"Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”
and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay."
-a 15yo autistic girl experiencing ABA therapy
Localish-frond! 🪴 (It's like a friend but also a pretty, leafy fern-part! Also nearish-by!)
I hope things improve for you too. Maybe we can even escape together! ... Or just daydream about it, I guess. Not likely hell-world fate's gonna let either of us be happy, let alone both <.< :-\ 🤷 mumbles other things
Thanks for saying a thing, though. Sometimes wordsing is hard or just frustrating or things.