I hate, hate, HATE how people with power over you will try to manipulate you emotionally to either 1) try to get out of doing what& #39;s right or 2) make you feel bad for making them do what& #39;s right.

And I hate how I was socialized to feel guilty for asking for justice.

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I am 43 years old. I am autistic with a side of rejection-sensitive dysphoria, was raised a Christian, and was lawful good most of my life, which made me easy to manipulate in this way.

I feel a burning shame knowing I have even slightly *inconvenienced* someone.

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I& #39;m only now realizing that one of the things I love about the Torah is its constant, relentless focus on justice.

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I was raised thinking I had to please people, even at the cost of my own well-being. Torah reminds me that justice is not only required of every member of the community, it is *owed to* every member of the community.

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Some Christians try to teach that kind of justice, but overall, the Christian focus on forgiving those who wrong us warps--or even replaces--our sense of justice.

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I think this is why I love the parable of the relentless widow so much. And why I love older women who are all out of fucks in general.

Dear older women, out of fucks, thank you so much for showing the rest of us the way. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🖤" title="Black heart" aria-label="Emoji: Black heart">

6/6 (for now)