Soon Nae's Banquet day after I moved to Point Breeze
Sunghi Gas Station Job start the week I moved to 635
Ben in need of hospice care the week before I move to 137
Jaw surgery 2 weeks after taking 4 months to move to Hatfield
Temple Orientation day of picking up and dropping off Jen, Rich, and Steph at JFK. (I drove to JFK 3 times in 24 hours, went to orientation from JFK)
Stella surprising me, taking the place of Steph the day I move to 840. I hadn't heard from Stella in over a year, due to the fact she lived in Charlotte.
Stella using Dave to move the week he arrives from Sydney
Peter the Therapist stops working with me after one session with Stella
Stella showing up for my birthday with Dame
Stella taking 6 hours to get from cherry hill to Maple Glen bc she doesn't pay tolls. Dad and I had plans for my final bday before he passed.
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If I had a mom, would any of these even be expected of me? For 25 years, I thought all of the above was coincidental, love going comically wrong, I'm too retarded to ever understand.
That's why everything I want, social issue and legislatively,
makes it so a mom can mom.
If she has an autistic kid, her whole family won't be ostracized, looked over for job promotions, not rented to. You can't punish her for choosing to keep her autistic kid. At least not punish her by depriving her of the basics food, shelter, medicine.
And even if mom faces those obstacles, there are real safety nets
(child care,
affordable housing,
healthcare,
free higher education,
the best produce on the planet (c'mon this is America),
birth control,
equity).
And don't you see, if for ex an apt was 1/4 of y
income of any single mothrr, housing loses most of it's power, bc good housing is so affordable, less can be weaponized against anyone.
