My city has public transport, but it's incredibly limited and really only takes you to the downtown area. Which isn't safe for me to walk around by myself as a 5'2, afab, and visibly queer individual. And this goes for just being on public transport as a whole.

And here is where I hear "but uber/lyft." Do y'all realize how expensive that shit can be? Genuinely. Especially for a disabled individual who already only has about 20-30 hrs a week on minimum wage. Because of my disability and my inaccessibility to transport, I've also got to live near big hot spots and town centers. Which means my apartment is expensive.

I live with four other people to meet ends. Which already has become a norm to have roommates cause of the fucking economy right now in the united states.

I'm sick and tired people having a say on how I'm living my 20s. When I genuinely don't get to have the opportunities and privileges other people my age have. So many people's parents bought them fucking cars for their 18th, or got to get their fucking license. I didn't. And I never will because of something I was born with.

If I even think about touching that material where the picture changes when you look at it from different angles I wanna scream. My middle school had them on our english workbooks and that was hell, lemme tell ya