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Okay, I made a play on words and a hopeful statement with the implication that these would be one and the same revolution.

I'm not sure why that merits putting words in my mouth and then accusing me of lip service. You are right that I likely won't be on our even near the front lines, but that's because the current form of government has already failed me and I am disabled by long COVID. It has failed me through medication shortages for my ADHD. And society has failed myself and all autists ever since that nazi fuck asperger first othered us. Probably before that even.

Can I ask you to try coming in next time with a bit more charity, a lot more curiosity, and to check your assumptions at the door? I bet we are more alike than you think.

There are really interesting conversations we could be having now based on what you said, and I think you genuinely want to have those conversations, and sort of hope you just misread my tone or intention and assumed that I on the other hand do not. I am autistic, and this is s things that happens a lot, especially with my neurotypical peers but even some of my neurospicy family are not immune.

How could this exchange have gone differently if you had asked me what I think would or should come after revolution, or offer your own ideas. What form of government do we both see as ideal? What do they have in common, where do we differ. Let's explore those things. We could be building each other up, testing our beliefs and improving them together through discourse, even and especially where we still disagree after that.

And I'd like to make it clear that if the revolution doesn't include a vision of a world that treats disabled folks as equals, or more specifically, one that supplants the medical model of disability with the social model, then my revolution hasn't come yet. If it doesn't include all folks, that black lives matter and trans lives matter, my revolution hasn't come yet. If it doesn't abolish prisons and police, my revolution has not come yet.

I can never be front line infantry but i have other less common and equally necessary skills to contribute in the hardware and software space. Will we need computers? Drones? Secure communications? If so then we will need more than a few people like me, able bodied or not.

Friend, what's in your revolution? What are your passions and what are your struggles? How can I support you and what you need?

Maybe we didn't communicate well today, that's okay. Let's try again another time. I hope that's something you'd consider in the future, if not with me, with someone else. But when the revolution comes, I know I will be there, and I have a pretty good feeling you'll be there too.