“All you need to do to succeed is go to college!”

“Cool, how do I afford it?”

“Well yeah looks like the guy your mom married makes too much money for you to deserve any form of help. Try working more!”

“Cool, I spent the last few years burning myself out for a degree while working full time and supplementing with sex work. I’ll have nightmares about a motel for the rest of my life, but now I can have a full time job and work towards owning a house now? I even promised to be a teacher, that’s a job with a huge shortage right and I shouldn’t have just grabbed a cheap online BA because there are no requirements anymore?”

“Uhh, lol no we actually want unqualified babysitters. Better than being a gross tranny.”

The fact that my ex husband spent my thirtieth birthday with someone he gave $5k too, three months before kicking me out and emptying my bank account, the fact that I live in a state where even if I were cis the resources for survivors of DV are non existent, the fact that I don’t know if my drivers license is valid anymore….

I’m not even thirty three and I’m exhausted. I can deal with my life sucking or the world sucking, but not both at the same time.