My Flying Car 2020
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Whether or not we are neurotypical, white people are not the only people who have problems dealing with Black girls and women who don't play the games folks want us to play.

My upbringing encouraged me to be excellent, strong in conviction, an independent thinker, unafraid to disagree.
08:32 AM - Apr 28, 2024
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My Flying Car 2020
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Certain other places: white schools, Black churches, media, patriarchal Black men, work—encouraged the exact opposite! Young adulthood for me, and I imagine many other Black girls, was learning how to retain or find my own authentic voice and trajectory while avoiding failure and rejection.
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My Flying Car 2020
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I am currently a grown ass woman with plenty of life experiences, still using complicated ass mental calculus for resilience to live my best life despite all the bullshit.

I relate to that Amanda Seales interview too fucking much, and to my current knowledge I'm neurotypical.
08:32 AM - Apr 28, 2024
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Ayize Sabater
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#BlessYou ! Despite the fact as that great #UrbanPhilosopher #JamesBaldwin teaches it’s hard to #StaySaneInAnInsaneWorld #KeepYourHeadUp because this too shall pass 🙏🏾!
08:48 AM - Apr 28, 2024
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Ground Control
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Sadly, there's never that much of an excuse needed to justify making the "disobedient" conform to whatever twisted ideal people with power of any kind push.

That you're still going your own way despite that is therefore an achievement in itself.
08:38 AM - Apr 28, 2024
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Arthur Grupp
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As a youngster many yrs ago i was taught like snowflakes seen afar we are quite similar but on closer exam quite different. That lesson/exam however is ignored in our treatment of each other. Especially the sexes bc added to that is the entirely false narrative of women being inferior! Maddening! 🤬
09:16 AM - Apr 28, 2024
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