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chicago-geniza · 2 years ago

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Shoutout to my mother for taping HOW TO UNLOAD THE DISHWASHER instructions to the front of the dishwasher, it has taken many years but at long last she has gotten the general gist of my brain problems (she was married to my dad and shared a room with my aunt growing up, after all) and is being genuinely helpful in material and meaningful ways. Thenk u momther 4 my ADL assistance

#My dad had. Pretty all of my brain problems compounded by the worldview of a white guy born in 1951 in southern Illinois #So just kept making successive wives and then his daughters be his caretakers and was a huge entitled asshole about it and also #A violent drunk until he stopped drinking and dealt with shame about not being The Right Kind of Man etc etc etc #aunt was like if 3 anxiety disorders in a trench coat were a person and that person was a hoarder #And could not organize or keep any space clean or remember anything to save her life #Obsessed with baseball freaky good at languages never had a job #Had two degrees from Ivy League schools #The ones who died young in institutions are extreme examples but there are so many members of my family I see as #Cautionary tales because almost all of us are crazy and on the autism-OCD-schizophrenia spectrum and so many people end up #Miserable and terrified or in awful relationships or whatever because they try to have regular lives and do things like regular people #Like bestie We Can't <333 #That Way Lies Misery <333 #Only happy person among grandparents' kids is the uncle who went thru intensive therapy became a freelance software engineer #And now lives in the desert with his wife except when they visit the farm to take care of the grandkids during harvest season

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