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In reply to the discussion: Surely this was a typo, right? A misprint? [View all]lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)But left no quarter when it came to a genuinely bad start in adulthood-- I know of no one else in my family that didn't start out with an inheritance, some quite substantial. It was my homophobic father's insistence that I got nothing. Mom just went along "whatever your father says".
I got some worthless, worn out hand-me-downs from my brothers. I had to rely on my Aunt and Uncle at first who weren't so "stiff", gave me odd jobs until I could start gainful employment.
But ever get ahead of living paycheck to paycheck? Own a real home? My "home" has wheels. I barely afford truck payments to haul it around traveling job to job.
"Unstable"-- my family labels me. Whoops? Who inherited a solid, now million dollar home? (Every one of those boomers live in an inherited home) Who never ever spent a night on the streets frightened and praying I wouldn't get mugged, raped, accosted or arrested? Those prayers didn't work about all of the above when just trying to survive until I lucked into and talked myself into a living situation.
No, I don't want charity but have had to rely on just exactly that sometimes, matter if fact recently right here from DU!
I took that charity and got another job at my age.
I'm close to retirement. It certainly won't be fancy. Much of the time off-grid boondocking.
If you are haunted by nightmares, Google up treatment trials. Baylor appears to be starting one soon that pays some stipend to participants. txbdc.utdallas.edu/txbdc/trials/ptsd/index.html
Unclear if they're recruiting, but can't hurt to call.
A lot of these got discontinued in the pandemic, but now some are starting up again. Sure helped my sanity tremendously.