Justin Olhipi
1 min readSep 24, 2022

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You know your neighbors have issues. You've see them displaying their issues right out there, as in the examples you gave. And you told them to move Their car out of Your space anyway. What did you expect to happen?

I'm autistic and have PTSD from growing up with domestic violence. And I'm a bit ticked off at the tone you use referring to people with mental illness. And if they're people of color, your insistence that they move Their car out of Your space is just the cherry on top of a shit-sundae of abuse that they've seen and experienced for generations.

So you're upset by the whole thing. Ok, I get that. Would you have been equally -- or more -- upset if you'd simply parked somewhere else?

I was upset also, when a Black guy put his feet out in the aisle on the bus and then went off on me when I (accidently) Stepped On His Shoes. (See Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) But I took a few deep breaths and said the Metta Prayer for Loving-kindness on his behalf, because I know that people who look like me have been stepping on his feet -- and worse -- for hundreds of years.

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Justin Olhipi
Justin Olhipi

Written by Justin Olhipi

Autistic artist, student of life. Red Letter Panthiest. SJW since the '60's. NB / AFAB. Just visiting this planet. White-passing Creole from New Orleans USA

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