retrieve the pill bottles from a backpack zipped tight. my family can't know can't see

without excess noise, zzz-rip i must unzip, without click-click-click-click remove three pills

the softest pop of a packet for a fourth

under a blanket the containers go. quickly, in sets of two-

toss into mouth, swig of water - swallow

peel back blanket. gently avoid the click-click-click of pills in a bottle

set containers quickly, quietly away in backpack

zip.

"my child can't have depression. why do you have acne if you're on birth control pills? you're not still on... testosterone are you?"

In 2017, a special education aide at the school I attended as a child was sued for literally throwing an entire disabled child in the garbage

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