Moss

queer, particularly trans representation hasn't come all that far in 20 years. maybe there's less blatant transphobia, but there sure as hell isn't any widespread positive representation. we have multiple generations of trans women and men who were only able to explore their identities during adolescence in online spaces. and kids today are being stripped of that.

I'm ADHD and have Idiopathic Hypersomnia and no one believed me. I used to fall asleep during class, not do my homework, be on my computer or phone a lot and I was just called lazy, I was "wasting my potential", I was probably secretly awake all night playing games, etc etc. I started having hypersomnia symptoms at 11, when puberty hit, and my mom told me the first time she realised I actually have an issue was when I was 18, when I barely managed to finish my high school diploma and had to take a course in the summer to catch up on the last subject. I left home at I think 7am every morning, got back home at 3pm and would just fall asleep while actively talking to my family about what I was studying. She was between jobs at the time and got to see how utterly exhausted I was even though I slept more than enough, ate well, etc.

EProper access to the internet helped me learn about executive dysfunction and how to handle it even before getting diagnosed and medicated, about what the fuck was wrong with me that made me so tired all the time and what I needed to do once I turned 18 to diagnose it, and finally found an answer at 22. I grew up feeling like I'm the problem, and helpless that things will ever get better. I thought I'll never be able to hold a job and live independently.

And I have autistic friends, friends with fibromyalgia, with Ehlers Danlos syndrome, etc. A lot of friends who just wouldn't know what they experience is real, treatable or diagnosable without the internet. Who wouldn't have a community without the internet.

But then Judith sees the necro-cav relationship as professional and emotionally restrained, so when Coronabeth suggests it, Judith rejects her because she's had feelings for twelve years, she knows she can't be just professional.