In that case....
make sure you have some sort of your documentation-such as id, birth certificate, id...id....id..
do you have some form of id?
You'll need it for your social security number-which you will need for work (stop me if ..)
There are daily work daily paid places. LaborReady; LaborWorks. or Under "Employment" in the Yellow pages.
It is tough to but if you don't spend much and utilize the shelter system (try to stash a sleeping bag or have a friend if at all possible to for when the shelter is too full or you are late)
anyways, if you utilize (Im just tossing out ideas here) the shelter system AND the daily paid system AND search around for SERVICES for the disabled (usually through churches ect, but not always and DEFINATELY through your areas WELFARE building, who can also provide you a monthly stipend of food tickets to use at the grocery store while your figuring it all out)
anyways, I see a lot of guys living this way and picking themselves up.
There are a lot of dangers and a lot of opportunities to be victimized, but maybe its not so bad where you are at. Also too is the group cohesion of the underdog, where all problems aside people in this cagegory take care of each other.
Also---!! !! !! !! !! !! Contact GOODWILL. They are the designated highly most known place to employ the disabled-I don't think disability is so much a factor as lack of ability. Check them out on the web at
http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about
please check the link.
Any more hypothetical 'what could I do' questions--please send em!
No one taught me a spit about life, the important things like housing, but I've been watching and I totally think that throwing out the important things like this might barely help but might be the only barely help.
oooh oooh oooh! almost forgot.
In reference to rooming.
Often there are (well I dont know how often but 2 coworkers of mine) people who are on elderly pension or whatnot and rent the rooms in their homes to single males down on their luck (or whomever). these 2 guys have their own bedroom for 200 a month all utilities paid. They work at the laborhall for 60 bucks a day. And the labor (paid daily) place is a great place to start to get an idea of what is out there, meet potential employers, without having to get locked into the job.
And of course, there is always fast food, which one can live off of, though barely, again while you figure your journey out. IF that is the way things go. I just don't want you out in the cold with no information.
Again too.......walking into a church office and saying 'Help I've been kicked out, I have autism, I don't know where to go, will you help me?" isn't too incredulous.
The church/foodbank in our town also gives out buss passes.
And
So does the welfare office.
I live in a cold town, and was homeless for a summer when I was a kid-14. Pretty much on my own since a year after that.
And remember! Ghandi could starve himself for a year. A week or 2 wont kill you.
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