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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I’d assume an extreme situation of executive dysfunction combined with some amount of mental illness. Anon’s parents are most likely middle class and don’t want him to be homeless, and may have not engaged enough with him as a kid/teen and left him to his own devices too much leaving him socially and emotionally stunted compared to his peers.

    It’s really a challenge that compounds on itself. You feel stunted compared to your peers, so you interact with them less thereby getting less chances to build those social-emotional skills. You pull in more and spend your time isolated and slowly your views of the world get warped by whatever media you consume instead of spending time touching grass and talking to real people in the real world. This then makes it harder to get a job which then makes it harder to go out into the real world to course-correct. As you get older it becomes a bigger and bigger red flag that you’ve never worked or lived independently, so people are less likely to connect with you. You become more weird and off-putting, and it’s just a death spiral that ends with a sink or swim situation of some sort unless the individual happens to connect with someone with the patience to help them build those social-emotional skills they missed out on years before (most commonly a romantic partner or a real life friend)


  • Do you believe that having a roof over your head is a human right? I certainly do. Yes even the most detestable people in the world deserve a roof over their heads, with a place to sleep, and a functioning toilet and shower and some space to store their belongings.

    This should be the bare minimum that all people are guaranteed by society but apparently that’s a very high bar



  • Plus being a shut in that lives at home and relies on your parents for literally everything is a recipe for severe mental illness.

    The Internet isn’t real life, so when a person spends literally all of their time at home on the computer doing nothing of value they can easily find themselves with a very warped sense of reality that can only be broken by going outside, touching some grass and interacting with some real people.

    There’s also quite a few life skills that can’t really be taught and have to be learned by working a job, living on your own and managing your own finances


  • Eh it worked 10 years ago as well, but I’ve not been in retail/entry level jobs for about that long. Just walk in or visit the store website and fill out an application. Turnover is so high in these shitty entry level roles that they’re always looking for new blood

    Heck a recruiter I talked to 8 years ago is still including me on mass texts about immediate openings at warehouses and factories for laborers with the most recent just a couple of days ago

    Do these jobs suck? Yeah, but they’ll hire anyone with a pulse who can show up sober, and oftentimes sobriety is optional. It’ll get the person out of the house and earning some money which should help their mental state as well since staying inside 24/7 and having no structure to your life is a recipe for depression