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chicago-geniza · 2 years ago

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Writing about it more in my diary but all three of my parents were the first or second generation to get out of like "half your siblings die of malnutrition and nobody can afford shoes" poverty and the Family Lore was people got out by being unusually clever & cunning & having exceptionally charming, smooth, code-switching social skills, & a lot of the shit that got projected onto me & ~done to me~ was anxiety that my very evident slowness/special-ed-level intellectual disability/poor social skills would result in a kind of backslide toward subsistence poverty because I wouldn't get into college or be able to hack it in the white-collar world. I couldn't for a long time and haven't but my life is fine. I wish they'd read Kropotkin and try to build relationships with other people. Idk

#Your I/DD brother was very gentle and worked with horses until he died #Your sister became a hairdresser #What's wrong with that? They found their paths #The ones that didn't were the ones that people tried to force into middle-class professional tracks and eventually got institutionalized #Most of my dad's bio family are bartenders and none of them went to college #Importantly for my medical records a lot of them had strokes or mini-strokes in their teens & 20s like me &#Have comparable neuro + endocrine + I/DD issues but they're just vibing #One of them runs a brewery out of her basement and has a tattoo about it #She and her fiance for their engagement trip visited a bunch of breweries that made the extremely specific type of beer she makes #She is from rural Canada he is from rural India they bonded over beer and curling #I love autistic people #My dad was obsessed with Shakespeare Train Law college football and also. Brewing beer

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