Reading this morning as I always do with my cup of coffee, I am genuinely surprised and very unsettled.

I'm considered a "highly functioning vulnerable adult" now and have been for years, and honestly believed that each and every one of us as human beings have the right to free speech, dignity, and to have our basic needs met of clean air, water and food regardless of our ancestry or beliefs.

With all my heart I have been a behind the scenes activist of sorts since I can remember. Whether it was insisting my (soon to be) stepfather when I was 4, stop and help the girl whose foot he...