January 20, 2025

Good Evening Everyone, hope you are doing as well as you possibly can this year!

It has been ages since I wrote an update and the reasons are pretty understandable: without me or my better half paying this platform, we will not get any more signatures other than an occasional one once in a blue moon from a kind and charitable soul. If you don’t mind re-sharing my petition on your timeline to raise awareness of how even people who consider themselves “allies” can push neurodivergent Black people further out into the margins, I would greatly appreciate it !  It would make up for the therapy session I neglected to schedule for myself this past week.

I decided to remove two decision makers - the United States Senate and the House of Representatives because after January 20, 2025, I would be lucky if free speech by anyone resisting the incoming administration and the puppeteering oligarchs would go unpunished.

Trust me, I know full well what it’s like to be punished for standing up for myself: I was blacklisted by my former employer for fighting back against workplace bullying and walking away from 17 years of employment with a measly settlement that punished me and not the perp. He’s prepping to go to med school to be a neurologist, if he isn’t enrolled already.

Nevertheless, I have never been one to remain silent for too long. Since the election, I have had no desire to post any public or FB friend-facing content on my timeline. When Mark Zuckerberg took the plunge into madness, I decided that it was pointless to expect Facebook to make any decisions that would stop the suppression of marginalized voices and so I removed a couple of "decision makers”.  I now see my petition as an effort to find some semblance of solidarity from strangers after the rug that was an online community I believed to be a safe place to share was unceremoniously pulled out from under me because I anonymously posted song lyrics that drew attention to the slaughter of thousands of innocent, defenseless babies and children.

I was labeled a "sh*t stirrer” and removed from the Leaning In and Falling Over Professional Mom group without the creator, Enza Barbato, mentioning me by name. I’m 100% sure that if she did, there would have been an outcry from some of the braver and more outspoken women in the group.

My petition hopes to deter people from doing what Enza did to me. She knew my history of being egregiously wronged by my employer, she knew of my struggles with the healthcare system as a Black woman, and she knew of my complex trauma and still chose to harm me, a late diagnosed autistic Black woman bullied out of the workforce in 2019, anyway.

I am naming her because she led me to believe she was an ally. When I dropped off clothes that once belonged to my kids at her doorstep, I did so as an act of goodwill. There were no strings attached except for the hope that I could enmesh myself with a real life community through my local Buy Nothing group. 

I later joined her Mom group because someone suggested that I could network as they had monthly job postings. Three years later, I was still unemployed, these powerhouse women weren’t going to rally around me and help me get back on my feet, but a few of them did lend a kind, listening ear, and for that I will be forever grateful.

Sadly, I no longer believe I can find an online community that is truly welcoming and inclusive, and has the power to help me forge real-life connections. I just accept that there will be pockets of real human connection here and there, but for the most part I will always be a lone wolf.  Your signatures meant a lot to me because they told me I still matter.

Thank you for reading!