You make yourself available on the internet. A publically resourced, government-founded network. But, if someone from outside the "norm" of shiny, happy people has something to say about toxic positivity, it can't be seen as worthy of being criticism. It has to be worthy of only sarcasm and victim blaming.

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I'm not rich enough to be working class, but I definitely relate to your bifurcation. I was training to be an elite writer, because I completed my PhD and wrote book chapters and journal articles. However, I encountered sexual harassment and ended up a working class writer.

Are people using them incorrectly necessarily? Most of the people I know would be ashamed to identify anything less than what I have experienced to be trauma (three rapes, sexual abuse when I was six, foster care when I was ten, physical abuse and neglect from parents, a stroke, having…

I think this is what struck me. I left Medium a year or so ago to spend time on TikTok making videos. It turned out to be wildly more successful than writing for me. …

I gotta be honest, Adam. I see that you are happily married to your wife and I think, this is not my guide. I need the women on TikTok who have been in narcissistically abusive relationships like me to talk to me about what it is like to date a psychopath. It just isn't the happily married guy.

When you write memoir-based pieces, it feels like it’s all kinda already out there, but…

1. I was a probation officer right after college graduation for three months while my internship supervisor went on maternity leave. It was one part hilarious, because of my appearance, which is not intimidating. I have…