Thread by @amandaknox

I've had so much taken from me already, it's astonishing people still want to restrict my freedom. It happens in many ways, but attempts to shame me for finding humor in my trauma are especially cruel. Laughter of all things? That's what you want to take from me?

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My wrongful conviction by Italian authorities ≠ the murder of Meredith Kercher by Rudy Guede.

Me making a joke about my wrongful conviction ≠ me making a joke about Meredith's murder.

But every time I do joke about my wrongful conviction, I get accused of exactly that.

Why? Because the media tricked you long ago into conflating these two tragedies when, in fact, they are separate tragedies caused by separate actors. The injustice done to me was not an inevitable result of the injustice done to Meredith.

And conflating my trauma with Meredith's is also a disservice to her. It erases what Rudy Guede did to her. She deserves better than having her tragedy confused with what the Italian justice system did to me.

I continue to joke about my own wrongful conviction in part because it's a way to draw a line in the sand, to demarcate our separate tragedies. And to say: STOP CONFLATING THEM. Stop tying my identity and my trauma to hers. For both our sakes.

And I joke because 4 years of my life were stolen from me, because I was hunted for 8 years by people who wanted to see me imprisoned. Because my reputation was unjustly damaged. Because if I can laugh about all that, then I can handle whatever else life has to throw at me.

Especially pomodori.