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maya 🕸️

2 years

she's here ❤️ if you haven't got yr copy yet fill this out: and I'll get one to ya. thank you to the 619 & to my sisters. thank you to everyone who's ever read a poem of mine or shared my work w someone they loved. it means the world 👾💻💜

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maya 🕸️

@mayaslmh

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PALESTINE IS IN ASIA. PALESTINE IS AN ASIAN ISSUE. any Asian American movement or organization which ignores this issue is not truly invested in pan-Asian liberation, just themed snacks & events.

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ive seen the greatest minds of my generation lost to grad school

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2 months

unfortunately many of y'all are boring careerists unwilling to commit or risk anything ♥️

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5 years

And what about it ?? This kinda thinking is so ugly

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@mayaslmh

3 months

Yesterday I turned down the 1729 Book Prize in Poetry because of @masonjarpress 's inability to take a principled stance on Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people

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@mayaslmh

2 years

the thesis, the scholar

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@mayaslmh

2 years

book cover just dropped 🤍 press that pretty preorder link to see more

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@mayaslmh

1 year

honored to announce I've been selected for the 2023 Judith Markowitz Award for Exceptional Queer Writers 🤍

Lambda Literary

@LambdaLiterary

1 year

Lambda Literary is thrilled to announce Naseem Jamnia and Maya Salameh as the winners of the 2023 Judith A. Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers.

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@mayaslmh

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very silly to post a personal update here rn but I am headed to UCLA law school this fall ♥️ ucla folx hmu :)

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@mayaslmh

2 months

I have a lot to say about this but I'll just start with saying identity politics has failed. so very deeply. I haven't forgotten her crocodile tears while voting "present" on the bill funding Israel's Iron Dome defense system

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@persianjewess @AOC in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University.

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@mayaslmh

3 years

so so honored to be bringing this book into the world like this ♥️

Univ. of Arkansas Press

@uarkpress

3 years

The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that the 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize has been awarded to Maya Salameh for her manuscript How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave.

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@mayaslmh

5 years

the west coast will forever be superior to the east

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@mayaslmh

4 years

hi hello my chapbook is out!! rooh is my first published collection & I’m so honored to be able to share my art in this form with y’all - these poems are for my mother, my women, & my people 🇸🇾🇸🇾 lmk if ya want a copy ❣️

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@mayaslmh

5 years

how are universities compensating professors of color for all the emotional & professional labor they do on behalf of their students?? mentoring & assisting FG/LI kids is a whole ass second job.

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@mayaslmh

1 year

ya girl just got accepted to the Kenyon Review Writer's Workshop (eeee!!!) but it costs $3000 (less exciting.) I've started a gofundme to help make this dream opportunity financially feasible for me, pls donate & share 🫶🏼

Support Maya's Writing Residency Journey, organized by Maya Salameh

My name is Maya Salameh, and I've loved poems since I was a kid. I'm a queer, Sy… Maya Salameh needs your support for Support Maya's Writing Residency Journey

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@mayaslmh

2 years

it's my birthday ❤️

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1 year

some of my favorite notes from queering the map in syria & palestine:

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@mayaslmh

5 years

free - and I cannot emphasize this enough - Palestine

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@mayaslmh

2 months

I've said this before, but this reminds me of the powerful military-industrial pipeline at schools like stanford, harvard, Columbia, etc. our country's "best & brightest" funneled into jobs at Lockheed Martin or DoD. so many minds wasted on being an arm of empire. sad.

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It’s really scary the degree to which our universities are entangled with arms manufacturers. It’s really scary that demanding different means the state will unleash a small standing army on you

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1 year

BRONCHITIS IS A BEAUTIFUL NAME FOR A GIRL. by me.

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@mayaslmh

3 months

anywayssss it's halfway thru natl poetry month, ur reminder that I have a gorgeous book out all about algorithms, girlhood, & California ♥️👾 book me to read/perform/speak!

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@mayaslmh

3 years

just reminding y’all I look like this

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@mayaslmh

3 years

my TA just threatened to fight my prof 😭 I don’t think she was joking

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@mayaslmh

2 years

hey that's me ☺️

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@adalimon

2 years

On Thursday, December 1st, I had the honor of reading a poem at @PlanetWordDC with the poet @mayasalameh32 for @DrBiden and the First Lady of France. We read for a group of delightful students and it was a true gift to see the First Ladies in their element as teachers!

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@mayaslmh

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My poetry is all about Arab life, joy, and survival, and none of that is possible without the liberation of Palestine. Especially as a Shami poet whose relatives in Syria, Lebanon, and beyond are all materially impacted by Israeli violence

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PUNNETT SQUARE by me

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NATIVE SPEAKER by me

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@mayaslmh

3 months

I cannot allow my book to be handled by organizations who will not take a clear stance on 186 days of genocide. There is no “complicated,” there is no “I’m not educated enough on this to speak out.”

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@mayaslmh

5 years

me: I have a health question vaden: you’re pregnant

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@mayaslmh

5 years

excited to announce my chapbook, rooh, will be published april 2020!! 🥳

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@mayaslmh

3 months

@halfmoonpoem I name this knowing I'm early-career w/o prof. representation. It is good & necessary to risk things in the name of struggle. Our words matter. Let us blue-passport poets not give work to those who, in @rashaabdulhadi 's words, “love our work but can't imagine our aliveness.”

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@mayaslmh

3 months

In @halfmoonpoem 's words, resistance is quotidian. This is such a small, in fact bare minimum, action to commit to. I find it important to name this publicly, in the interest of encouraging other writers to refuse in whatever/all ways available to them.

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@mayaslmh

1 year

ALGORITHM WITH BLUE EYELINER by me

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@mayaslmh

8 months

I'm organizing this arts fundraiser for the PCRF along with 15 other amazing artists - click the link to donate + get a piece of artwork! Share widely ❤️

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@mayaslmh

3 months

@halfmoonpoem @rashaabdulhadi I am an Arab woman, so I felt I had to wait to post about this publicly until my words were perfect / so that I wouldn’t be taken as the angry, irrational Arab woman. but then I remembered I’m an Arab woman so it’s gnna happen anyways lol!

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@mayaslmh

11 months

I DONT WANNA BE ON THE COMPUTER ANY MORE!! I WANT TO BE AT THE BEACH!

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@mayaslmh

5 months

please leave us out of this

Taylor Swift

@taylorswift13

5 months

All’s fair in love and poetry... New album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. Out April 19 🤍 📷: Beth Garrabrant

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@mayaslmh

3 years

new piece out @poetrymagazine ♥️ mama I made it

How to Braid an Artery by Maya Salameh | Poetry Magazine

: I laugh with the velocity of pigskin, discussing god with

www.poetryfoundation.org

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@mayaslmh

2 years

if one of your New Year's resolutions is reading more it's a great time to order my book 🤍 starting a thread here w some of my favorite pieces from HTMAAITM

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@mayaslmh

4 years

just saw that this woman said the n word AGAIN? 😭 st*nford does not give Black students a second of rest

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@mayaslmh

11 months

mr @richardsiken i am a queer poet and sometimes i feel like all i can write is blood. how do you avoid only writing about grief

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@mayaslmh

3 months

@halfmoonpoem @rashaabdulhadi I am grateful to @chenchenwrites for choosing my collection, and to Rasha again for helping me assemble my language here in this way. May we live to see a liberated Palestine.

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@mayaslmh

1 year

I didn't want to bring this to socials but Adrian Gonzalez has been harassing and stalking me for the past two months. I have repeatedly asked him to stop. He has messaged me on every platform - twitter, insta, messenger, snap, email, even venmo.

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@mayaslmh

2 years

on December 1st, I got to read a poem with Poet Laureate @adalimon for @DrBiden and the First Lady of France. getting to share my work with other young language immersion students was a true joy ❤️ so grateful for the unexpected journeys my words have taken me on

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@mayaslmh

5 years

@champagnefatti order of the Phoenix was the best book. I will not be taking questions

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@mayaslmh

1 year

u rang?

Фэй

@whysheangel

1 year

Quote this tweet w yo fine queer selffffff. 😭

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@mayaslmh

3 months

there is something so deeply insidious to me about the way white women see "defense" and "political" careers as a cute/girlboss trait instead of like .. life-ending work & decisions made on behalf of the Arab world

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@mayaslmh

3 years

turned in my grad apps + manuscript 💋🧿

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@mayaslmh

1 year

idk if i wanna apply to another phd program or get my mft or go to law school or simply become ungovernable & move abroad

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@mayaslmh

2 months

Also headed to Sewanee this summer as a RAWI fellow ☺️☺️

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@mayaslmh

2 years

my book comes out in a month ❤️

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4 years

sometimes I forget im fine & then three men ask me for my number thru our lab mtng zoom

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@mayaslmh

3 years

our generation almost ended smoking & then big tobacco came up w scented pods. we folded for mango flavoring 💀

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@mayaslmh

3 months

I'm expecting folks to stand on business and not apply to the Ruth Lilly this year

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@mayaslmh

2 years

i made a website everyone pls go click on it so it comes up in search results lol <3

Home - Maya Salameh

Poet, Performer, Scholar

www.mayasalameh.com

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4 years

I remember so clearly the moment in mid-December when I saw COVID trending. I was so confident that shit would get snuffed out by February and here we are almost a year later .. only pain

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@mayaslmh

3 years

can u take a bath when ur pregnant or does it boil the baby

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@mayaslmh

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@MaitreyiKarnoor What is the name of this book??

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daily reminder to buy my book

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1 year

I am once again offering myself for interviews, readings, or features for Arab American Heritage Month and National Poetry Month 🫶🏼 Arab American history is more than Khalil Gibran! It is happening today & now & all the time.

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@mayaslmh

2 years

i wrote a poem abt the first syrian mermaid story. its abt beauty bc what else? lmk who wan readd

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It's sooo hard to be so girly & gorgeous & interesting all the time. but someone's got to

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how many "if this doesn't radicalize you, nothing will" atrocities do Americans need to hear about to express even the most basic empathy & solidarity with the victims of a genocide?

kris | 🍉

@heelofpatroclus

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A 15 year old Palestinian boy passed away after being raped using a pipe by IDF. If this doesn't radicalise you, nothing will.

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@mayaslmh

4 years

just saw a man post that “if I’m following ur abuser lmk & that will change” when I coulda sworn I told him 2 of his best friends were predatory absusers .. 🧐 .. huh.

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@mayaslmh

2 years

renovated artist site just dropped & its GORGEOUS designed by the immensely talented @wndyszn ❤️

Home - Maya Salameh

Poet, Performer, Scholar

www.mayasalameh.com

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@mayaslmh

1 year

Reminder that @wndyszn slayed the fuck out of my website - go ahead & book me there

Home - Maya Salameh

Poet, Performer, Scholar

www.mayasalameh.com

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@mayaslmh

4 months

i got into two amazing poetry conferences for this summer & am hoping to raise some travel funds for one or both... does anyone know of arts granting orgs for stuff like this? thanks in advance <3

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@mayaslmh

5 years

I really just rewrote my whole book in 2 hours 😫my mind !! I feel a lot better about her now. we getting published before my 19th birthday. I’m speaking this shit into existence now !!!

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@mayaslmh

3 years

boosting this if ur looking for a cool class!! it’s the first ever arab studies class offered at stanford

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@mayaslmh

3 years

now why did me & the lil bro sit down to play w dolls & to set the scene he said “okay this is the married lizard & the octopus & theyre on the verge of divorce” 😭😭

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@mayaslmh

1 year

I've been privately dealing w this stalking thing since january & didn't realize how stressed & scared it's made me until I shared it today. wow. beyond the constant worry about my physical safety as a non-man I now have to constantly worry about my digital presence & security 😐

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@mayaslmh

1 year

In honor of the last 2 weeks of #Pride2023 , here's a thread of some of my favorite pieces by queer poets: 🧵

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@mayaslmh

2 months

There is a student protest for Palestine here at the university of Michigan Ann Arbor commencement ceremony this morning. The students are so beautiful. The cops are closing in on them but no violence (yet) and inshallah none. These students are the best of us.

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@mayaslmh

4 years

I wanna be toxic so bad but imma just put this here instead 🧿🧿🧿

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@mayaslmh

4 years

how do non-stem majors get lucrative summer gigs? asking for me

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@mayaslmh

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it’s 2016 & your first serious girl crush is putting you on to Mac Miller. you’ve never heard the word ontology. life is good

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last college first day 🥺

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not me getting hit by a car omw to the gym 😭😭

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@mayaslmh

2 years

honored to be featured in poets & writers' debut poets lineup ☺️

Poets & Writers

@poetswritersinc

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Introducing our #2022DebutPoets : @thecourtcase , @mayaslmh , @belkthepoet , James Fujinami Moore, No‘u Revilla, @katiemarya13 , Chia-Lun Chang, Nicholas Goodly, @mannheimerup , & @shhelleywong . Check out their author interviews and exclusive recordings:

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daily lockheed martin hate tweet ❤️

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If the yt moms at Trader Joe's are staring at u disapprovingly u know yr outfit goes hard

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@mayaslmh

5 years

I’m going to Paris in the spring 🥳🥳

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@mayaslmh

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LA come through may 31st! ill be reading with @sa_miathrmoplis @anataliavallez @elinatkatrin & @saifeesamina - $5 donation entry ❤️

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@mayaslmh

3 years

new poems just dropped 😇

The Rumpus

@The_Rumpus

3 years

We're thrilled to share three new poems from Maya Salameh:

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@mayaslmh

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just came upon an email thread between me & my middle school crush, we rlly sent each other emails throughout the day 😭 never say you can’t talk to someone

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@mayaslmh

4 years

I .. wow

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@lindsaaaytweets

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this page is from a medical textbook that was published in wait for it...2017.

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nothing ups my confidence like being flirted w in a Trader Joe’s lol

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@mayaslmh

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boys wear one (1) dangly earring & think they’re judith butler 💀💀 you have not reinvented gender Alex

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@mayaslmh

4 years

already thinking about how universities are gonna academize this moment next year & it can’t help but feel violent

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@mayaslmh

10 months

LA friends come see me perform with @LAist tomorrow + check out this lovely article on me and the other amazing performers:

Queer LA LIVE: Watch The Performances From Stories Of Joy

Queer LA LIVE's first event was held at the Crawford, with three artistic performances in front of a sold-out crowd.

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@mayaslmh

1 year

heeyyy im reading at the @deyoungmuseum next saturday ☺️ bay area besties come thru!!

FAMSF

Living in diaspora is an infinitely complex, deeply personal experience that occurs in vastly different ways. This program will allow two accomplished artists who are creating art in diaspora to...

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thinking once again abt the politics of diagnosis.. I'm almost certainly autistic but after doing some research I not only can't afford the process of getting officially diagnosed but a diagnosis can be used against you in court as being "unfit" to make legal decisions for urself

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