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3 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Okay, trying once again to find something out that I did not manage to find out last year...

In the Midwest, hot cross buns seem to be an Easter thing, and you can pretty much only get them during Holy Week, and you eat them on Easter Sunday...
In NYC, hot cross buns are a Lent thing, and if you wait until Holy Week, or God forbid, Easter, to try to get them, you will not get any.

I kept making this mistake until I figured this out...
Does anyone know the origin of or reason for this difference?

I asked around all over the place last year, and never found an answer. Though I did introduce several people to hot cross buns who had never had a hot cross bun before.
I feel like it's got to be something having to do with what groups of people immigrated or migrated where and when? Or possibly something to do with ingredient availability?

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I don't know who needs to hear this.

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Everybody, listen.

I know you were taught that person-first language ("put the person before the disability") is always correct. I know. You were taught this when you became a teacher or doctor or when you worked with kids with disabilities.
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Person-first language came into being for good reasons. It is not bad or wrong; many people w/ disabilities still prefer it.

But other disabled & autistic people don't, for equally valid reasons.
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