@nex3 it was the price of being a twenty-something trans woman in the ’90s and early ’00s, and getting back on my feet over and over after one of these incidents, only to experience it again less than a year or two later

current-day employers, alas, wouldn't be able to look beyond my trauma and extraordinary mistrust i have for workplace environments like theirs. they wouldn't understand how i need them to earn my trust. they'd just see an old trans woman. it's a shame cos at heart i was a fracking workaholic for the longest time & far was happier, in the zone, at a workplace than not

jfc i'm still dumping. i'm CW'ing this to spare folks