Family’s role in my workplace head injury.

In 2020 I was injured on the job at Giant Tiger. Working for an unreasonable Manager with Unrealistic expectations. “It is a Pandemic and I was making minimum wage. I shouldn’t have to work so hard I risk my life!” However family members taunting me about being an unemployed, lazy fat***. Made me feel I…

Ashton Deroy

December 11, 2022

1–2 minutes

Ashton Deroy, Belleville Ontario, Brighton Ontario, Canada, Cannabis, Finance, Giant Tiger, Jennifer Boutilier, Kingston Ontario, LGBT, LGBTQ, London Ontario, Loyalist College, New York, Ottawa, Retail, Seneca, St. Lawrence College, Swearing, Toronto, Wal-Mart

Written by Ashton Deroy

Written by Ashton Deroy

“Dear Family

I have had a head injury. It has distorted certain memories, made me remember certain family experiences in the worst imaginable ways & made me bitter. There are also lingering effects that make me not want to hold glass cups for example, or fragile plates.

I do not want to stay bitter about you guys. I also don’t want to hold anything back. I have a head injury & I believe repressed anger is what leads to Psychosis. So my best possible route is to find a way to be honest and to make no attempt at controlling various social situations.

If you are stuck on amends. It probably isn’t the right time for us to reconnect. I will recognize there were a lot of good things I missed well I was out of your lives recovering. The most pleasant surprise was young women related to me through Grandma’s marriage pursuing higher education. That is stuff I feel positive about. I didn’t feel positive about stuff such as a limited male or traditional point of view judging females overly harshly. That to me felt like negative oppression. Oppression that made my sense of self as a leftist feel attacked. “