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Has anyone else had this phrase deployed against them when they complain about how people treat them?
I have. I get it a lot from people whenever I talk about how I don't like being infantilized for being autistic or otherwise treating me in an ableist manner, treating me like I don't have any value because employers find it difficult to make money off of me and I need accommodations, or whenever I face discrimination for being a trans woman.
It feels like gaslighting. These things directly impact the quality of my life, and I'm basically being told to shut up about them in a toxically positive way.
I criticize the way society treats people like me - and, for that matter, people not like me - because it has a very obvious impact on our qualities of life we're basically being told to just shut up about and ignore.
I'm sick of it. I'm not an allistic cishet man. I don't have the luxury to "stop caring what other people think about me". That's a privilege.
I live in a society that is discriminatory towards people like me and I'm sure as hell going to be a vocal critic of it because it sometimes feels like the only thing I can do.
Has anyone else had this problem?
A wise man once said, "if it ain't about the money, Puff I just don't care."
It hurts when people treat me badly in the moment, but if it doesn't affect my money, I find it a lot easier to let it go. Sometimes I will write a Google review( because that can affect their money), but then I let it go.
It is not about whether their behavior is wrong, but about whether they deserve the power to influence my day. They don't deserve my time, attention and focus. The best revenge is for me to have an amazing day, week, month, year... Life.
Now, when it affects my money, I come out metaphorically swinging. I don't play about my money.
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