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I have to leave the nursing home/physical rehab place where I am , the main guy himself has told me so , my Medicare has run out for here .
I was told I'm not eligible for the care I received here for at least 60 days after leaving .
I may well be completely homeless (HL) after leaving ~ that is what happened when I left before . And I had some remaining extra money then which I Really Don't Have Anymore .
The rehab place is already winding down even the amount of care - treatment , medicine - I was getting up until this , immediate , time .
They might give me an antibiotic prescription for an oral medication when I leave but that doesn't seem guaranteed now .
(I'm going to refer people to my " amputation " post for a lot of the backstory here .)
Basically , I'd like to ~ sort of have to , in a sense ~ get out of , I guess not just this area , but California in general ~ But how ?
I have tried to apply for a " Homeward Bound " (HB) bus ticket to where I have a contact who has invited me up there in the Pacific Northwest - However , briefly , it seems that local Social Services find me ineligible for that , as I was planning to go up to a small city in the P-NW and be met by the friend , who would show me around there/help me connect , but the HB people demand some sort of " firm , guaranteed , invite/plan to live a specific place " ~ The friend lives in a self-described " sticks " area and is not able to offer that , I , frankly , would be HL , likely...I thought that I might re-invent myself , in a sense , perhaps , possibly - as a more " nice " HL person , more " institutionalized " - in the sense of hanging around shelters a lot/trying to meet counselors . Perhaps that could lead to something
Bluntly , in Santa Cruz , that probation saying I'll be sent to the County Jail if I'm downtown at all is still in effect !
As for other parts of this " Greater Bay Area " , well...........
I have some real reasons to want to leave California ~ I said that I'd like to go back to college , well , I'd like to start the (Doubtlessly ENDLESSLY long & complicated ~ Sob ! !! ) process in a new area , especially since I don't (I am going to abbreviate greatly in this initial post , there is so much backstory to much of this (TISMB) - maybe , later on , I could add more , or , off-board/PM , explain some of it . Basically , I think trying to go back to , eventually , full-fledged college at either the U.-Cal or CSU systems isn't do-able and any discussion of returning to college (Especially full-fledged sleepaway university or " uni " , as I'll say , to borrow from the Australians .) .
Also in an incredibly bizarre happening , some Board of Something of California is trying to debt-collect almost $18,000.00 - That's EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS , folks ! - for fines & interest from those " homeless sleeping/camping tickets " hearings that , since I didn't have any money for them in the first place , I didn't show up for and which led to my being arrested and going to jail back in early 2013 that started this whole jail ball rolling in the first place ! !! !! !! !! !! TISMB , but I think that , in another state , I think I could - maybe - find some legal help to try to deal with this more easily than in Cali:
Especially since I have , in fact , had real difficulties finding help around here and I think that:
It is possible that there is some sort of " helping profession " blacklist against me in , at leas in areas closer to San Francisco , and it may partially reach down here . TISMB , but a part of is that a SS agency back when I lived in San Francisco that I was UNLUCKY enough to become and continue to be involved with stole - blatantly stole (Possibly through " just " utter arrogant incompetence and contempt not " actual thieving " , meaning actively seeking to take my money . Maybe . Whoopee doo .) a small inheritance of regularly paid-out money , which I still could have been receiving to this day if not for them !
I tried to fight back against them , nothing happened , and someone who said he'd help me dropped the case ~ There is a similar question of some similar regular pay-outs that (TISMB) got lost , and I think could be found ~ But , the one person who ~ briefly ~ helped me for a while in Santa Cruz dropped out after a while ~ As he did regarding still more stolen pay-outs , these stolen pay-outs that blood relatives of mine stole from me ~ I think that some possibility exists , STILL , that all or at least some of these could be dealt with but it seems there's bad luck against me in the Greater Bay Area and California in general certainly the eighteen thousand dollar dunning for the whole California part .
I'd just be homeless again if I got up to that P-NW place that I was picturing , but at least it's fairly warm right now , and maybe I could dedicate now/the summer to trying to set things up ~ If it does work out that I should get that both-my-big-toes cutting off operation at least maybe I could (I have Medicare) get it there and dedicate the colder , wetter , later months to getting rehab somewhere . Not my 100% life choice , but , about the best " likely " thing that's lying in front of me .
I didn't choose to be homeless , basically , I think , it came from things presented to me coming from , in many ways anyhow , my Aspie-ness , which (note my age) was NEVER EVER even spoken about in my early 20s .
I haven't even mentioned an INCREDIBLY , even by what I've been calling " bizarre " here , , bizarre thing (TISMB) that happened in San Francisco that showed that I can't even relay on the main " poor person's hospital " there ! !! !!

If you ever hope to get on SSI or SSDI you CAN NOT have any warrants out for you in any state or they will reject your claim. as for what other to do, I have no ideas your disabilities so I wouldn't know where to start.

..I've long been on SSI/D/whatevah .
It wasn't my choice , it happened after the early-1980s commitment .
I now get it through a payee , one of those ATM card thingers where it's chopped uip into 5 parts over the month (lotsa ATM fees ) - which makes it difficult to save for a rent payment , a bus ticket and new luggage , like that there .
I guess you know the backstory ~ I might , possibly , have a warrant against me or similar in San Francisco , which IIRC I wrote about in the past , (not the probation on Santa Cruz) (and remotely possibly even in San Jose) based on the same kind of " not showing up for homelessness tickets " BS , in San Francisco's case sometime in 2013 IIRC putting out at that time a warrant based on such tickets going back to before Obama's first Presidential election , in 2008 !
Briefly , I went down there at one point turned myself in was kept for a few hours but not booked given another court date at time ~ At which I got a " do public service " probation which ,consisted of , in fact , " go stay at a shelter and go to various SS things " which , however (TISMB) I had to leave behind , so , it's possible that I'm on record in SF as never having finished that " service " or shown up for a following date so it's at least possible that there could be a warrant again . My phone's out now , I can't , really I think , at least now swing the money to buy the monthly minutes for it ~ Frankly , I've had some " romantic bohemian " thought of , maybe , going - up , actually , from here -(I first wrote " down " !) - to SF , and busking some , in the Castro , Haight - If I get stopped & checked (Or for general HL stuff) , bneingh taken in , doing some county , perhaps even SF wanting to pay for a ticket north - And finding me to be too old/nonviolent/" semi-crazy "/did I mention both my diabtes and my staph infection?? to much keep around long so letting me out pretty quick ~ That's what happened to me really in my last Santa Cruz jail period .

...The discharge from the nursing home/rehab place might be delayed slightly ~ Like , a few days . ~ Or , it may not be delayed at all ! !!
I may be out Friday , just like I thought .
Also remember , I had been wanting to go (Heavily because of a - WP - friend's invitation .) to a town in Washington state .
However , it seems Iwill be unable to get a free bus ticket out I don't fit the rules exactly precisely ~

I don't know how it works there, but in my state, if a homeless autistic person shows up at the state developmental disabilities agency, they have to find housing for him/her. Could you contact the Department of Developmental Services ( http://www.dds.ca.gov/ ) or one of their Regional Centers ( http://www.dds.ca.gov/RC/RCLookup.cfm )? Maybe contact whoever diagnosed you? Call ahead to the Washington State Developmental Disabilities Administration ( http://www.dshs.wa.gov/ddd/ )? The Washington State one has a PDF on residential services.

Good luck.

I wish I lived in Queensland (I live in Sydney, Australia) because in Queensland, they have stuff like this:

http://www.asperger.asn.au/

In Sydney, there's no such centre or establishment to deal with Autism Spectrum Disorders (or any Developmental Disorder, really)...there's only Centrelink and the Department of Housing's 'waiting list' which takes anywhere from 6 months to 6 years to get a place.

I have all but decided to try and make my way up to Queensland anyway because this place is my 'Mecca'.

I was staying down in Sydney to be cared for by my family...but after the past few days it's obvious that they don't care, so why should I continue to care about them and be tied to a location and to a family who does not have my best interests at heart?

It's better I just wipe them like a dirty arse and move on, trying to find those who actually do give a damn.

...SoMi , I was going to say that " trailer park " , not " caravan " (which I think of as more a British term) was more the U.S. phrase ~ But it seems you're describing something that is , maybe , for people more close to homeless/" traveling " than U.S.-definition " trailer parks " , which tend to be for people who aren't the wellest-off , but don't really tend to have public toilets and hot showers (And a couple of open electric places if you can't afford it at your place ? Again , US trailer parks don't tend towards such collectively available stuff . I suppose that " vacationer " trailer parks do , but those aren't advertised as places for people who would be seen as " homeless " , I don't thnk such places would welcome someone seen as being ~ " homeless " ` t all , so to speak and maybe I'll speak more of this later .
I have neither a car/auto of any kind , or even a driver's liscence , at this time , anyway .) ~ U.S. " trailer parks " are just places for " trailer "-type vehicles ~ Which referrs to big , boxy , things that nobody would use on the road except to transport it from one place to another , anyway . ~ to be used a cheap-er housing .
Not " homeless/rambler " ` let alone " new age traveler " , or whatever , in the sense I understand the British tabloids use it ! !! !! !! !! - anyhow .
This area of Central California is INCREDIBLY expensive , there really aren't " cruddy/cheap " places .
Back during the 00s when I lived in San Francisco there were a larger amount of (American terminology .) SROs - " Single room occupancy " places , of an older sort - Sort of " bum/just out of prison-mental hospital-having a low prestige low paying job " places - But , many have gone away , often being taken over by Social Service agencies and being renovated greatly and becoming much , much , nicer and cheaper places - But places that you have to e signed up with some agency to eventually get into , not just walk up with some money as an SRO of the older type would allow you to do .
Thank you , Nich , what state are you in ???
To be blunt , if I went to WA , I wouldn't , especially before I actually went there , actually SAY " I'm coming up to a part of the US I've never ever been to in my life , hoping to get help ~ I'm homeless "to them ~ Inasmuch , um , as it is exactly what I WOULD be doing ! !! !! !! !!
With this very hot spring we're having now , and actual summer to follow , it likely might be okay in WA state homeless - But , if I stay , when it becomes fall and winter , well ~ I mean , I was thinking to a certain extent that I might try to be more a " nice " homeless person , if I was up there - Meaning , make more " nice " with social services , be " co-operative " , in a sense more " institutionalized " - meaning institution/organization-oriented - sleep in shelters or similar considerably more than I have tended to do , as a homeless person - Because , um , " making nice " could make me likely to get Nice Stuff ~ Eventually ? Again , considering how wet & cold the Pacific Northwest part of the U.S. can be I suppose I'd HAVE to !
I'm older and I LOOK it , just last night in a Taco Bell I got a Senior Discount that I did not at all ask for , this has happened to me occasionally -I was going around in my big strong backpack , with a " homeless mat " attached to the top (a yoga mat) , though , literally , I'm not HL now .
Actually , what SoMi describes as " trailer parks " seems close to something called (sometimes) " Homeless SDanctuary Camps " which are sort of springing up in the Pacific Northwest , differing levels of " homeless camps with rules and safety " that seem to differ from being basicall tent camps with maybe a collective toilet and some water/maybe some cooking tent to more elaborate places with , I guess , " wooden houses with no electricity or heat in those houses maybe a basic water source but no bathrooms (Again , a collective one . ~ That's not my life's ambition but it would be a step up .
Perhaps if I was there for a while (To an extent , actually , it's sort of sprung out of the whole " Occupy ______ " camps thing a few years ago - Um , more later .) - One problem I'd have there is that , even as a HL person ,I've tended to sleep outside , but with a minimal-ish mat/surface and sleeping bag/tarp , bringing all of my stuff with me -- Not a full-out tent posted somewhere (Which tends to mean a permanent place , at least for the moment ~ Perhaps the sort of " homeless encampment " you read about .) , with me leaving possessions there as well , as I said?? I've tended to bring all of my sh*t with me .) I'd get into one .
My longer-run ambition is to go back to college ~ Or , in fact , I'll borrow you Australians' term " uni " as it symbolizes " a full-scale , residential , four-year-type university " like I never truly got to do when I was the " standard age " or just a bit-ish beyond that - I acknowledge that , yes , to do that I would have to be " a good boy " and go to some kind of community college/junior college/similar and grade well first ~ Rather , ironically , like when I was 18 and my mother said to me " Oh , no ! First you have to prove you DESERVE to go away to college ! !!" ~ Back during the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player .
Um , I've gone umpteen directions here ~ I'd best finish off , even f I didn't maybe explain me things fully enough ~ Yesterday , I wrote a letter to the management at this place , requesting clarification as to whether they are going to demand me out Friday , as I never heard exact follow-up on that ~ I have yet to receive an answer so I will assume " No , I can stay a little longer " , and , furthermore , I think I will do something somewhat " james Dean/rock'n'roll bad boy/rebel "-ish - I am now inclined to think that I will go to a show , a rock'n'roll show , in downtown Santa Cruz tomorrow night , at a club , which would certainly keep me downtown well past the last bus ~ So , I guess I'd wear my backpack and " sleep rough " , as I would be doing if I was HL anyway , when I was thinking I'd be out Friday I thought " well , it would preparation for what I'd be doing once I'm HL again " , now ~ ???????
In the past , actually , I've sort of fallen into the kind-of romanticizing the IDEA of " busking/ when I've been housed for a bit ~ Perhaps on a " temporary " basis anyway and maybe less than ideal ~ Like , back in San Francisco , when , briefly , a SS agency that later ended up stealing money from me (Another Really Long Back-Story thing .) had me in a " ex-homeless " sort of place but , even before the theft happened , they were trying to dominate my life completely ~ But , I maybe end up not doing those " romantic " things , I spoke of them above , didn't I ??? I can't scroll back to look at my first post above , now .
I didn't choose to be HL , believe me .
Perhaps I've tended to develop " coping startegies " based on being HL which aren't , however , perhaps the best " long-term/' recepts ~ Rather like I said to someone/they me when I was in the Santa Cruz County Jail , they did " when-in-jail " things that were , perhaps maybe not the bast " real world " strategies , to repeat myself only a couple of lines later ...........Aspie-ish of me , eh ???????????

Being an Aussie (and not knowing any better) and having 'British' as my main ancestry, I always thought the terms 'trailer' and 'caravan' were synonymous...just goes to show how little I know about it...

One advantage I have, is that I do have a car....a commodore station wagon (I often sleep in) and how I get to actually keep my licence is anybody's guess, but until they remove it, I still have my old, bomb $500 car I bought years ago.

Yeah, our caravan parks are 'tourist parks', but if I must become 'homeless' (car not included), becoming one of those:

...I was never in the Boy Scouts or the Army or the like , and so never learned to put up a tent , " properly "...really , if I was in such a place as what I alluded to , that might be a problem ! !!
Hah , as far as being a " rambler " , it's like I'm projecting yself into that , rather heavily verexpose Wod Guthrie/Jack Kerouac fantasy/character ...

It is just terrible how societies handle things of this nature. It is really NO different here in the US. While I am not profoundly autistic, I still have severe limitations. Currently I have a place to live as I am caretaker for my 86 year old mum who has a failing heart. Money wise we are drowning since I lost my last job (several reasons but mainly due to autism). My employer tried to fight my bid for unemployment and lost, I at least had it all documented well and they admitted they knew my conditions prior to hiring me. What did them in was they admitted to making NO accommodations for me under the ADA. Well unemployment only lasts so long and now with my physical condition sufficiently deteriorated, there is next to nothing I can do. Hell I can't stand or walk for greater then 5 minutes at a time on a good day!

IF we can hold on long enough the plan is to sell the home and get a large motor home. It would be used of course but hopefully can find a serviceable one. I have applied for disability and been denied once already. Just filed my appeal but I need to see specialists for treatment to help my condition. They can do no more for me at the free clinic but have said no way I can work in my current condition. Of course the state sent me to their doctors and they flatly denied that I had any problem. Lied about it in fact. So I have a fight I may or may not win and no idea how long it will take. I think the average is about 3 years if you are lucky and win on appeals or in the court.

Say even if we do sell however and my mum passes. I won't have ANY income at all and no way to get hired. I am currently selling off much of my things but that money is to just help us survive until whatever happens. So currently I am not homeless, but it could happen any day or next year or whenever. Even so we can't afford to keep things up as they are. I so wish there were answers but I am of the opinion that society as a whole doesn't care. We are just a burden on society. I could say and write about so much more, but I am not as bad off as either of you two as of yet. And I know there are others far worse off.

If I had to rough it I doubt I'd survive 6 months. Physically I can't walk and with my other issues if I don't have any money I can't afford meds let alone eat. Already I am only taking one of three BP meds and I am still on my cymbalta but I have like 5 days left. I am hopeful Lilley comes thru again but for how long.

Can't say more now as I will probably be brooding all night as it is and I am not hardly sleeping at any rate. I hope things get better for both of you soon. It seems many of us are in fixes that there seems to be no answer to.

..Rea.lly briefly , I am physically better off now than I suggested I would be , as the " melodrama " I suggested would happen Thursday nite didn't happen , I was able to get the last bus back , I didn't sleep rough...I am at the Nursing Home again , I suppose , certainly, over the weekend , I am unlikely to be tossed out or even early in the new week (and , in fact , I could probably stay here longer still , especially considering the stuff about their management that I'll get into below) ~ although perhaps I'll jinx myself by saying that ! !! !! !! !!
At this point , too , the TV room computer is working again , it wasn't over the last two overnites ~ So I'm appeased .
Hany , I suppose that statement has variations - Yeah , especially in the less expensive parts of the US ,g general c cost-of-living can vary a lot , you could live on $1600.00 - ESPECIALLY if you can START FROM SOMETHING , if , say , you walked out on the street , in decent health , clean colother that you were wearing , maybe a carrier bag of a few things , and nothing else - but a check for a week's worth of that $1600 , $400 or so , in your pocket ~ Making a down payment on a place , assuming you were seeking one , getting clothes , food...That would be another story from IF , before you left , you could stay somewhere for a little bit building things up , say , getting a place in advance , having help moving there...That's a major problem , believe me .
Basically , I have no one who would/is able to offer me any " passage/getting started " help .
And , as far as expensive-ness goes , coastal Northern/Central California is INCREDIBLY expensive ! Lots of people want to live there , so...
Supply and demand .
At this point , the active medical care I'm getting from the NH is pretty minimal , they are supposed to bandage/salve my two wounded feet once daily , to-day , I was in my room pretty much all of the morning and early afternoon til' 1:30 - Nothing has happened yet . I am now typing this in the TV/mess room in the open-toe clogs that I walk around here in ,sorta dirty by now I'd think?? with the great big open wounds/chunks of flesh gone on my two greater toes completely non-bandaged - Now , I sometimes get pester-y about it , maybe too much so?? , to them - Not that , in general , it does much good !
They seem to have completely forgotten the heavy suggesting of me allowing amputation of both toes they were doing before .
This place has changed ownership just now , apparently , and the highest-ranking non-medical " head person " I mostly had contact with has left...
Likewise , yeasterday I left the place at past 12 noon , went downtown with my feet 100% non-bandaged , in these Chaco hiking sandals that are my only " normal world " shoes at present - I meant to write " rather heavily overexposed Woody Guthrie/Jack Kerouac fantasy/character " above , did that come across , with my perhaps typing shortcomings (I am not a " trained " typist .)/the " not registering " faults of whatever keyboard - The Main Library , downtown (I am in Santa Cruz now , not San Jose , though since that's still where my official address is...) , IIRC .