The Beginning: 2021

 Hello, everyone!

    Welcome to my blog. I'm Erika, a disabled activist, editor, poet, sociologist, and writer. I am Hungarian-American, fluent in French and English, and I am a recent UNC-CH graduate. I am an abuse survivor and started my journey as a disabled person at the age of 13, when I developed fibromyalgia, M.E., PCOS, and POTS. I spent half of 2019 exploring my Hungarian ancestry and studying abroad in France and Hungary. I traveled extensively through Canada, Europe, and the East Coast of the U.S.

    I decided to create a blog because I haven't really had an outlet to advertise my writing, share poems, and write essays about events that surround us during a constantly shifting world affected by ableism, COVID-19, classism, climate change, politics, police brutality, racism, and more. I'm hoping that I will remain dedicated to this because I am in the process of developing a writing career in the worst economy for a writer to emerge. However, I remain confident that somehow, I can help others with my writings and develop my platform to where it used to be before I went abroad. I went through massive changes since July 2019. I changed my time zone, lost some followers, and needed financial help on at least three major occasions due to an unstable family/home life and ableist, dangerous situations to my own health abroad in Europe. I have several critics due to my previous outbursts on social media that frankly displayed my C-PTSD and various mental illnesses of anxiety, depression, and OCD without adequate trigger warnings or recognition of the impact of these things. I have been accused of faking my disabilities for money and I've been stalked (although my stalker(s) found out pretty fast that my family did disavow me and that the discord that exists there is very real). I've made mistakes in my past, and I know I've not been perfect, but I have worked on myself and my life. I received vital therapy for c-PTSD for three whole years before going abroad and continued sporadic therapy abroad in France and Hungary. I'm on medication (finally) for my c-PTSD and I am at a better place emotionally than I was before. I will reveal why in other posts.

    I am hoping that this will serve as a place of growth for my activism and writing. I love writing and editing, but of course, my disabilities make it incredibly hard to pursue opportunities that my peers seek out. I'm hoping to break the cycle of poverty that I've always known and craft independence from outside help. I don't have much biological family and most of my friends are people I consider my true family. I'm currently searching for job opportunities in disability activism, writing, editing, and anything involving helping others using my communication and writing skills. I'm adept at technology because I majored in it within my high school career choices, but I never got an official degree beyond Microsoft certifications and courses where I couldn't afford to take the certification tests. I have Cisco routing and switching experience, SAS programming experience, R programming experience, and HTML/CSS experience. All of it is unofficial.

    2021 is proving to be a year of developing to change. I hope that my change will be a re-dedication to activism and hopefully helping people through writing once again. 

Best to all,

Erika