I was hoping the next post would be about, y’know, Egyptology and archaeology as I slowly recover from the latest flare up of the laundry list of my various malfunctions.
Instead I have this to say, cross posted on X, where you can find additional context beyond the brief summary at the end
If you are or have experienced interpersonal abuse, including caregiver abuse as a disabled person or SA as an adult or child or have people in your life who are or have, there is help. It’s not always easy, but it is there. In the US, I encourage people to reach out to the National Domestic Abuse Hotline thehotline.org
Or to RAINN: rainn.org
And I especially encourage people to be more aware and draw attention to interpersonal or domestic abuse that isn’t between intimate partners. There is a serious gap in support for this and as more extended families cohabit, as more disabled people are forced into dependent living situations, the problem will only increase. It’s not a fun topic. It’s not a comfortable topic. But staying silent or looking away or brushing it off as drama does nothing but further enable abusers, keep victims and survivors silent, and retraumatize us.
I really should have posted this sooner, given the events of the last day involving Dan Richards and his fan club choosing to attack me directly as survivor of DV and CA and SA and his pattern of retraumatizing survivors and trivializing their experiences as a reaction to criticism despite his own criminal history of abuse
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