"I support our union because I love the people I work with and I want them to get the support they deserve, myself included! 

I’m not sure I have much of a story… but I was diagnosed with OCD this past year, something that I did not have on my bingo card. It has been one of the most challenging and isolating trials I’ve had to navigate on my own. While our museum has a great attitude towards people who fall under the neurodivergent umbrella, I often hear other workers refer to the act of organization as ‘their OCD acting up,’ a common stereotype trait of the disorder. It has made my experience living with the disorder feel dwindled down to color coordination when it is so much more. I have a hard time trying to educate others on how it’s inappropriate to use ‘OCD’ as a loose adjective and what it really looks like, and it leaves me exhausted and usually upset. I would really like to see it be known in EDI training to avoid using any disability/disorder as a way to describe mannerisms or negative traits"