My life was a misfire
What’s the name of the place in Patterson? Maybe I could look into it.
Put yourself on a waiting list for a place close to Santa Cruz in the meantime. Maybe RR can send the info again, if he is so inclined.
Your brother’s money is eventually going to run out. Then where will you be? Out in the streets again! Having to sleep in the Sally place. Having to lug around the ball and chain.
I wish you could get some definite answers from the eye doctor.
Do you think it’s likely that he would fill out an application on his own to get on a waiting list?
Shouldn’t the priority be to get someone to help him with it?
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“The darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
— from Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
What’s the name of the place in Patterson? Maybe I could look into it.
Put yourself on a waiting list for a place close to Santa Cruz in the meantime. Maybe RR can send the info again, if he is so inclined.
Your brother’s money is eventually going to run out. Then where will you be? Out in the streets again! Having to sleep in the Sally place. Having to lug around the ball and chain.
I wish you could get some definite answers from the eye doctor.
Patterson looks like an idyllic place to me as someone who has mobility problems. The architecture looks very similar to Santa Cruz from what I've seen, without it being such a huge sprawling city. Much easier to get around in I'm sure. Probably much easier to build contacts/infrastructure in a smaller place like that. Unless the eye surgery is some complex operation only that one doctor can perform as a specialist, I don't see why it can't be performed by another doctor in Patterson or over in Modesto.
Of course, it would be ideal if a social worker would help him fill out the waiting-list application. Ideally, the social worker will be a decent person who treats him like a human being.
I don’t believe it is a lack of ability on ASS-P’s part. I believe, rather, that anxiety and bad past experiences are the culprits causing him to be reluctant to pursue this on his own.
What’s the name of the place in Patterson? Maybe I could look into it.
Put yourself on a waiting list for a place close to Santa Cruz in the meantime. Maybe RR can send the info again, if he is so inclined.
Your brother’s money is eventually going to run out. Then where will you be? Out in the streets again! Having to sleep in the Sally place. Having to lug around the ball and chain.
I wish you could get some definite answers from the eye doctor.
Do you think it’s likely that he would fill out an application on his own to get on a waiting list?
Shouldn’t the priority be to get someone to help him with it?
I'm guessing the "authority pushing him" to take up a residence Patterson would be handling that?
Hopefully this won't turn into trying to get a WP member to help him with it.
I don’t believe it is a lack of ability on ASS-P’s part. I believe, rather, that anxiety and bad past experiences are the culprits causing him to be reluctant to pursue this on his own.
He's always been able to set up healthcare situations for himself. Usually anytime I have something done, get checked into a clinic or hospital, there's a lot of paperwork etc involved.
I don’t believe it is a lack of ability on ASS-P’s part. I believe, rather, that anxiety and bad past experiences are the culprits causing him to be reluctant to pursue this on his own.
He's always been able to set up healthcare situations for himself. Usually anytime I have something done, get checked into a clinic or hospital, there's a lot of paperwork etc involved.
For this, there’d be lots of paperwork and he’d need to submit necessary documentation. He wanted help from WP to fill out college applications.
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“The darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
— from Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
I don’t believe it is a lack of ability on ASS-P’s part. I believe, rather, that anxiety and bad past experiences are the culprits causing him to be reluctant to pursue this on his own.
He's always been able to set up healthcare situations for himself. Usually anytime I have something done, get checked into a clinic or hospital, there's a lot of paperwork etc involved.
For this, there’d be lots of paperwork and he’d need to submit necessary documentation. He wanted help from WP to fill out college applications.
No one on WP is going to be able to submit necessary documentation for him. Just like no one but him can get the high school to send his transcripts. If he pursues trying to involve WP in it, it will be another several weeks of going in circles and another 30-40 pages added to this thread. I don't mean to be a bad guy here, but that's the sort of thing I am expecting next, unless a years long pattern suddenly breaks.
...I lost two drafts
, one of them quite full
. Well, perhaps I can console myself with Ezra's, at 17, superior knowledge of how eye operations are done
! ![]()
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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!
...My concentration was on wanting help in making sure that, if I applied again, my TLPOP would go to the right place and avoid another fiasco
, not on filling out the application forms!
RU tells how he did it ALL HIMSELF, BA instructs me that The Sacred College-Industrial Complex must not be questioned! You can have no help!...Yeah, okay, whatever...if people are going to bring this issue up I'm going to correct them
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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!
Why don’t you get a social worker to help you with that?
By the way, I got my high school transcripts and filled out my college applications all by myself. I had zero help, not even from my parents. My high school was through a correspondence school, so I had no guidance counselors to help me. It’s not that difficult. If it’s that important to you, you could make it happen. It would just require a couple phone calls, patience, and the ability to be polite.
What do you mean by “sacred college industrial conplex?” People are nice and willing to help if you’re polite. I’ve only had positive experiences with admissions people.
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“The darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
— from Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
^ This ladies and gentlemen is an act. It's a performance.
ASS Perhaps your life experiences are real, but this is clearly you putting on an act, which makes you look disingenuous in my eyes.
You had refrained from putting on this routine for a few posts, but I figured you'd be back to it soon enough.
Meanwhile, Delusional-Ashariel (who is socially naive and lacks a filter) has crossed over to Paranoid-Ashariel (who trusts no one, including herself). What a mess. (And now, out comes Silly-Ashariel, who just laughs at it all...)
I apologize for my long-winded rambling over the past few days. I just re-read all that stuff, and it's not that I disagree with what I said, it's just... I have trouble fathoming why I thought it was necessary to say all that.
I also re-read the first 20 or so(?) pages of this thread, before I joined in (while psychotic... can this thread get any worse?) And while I now can vaguely recall reading all that before, I have to admit that while I was posting over the past few days, I had zero awareness of the previous context. In which, I now realize, XFG was cracking down on ASS-P's behavior. (Sorry. Good lord, ban me, before I do this again.)
So I apologize for my delusional failure to understand that, over the past few days. I get it now. Yes, ASS-P's behavior has definitely been out of line. (So has mine, and Ezra's, and nearly everyone in this thread, as near as I can tell.)
I also apologize if anything I rambled on about was hurtful to anyone. (Mostly it just seems boring?) It does reflect my honest feelings about all this, but perhaps didn't need to be said.
ASS-P, I'm sorry for the brutal honesty. But in a weird way, it's probably for the best, if it gets you to realize that you are infinitely better off seeking help from a professional social worker, than a forum full of people who either (a) think you're putting on an act, or (b) believe you, and try to impart life-and-death advice while psychotic.
Sorry, everyone. I really ought to be banned, because I can't guarantee this won't happen again.
I apologize for my long-winded rambling over the past few days. I just re-read all that stuff, and it's not that I disagree with what I said, it's just... I have trouble fathoming why I thought it was necessary to say all that.
I also re-read the first 20 or so(?) pages of this thread, before I joined in (while psychotic... can this thread get any worse?) And while I now can vaguely recall reading all that before, I have to admit that while I was posting over the past few days, I had zero awareness of the previous context. In which, I now realize, XFG was cracking down on ASS-P's behavior. (Sorry. Good lord, ban me, before I do this again.)
So I apologize for my delusional failure to understand that, over the past few days. I get it now. Yes, ASS-P's behavior has definitely been out of line. (So has mine, and Ezra's, and nearly everyone in this thread, as near as I can tell.)
I also apologize if anything I rambled on about was hurtful to anyone. (Mostly it just seems boring?) It does reflect my honest feelings about all this, but perhaps didn't need to be said.
ASS-P, I'm sorry for the brutal honesty. But in a weird way, it's probably for the best, if it gets you to realize that you are infinitely better off seeking help from a professional social worker, than a forum full of people who either (a) think you're putting on an act, or (b) believe you, and try to impart life-and-death advice while psychotic.
Sorry, everyone. I really ought to be banned, because I can't guarantee this won't happen again.
You shouldn't feel bad about yourself for stating your opinion and trying your best to give advice. Personally, looking at the last couple comments, I think your advice sounds very compassionate and well thought out.
Like you said, none of us here is a mental health professional (afaik), on top of which a lot of us have mental problems of our own. I agree that you can't expect this to be on the level of nor a replacement for actual professional help.
I'm responding because historically I have often felt guilty about what I say in the past and apologize profusely especially if I get emotional and rant a bit. The truth is, however, that most of the time we are judging ourselves way too harshly and what we say isn't nearly as inappropriate and no one is nearly as offended as we think. I often ignore it when other people assure me it's OK, so I don't know if you'll believe me.
That being said: I'm sorry if this is considered to not pertain to the main topic, but I really wanted to assure Ashariel
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After years of self-imposed exile. I am now making an effort to talk to people. So anyone feel free to PM me on any subject, I would love to try to interact with people more!
I apologize for my long-winded rambling over the past few days. I just re-read all that stuff, and it's not that I disagree with what I said, it's just... I have trouble fathoming why I thought it was necessary to say all that.
I also re-read the first 20 or so(?) pages of this thread, before I joined in (while psychotic... can this thread get any worse?) And while I now can vaguely recall reading all that before, I have to admit that while I was posting over the past few days, I had zero awareness of the previous context. In which, I now realize, XFG was cracking down on ASS-P's behavior. (Sorry. Good lord, ban me, before I do this again.)
So I apologize for my delusional failure to understand that, over the past few days. I get it now. Yes, ASS-P's behavior has definitely been out of line. (So has mine, and Ezra's, and nearly everyone in this thread, as near as I can tell.)
I also apologize if anything I rambled on about was hurtful to anyone. (Mostly it just seems boring?) It does reflect my honest feelings about all this, but perhaps didn't need to be said.
ASS-P, I'm sorry for the brutal honesty. But in a weird way, it's probably for the best, if it gets you to realize that you are infinitely better off seeking help from a professional social worker, than a forum full of people who either (a) think you're putting on an act, or (b) believe you, and try to impart life-and-death advice while psychotic.
Sorry, everyone. I really ought to be banned, because I can't guarantee this won't happen again.
You didn't do anything wrong and you're not the only one who has had those opinions. Including me in the beginning.
...My focus was on the question of untying the lost-ness
of the TLPOP in their complete form. and, frankly, I think that much/most " caring profession " persons would. if I brought the subject up. launch into another go-rounf of the " 'Skinky dinky Dee " narrative - They would just robotically repeat the " Your GREAT HS alma mater will do it all for you! Oh boy! "
storyline,..and I REAY think past events have shown that doing another attempt at that minus something to make it sure that the proper transcripts would go through would be like sticking your foot in a lion's mouth, with your eyes closed, and saying " Mr. Lion, you'll be nice to me this time...right? ".
By contrast, some form of preparation might get things so that the TLPOP would go to the right place...WHICH THEY IN THE PAST, EVIDENTLY, HAVE ----NOT---- DONE!
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I had little access to social workers and little to better tech on which an explanation might be more easily composed, and.
again, I think that such personnel. if the subject was broached, would instantly break into ' Oh boy! Your eonderful HS alma mater will do it all for you! ". That DOES NOT SEEM TO WORK FOR ME!
I just wanted, first up. to get past the TLPOP logjam.
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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!
