those platforms.

It depends on the severity and type of lupus.
I’ve been sick for 18 years and it’s so frustrating.