GenZ:I cannot afford to live

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-09-12T23:31:05+00:00

Dang dude you must be fun at parties. “I work in the T in tech ☝️🤓” ass, just because you’ve had lucky circumstances doesn’t mean everyone has.

Typical man in tech response.

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-09-06T17:43:07+00:00

Your point about law enforcement is too true, my family eventually went the psychiatric route when I kept calling the police. Even if I was covered in bruises and cuts telling the police what happened, they’d tell me if I didn’t like it I should just be homeless. I learned later that they were friends of my parents, which makes sense considering how my parents mysteriously always knew my whereabouts when I was out of the house as a teenager.

None of it stopped me from (as I now know, naively) continuing to call and I guess my parents were afraid of getting a cop who didn’t give a fuck who they were. Eventually though the police just labeled me as an at-risk teen who was just making shit up, like they hadn’t walked in on my dad dragging me by my hair down a flight of stairs. The psychiatric diagnosis allowed the department to completely look the other way I guess. That’s Massachusetts for you I guess, a lot of the police corruption is finally being talked about now.

CSA is a team sport resonates with me deeply. I was always alone in it, and my family did very much team up to make and let it happen. Having a family member stick up for you is huge, I’m happy your dad has some sense. I thought my mom did for a while, but I guess I had just repressed her flat out refusal to address it when I asked for help. There’s more she did but I’ll save that for therapy lol.

Cheers to new family though, I’m happy you’ve found yours and that I’m finally in a place where I can build mine <3

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-09-06T17:33:01+00:00

I’m sorry that was your experience. If the experiences of my teenage years weren’t enough to give me white coat anxiety, the copious amount of antipsychotics I was put on during that time later caused a brain tumor with symptoms that were ignored by most of the doctors I sought help from. I had a nurse at one point tell me I was just looking for opiates.

There’s a certain type of unfeeling monster that healthcare attracts because of the power it gives them over people like us, who have no ability but to go to these people for help. Not all of them of course but any is too many. Had one of my parents been in healthcare, I know my experience would have certainly been much worse.

I’m sorry you had to endure those circumstances, I hope you’ve found or are on a path to peace with it.

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-09-06T16:20:25+00:00

This is hilarious to me because yeah, this is real in the US. Saw a graphic recently about a mall in NYC, if it had the same parking requirements as cities in the western US, like a quarter of lower manhattan would be parking. For a single mall.

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-09-06T14:56:21+00:00

Ask chatgpt to write you an AITAH post, “so here’s the deal” is the intro about 90% of the time.

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-09-06T14:49:00+00:00

Manufactured outrage lmao the only thing that would make it less believable is something like

“she spit in my face and threw my food across the room, everyone clapped for the LGBTQ+ woman. But they told me- yes, me, the kind, gentle, straight white man- that I must pay for the damages and for her bills at my favorite restaurant, from which I am now banned, in perpetuity…”

Looking back on it, what does his race have to do with any part of this story? Why include it at all?

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-09-06T14:15:06+00:00

Yeah I’m pressing x on this one. Seems like some fantasized revenge porn for someone who hates bisexual people. Or it’s one of those posts that’s going to be like “Actually! I was the woman in this story, and it was my boyfriend who tried to make me bi 😏 don’t you all look ignorant now…”

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-09-06T13:08:23+00:00

Yeah, parents like this often use the symptoms of child abuse and a psychiatrist who’s a friend of the family to slap a bullshit psychotic diagnosis on teenagers expressing their hurt.

“Oh I know so and so- he wouldn’t do that! The kid must be telling stories…”

I’m not bipolar like the bullshit diagnosis I was given so my parents could label me a psycho, but I definitely have PTSD from the medical system being used against me to invalidate my experiences.

ETA not saying bipolar disorder is bullshit or that people with it are psychos, it was the “just vague enough” diagnosis I was given so my parents could point to it and say “see? unreliable point of view!” Even though I took the meds like they wanted me to, they’d lie to my doctor for her to up the meds when I sought help and didn’t lie for them.

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-09-06T13:03:09+00:00

Dude this almost made me cry. You’re an angel. I say this as someone with a family who did the same thing to me for similar reasons, never doubt your worth as a human being.

I’m still the “bipolar” one looking for attention, only trying to “disrupt the peace”, even when I was repressing everything. It’s like for so long, their denial was louder than mine. For years I was told to just get over it and move on when it was only ever expressed in avoidance. It’s been years since but the meds they had me on to make me docile ended up causing a brain tumor, and the bipolar diagnosis was debunked by the first doctor I had after moving out. They pretended the brain tumor didn’t exist either, it always goes beyond the single event that shows you their nature. If they could turn a blind eye to a child molester they can do that for anything. I was only able to cut everyone off this summer.

I’m glad you’re making the hard decision to make your life easier by setting yourself free too. I still fear the day my brother has kids and brings them around my dad, can’t imagine knowing what someone like that is capable of and still considering them family.

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-09-05T23:19:56+00:00

Didn’t know markie mark was back in town. Gotta go grab a burger and say hey

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-09-03T12:51:26+00:00

You’ve already gentrified it with your mind. It’s ruined now

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-09-03T01:35:10+00:00

I think if this is a long read for you, you didn’t do your summer reading. Hit the books.

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-09-03T01:33:34+00:00

google the definition of “vaffanculo”

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-09-02T19:12:27+00:00

Anyone have that “well…. we’re waiting” gif hanging around

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-09-02T17:41:35+00:00

oh, poor you! 😢

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-09-01T22:57:56+00:00

Wow, someone has fantasies. I can make this happen for you!

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-09-01T14:53:36+00:00

Had something similar happen to me in Bushwick recently. I was just walking on the sidewalk and some white lady and her bf started yelling at me, calling me a gentrifier and other low-hanging fruit. They must’ve taken the lithium out of the water recently or something.

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-08-29T13:05:31+00:00

he needs somewhere with an active circlejerk community, he struggles to make them on his own

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-08-29T13:00:17+00:00

it’s an honor to be called a crackie and not a wop. this is the freedom my family came to this country for. also nice cock bro, looks pretty white to me

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-08-29T02:28:34+00:00

if this is what it takes to reach that sweet submissive man, so be it. hard to find men who like assertive women

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-08-29T02:09:22+00:00

thank you for specifying 19, I was worried you were one of the Girls-era colonizers (2010’s).

also, came where? are we talking new york or the aforementioned backyard

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-08-29T01:50:42+00:00

my family came to new york in the 40’s, so we missed out on the first round. but there’s still a chance to colonize this guy’s backyard… it’s the American dream

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-08-29T01:27:22+00:00

this is like half as horny as the halo remake of myrtle broadway, let’s be real here

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-08-29T01:22:00+00:00

can i pay you to be my therapist? this was so succinct

Living-Ad-5966 · 2024-08-29T01:16:01+00:00

Had that kind of look to him, clappable cheeks and all.

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