The tension and internal dissonance will be OVERWHELMING for so many of us. Voting for Harris doesn’t have to be a black-and-white determination that we’re supporting genocide.

Time is money, says The Man. And there’s a sad truth to that. However, our human bodies were not made to operate on such maddening levels. We have cycles. We ebb and flow. There’s time to work and time to rest. And if productivity culture taints the time we need rest, then we will just end up more burnt out.

As neurodivergence becomes more and more of a hot topic, I’ve been seeing how my late-diagnosis journey as well as other neurodivergent adults in my life go through a “rebirth” process. Just like childbirth, it can be traumatic, overwhelming, and you can feel lost…searching for the next steps that make sense for you. Dominant culture’s structure to life is oppressive, but it was the structure we knew and understood. Authenticity and unmasking are terrifying because it involves trusting the one person society deemed not fit to trust: yourself.

Do you ever have a thought or emotion pop up and you go, “That’s dumb,” or, “That’s not normal,” or “I’m a terrible person for thinking/feeling this”? And then those beliefs cause you to not speak to someone else about it? Like “If I thought it was dumb, then they’re DEFINITELY gonna think it’s dumb.”