PSA: if you’ve cut off toxic family for your own well-being and struggle with guilt — fight that impulse.
Truth always comes out eventually.
Protect yourself. Your survival is more important than pacifying abusers — especially if you’ve got kids.
Don’t ever let yourself be exploited by manipulative charges like ‘not the right time / don’t air dirty laundry / what about loyalty’ etc.
There’s never a wrong time to protect yourself and others.
You wouldn’t need the courts if abusers valued loyalty.
If you come from an environment of abuse and violence, the healthiest and bravest thing you can do is to live honestly.
Secrecy and shame just ensures that toxic cycles continue, consuming everyone around you.
It’s not DNA. It doesn’t have to be your destiny.
I was more referring to things like, oh, I don’t know — rape, child molestation, physical and emotional abuse, etc. — but I guess if family members with differing political views traumatized you, congrats on your freedom, Mr. Bot.
It's also dangerous nonsense to pretend like Andy Ngo hasn't contributed immensely to Neo Nazi efforts to literally murder other journalists and antifa activists
“A teeny-tiny inclusive language thing I've tried to get better at this past year is avoiding Gregorian calendar-specific English day language. Like instead of "this Wednesday” I do an interpretative dance.
Because it might be that day for ME but not that day for everybody!”