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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Becky Tuch remains the only ChunkyMonkey with a real and heart-felt apology. Larson probably has been advised not to say anything because of the active litigation. But the others could speak up. Tuch thoughtfully answered a Tweet asking why.

https://twitter.com/BeckyLTuch/status/1448319645669339137[/quote]

Well, she does and she doesn't. She explains that she only ever had positive interactions with Dawn and that she fell prey to hive mind because she was told Dawn was a villain and went with it. Fair enough, and good for her for being willing to admit this.

But I am still waiting for the explanation as to why the people who said she was a villain said that (presumably Larsen but maybe others? unclear). We keep being told Dawn's earnestness and personality were annoying but... was that really all it was? That is honestly frightening.

I feel certain there is more. Some incident, or series of incidents. Some conversation that made people turn. It's just too strange. As someone who has been known to rub people the wrong way at times, this just feels so weird and unfair. And I know the issue people have with me is similar to what people say about Dawn -- that she is "extra" and "intense". That's me. That's a lot of people with neurodivergence or childhood trauma or both. That's a lot of people who have spent years in therapy or who have learned in other ways that they have a lot of trauma triggers, that they need to be intentional about how they approach the world to stay on an even keel. That's people in addiction recovery, and people who have been the children, siblings, and partners of addicts.

I have always held that I can, in fact, be a lot, and that no one is required to deal with it. I'm pretty gracious when I meet people who are clearly not into me and happy to just move along to the next person. But in professional environments, in particular, I always lean on the idea that I can be professionally connected to someone and not have to be their best friend. That I work with and around people who aren't my cup of tea all the time so of course others can do the same.

So this story is terrifying to me, and the way so many people casually piled more so. There is so much talk in the world about "canceling" about people being punished too harshly for stuff they actually did. But what about people who are cancelled for doing nothing at all, for merely being "a lot" and rubbing people the wrong way. That seems a lot more troublesome than some comedian having trouble getting booked after his long history of masturbating in front of colleagues comes to light. Just saying.[/quote]

I'm the neurodivergent learning writer PP and I feel exactly the same way. I am drawn in here precisely because this story is terrifying for me, as someone who is sometimes a lot and sometimes struggles to comprehend the unspoken social rules that many other people seem to be born knowing. I keep waiting for something else to come out, some tangible action by Dawn that could explain the vicious hate that Dawn engendered, because the alternative is horrifying.

And you are right, Becky Tuch didn't explain the origin of why she and the others thought Dawn was such a cartoon villain. What did Dawn do? Or was it really just who Dawn is?[/quote]

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