• MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    i mean i get it. i’m disabled. i had three weeks from my diagnosis to my first real death threat. not my first death threat, the first one that was actionable. the first nonactionable threat only took a few days. i’d have immigrated, like, anywhere by now if there was anywhere that took disabled people. and i’m literally the best in the world at my instrument.

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        12 days ago

        just a little, i’m putting things together. forgive me for being purposefully vague. the last person to do what i do on my instrument, which i cannot yet own because it costs as much as a house in the statesian midwest, did what she did in 1979. almost no one knows her name because it’s a very obscure musical instrument. you only know her name if you play the instrument. she has a technique named after her. i have a technique named after me. there are two people with techniques named after them. i got my technique named after me about ten, maybe fifteen years ago (covid fucked with my sense of time) when i was developing it with a guy named mark in utah. i wanted to call it the gimme, he named it after me and I didn’t quite get what an honor that was. then i saw my photo on the professional musicians association website last month. from the last convention i attended two decades ago. it’s blowing my mind. that’s about it.