Life as a System Activist- Draft 1
I am a DID system. I was diagnosed when I was 19 during my second stay in a mental hospital and was sent on my way.
No one really talks about what that does to a person. What that realization feels like. You dont think about the fear that you've never been alone. Or the fear that maybe you're faking it and you actually are alone. Not until you feet it yourself.
When you look online you see a very specific vibe around the content creation associated with that diagnosis. About the life style. About the people. It can sometimes look comical from the outside. Like we're putting on funny voices, making up characters and role-playing as them sometimes.
Like there isn't dozens of yourself inside you. Every one of them is just as 'Me' as I am. At the end of the day this is all just me.
And what is me?
I am Say Cheese.
I am an Activist working in the budding Hero community building on social media right now. And I have decided to make the most out of my skills and hyperfixations and autism to do some good in my community.
I am a college student getting certifications towards social work and buisness/accounting. Im currently getting one in substance abuse counseling so I can share what I learned with you.
I am, however unfortunate it may be, disabled, impoverished, on academic probation, and on a deadline to get my life together in 1.5 years or face being kicked out of my house by my roommates and siblings. My goal is to gather the medical documents, legal knowledge, locations, prices, and housing options i find in the Dallas County area.
Which I will also be sharing all this information with you. The viewer. Which get me back to why im here. The ones behind the screen.
Nice to meet you!
I am officially hiring YOU as my lab aid! I know myself. I am going to want to give up. I am going to look at the work it takes for me to live and say 'im tired I can't do it I wanna quit'. You can't let me.
I am relying on you to do that kindness of just witnessing me to keep me accountable. I am repaying it by giving back to the community and turning my boring work into performance art.
If im going to do this im going to make it beautiful.
But to do that I need your help. Im going to be researching for my own things and making these documents ill be sharing with you anyway. Some of them I've already made in past attempts to get my life together. (I'll make a story time about those fiascos later)
But I don't know what everyone else needs. I only know my own experiences. I know what it's like to be a white passing woman. I know what it's like to be a white Trans man. I know what it's like to be crippled with a hidden disability. But I don't know what racism feels like. I've never had someone judge me by the color of my skin. I've never known that pain. Or that injustice. That struggle.
I love my culture. And sure there was an attempt to erase it out of me, because I was 'too pale' to be a real Native Hispanic person. Because both my parents had a white father. But I couldn't help that. But I can help with this. You tell me what ways the system has failed you, what charities or shelters or whatever has made you feel unsafe or rejected. I will research that system, and find alternatives and list them all in the Night Watch.
What is the Night Watch?
I won't lie, it was inspired by green lantern and Batman. Im kind of a dweeb if it wasn't obvious yet. I'm pulling a Barbra Gordon. If my disability renders me unable to patrol then so help me I will help from the sidelines.
Im getting my certificates online to help me become an actual activist someday. A Homeless Intervention Social Worker. I've got a 4 year plan, a dream, and nothing but time on my side if I lock in.
To help prepare for that I'll also be volunteering for a few events and a few weeks with my local charities. If you have any you wanna recommend please let me know! I get get almost anywhere in North Dallas and downtown. Since my classes are online, and im unemployed due to being disabled while the economy is in shambles, I happen to have an ABUNDANCE of free time and and NEED to gather volunteer hours to get enough experience and advance my career.
So go wild! I'll be the white passing guinea pig to see what locations are safe against ICE, Racism, and general malicious malpractice and power trips. And I'll do so safely while helping as many people who use those charities as I can in the process. And then publish my findings all here!
So that's the plan! I'll introduce you to the system running this all next time! And remember next time you find yourself volunteering or using one of these resources, say cheese! We would love to see what you guys are doing and how you are surviving what feels like the end of the world.










