once I asked my mom if she thought my dad was autistic and she said no then she started telling me a story about how she learned morse code because my dad went through a period where he would exclusively communicate via morse code FOR MONTHS, and I just stared at her

Part of me goes “oh come on, this is an obvious fake, no one would be THAT clueless about how people use social media” and the rest of me goes “actually, though…”

ADHD person about to make a mistake: “I’ll put my drink in the freezer so it cools faster!”

After I exposed my abuser, one person texted me this crucial observation: “An honest person is no match for a con man.” This 🧵 is about the con man’s list of tricks and how you, as a presumably honest and well-intentioned person, are no match for them:

Inside that extreme deception vortex, nothing makes sense. Abusers set you up so you are forced to choose between conflicting values. When you inevitably compromise your values, you feel confused and ashamed. Then they feed on that confusion and shame to further control you.

If you had told 2017-me the story 2023-me has to tell, of how Mark Rivera raped and abused and manipulated me, 2017-me would protest, “I would never fall for that bullshit.” I did fall for that bullshit. It is always, always, always different when you’re inside the vortex 🌪️

If you want to know why immigrants to France riot while immigrants to America grill on the 4th of July, it’s because of stuff like this. Anyone can become an American; not everyone can be European.

there's enough things about being an adult with ADHD that make you CONSTANTLY feel like you're not a "real" adult or a "good" adult, but I can think of none more insidious than the shame that comes along with either neglecting or messing up your corporeal meat suit.

Wait, am I missing something or is there no way to log into Threads unless you have an Instagram account? I don’t have an option to just create one from the Threads app?

The Tulsa Who Can Say, Really, Why All These Black People Were Murdered Massacre

I'm no expert on asset forfeiture laws, but it's my understanding we can now seize the White House and sell it at auction

So do the "the employment numbers are faked and America is actually losing millions of jobs" people want to show their heads again this month or have even they given up at this point?

This really is the worst of all possible timelines.

The line between setting boundaries and manipulation has become WILDLY blurred. Boundaries are personal — a choice YOU make for YOURSELF. Telling someone what they can do, wear, who they can talk to, or how to present themselves with the guise of "boundaries" is MANIPULATIVE.

This is single mom Stephanie Wilson. A few years ago, police seized *both* of her cars. She hadn't committed a crime and was never arrested. The government spent years trying to keep her property anyway. She is far from the only victim. Their stories will shock you. A thread.

Is there a way to word search just the people you follow?

If the bar exam is supposed to test minimal competency to be a lawyer then why doesn’t it have a section on being really nice to your firm’s paralegals?