Danielle Muscato (she/her)

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@Obiang1Grace @WSJ Once in 5th grade, I was supposed to be surprised that day at school at an assembly, I won the "Creativity Award" (many students K-6 were also surprised with awards at that assembly). My mom & I got in a big argument before school-she forced me to dress up, spoiling the surprise. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@Obiang1Grace The only time I recall my dad praising my activism work was once when I was interviewed for the Wall Street Journal. He clipped out the article & had it professionally framed. It was about a conference I helped organize in SLC. He didn't care about the con, just the @WSJ part lol — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@Obiang1Grace My parents came to 1 of my shows once. They didn't even wave at me. They didn't come up to say hello to me. They came in, stayed for 2 songs, and then just left without saying goodbye. It was weird. They said later it was too loud, though I told them to wear & gave them earplugs. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@Obiang1Grace They stopped including me in family vacations when I was 16 I think? Even then, we didn't spend much time together on those vacations. Even as like 8-year-olds. We usually skied on different runs and often even on different mountains. Didn't eat lunch, or often dinner, together. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@Obiang1Grace We three kids were almost exclusively raised by babysitters. My parents both worked full time, I saw my dad MAYBE an hour a day, he got up at 5, worked 10-12 hours, went to bed at 8ish, often on call. Prob 70-80h/wk. My mom worked 50-60h/wk, brought home hours of work every night — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@Obiang1Grace @fredelroo @ColumbiaPD When I used to work at hourly jobs, before I had a salaried job, and before I became disabled, I NEVER used the bathroom at work. I was terrified of getting in trouble for taking too long, years and years later. I still have unresolved trauma about this. I'm so scared of him. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@Obiang1Grace @fredelroo @ColumbiaPD I'm 38 years old and I still have bathroom issues because of this trauma. I'm terrified of taking too long in the bathroom. I never use public bathrooms, I'm #trans and I don't want any trouble, but also, I'm terrified of someone being mad at me for taking too long. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@Obiang1Grace @fredelroo @ColumbiaPD Terrified. One of my first memories is him screaming his head off at me, because I had taken 5 whole minutes on the toilet, and he wanted me to get off of it immediately, because we were gonna be late for the beginning of the Disney fireworks show. I was 5 years old. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@justkelly_ok I'm so glad you got out, too! — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@Obiang1Grace He's treated me maliciously & cruelly literally since I was a baby. I genuinely don't understand what I ever did to him to make him to think this is appropriate or acceptable. I know I don't deserve it but it's not even as though I did anything wrong such that he would THINK I do — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@Obiang1Grace @fredelroo @ColumbiaPD @Mizzou I'm serious, I have #OCD—I count things. She's unbelievably rude, dismissive, pretends to read a magazine wherever I try to sit down and talk to her. She screams at me all the time, too, but she's mostly manipulative. She's extremely two-faced. My dad abuses her too. It's so sad. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@Obiang1Grace @fredelroo @ColumbiaPD No, and I don't know if I'll be able to 😭 I miss her so so much. She's legally on paper my emotional support animal. By depriving me of access to her, my dad is maliciously making my #PTSD symptoms SKYROCKET. I have dermatillomania (compulsive skin-picking), look at my face!! https://t.co/VPJCnAyXS9 — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@Obiang1Grace @fredelroo @ColumbiaPD @Mizzou No, Dr Joe Muscato a narcissist with the emotional maturity of a toddler. I don't say that pejoratively; I mean that literally: His ability to tolerate distress and to regulate his emotions is stunted. He literally has temper tantrums over even the tiniest things, like groceries. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@Obiang1Grace @fredelroo @ColumbiaPD @Mizzou Yes she is! My mother is also abusive to me, she's not physically violent but she's SO manipulative and just plain cruel. She lies CONSTANTLY, she's the most passive aggressive person I have ever met in my life. Constantly sarcastic, rolls her eyes at me LITERALLY 100x+ every day — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

My dad bought houses for each of my siblings, who both have full-time salaried jobs. Not that he HAS to buy me a house, but I'm the one who's disabled & CAN'T work. And, he battered me! Courts OFTEN order abusers to pay for their victims' new housing. He needs to make this right. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

The judge can order my father to pay for housing for me, since he attacked me at our home & it's unsafe for me to return there. It happens often, there's even a field for requesting daily, weekly, or monthly housing payments from your abuser on the form for an order of protection — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

I will never understand why my father hates me so much. He's treated me like absolute crap ever since I was a baby. I just don't understand. He is not like this to my brothers. He chose me because he thinks he can get away with it, because I have mental illness, because I'm trans — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@brigid_mason Yes. It's how they get away with it. They're extra kind to everyone except the people they abuse. They do it on purpose so that no one will believe it. They're two-faced. That's how abuse works, that's how it's always worked. If they were abusive to everyone, they'd get caught. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

The hotel front desk lady asked me who the really rude, older guy is, who brings my mail. He's SUCH an asshole to working people…it's so gross. "Dr Joe" Muscato is the living definition of "two-faced." His colleagues & patients think he's SUCH a kind man. It's such bullshit. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@Obiang1Grace @fredelroo @ColumbiaPD Also, he's retired, so unfortunately I can't just like, play the tape on a PA system right outside his work. He does teach part time at the medical school, though. I could do it there, a big sign and a pic of him and have it say that he's a part-time/semi retired prof at @mizzou. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@Obiang1Grace @fredelroo @ColumbiaPD Then he came downstairs where I was in the basement to scream at me some more. I recorded that, too. He screamed at me and would not leave me alone for 3.5 minutes, until he went back upstairs. I waited until midnight to go upstairs to get ice for my wrist because I was terrified — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@Obiang1Grace @fredelroo @ColumbiaPD After he screamed at me for half an hour while I begged him to calm down and just talk to me, I gave up and ran down to the basement to get away from him. Then I posted the recording & pics of my wrist injury on Facebook, and said I'm being abused and I need help. Then he saw it — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@Obiang1Grace @fredelroo @ColumbiaPD Then I went in the other room, shut the door, and got back on on #PTSD app like I was doing before my brother followed me in there to mock me. But my dad wasn't done screaming at me, he followed me in there, and screamed, so I switched to my recording app, and started recording. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@Obiang1Grace @fredelroo @ColumbiaPD Unfortunately I only started recording right after he did that, he was screaming at me, because i was yelling at my brother for mocking me for having PTSD (6 times!). I said "I'm not doing this, I'm going back in the the living room, turning off the lights, & finish meditating." — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

Nooooo!!!! Not Jeff Beck! He's one of my biggest influences 😭 @jeffbeckmusic https://t.co/UaTEfLA2n0 — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@Jane38871895 This "Jane" bully got her account nuked, but here's what I was responding to: https://t.co/XqdgA4NFD7 — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@Ignatiu48425408 @Jane38871895 That's incorrect. I posted pics of my injured wrist IN BETWEEN the two recordings I made, the night this all happened, November 22, the night before I even left for the hotel. You are twisting the narrative to question my credibility. Cut it out. I'm a domestic abuse survivor! — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

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Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

RT @DanielleMuscato: @Jane38871895 But more to the point, my dad chose to have a child, knowing that child could be disabled and need lifel… — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@Jane38871895 You're being extremely unkind & uncompassionate. Please…Your life will be a much happier one if you choose compassion over judgement, kindness over hostility. Choose to be kind—I'm a #DomesticViolence survivor, I'm #disabled, I have #PTSD, I don't have my animal. Be nice to me? — PolitiTweet.org