Representative Katie Hill

Soon after your resignation, I wrote a bunch of notes with advice for you.  I didn't publish them because I have spent years giving unsolicited advice.

I haven't read the New York Times article that you wrote.  I already have a subscription to the Wall Street Journal which I pay for every month but don't read every day.  My own grueling situation is about to be a decade of abuse and I am often too stressed out to read the news.  I also don't want to start arguing again with the New York Times every day, the way that I did for years.

It would be good for you to start taking some online classes in math and science while you apply for work.  Math and some of the sciences are objective subjects that will take your mind off things and give you a feeling of achievement.

Having a job will also help you to take control of your life.  I'm not saying that in judgment; I was too afraid to apply for work for a long time after the conglomerate began persecuting me in 2010.  I didn't think I'd be hired, and I was pleasantly surprised to be hired immediately.  I was unpleasantly unsurprised that the things that people have said about me online for years did have the effect on my employment that I had feared.  However, going through the process of seeking employment, then trying to talk to employers about my online situation, and having those attempts fail, helped me to develop a strategy for coping with my unwieldy, painful, negative publicity.  I am working now; it's my 6th job since I started applying for work in 2017.  If I lose this job, I'll apply for other jobs.  I don't run the world, nor do I want to run it, but I can run a cash register.

The most respectful, supportive thing that anyone can do for you right now is to hire you, to give you a workplace, colleagues and tasks.  You'll feel better, and your activism will be taken more seriously.

You cannot spend all day thinking about how you and others are being victimized; you have to balance that with living your life.  I'm telling you this because I know.

If it takes you a while to get a job, you can document that online.  It is part of the experience of victims of involuntary pornography and sexual harassment.

Living in agony is living nonetheless.  You can curl up in a ball on your days off; I have yet not to do that.