Yelling at Government
Jun. 28th, 2018 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icysilverthreadDay after tomorrow.
No sign because it'd've been a few too many spoons. But I will be there, with hat + boots, awake, before noon, on a Saturday. And I might have talked the parental contingent into showing up to their local rally [although I'm not counting my chickens yet].
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I was separated from my parents against my will* when I was thirteen. I had a lot going for me: it was only three weeks, and I knew that going in; I had [delayed, asynchronous] contact with my parents during the interval; I was around people I knew even if I didn't trust any of them. And, yeah, I was in a personal rough spot at the time, but I'm sure so are NN% of these children. It was, if not the single worst experience of my life, certainly the single worst month of my life. I still have trouble dealing with specific reminders + anniversaries nearly 10 years later.
It isn't hardly comparable, but the echoes are enough to have me shaking.
* Caveats apply. I consented under some degree of coercion, and idk how to evaluate that.
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[Horrified screaming.]
No sign because it'd've been a few too many spoons. But I will be there, with hat + boots, awake, before noon, on a Saturday. And I might have talked the parental contingent into showing up to their local rally [although I'm not counting my chickens yet].
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I was separated from my parents against my will* when I was thirteen. I had a lot going for me: it was only three weeks, and I knew that going in; I had [delayed, asynchronous] contact with my parents during the interval; I was around people I knew even if I didn't trust any of them. And, yeah, I was in a personal rough spot at the time, but I'm sure so are NN% of these children. It was, if not the single worst experience of my life, certainly the single worst month of my life. I still have trouble dealing with specific reminders + anniversaries nearly 10 years later.
It isn't hardly comparable, but the echoes are enough to have me shaking.
* Caveats apply. I consented under some degree of coercion, and idk how to evaluate that.
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[Horrified screaming.]
