Civilization began when we stopped being cavemen hitting each other over the head, and agreed on a social contract to live in families and communities. In order to do that, you have to understand that hurting your neighbors is wrong.
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On Musk, Empathy, and NPCs
In which we find out that Mary is an even bigger nerd than we thought
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March 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Civilization began when we stopped being cavemen hitting each other over the head, and agreed on a social contract to live in families and communities. In order to do that, you have to understand that hurting your neighbors is wrong.
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Attention Ohio! You have until TUESDAY to register to vote! Tuesday!
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An Important Reminder for my Ohio Readers
(And the rest of you can play along too)
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October 3, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Attention Ohio! You have until TUESDAY to register to vote! Tuesday!
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Wow, this is blowing up. I've got a substack and a Patheos blog and could badly use more subscribers!
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Mary Pezzulo | Substack
Autism. Politics. Christianity. Social justice. Gardening.
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January 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Wow, this is blowing up. I've got a substack and a Patheos blog and could badly use more subscribers!
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First of all, vaccines didn’t cause me to be autistic. I was born this way.
Autism doesn’t destroy families. Autistic people are likely to be abused by their families, and a huge number of autistic people have PTSD because of that, but we’re not the cause of the abuse.
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Autism doesn’t destroy families. Autistic people are likely to be abused by their families, and a huge number of autistic people have PTSD because of that, but we’re not the cause of the abuse.
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Autism is Not A Disease, And Children are Not a Resource
RFK Junior, on the other hand, definitely is a disease.
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April 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
First of all, vaccines didn’t cause me to be autistic. I was born this way.
Autism doesn’t destroy families. Autistic people are likely to be abused by their families, and a huge number of autistic people have PTSD because of that, but we’re not the cause of the abuse.
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Autism doesn’t destroy families. Autistic people are likely to be abused by their families, and a huge number of autistic people have PTSD because of that, but we’re not the cause of the abuse.
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If an autistic child walks up to you and launches into a monologue about the different kinds of dinosaur, or the Transformers, or the ancient Greek pantheon, it means they like you and they want to be friends. You can smile and nod and ask questions.
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"If You See A Kid With Autism..."
...you might try treating that kid like a human being.
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September 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
If an autistic child walks up to you and launches into a monologue about the different kinds of dinosaur, or the Transformers, or the ancient Greek pantheon, it means they like you and they want to be friends. You can smile and nod and ask questions.
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This is my Substack, where I write about political things not overtly connected to my Catholicism but also have a little podcast of my sermons on the Gospels at least once a week. I can always use more subscribers!
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Mary Pezzulo | Substack
Autism. Politics. Christianity. Social justice. Gardening.
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April 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This is my Substack, where I write about political things not overtly connected to my Catholicism but also have a little podcast of my sermons on the Gospels at least once a week. I can always use more subscribers!
substack.com/@marypezzulo
substack.com/@marypezzulo
Autistic people aren’t aliens. We’re just humans, who feel things to a different degree and cope with our stress a little differently. The way you show kindness to us isn’t all that different from the way you show kindness to anybody else.
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"If You See A Kid With Autism..."
...you might try treating that kid like a human being.
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June 12, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Autistic people aren’t aliens. We’re just humans, who feel things to a different degree and cope with our stress a little differently. The way you show kindness to us isn’t all that different from the way you show kindness to anybody else.
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Some doctors can be worse than useless when faced with a tricky chronic illness.
And, at the same time you realize that fact, you can also realize that RFK Junior and the iatrophobic “wellness medicine” community are dangerous quacks.
Those are both true statements.
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And, at the same time you realize that fact, you can also realize that RFK Junior and the iatrophobic “wellness medicine” community are dangerous quacks.
Those are both true statements.
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A Tough Pill to Swallow about Chronic Illness
Life is complicated, but RFK Junior is still a quack.
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February 14, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Some doctors can be worse than useless when faced with a tricky chronic illness.
And, at the same time you realize that fact, you can also realize that RFK Junior and the iatrophobic “wellness medicine” community are dangerous quacks.
Those are both true statements.
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And, at the same time you realize that fact, you can also realize that RFK Junior and the iatrophobic “wellness medicine” community are dangerous quacks.
Those are both true statements.
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The men who own our planet don’t know how to have a friendship. They don’t know how to have a marriage. They don’t know how to relate to their children. They only know how to use people.
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My Takeaway from the Trump Musk Meltdown
We're dealing with people who fundamentally don't know how to be human.
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June 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The men who own our planet don’t know how to have a friendship. They don’t know how to have a marriage. They don’t know how to relate to their children. They only know how to use people.
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The ice breaking on the Ohio river at Wellsburg Wharf.
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Wellsburg Wharf
A recording from Mary Pezzulo's live video
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February 18, 2026 at 3:24 AM
The ice breaking on the Ohio river at Wellsburg Wharf.
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That’s what we have to do.
We have to speak out on behalf of everyone Trump hurts, while not feeding Trump any emotion for any of the silly performances he’s going to try to do for our attention.
Human rights abuses are news. Tantrums are not.
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We have to speak out on behalf of everyone Trump hurts, while not feeding Trump any emotion for any of the silly performances he’s going to try to do for our attention.
Human rights abuses are news. Tantrums are not.
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How We'll Survive 2025
...or maybe not, but here are some pointers
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January 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
That’s what we have to do.
We have to speak out on behalf of everyone Trump hurts, while not feeding Trump any emotion for any of the silly performances he’s going to try to do for our attention.
Human rights abuses are news. Tantrums are not.
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We have to speak out on behalf of everyone Trump hurts, while not feeding Trump any emotion for any of the silly performances he’s going to try to do for our attention.
Human rights abuses are news. Tantrums are not.
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Now, here’s the problem: at least in America, poor people have no idea that they’re smarter than your average spoiled trust fund baby. They don’t know that they’re more generous than the rich. They don’t have a clue that rich people don’t work harder than they do.
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The Problem With The Poor
...is not at all the problem you think.
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March 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Now, here’s the problem: at least in America, poor people have no idea that they’re smarter than your average spoiled trust fund baby. They don’t know that they’re more generous than the rich. They don’t have a clue that rich people don’t work harder than they do.
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The Gospel meditation for the Baptism of the Lord
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Baptism of the Lord
A recording from Mary Pezzulo's live video
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January 12, 2026 at 4:16 AM
The Gospel meditation for the Baptism of the Lord
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It can’t be true if we pretend the other side doesn’t exist, or if we pretend they’ll see reason if only we can bring down grocery prices and make the country feel peaceful. If we do that, their side will keep winning.
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Dear America: This IS Who We Are
But we can also be much better, and we have to be.
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June 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It can’t be true if we pretend the other side doesn’t exist, or if we pretend they’ll see reason if only we can bring down grocery prices and make the country feel peaceful. If we do that, their side will keep winning.
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Racists have forever justified their violence against all kinds of minorities, by saying it’s in order to protect harmless-looking white ladies like me. That’s how they sell it. They always have.
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A Plea to My Fellow Harmless-Looking White Ladies
...from one to another.
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January 11, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Racists have forever justified their violence against all kinds of minorities, by saying it’s in order to protect harmless-looking white ladies like me. That’s how they sell it. They always have.
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A Word on the ICE Murder in Minneapolis
A recording from Mary Pezzulo's live video
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January 9, 2026 at 3:17 AM
But to set up a dichotomy that people who work with their hands don’t need an education infuriates me.
Plumbers deserve to go to college.
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Plumbers deserve to go to college.
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The Mudsill Theory and Karoline Leavitt
Education and manual work aren't opposed, and Republicans ought to know it.
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June 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
But to set up a dichotomy that people who work with their hands don’t need an education infuriates me.
Plumbers deserve to go to college.
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Plumbers deserve to go to college.
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Republicans will think nothing of sending masked kidnappers into courthouses to seize anybody who looks too brown, not because they actually care about immigration, but in order to put on a show to scare you.
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When Someone Says "It's Just a Distraction..."
I can’t imagine I’m the only one who is totally overwhelmed just now.
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June 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Republicans will think nothing of sending masked kidnappers into courthouses to seize anybody who looks too brown, not because they actually care about immigration, but in order to put on a show to scare you.
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There’s a thing that happens when you’re autistic.
There’s a traumatic moment where you realize that everyone around you was faking. And it happens all the time.
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There’s a traumatic moment where you realize that everyone around you was faking. And it happens all the time.
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Half of America Doesn't Care, But You Should
And we all have to stay mad awhile longer.
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March 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
There’s a thing that happens when you’re autistic.
There’s a traumatic moment where you realize that everyone around you was faking. And it happens all the time.
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There’s a traumatic moment where you realize that everyone around you was faking. And it happens all the time.
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A mother who refuses vaccines and then takes her unvaccinated baby to daycare and play group isn’t doing what her ancestors did. And what her ancestors did didn’t always save the baby from a terrible death anyway.
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If We Roll Back the Clock to Simpler Times...
...we will have an even harder time than our ancestors!
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August 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
A mother who refuses vaccines and then takes her unvaccinated baby to daycare and play group isn’t doing what her ancestors did. And what her ancestors did didn’t always save the baby from a terrible death anyway.
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My grandmother told me about what it was like when my uncle had the measles as a toddler and my aunt was an infant, while my grandfather was on a ship in the Pacific in World War Two...
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If We Roll Back the Clock to Simpler Times...
...we will have an even harder time than our ancestors!
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May 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
My grandmother told me about what it was like when my uncle had the measles as a toddler and my aunt was an infant, while my grandfather was on a ship in the Pacific in World War Two...
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If the Mary you were looking for is
@ marypezzulo. bsky.social she’s here!
@ marypezzulo. bsky.social she’s here!
June 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
If the Mary you were looking for is
@ marypezzulo. bsky.social she’s here!
@ marypezzulo. bsky.social she’s here!
But to set up a dichotomy that people who work with their hands don’t need an education infuriates me.
Plumbers deserve to go to college. Maybe they’re not going to Harvard, maybe the local community college, but they deserve an education.
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Plumbers deserve to go to college. Maybe they’re not going to Harvard, maybe the local community college, but they deserve an education.
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The Mudsill Theory and Karoline Leavitt
Education and manual work aren't opposed, and Republicans ought to know it.
substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:28 AM
But to set up a dichotomy that people who work with their hands don’t need an education infuriates me.
Plumbers deserve to go to college. Maybe they’re not going to Harvard, maybe the local community college, but they deserve an education.
substack.com/@marypezzulo...
Plumbers deserve to go to college. Maybe they’re not going to Harvard, maybe the local community college, but they deserve an education.
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I was shocked to see dozens of people there, and the dozens of people were shocked to see each other. Like me, they’d all assumed they were the only one. They’d all made hand-lettered signs in case nobody brought any.
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And We'll Rally Round the Flag
The small but mighty Steubenville "No Kings" protest
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June 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I was shocked to see dozens of people there, and the dozens of people were shocked to see each other. Like me, they’d all assumed they were the only one. They’d all made hand-lettered signs in case nobody brought any.
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