I guess it’s another way of asking, “What event in your life had to most effective impact?”

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      An important distinction these days. I’m curious, how will that dictate the way you vote in the next election? (None of my damn business, but I’m curious.) Feel free to message me about it if you don’t want to post here.

      • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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        10 days ago

        i’m too autistic to care about other people’s feelings when i share my political opinions and my post history is littered with it especially since my life has also been heavily impacted by clinton enacting don’t ask don’t tell; biden extolling executive order 10450; clinton, bush jr, obama, trump and biden’s immigration policies; the country’s student loan debt situation created by biden’s student loan act; biden using the inflation reduction action to block truly affordable EV’s; and biden banning tiktok.

        i’ll save you the trouble of going through my post history and give you a tldr: both clintons & biden are shit stains in this country’s political history and have fucked me over much more than trump could ever fantasize about; even with project 2025. i also wish kamala was better so that i could vote for her, but she’s seems hellbent on make sure that i don’t; so i’m 99% sure i’ll end up voting for the green party again as i have done in the past 12 years, but this time around i’m deeply touched that nearly all of the people who know and care about me will be doing something similar thanks to my proselytizing.

        • RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works
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          9 days ago

          i’m too autistic to care about other people’s feelings when i share my political opinions

          Honestly tuned out after that. Autism doesn’t work that way, and no one gives a fuck about your ideals if you tune out other people’s input. If you want to affect change with the people around you, I’d start with conceptualizing that autism isn’t about disconnection from people’s feelings. That’s just being an asshole.

          • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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            9 days ago

            you’re right; my diagnosis is recent and i haven spent enough time learning about it.

  • Bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org
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    10 days ago

    Start of the war between Russia and Ukraine.

    Now I have to worry every day that people I know (who have not managed to escape Ukraine) will either get killed by a Russian rocket or will get kidnapped from the streets by Ukrainian “recruitment officers”.

  • Noble Shift@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Police brutality and false charges by Pinellas County Sheriff’s department at 16yrld.

    Or

    The murder of my best friend 20 yrs later by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s department by withholding medical treatment, and then not contacting ANYONE until he had been in an unresponsive coma for FOUR FUCKING DAYS. He died of infection to his brain never waking up since falling into the coma in his cell, a booking/holding cell at that.

    Yeah.

  • wirelesswire@lemmy.zip
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    10 days ago

    My parents’ divorce. I was 20 when it started, but still living at home. I was dragged through the middle of the very messy and drawn-out divorce proceedings, and unfortunately, my dad did not survive to hear the final judgement. The silver lining I guess was these two events gave me a solid kick in the pants to start acting like an adult. I went to counseling, then college, then an actual professional career.

    While I am now in the best position in my life that I’ve ever been in, the catalyst to me getting here was terrible. 0/10, would strongly advise alternate means.

  • Elextra@literature.cafe
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    10 days ago

    In 2013 I left a very toxic, abusive relationship (physically, emotionally, sexually).

    I’m healthy now but its been a long journey to get here. I have definitely changed as have my life. Its a big milestone that I rarely have to think about now as its been so long. But the lingering effects of trauma went on for years before I considered myself “recovered”

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Birth of my first child. It wasn’t just life-changing because “now I’m a father” and such but he had heart disease and the first few months were really rough. It doubly reinforced that my time of being a big kid is over and I have to be an actual adult because lives can easily be ruined or lost by passing the buck and letting other people make my decisions for me.

  • Monster@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Graduating from university and getting the news of my dad’s diagnosis. I’m in the part of the story where everything goes wrong. Just waiting for the part where everything suddenly goes right.

  • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
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    9 days ago

    Winner: Moving to Japan and getting out of the US. Both places have their problems, but I’d rather be here.

    Runner up: Corona lockdowns caused me to do some thinking and soul-searching, but also finally made remote work somewhat of a thing. This ended up helping me be able to move to the countryside without the home loan companies being too weirded out by it.