I don’t want to be in the US

I'm sorry, from the news it seems very polarised there at the moment. Is it difficult day-to-day?

So the thing is, most of the insanity you see in the news does not affect the average American UNLESS they are marginalized. Ex. Somali immigrants in Minnesota are being horribly treated right now. My family is white and has been citizens for generations, so they take the benefit of the doubt because they don’t see how miserable it is having a different racial/cultural background in the States right now. Even people who are naturalized citizens of America are afraid to go outside in certain cities because of the color of their skin.

It’s not particularly difficult being Autistic (yet!), but the hard thing is that there is so much misinformation about us that you have to be careful who you disclose your disability to.

Things in Minnesota look bad, I hear it's all over the country that ICE are raiding. I think it outrageous that they have no identification, they could be anybody. I've never heard a mayor tell a government agency to F*** off before. Do you think this will spill over into more division and bloodshed?

I think if Trump did declare martial law there would be a civil war! You have so many weapons in the USA, I suspect many British people have never seen a real gun, even a hand gun, let alone the sort of military hardware that seems to be readily available there.

Cinnabar_wing said:

Trump will probably declare martial law and have him arrested.

Oh I hope not. That would set a new precedent that would snowball into so much arrests

Trump will probably declare martial law and have him arrested. He can't bear any opposition.

This stuff is what caused me to disassociate in my assessment. The physc asked my opinion on politics, I had said something about Trump being awful and racist and he started saying 'how can you say that...', at which point I couldn't cope, in my mind all the images of those ice agents kept flashing up and all the injustice flooded my head and I overloaded. 

It's is upsetting when people can so easily deny what it happening. I know I need to have better control of myself, but it's hard when there is so much obvious injustice and people are happy with it.

Trump will probably declare martial law and have him arrested. He can't bear any opposition.

This stuff is what caused me to disassociate in my assessment. The physc asked my opinion on politics, I had said something about Trump being awful and racist and he started saying 'how can you say that...', at which point I couldn't cope, in my mind all the images of those ice agents kept flashing up and all the injustice flooded my head and I overloaded. 

It's is upsetting when people can so easily deny what it happening. I know I need to have better control of myself, but it's hard when there is so much obvious injustice and people are happy with it.

I think if Trump did declare martial law there would be a civil war! You have so many weapons in the USA, I suspect many British people have never seen a real gun, even a hand gun, let alone the sort of military hardware that seems to be readily available there.

Cinnabar_wing said:

Trump will probably declare martial law and have him arrested.

Oh I hope not. That would set a new precedent that would snowball into so much arrests