What can we DU now to help TTW and Yoshi ?

[daredtowork]

369. I could swear you said something along the lines of

"Maybe that's because of the vicious dog?" In the course of discussing why her her relatives weren't able to help her.

I do appreciate your initial reticence. There are a lot of scammers out there. Daily Kos had a pretty infamous one: "Suddenly Homeless". He really ticked me off because I felt he was riding on the tails of some of my posts about welfare. At the same time I was never sure what he was doing actually constituted a scam as well. Perhaps he was just doing what he had to do because he was poor, though he wasn't technically homeless.

Anyway, I actually agree with almost everything you say in the last two paragraphs. The one thing I'd like you to reconsider is that while you think TTW creates a lot of drama to avoid personal responsibility, perhaps her poverty also creates more extreme or emotional situations than they do for people who do have more of a financial cushion. I remember TTW's story about the landlady costing her a job: the water (including showers) didn't work in her apartment. Perhaps some of the blame-shifting is stuff TTW genuinely shouldn't be blamed for? That's the sort of stuff that drives people on the bottom into mental illness. If you have a job and a stable place to live, you can tell all the people trying to shift (inappropriate) blame to you, just to shove off.