u/CamarillosVeryWorst

Yes, this is the same text as my post about this in the VC sub...turns out you can't repost images into this subreddit.

Please note that the nearest restrooms are a 10-15 minute drive away from it, in the Outlets & Camarillo Target.

Also, please seriously consider what level of personal risk you are willing to take before deciding to attend this vigil or not, as while I personally don't think there'll be that much safety risk at this vigil (otherwise, I don't think we'd be encouraging the general public to attend as much as we are) there are absolutely no guarantees it won't be targeted.

Sadly, this is not a very accessible event for mobility-impaired people, & people who need something like a chair or another person will need to bring their own.

Yes, this vigil's an all-ages one as in there's no age requirement for attendees of any kind, however between it being very much a somber vigil without anything specifically for kids to do & its lack of accessibility including, again, the fact that the nearest restrooms will be a 10-15 minute drive away, this is not a very doable or recommended event for younger kids, especially once you factor in the implied behavioral expectations (again, it's a vigil).

Please plan accordingly & with a realistic view of what your children are capable of.

There will be real-time translation between English & Spanish, however it is still unknown if there'll also be real-time translation between English / Spanish & Mixteco.

Unfortunately there won't be any sort of visual reference for those who normally need that to follow along with audio, however all speeches, etc. will be recorded & posted online after the vigil with at least subtitles if not full closed captions.

The reason why attendees are being asked to wear orange & | or black if possible is bc orange is the color of the US immigrant rights movement, & black is the other major color on the monarch butterfly, which is the symbol of the US immigrant rights movement due to also regularly migrating between the US & Mexico in pursuit of its own continued survival.

The box, which is a straw box, I store all my meds in, is kept on top of a table bc most of the day that table's the perfect place to store my meds.

Here's the problem: this table is right in the way of where sun enters the room from the windows and back door from about 6 AM until around 8:30-10 AM or so, depending on the time of year.

Bc I'm not normally up that early (delayed-sleep phase & genuinely feeling you're more productive in the middle of the night are a bitch, aren't they?) & suffer pretty badly from "out of sight, out of mind" lack of object permanence (being AuDHD is also a bitch & a half), it never actually crossed my mind that my med box might be getting a bit too warm in the morning sun every day until I had to be up & downstairs by 7 this morning to hang out with my family's pets bc of fucking course we're scheduled to get our door painted sometime between 7 & 3 the exact same day my parents are leaving town at 7 in the morning for a trip that'd been planned for weeks by the time we learned we'd be getting our house repainted in this 2-week period.

So at about 7:30 AM opened my med box to pull out my Adderall, Wellbutrin, & Lamictal to take my daily dose of them since I'm already up for the day anyway only to find that the bottle of Adderall I picked up that was closer to the sun-facing wall of my med box was perceptibly warm compared to my hand.

Not very warm, but warm enough to get me very worried I've been cooking my Adderall, Wellbutrin, & Lamictal enough that they don't actually fucking work anymore & I've just been skating by on the placebo effect-the placebo effect that now isn't there anymore now that I've realized the meds are likely ineffective due to repeated heat exposure.

& ofc I just in the past few weeks refilled all of them so I can't just get refills that haven't been cooking yet.

Really fucking devastated & infuriated at myself tbh.

I fucking hate this disability with every last fucking fiber of my being.