I Don't WANT to Work!

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Regarding: "Why don't you want to work? Then you are not challenging yourself!"

I beg to differ! Most jobs that I, and I daresay, most of us have had are NOT challenging in any way. If you were able to get a good education, or somehow were able to get a great job, good for you, but this is not the case for most of us, and it's not from lack of trying to find said awesome jobs!

Lets see. When I have been unemployed, I have:
* Had my own slot in the local radio station, and I learned a lot.
* Took up carpentry, remodeling, and lots of frugal DIY.
* Learned Knitting.
* Volunteered at the local library, because.. well.. I'm crazy about libraries, and I wanted to see what it would be like working there! They wouldn't have had the money to pay me, and they were not in need of an extra employee, but they let me learn.
* Learned to be an AMAZING cook.
* Learned to be an AMAZING baker.
* Learned a programming language that I wanted to learn for a long time, but I hadn't enough stress-free time to learn it.
* Learned how to make some really nice clothes, purses, and then my family and friends requested them as their gifts for Christmas!
* I learned how to "reverse" my type II diabetes with food, and
* I had time to figure out what exercise I needed

I would have never been able to challenge myself so much, if I had been employed at a dead-end job. Trust me, I had tried before.

You're confusing MBTI terminology with AS/NT as differentiating terms between Autistic Spectrum and Neuro-Typical.

If you're incapable of working, then that is one thing; if you are choosing not to work and live in a fashion I would consider more parasitic than community-oriented, than that is another. My work history is as varied and curious as they come; I managed to learn my interests through my jobs, which made the whole process easier. There is nothing wrong with being on disability - except for the fact that the benefits don't allow the person to adequately survive - but there is a problem with abusing the system and expecting others to pay your way.


M.

@ "cyanide" and makuranososhi:

Since you both seem to be intent upon being repetitive, I will repeat myself too. There are a lot of people who are working who do not want to work, why should people on disability not want to work as well? Are you telling me you wake up every single day happy and eager to go to work? I have never known one single human who could make that claim, but when a disabled person says "I don't want to go to work" I guess it's a sin!

So I will put this in yet *another* way and maybe you will understand the intent of this thread. A lot of people seem to have double standards when it comes to working and "doing their part". Most humans grumble and b***h when they wake up because they don't want to have to go off and work all day and put up with people's BS. If you are one of those people who found the perfect job then congratulations, but I sincerely doubt you are. Step down off your pedestal and stop pretending that you are better than anybody else, especially disabled people who physically and/or mentally CAN'T put up with a day to day job.

Makuranososhi You claim to have undiagnosed AS, and 'cyanide', you claim to have diagnosed AS yet neither of you cannot grasp the concept that it can be crippling to some people to the extent that they cannot have a normal life. I suppose then those people who cannot have a normal life do not deserve to be happy in any situation or find any way to cope with their pain. I suppose those people deserve to suffer even more that they already do and deserve to feel ashamed. I suppose if a person in such a situation claims they feel relieved that they don't HAVE to be forced to do something that is painful for them they should be put in their place and finger wagged and chewed out and punished.

I know where this mentality comes from. You have been spoon-fed a bunch of lies since you were born and conditioned to be a good consumer by companies who want to sell you on a way of life. They don't bother selling you their product, because once you engage in the way of life presented to you as the proper way to live then you will buy their product anyway. When the automobile was first invented, nobody wanted one. They had to convince people they needed one in order to get them to buy one. Admit it, you have fallen prey to a mind virus that has been set loose on us which is so powerful and convincing that you have to preach it and convince everybody else to think the same way and become angry and full of spite and disdain at anybody who cannot be convinced.

You want to out me as a fraud you say? Fine, I have outed you as sheeple.

I used to think it was my duty to have a job and "earn a living" until my father and grandfather lost their jobs when the company they both worked for went under. Both of them got royally screwed in the legal clusterfu*k that followed, especially my grandfather who lost almost half of his pension and has been scratching to make ends meet for 12 years now.

This is a man who had been continuously working since he was 14 until he was forced into early retirement at 53, that's 39 years of hard work with nothing to show for it except an income that doesn't even match the average income of the chronically unemployed in this country.

So yeah, my will to work has dwindled considerably, along with my trust of the system. I've been mostly unemployed since I left highschool and I wouldn't lose any sleep if that didn't change.

*shakes head* My diagnostic status reads that, as I have explained elsewhere, is because I don't have an official diagnosis written in my chart, but the consensus of two doctors in agreement. But nice try to use something unrelated to diminish the value of what I am saying. I don't like working, I don't like what I experience, but to have the life I want - I have to work. That doesn't translate to desire for any consumption, as you inaccurately infer, but to provide for my family and my confidence. As you are not my family, appear capable of work as you have said you refuse to work and will not share your education - not that you can't work - and celebrate living off others, I have no interest in supporting you as there are other people who have a greater need. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't make them sheeple; your behavior, however, is growing offensive.


M.

I felt that way, for a very long time, and than I've decided to start working, two summers, ago.