The Thing About Being Nonbinary Is That You Really Do Start To Forget That Other People Have Such Strict

I see those "every family has that one cousin who's severely mentally ill", but considering how my mom once made me promise not to tell the extended family that I had attempted suicide a week before my cousin's confirmation party (like they literally picked me up from psych ward to attend it, I changed from hospital clothes to party clothes in a truck stop bathroom on our way there) because "it would just upset people for no reason", I'm starting to suspect that some families are 100% mentally ill but everyone's pressuring their kids to not show any symptoms in front of the big family in order to save face.

"I never thought he'd take us back to 1929," sobs woman who thought she was only voting for someone who'd take us back to 1950

Ice on cars, January 2020.