"You're weird," he told me.

In front of friends at a party. It stung, but I tried to move past it.

"You're weird," he kept telling me.

At home, in front of friends, in front of family.

At one point, I replied, "It hurts when you say that."
1/6 "Oh, you know I'm just kidding," as he tried to brush it off.

"No, I don't. I don't know you're kidding. I don't think you are."

I eventually ended up leaving him. I left him not because of the petty jabs but because he never understood me, because I launched
2/6

Prevention is the best medicine, a thread 🧵

I took an Uber yesterday wearing my @flo_mask, as usual. The driver and I chatted about the gig economy at first. He asked me what another local service was like, one that I use to get to work. I shared my experiences.

1/10 He went on to tell me he was going to a training program out of town soon. We inevitably (and thankfully) broached the subject of COVID. He said he had been having strange new symptoms for about a year. I listened, and then told him my experiences, & why I stopped driving.

2/10

This @USSupremeCourt dealt devastating blows to the country today, seizing power with privilege granted through shady back room deals and bribes. Lives are on the line, including mine.

1/ Two years ago, they made me unsafe by stripping my right to an abortion. I'm 47. I'm done. But in Missouri, if I'm raped, which happens when you're homeless, it could kill me. My state has some of the more draconian enforcement measures.

2/

Hi. My name is Amanda Finley, and I live in Kansas City. This is not the first time you’ve heard from me. It won’t be the last, either. I got sick with COVID the first time on March 6, 2020. I never got better.

I got worse.



1/19

@BernieSanders And things got worse. I lost my home when my lease wasn’t renewed in July 2020. After bouncing between friends who gave me COVID again, I wound up in a tent at Weston Bend State Park.
2/19

For Women's Day, I don't want to slight anyone by omission, so let's take a look back at easily one of the most amazing women in history: Hildegard von Bingen.

Born 1098 in Bemershein vor der Hohe, Germany, in an upper class family. Visions and headaches started at age 3 1/ By age 7, her parents sent her to live in a convent, where she was placed in the care of Jutta von Sponheim, who was her elder by 6 years. She was taught to read, write, play psaltery, and joined the order at the age 14. 2/

Four years ago today, I left work early. I wasn't feeling well and knew something was not right. It was wildly out of character for me to go home on a busy weekend night, but something was just really off.

I had no idea that I would wind up splashed all over the news, 1/9 that I wouldn't be alone, that I would lose so many people I love, that so few people simply wouldn't care.

The things "friends" say to those with long COVID:

"Call me when you're fun again."
"Isn't it just being tired? I'm tired, too"
"You just need to exercise." 2/9

I read this earlier today and realized: this is exactly how I've been coping with the pandemic and long COVID. 🧵

The Stockdale Paradox refers to Admiral Jim Stockdale, who was the highest-ranking United States military officer in the ’Hanoi Hilton’ prisoner-of-war camp

1/12 during the height of the Vietnam War. Tortured over twenty times during his 8-year imprisonment from 1965 to 1973, Stockdale lived out the war without any prisoner’s rights, no set release date, and no certainty as to whether he would even survive to see his family again.

2/12

Hi! I'm a #COVID long-hauler (#LongCovid). For the past year, I've been screaming for assistance for us -- there is none.



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