I have suffered from depression & anxiety forever, and anyone who knows me knows my conditions. One time a friend who is quadriplegic told me “Why don’t you just cheer up?” And without missing a beat, I said, “Why don’t you just stand up?” She later told me - that was the first time she had an inkling of what having a mental/emotional condition felt like. Not all disabilities have the same challenges.
#1
I am speaking for my former BF Radana. She changed my thinking on homosexuality which opened my heart in so many ways! We are no longer friends but our relationship was brutally honest and had as many downs as ups....
I was raised in conservative religious but intellectual PA among Anabaptists though we were not. I sort of deduced that sex was for procreation and that many things were not really acceptable (protected heterosexual fornication was No Problem for example). So I was "indulgent" of my gay friends and thought bi was cool with ceryain rules etc. But if a person was actually totally gay that was a result of society I thought, as in parent identification or trauma. I was soooo compassionate to being open to everyone's identifications but I actually thought they were flags for what they were "going through."
My dear R worked me over for two and a half YEARS over this notion of mine and it included thrown drinks and storming off and months of silence and little by little her words were sinking in.
I am very happy to say today that Love Is Love and I love my ex friend R for showing me !
4points
#2
Had coworker who was seriously into that Qanon b.s. Said he wasn’t going to take the vaccine because he had no idea what was in it or what effect the ingredients would have on his body.
I asked him to read the label of his energy drink and tell me what the ingredients did to his body. Other than caffeine, he had no answer.
4points
#3
Before the last election in 2020, I had a co-worker ask me who I was voting for. It was after the primary, so basically between Biden and Trump. I explained that I was voting for Biden. Trump is batshit crazy. If I had my way though, I would have voted for Bernie Sanders.
She started yelling, saying I was a socialist, and that are ruining the country. That socialism has no place in America. That making healthcare, and child care publicly funded would bankrupt the government.
I let her finish, then, with a smirk, I told her, what do you think the police and fire departments are? What about public schools? Thoughs are socialist programs. All Bernie, and other socialist want to do is fold healthcare and child care into the system. Yes, it will raise taxes, but look at the offset. You can go to any hospital, any doctor, anywhere, get seen, get help, maybe pay a co-pays of $25 dollars, done.
Blew her mind, I saw it in her eyes as I was explaining it.
3points
#4
My ex was very tech uncomfortable. Explaining network security didn't convert him to a cell phone guy but he's a lot more savvy than he used to be
2points
#5
I'll ask it here. If we flopped up on the beach and grew legs or if we evolved from monkeys THEN why aren't species still flopping up on the beach and why don't we see monkeys in the middle of the evolving stage?
2points