Thread by @GenxAspie

I finally took an improv class at @SecondCityTO. It was super fun b/c the instructor let me observe rather than interact so I was able to learn a bunch of really useful info. Then came the angry abusive desk clerk who unloaded on me saying I'd been "aggressive this whole time"...

@SecondCityTO When I gave my credit card to pay, he refused to give it back because "collateral" then threatened to call the police. I have no idea what he was on but it was terrible. I told him he could us inclusivity training because he was treading in lawsuit territory. His response was...

@SecondCityTO ...to ask me what my disability was. I told him he couldn't ask that. He then asked the instructor if I'd been giving him trouble then proceeded to comment derisively on my stimming (I was trying to keep calm).

It was awful, y'all.

This is why we are at risk in the world.

@SecondCityTO I had been having a really good night. I was proud of myself for going, for being in a fluorescent room ripe with b.o. and for asking for what I needed instead of leaving. I was my stimmy, no eye-contact self and it was bloody liberating... until Mr. AngryPants 💩'd on my parade.

@SecondCityTO This is why we give up. Random abuse, coming from anywhere at anytime, threatening to destabilize what we've put in place to actually be able to participate in public life, this is how we die early, end up incarcerated, jobless, homeless. This is why functioning labels are lies.

@SecondCityTO And dammit, I need a hug. Or at the very least, puppies.

Please send help.

(And by help, I mean puppies).

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Thanks for the support! It’s time to let @SecondCityTO know #bullying is not ok nor is requesting public disclosure.

Tell them to #DoBetter!

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