Why should the government "help" people with Aspergers?

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That is most certainly true. But try to convince people who want to punish the needy of that fact.

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in the words of a 19th century preacher, "there are none so tender as those who have been skinned themselves." IOW calloused folk will be calloused folk until they get skinned by life.

Shoot. I was planning, with returning to work, to work first in vocational rehab to see if I can work consistently--I can sometimes work, but in the last months of working, I became unable to work consistently: even though I was a full-time 40 hour worker, I was only doing a week's worth or less of work a month, because of leaving to go home early when I found my concentration was shot, and often being late for work, because I froze up; my therapist said there is no employer that would want somebody so inconsistent--and then I was planning to do the vocational rehab thing and mention it, along with the disability, but to also emphasize my finally overcoming my disability, so they have a reason why I was out of work for so long and know they have a motivated applicant who's received recent work.

Or maybe a more plausible possibility is that those "calloused folk" have been skinned at one time and grew a tougher hide from the experience....

it is plain that the good preacher was intending to impart the idea that compassion comes from vulnerability.

Obviously, the preacher man was leaning toward your interpretation.

some people whose hearts have been broken become more hard-hearted or calloused, while others become more soft hearted and compassionate. I wonder what causes one to go one direction versus the other?

I don't have a weave or a wig but I do have nice nails and wear nice clothes, accessories, shoes and makeup. Oh, I dye my hair every 6 weeks to cover grey.

How much do you think those things cost exactly? Do you think people on food stamps are paying high end prices for that? Hardly! I buy my nails at the dollar store. I get 200 for 4 bucks and the glue is 2 and I do it myself. I buy hair dye for about 6 bucks. My makeup is all dollar store stuff. The most expensive thing I've bought is a $3 thing of 8 Wet N Wild eye shadows. I buy my clothes at a junk store in town, which is a thrift shop run by a church. I get pretty like new things, or great shape vintage things for literally $1 an item. Shoes are $1.50 a pair. Purses are $1, as are hats, and coats are $3. I spend about $20 a month there for clothes. I always find nice things. I look good. I haven't bought underwear in about 5 years though, but I'm not hard on it and it doesn't tear up.

As for the weaves you see, you can buy hair at the beauty supply store fairly cheap. $20 or $30 for enough to do a head. It's not something that people can't do at home. It takes all day but a friend can put in a weave for you. Also, the wigs you are talking about are expensive. I'm assuming you are talking about those lace front wigs that a lot of black women wear? I have a friend that has about 5 or 6 of them, but she got them as gifts on her birthday or Christmas from her family and she takes care of them. They don't buy the most expensive kind like Oprah has either, you can get knock off brands for a few hundred dollars.

Just because somebody doesn't look homeless and destitute doesn't mean they are spending a lot of money on themselves or don't need food stamps.

Yeah it does seem like that program would be more simular to unemployment payments we have here rather than SSI.

It is possible, but those people should remember not everyone reacts to everything the same way...and its not particularly always a lack of trying on the part of the individuals that don't grow a thicker skin from a given experience.

You have to ask Raptor how his heart had been left calloused and broken.

The government helps as a group senior citizens, veterans, minorities because despite many members being able to work because it is felt as a group they were screwed over or scarified for the country. Hell the government bailed out the very people that screwed over the world economy making the working world unfriendly and very specifically unfriendly to Aspies.

So why exactly should we who are in some ways more disadvantaged by the decisions society has made be altruistic and decide we deserve to be be completely on our own?

because some of the members here see themselves one day in the same shoes as the high and mighty, and don't care who they have to step on to get up there, and furthermore mightily resent anybody complaining about their perfidy or in fact anybody doing anything but actually genuflect to them and their ambition and talent.

This is very true, For instance I wanted a certain video game but didn't purchase it till I was able to find a copy for half the cost...Or I might order certain electronics and such online on places like Ebay where you can find things cheaper than typical retail price. Also I am doing everything I am supposed to be as far as treatment for my conditions...but yeah especially with fixed incomes like SSI, I cannot rationalize why people feel people on it keep up some appearance of being dirt broke or else it proves they don't need it....I have become better at budgeting, I'm not going to blow all my money each month right when I get it just to satisfy people who think I ought to have nothing to prove I need SSI lol.

Also most of my clothes come from thrift stores and clearance racks or my sister who does tend to buy kind of high end clothes...so yeah I have clothes that fit, and even look good and are clean because I like to look half way presentable, but someone could assume I go out and spend a bunch of money on nice clothes that I should spend on needs....but that's not the case

Thanks to this /\ I had to run and grab a damp paper towel to clean the Sprite off of my laptop. I read it just as I took a big swig and nearly drown in it when I bused out laughing (for real).
Calloused and broken heart.....

Believe it or not, I'm happy I could make you laugh.