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The woman at the small boutique says she can’t afford to lose money “in this economy.” The nurse at the doctor’s office for my mom’s back complains that they’re in need of workers and that “everyone’s complaining about money, but no one wants to work!” The local McDonald’s line barely moves because there are barely any workers. I see a headline that says there’s an abnormally high amount of unhoused people in California, as if there’s a “normal” amount of unhoused people there can be. My sister wants a new house but can’t buy one because it’s all so expensive. A Wendy’s worker online complains about how everything is going up in price except their wages. All this is happening around me and I’m powerless to stop it. I don’t want to act like I have the secret that others are unable to see, but I can’t help but think everyone has been brainwashed until thinking we have to live like this. There just has to be a recession every ten years, there just has to be constantly changing gas prices, there just has to be bad seasons for buying a house. We have to deal with this as the price of freedom, we have no other choice. But I think we do have another choice, and I think even if there’s not answers to every question about how this ‘other choice’ would work, we have to try. We can’t live like this anymore. We just can’t. People are being killed by this.

one of my least favorite neurotypical customs is how long it takes to leave somewhere. My mom will be like “alright it’s time to leave” but we stay like 10 more minutes because people can’t stop talking. We get two feet before stopping again. We stand in the doorway for 5 minutes. It’s annoying and stressful and puts my brain in constant waiting mood.

Just a reminder that it’s okay to be offended. Being ‘offended’ does not make your argument invalid. You are allowed to be upset at their bigotry, hate, and lies. It’s okay to have and express these emotions, and you are not being irrational, crazy, oversensitive, or stupid.

i can’t smell burning when my oven is left on, but I CAN smell the turkey at Thanksgiving which smelled so awful I had to go downstairs until the smell was gone (even tho I was happy for the excuse to not socialize as much)