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The_Face_of_Boo
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31 Dec 2018, 3:54 pm

I thought of suicide when I first got my one-ear Tinnitus.

It was probably on my 7th or 8th day of Tinnitus, it was very very loud, as if there’s a kettle siffling inside the right side of my brain and never stops, couldn’t sleep for nights. All the 3 ENTs didn’t know the cause.

I was on the balcony at night, listening to the city noise outside because it eases it somehow, but I had thoughts that maybe I should just throw myself all the way down.

It’s good that it became way lower with medication and after my upper wisdom teeth’s removal (it was by chance that a neighbor’s friend who is a senior dental surgeon took a look at the xray image of my teeth, and she looked at me in shock and was like “your upper wisdom teeth are way upward, are your ears ok?” o.O, she didn’t know I got Tinnitus recently).
I still have to remove the two lower ones, because those two are affecting my hearing according to her (exercing force against on my jaws), and they’re badly impacted anyway.

Also cutting on salt made wonder for me, whenever I accidently eat something salty, it spikes.

But yeah I would probably have ended it if it persisted that loud, it was just unbearable.



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31 Dec 2018, 5:06 pm

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I hope I didn’t upset you, Temmy.


You didn't upset me Mr Kraftie.

I understood what you meant.



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31 Dec 2018, 8:27 pm

Fos11 wrote:
Suffering is not a choice, like poverty is not a choice.


I would say Poverty is a choice just not the choice of the person who is in poverty.

I technically live in "relative poverty" and have lived in absolute poverty, this due to the choice of my parents to have a child they couldn't look after.



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31 Dec 2018, 9:05 pm

Poverty is not a choice

Earned income depends on:. Health, luck, iq, personality

If you have a disease that prevents you from working, or if your disease has a lot of bills, that is not your choice.

Racism sexism homophobia fatophobia classism, are not your choice

IQ and personality are nature versus nurture

Some people have more IQ potential than others

Some people do not get a chance to go to school

Or went to academically weak schools

"If you work hard, you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up". A high school counselor had the nerve to tell me

Some ten year olds get shot or cancer and drop dead. They could not have prevented it by working hard



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31 Dec 2018, 9:07 pm

shortfatbalduglyman wrote:
Poverty is not a choice

Earned income depends on:. Health, luck, iq, personality

If you have a disease that prevents you from working, or if your disease has a lot of bills, that is not your choice.

Racism sexism homophobia fatophobia classism, are not your choice

IQ and personality are nature versus nurture

Some people have more IQ potential than others

Some people do not get a chance to go to school

Or went to academically weak schools

"If you work hard, you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up". A high school counselor had the nerve to tell me

Some ten year olds get shot or cancer and drop dead. They could not have prevented it by working hard


The majority of people in poverty are there because their parents were in poverty and chose to bring a child into poverty.



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31 Dec 2018, 9:33 pm

Lumir wrote:
...high suicide rates contribute to economic and social problems.

and vice-versa.



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01 Jan 2019, 4:39 am

Fnord, you ould have easaly ended up forever homeless, because if you have a disability like autism, the chances are, you will end up poor. You cant decide if you're born healthy or disabled.



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01 Jan 2019, 6:39 am

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Fnord, you ould have easaly ended up forever homeless, because if you have a disability like autism, the chances are, you will end up poor. You cant decide if you're born healthy or disabled.


Stop trolling fnord. He's told you his history. He did work hard.

Sometimes you've got to keep your eyes open for opportunities. That's not luck, that's making a change in your life when you work out a way to.



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01 Jan 2019, 7:50 am

Fos is only 19. He should listen to people who have succeeded in life despite the odds being against them.



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01 Jan 2019, 10:54 am

What if i become blind?



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01 Jan 2019, 11:04 am

Go see a doctor if you think you’re going blind.

Tell us why you think you’re going blind.

Anyway....you would get government benefits if you become blind. And it’s a guarantee you won’t be homeless.



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01 Jan 2019, 12:18 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
Fos is only 19. He should listen to people who have succeeded in life despite the odds being against them.


Donal Trump is seventy some and "succeeded" at business and Commander in Chief of military

Just because someone is older than you, does not guarantee that you should listen to them

Success is a vague and subjective word that often means nothing


Two people might do the same thing and one succeed and one fail

In the newspaper, a cashier tackled someone and got back stolen merchandise

He got promoted

A different cashier did likewise

He got made redundant



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02 Jan 2019, 12:05 am

hurtloam wrote:
Sometimes you've got to keep your eyes open for opportunities. That's not luck, that's making a change in your life when you work out a way to.


the problem with "opportunity," is that 1] it is usually forbiddingly hard work with little assistance or no assistance at all, and 2] one must be in a physical, mental and psychological place to meet said "opportunity." meeting said conditions is a tall order for most outside of a gifted few.



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06 Jan 2019, 3:59 pm

Anway Autism is a disability. And we are not superior to neurotypicals, we are inferior.



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18 Jan 2019, 11:29 pm

This may be a little bit of a conspiracy theory but, if you live on and have a job or something like that you'll be paying taxes/keep part of the system functioning.

Ultimately we are all important and even if you end up as a homeless person and have some minimum wage job working at a retail shop you'll be contributing to the system slightly.

I don't understand why mentally ill people aren't allowed to be put out of their misery but, terminally ill people are allowed to, double standard much? :|

In my opinion it feels kinda on the unethical side. I feel like we should be allowed to kill ourselves.



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18 Jan 2019, 11:42 pm

many folks think that with mental illness, there is always hope of cure or effective treatment which would at least partially restore the viability of said mentally ill person's life. also differing opinions of what constitutes "viability" in the first place. for some it is just being alive, quality of life regardless. you will find that among religious fanatics.