My Poverty, Like My Aspergers, Is Not A Myth

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Thought many of you could relate to this article...you're not alone.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/whitney-b ... 12700.html

Hey - I think I've lived that story before!

Wow that hit home for me, how depressing. I am in the exact situation and after over a decade of being in debt and uneducated/unemployed I have begun taking programming courses online as I truly believe it is the best job option for someone with ASD. Funny enough is the first comment at the end of the article said "learn programming".

I'm curious as to how he got published.

I've definitely been caught up in that vicious circle before. It sucked.

I was gonna post that link last night but was having difficulties, so I'm glad you did, anneurysm.

I could relate very much. And I also wonder how he got published.

If I didn't live with my boyfriend I would probably be living in a cardboard box. Unemployability sucks. The worst part is when people tell you that you aren't trying hard enough to find a job, which is just bs.

If it wasn't for DSHS I'd be homeless. I'm registered in the ABD (Aged, Blind & Disabled) program. I feel like I'm in limbo, though, as if waiting for something dire to happen.

I think anyone with any disability or mental illness could relate. I never went to college and I never got myself in debt from student loans I cannot really relate to this and given the fact I was diagnosed as a child so I already had help available like SSI and services for people with disabilities that gives us jobs and I had supportive parents. They will never let me end up in this situation and I never had so many jobs in short period of time. My husband may be able to relate though because he has had so many jobs and would always quit because he would mess up and be threatened to be fired if he made another one again and his was with math and reading. I wonder how the co workers found out the guy was autistic if he doesn't have a diagnoses? Did he tell them or were they already doing those things to him and his reaction to them made them want to keep on doing it? I have always been afraid telling people you have AS sets you up for being bullied or treated different and co workers can be that immature. One thing I don't understand is how an aspie can easily get a job but not me. I always thought it was luck. They apply and someone hires them without judging the book by its cover and they are willing to try anyone. From my experience lot of places want people with experience or they find someone better to call who had a better application than me so my application probably ends up in the trash because it's like a competition. Then there is the interview if they do call you.

I'm constantly worried the economy is going to collapse and leave everybody on Disability and Social Security homeless.

How?

The homes will still exist, structurally, and there won't be others with money able to buy or rent them save for wealthy investors.. who won't invest in properties they can't rent out and turn a profit from, so they'll just sit on the banks' books.

Simply don't vacate them. Problem solved.

I know, seems oversimplified.. but it really is that simple. If the entire economy collapses, it doesn't really collapse.. it just changes. There will always be some system or another for people to get what they need/want to survive. It's evolved many times over human history.. from hunter gatherers to what we know now - which is drastically different from what others around the world know. There are many different ways for an economy to function. Hunter gatherers, bartering, communism, capitalism, you keep what you kill.. etc. If what we know now implodes, then we'll simply know something else. It might be that we get to know squatting and battling big banks for a time while growing our own food where we used to grow lawns.

It just seems so silly that there are more vacant homes in America than there are homeless people. If the problem truly exploded overnight, somehow I don't foresee everyone just walking out of their homes and wandering the streets aimlessly. I think there'd be a whole lot more people who just refuse to leave their homes in a bit of a class warfare protest of sorts. I'm kind of curious to see what would actually happen if any of these things actually come to be. No matter what happens, it'll be interesting to watch, that's for sure.

What are some possible practical solutions or forms of help for people in this situation of this guy who wrote the article?

No but having your keys suddenly not work in the lot, finding your assets were removed and shipped to the dump while you were at work and having your car etc in police impound is pretty much the same as being homeless. And if you do break back into your own house you get to be shot by the boys in blue. Yep, a system for everyone! least it will make lots of new jobs in repo!

I used to worry about this as well. Interestingly, ever since the Lehman collapse in 2008, I worry about it a lot less now. I suppose I have now accepted it will happen. It’s just a matter of when (and whether it happens during my lifetime or not).

It certainly won’t be pretty when it does happen. After the Lehman collapse, I remember all the talk (in the financial media) about guns, gold and heading for the hills. I figure there’ll be a huge revolution and/or war when the sh*t really hits the fan. It’s too bad. Yet, it seems to be baked into the human condition.

I guess they don't teach much about The Great Depression up in Canada.

If I didn't have my mother to live with and support me I don't know what would happen to me.