I'll give these lines from the essay to you, friends. It speaks to me of the poetry inherent in temporarily forgetting:
"You wrote a line about this once, published it in a book of poems. But when you look you cannot find it. Does this mean you are meant to learn it all again?"

Knowing disorder is a condition rather than something to be disciplined out of me has done wonders for my stress level and self-esteem, empowering me to act in full acceptance of disordered myself.

And I love that word, disorder. We're seeing in real time the horrific effects of Order being imposed on our country.

Having an ADHD diagnosis has been liberating. Finally, the things that so annoy my people—I can’t stay in the same room for more than 10 minutes, I have a hard time recalling conversations I was involved in only days or even hours earlier—are not personal deficiencies but part of my *disorder*!

(Actually they go in the “EAT NOW” pile)

They’re chocolate covered so absolutely!

My daughter’s first sort when she got home last night was 1) the chocolate pile and 2) the non-chocolate pile

Like Kirk, Jordan was killed publicly, but unlike Kirk, Jordan’s death was slow, as Penny choked him out while people on the train screamed for him to stop. And now Penny is working in Silicon Valley. All because of the violent and well-funded American right. Be angry about that, morherfuckers.

Neely, a homeless Black man, was killed on video in the subway while having a mental health emergency, and his killer Daniel Penny, a white ex-Maríne, was eventually acquitted despite video evidence and even made some sort of fucking hero because of the immense funding of the American right wing.

I fully admit that I’ve lost faith in every single institution in this country. But I haven’t lost faith in my friends and allies. We may be isolated from our institutions, but we don’t have to be isolated from each other. In fact, our only chance of salvation is in embracing each and every Other.

If we are to fight this regime, we must fight their (and our) othering at every turn - point it out relentlessly when you see and hear it, document it when our police and military enforce it, gently tell our friends and allies when they unconsciously give voice to it.

Maybe the most insidious form of othering is at the core of Trumpism: criminalization of Others. And while there are a plethora of possible Others in this world, the primary targets in the current iteration of the U.S. are undocumented immigrants, the non-wealthy, people of color, and trans people.