to a young woman who wants to come to the USA to get away from her parents

I got into an interchange with a  young woman on Quora who wanted to come to the USA to get away from her parents, whose opinions she rejected.  These were some comments that I wrote in response

This comment is better written than your original question. That’s encouraging from the perspective of your studying in the USA. [I had written that English errors in her question would preclude her from entry into an Ivy League School.]

Unfortunately, though, if you want to get into setting policy at a governmental level, you’re going to have to get along with other people. It sounds like you’re having issues with that.

I relate. I personally have a mild autism spectrum disorder. I tend to like to do things alone. It sounds like you also do.

It is very common for people with autism, or a lot of autistic features, to think that if they went to another country their problems would go away. It doesn’t work that way, though. You’ll still have to deal with people in other countries and you’ll likely have similar problems with them as you have at home.

In describing your parents, you seem to reject them based on their opinions. But people are more than their opinions.

After my mom died, I wrote an obituary for her. I wrote a shorter one for the newspaper and a longer one for myself and the family. I wrote a couple of things that I still believe are true. My mom was not able to work in the family business, because she was a female. My grandfather gave the business to her brother [who incidentally ran it into the ground]. My mom ended up marrying my dad after her father died prematurely from a smoking related heart attack. My grandfather was very anti-semitic and my father’s ancestry was Jewish, though he had been raised Lutheran. So my grandfather was very sexist AND bigoted.

My uncle was infuriated when I mentioned my grandfather’s unsavory opinions in my mother’s obituary. Later, though, he had to admit that what I wrote was true — but the point was that, even though my uncle rejected those opinions, he still loved his father very much.

You mention that you’re 31. My mid-thirties was when I had the biggest conflicts with my mom (also when I was about 13). I hope that over time you will learn to love your parents even if they disagree with you about some things.

My parents are now dead. I’m probably better off that way, but, fortunately, I think they died with us on fairly good terms.

#masks4all -- a twitter interchange

Here is the YouTube video cited above:

link to WSJ article cited above

This blog is to memorialize a twitter exchange that I had.  I created screen images on my phone and dumped them into a blog.  At first they were out of order, but I have fixed that now, from my desktop.  I couldn't fix it from the phone.  I still can't insert anything before the first picture.  I don't know why. 

Here’s a link to my first response to this interlocutor
https://twitter.com/annalissemayer/status/1258758090578591749?s=21

Here's an embedded tweet of my first response.

I’m not a sheeple. I’m a fanatic proponent of masks. I’ve been pushing #masks4all long before it was popular. I agree that hand hygiene is useless. as the virus is airborne.

However, I understand this article to be saying that a mask will not protect you. This I agree with...

— Annalisse Mayer (@AnnalisseMayer) May 8, 2020