to mom

please beta read my sad letter and then run me over with a car

i think this is laid out very well, it is clear and loving, and feels very from the heart. it's well written and i hope you get a fulfilling conversation out of it :[ i'm sorry you're going through htis

mannn this made my heart really ache and i’m not even involved. i’m so sorry cami. it’s really well-written and i hope it gets through to her

man same this is really rough, but well done. I hope she takes it in the spirit it's meant

I hope she hears you and I hope saying it helps you either way

I think this is really solid, and I'm sorry. There's one sentence I'd think about removing, though, because even though you say the question isn't serious, it could make her defensive and lower the chance of her reading further. It's the one that starts "Like are you secretly" on page two.

And good news, not medically allowed to drive so I shan't be running you over with a car.

ty friends. I also sent it to my sister and my therapist so I’ll wait for their input before I hit send

and kel dw about that, I wanted to inject some levity and that’s very much like... idk how we talk to each other

I truly do not believe she is knowingly racist

and I don’t think she knows what bitcoin is

Oh gotcha. <3

this is a really heartfelt and sincere letter, cami, and i hope she hears you

thanks pal. Emily gave her signoff so all I gotta do now is send the fucking thing

I'll wait until after work

good luck :< i hope it all goes okay

You're doing what you need to do, and we have your back.

sent.

godspeed little letter

proud of you for putting it down in writing and out there. i hope she gives it real consideration

this is a hard but long term good thing to do

she hasn’t responded and I doubt she will, but she did text our group chat with an unrelated thing that felt very like... testing the waters

group chat with her and my sister and me

and this is very on brand for my mom but I am choosing to hope that she’s processing and was just like. making sure I/we will still talk to her

which I can at least interpret as she probably isn’t mad

celebrating my triumph in having done this by getting a little drunk and working on comics. good job me.

fuck lmao the e-mail bounced from her gmail and I was thinking she got locked out of her hotmail

so it is entirely possible she has not received and will not receive it at all

I'm trying to strategize with Emily hahaha

like this isn't funny but it's funny, you get me

this is the kind of thing that would happen to me

oh no

facebook messenger it is

and I know she saw the message this time bc she told me her new email address

I’m like hey mom what’s your email also do you have the capacity to listen to something that might hurt you

this is more than I was hoping for

I had said I was dumb for not knowing her email

i'm so glad it sounds like she's taking it seriously. also my lol at the password

<3

aww good ... it seems like she received it in the spirit you wrote it

I hope so

I had the theme from curb your enthusiasm stuck in my head that entire time

that's a really encouraging response

well done cami

mom got back to me and now we're doing the point-by-point on issues thing, it's honestly not as bad as I imagined, she's just. clearly been drinking the koolaid on all the nationalism stuff

"I want america to be strong and protected" ma'am do you think picking random fights with canada is going to achieve that

anyway she ended with it 'If some law or restriction comes into play, under T's direction, which severely affects either of you, I will do all that I can possibly do to help you.' and I was like ok well then let's get to work

immediately holding her to it lmao

first things first let's slap down the attempt to terminate the department of education eyy

I'm like thanks for the invitation to personally send you means of pushing back against harmful policy and expecting you to follow through, that's actually the greatest gift you could give me

an opportunity to actually make good on these talking points

It's good to get that off your chest. I'm glad it went better that you feared. At this point, I don't have much faith in my own parents about any of this.