Trump Derangement Syndrome

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I am aware that SSI isn't just for Aspergers.This is an Aspergers forum,so there are aspies here that receive it.There is one library here and it's not open at night.Nothing is open at night here,it all closes around eight.You'd drive an hour if you needed gas.A library would be my dream job,I love the smell of books.Its a sweet tannin smell like dried leaves,and the quiet.My sanctuary in school.Where you live may have many job options,some areas just don't.There are sawmills here that usually are hiring,but you better be in prime shape to work there.You won't get the cushy job,like fork lift becuse they never quit.You be catching cross ties,lumber and slabs.So for people with physical disabilities like a bad back,that job is out of the question.All the good jobs like county,electric,phone etc..those people are lifers.They won't quit till its retirement time.Then one of their relations will replace them.Its how it rolls here.

You don't know how many here are high functioning.They may post brilliantly,but be nonverbal in RL.
I think of SSI as more along the lines that we live in a society that doesn't want people to starve or be homeless.
Provide jobs that special needs can do and you'll have more people seek employment.But there's this stigma thing,if you tell an employers you have a disability like a mental illness or autism they become fearful of a person that is "different."Just like some people won't hire people of color.
Seriously,I try to think of some way I can make money.I love to garden but one person can't really grow enough extra to sell and make enough to get off SSI.Ive got some ideas for things to sell to the tourists,but I doubt it will be enough where I could sustain myself.

I'm not sure what drugs you are talking about,I take Ativan and a whole Lexapro.That's to keep me alive,it doesn't cure me by any means.I had "Sylvia Plath" depression.The Bell Jar describes it to a T.You should read it sometime,it's a good read.Not being sarcastic,just if you like to read.

and, no, SSI payments are just over $700 per month, not enough to discourage work. i know this due to having been a social worker. it's not what i received.

It's always been like that for me when it comes to dealing with people and situations. Sometimes on a weekday after dealing with work and anything else that needed done that day totally fries my brain. Sometimes I just have to sit in a quiet room by myself with no TV, no music, no computer or phone, no nothing and just chill out.
But some days at work and/or other activities are rather pleasant.

Either way, the next day I pry my ass out of bed and go do it all again...

i definitely had the aspie burnout, I was finished for several years, I could do nothing but sit like a lump and stare off into the distance. and when I have to make my frontal lobes do more around people, I get right back into that mess. i'm done.

That burnout is no joke, its terrifying to feel yourself reduced to such a level too; people seemed to think all I needed was a pep-talk to get going again, but if that was the case, I would've given myself the pep-talk. I think welfare in conjunction with education would go a long way, people like me can't work and go to school at the same time, there just isn't enough to go around. Do you have any opportunities to go to school?

Thank you for taking time to explain more. Can you work at a garden place?

I read that book in middle school. I'll see about it again.

i definitely had the aspie burnout, I was finished for several years, I could do nothing but sit like a lump and stare off into the distance. and when I have to make my frontal lobes do more around people, I get right back into that mess. i'm done.

I cannot dismiss out of hand, this particular dystopian future possibility-

We are already half way or more there. Based on his inauguration speech (and many others), this is the sort of dystopian future Trump is determined to turn America away from.

Hahahaha! Liberals take "America first" to mean Trump wants to destroy America by making America first. That makes sense. If you want to criticize his cabinet picks, that's one thing but this is absurd. "It's time to bring back jobs." OMG Trump wants to destroy America by bringing jobs back. Did we listen to the same speech? Maybe this forum has crossed over into some alternative universe.

his speech is NOT how he will or can govern. you can't believe his every word.

Rather than taking a default attitude that he's already the worst president we ever had, that he should be impeached already, the endless Hitler comparisons, comparing a presidency that hasn't even started yet to things like the Holocaust and 9/11.

True. But I'll give him the benefit of the doubt in the meantime. Rather than taking a default attitude that he's already the worst president we ever had, that he should be impeached already, the endless Hitler comparisons, comparing a presidency that hasn't even started yet to things like the Holocaust and 9/11. I'm not directing that at you dearest auntblabby (I really like you a lot if you don't mind my saying so) it's just the overall impression I get from all the sources I'm tapped into. And it really troubles me a lot.

his speech is NOT how he will or can govern. you can't believe his every word.