growing up in a house where speaking up always became an argument really does something to u.. eventually u just say “okay” even when ur angry or hurt. then u grow up & people think ur calm, when really u just don’t know how to ask to be heard without feeling like ur in trouble.
If you suffer from depression long enough, the depression turns into something else. Something unbearable and demonic. It's no longer sadness and I think that's what confuses a lot of people. People who commit suicide don't do so on short notice! It takes decades of suffering. Just so you know.
As an atheist who was raised in an evangelical Christian household, I wish there was a way to express the sentiment "I'm praying for you" in a way that didn't evoke supernatural invocations but implied a more active love than "you're in my thoughts*
The Have-Nots vs the Have-Yachts.
Teachers can write off only $300 of school supplies for their classrooms on their taxes.
CEOs can write off the full cost of their yachts.
This is what it looks like when billionaires pay millionaires to write laws to benefit billionaires.
You are 14 times more likely to die during birth than during an abortion and the leading cause of death during pregnancy is murder. Abortion bans actually erase women. Not symbolically, not linguistically--they remove women from the planet.