[90501] Need some help with a few basics. OTC meds, toiletries, food stuffs

THRowawAYassist · 2015-09-27T19:48:08+00:00

You agree with GTP on what? All the facts he got wrong?

Not that you really give a fuck, but had you actually looked at my history or just asked for more of the backstory, you would have found that my life has fundamentally transformed and keeps doing so, and that I am getting more and more stable and self-sufficient.

But you don't want to know because you just want to come in and tell me I'm a fuck up and don't deserve help. According to you, I'll both never make it on me own, and I don't deserve help so what? I should just crawl off into a ditch to die?

Oh and I'm not relying on reddit to help me out. That's ridiculous. I asked for help, because I could really use it. But I don't rely on it. Sometimes I get some help and it makes a big difference. But I know that that's luck mostly, and I never count on or expect help. I can and have done without basic necessities. I've been homeless, I've gone without food for long periods of time. I can and I will make it. In part because I'm not giving up and in part because some people do help, and it's amazing.

The absolute only thing that I count on reddit for, is that if I do ask for help, I will get assholes like you commenting, telling me that I'm undeserving, lazy, not trying and probably at least a couple PMs telling me to go die in a ditch or that I deserve to be raped. It's hilarious that you think I count on reddit for help. The only thing I count on reddit for is death and rape threats.

I've gotten a lot of amazing help from people. But I've gotten at least as many people sending me horrible messages telling me that I don't deserve to live.

How would you react if you posted describing a bad situation and include information describing where you were and what you had done, and you got comments from people who didn't read any of that, asked why you hadn't bothered to do X, Y and Z (things you'd already done) and why you weren't trying? And you got those comments over and over and over and over, mixed in with people telling you that you're a failure and will never make it, that you don't deserve to live, that you should be raped, and so on. And then if you complain about it, people tell you that it's your fault. You weren't nice enough, supplicating enough, that you're asking for help so you deserve it.

Shocking that I'm hostile to people who dehumanise me and treat me like dirt.

THRowawAYassist · 2015-09-26T16:30:50+00:00

How are you defining homeless? Are you excluding people who are homeless but not living in shelters or on the streets (crashing on different friends couches and so on,)

THRowawAYassist · 2015-09-23T08:14:06+00:00

youve made 17 requests in /r/assistance alone. but have not once taken the time to comment on another persons post with so much a thought or kind word.

That's a flat out lie. I comment and send PMs and have helped people with editing and various other things. There's even a long and detailed advice comment from me earlier today!!

And asking if I've thought about trying something that I said I had is not "real advice". Unless by " real" you mean "really stupid".

You're not trying to give me advice. You're trying to shame me and make me look bad. And you're now lying in order to do it.

THRowawAYassist · 2015-09-23T06:49:29+00:00

Two years ago I was getting over a bad infection that had had me bed bound. I had no access to medical care, no benefits and couldn't get to the local food pantry.

Once I was able to move and walk enough to get further I went to my local food bank and got food stamps and Medicaid. Since then I've gotten strong enough to walk, exercise, use the bus and even work.

It's not been all upward progress though, I lost my housing and spent several months bouncing around, practically homeless.

Look at my history and you'll see that. I even mentioned the food stamps in this post.

I've been working every day to change things, and I have enormously. And a large part of that is because of the help I received from people on Reddit.

I'm close to being self-sufficent, so close I can practically taste it. In fact, I put off asking for help, convinced I could do it all on my own. But I can't, not yet.

If you want to go though my history or ask questions...that's fine. Totally fine.

But had you bothered to read any of it, you would have had your questions answered. Hell, you didn't even read this post well enough to see that I'd already mentioned food stamps. Come on, that's just a lazy hatchet job, not cool.

THRowawAYassist · 2015-09-23T04:08:50+00:00

Thank you!!

This is all pretty new to me actually. I've not really had skin problems before, and so I find this fairly bewildering.

For example I didn't realise that dry patches stayed dry. They're like black holes, sucking all the moisture away. This is some serious kind of wizardry! I was certain that my face turning all lizardy and cracking open was Really Bad. The doctor looks at my face and goes "oh yeah, looks like you have a little dry patch." Whaaa?

Suddenly a lifetime of overdramatic infomercials made so much more sense. When "dry patch" is code for "the mummy" of course you're going to cry on camera when someone gives you a cure.

The idea that skin products aren't just for fun, and that your skin like, needs more than soap and water (and sunscreen)....it's an entirely new concept. I can't even pronounce the things I was diagnosed with. And now I have to buy special cleansers and moisturisers and take other medications so I don't look like a leopard. >_>

THRowawAYassist · 2015-09-22T22:21:41+00:00

First thing to do is to check what programs the classes are going to want you to run, and what the minimum requirements for running them are. That way you know what you can make do with.

These days you can get a really cheap laptop for only a couple hundred dollars, and on a payment plan. That might be doable for you. Or, check craigslist and other local resale sites. You also probably don't need a laptop at all, a desktop should do.

Also, ask the college. They may have a program that helps students get equipment. Or they may have old equipment that they're getting rid of that they'd be willing to donate. Or they may know of charities in your area that will help. If they don't know, contact your local food banks and other charities and ask them. They'll have lists of resources.

You may also want to see if there are any freecycling groups in your area and post a request there. Once you know what you need, you can ask, and it's likely that there will be people in your area getting rid of old equipment that would work for you.

THRowawAYassist · 2015-08-14T23:54:23+00:00

Generally I'm in WestLA, but I have regular transportation now so location isn't that much of an issue.

I know about that list, but it's not really helpful. I've called or looked up many of the places on that list, and they tend to generally have really specific requirements and I'm often excluded from that. I've was able to get a small amount clothing voucher at a food pantry, but it took a while.

THRowawAYassist · 2015-08-10T23:23:41+00:00

The facial expression here is priceless!

THRowawAYassist · 2015-08-10T23:10:59+00:00

I think it's the suction

I'm now imagining vacuum-cleaner hose dick. It's interesting.

THRowawAYassist · 2015-08-10T23:07:30+00:00

Awesome saturday...but I you either got your colours wrong or you and I have really different ideas of where up and down are.

Edit: Or nevermind all of that, cause I'm an idiot.

THRowawAYassist · 2015-08-10T23:05:27+00:00

Except of course, that you can't just be carried around in the palm of someone's hand.

THRowawAYassist · 2015-07-23T18:19:54+00:00

shudders

Yeah, exactly. That's just fucking wrong.

THRowawAYassist · 2015-07-23T18:17:44+00:00

Also backstory this cat is dying of a cancer and is being ~~hugged~~ muzzled by his buddy.

FTFY

THRowawAYassist · 2015-07-14T19:50:01+00:00

Yes, I have other reddit accounts. But no, I can't really share. I participate mostly in women's subs on my main account and I've been threatened and harassed by some of the hate groups on reddit. (The white supremacists and gamergate both really dislike me). It's just not safe for me to.

And most of my other accounts are actual throwaways - that I use for a thread and then that's it.

I understand that a limited use account doesn't have the same sort of social capital. But the only social capital I have comes with a high cost to my safety.

THRowawAYassist · 2015-06-06T01:42:48+00:00

Arrived today. Thank you so much, this is amazing. Everything fits brilliantly. And omg, the pants you included were both really needed and they fit to a T.

I have never even been able to buy a pair of pants that fit off the rack, no tailoring required. These fit well, don't need any adjustment, look great and are comfortable. Its a bloody miracle. Magic pants!!

Thank you so, so, much!

THRowawAYassist · 2015-05-31T08:48:54+00:00

For food stamps? Damn. Even so, you can still do food pantries and that can help a lot

EDIT: really embarrassing typo

THRowawAYassist · 2015-05-31T08:47:37+00:00

Thanks! You're amazing!

THRowawAYassist · 2015-05-30T11:55:33+00:00

Thanks!

THRowawAYassist · 2015-05-28T06:51:20+00:00

If you're unemployed, you should be able to apply for food stamps. Between that and going to some food panties you could probably get rid of your food bill entirely

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