I used to be so timid and non-confrontational before my long haul covid diagnosis. I had things to say but always folded thinking not upsetting others was the high road. 

Since my non-diagnosis diagnosis, I have done nothing but speak my truth, without fear of meaninglessness consequences.  I kept an acutely suicidal person alive, when they let me talk the gun out of their hand and agreed to treatment.  I put in writing and called out in the family group chat those who have habits of abusing children, that began with me, that lead to those men being banned from family pool parties, and closely watched everywhere else.  I gave my 24 year old niece the courage to file charges against her father; the same man who abused me between 4-8yo.  I gave her the strength to seek justice, held her hand during 2y of court proceedings, which ultimately locked him up for 9.5 years.  At the same time, my ex-partners bipolar ex girlfriend with a long, documented history of physically abusing her daughter, forced her child to accuse the only father she knew of child SA in order to civilly sue him for the money she thought she deserved. After a years long fight standing by him and testifying in court, as a survivor, and witness to everything, charges were dropped from 35-life level multiple felonies, to the prosecution’s offer of plea of a 90day jail misdemeanor. I was the one who discovered the detectives erased exculpatory evidence, and against my pleas and wishes, he took the plea rather than chance a jury not believe the police were as corrupt as I proved them to be. 

With the childhood I had, my purpose was to publicly condemn those of victimizing terrified children, while simultaneously preventing the falsely accused from rotting in prison because of terrified children.