Folks:
Anyone ever try to get social service monies because you cannot find steady employment ? You go down to the HHS Human Services, and this is a last resort: you beg for asistance and the clerk behind the desk makes you submit this form fill out that form to prove you cannot work. The biggist insult to injury, is when a unwed mother smoking two packs of cigarettes with eight children from multiple fathers can get food stamps, rent assistance etc. just so much easier. You on the other hand who are LD get sometimes the run around and unsmpathetic bueracrats who just do not believe after you applied for 100 jobs, and you get rejected because of your LD or ADD why you are going on social welfare. HELLO ! DO WE HAVE THE WORD STUPID WRITTEN ON OUR FOREHEAD ! WE HAVE TO EAT TOO ! Anyway, how many of you had this expereince.
Re: Brad, tell me more
Hey Jacqueline-
Hope you don’t mind me saying that you are an inspiration to those of us that are still struggling for their slice of the so called American Dream Pie! (At least, that’s what I call it!) I too face loosing my teeth- at present, at the rate it’s going, I’ll have to get a whole upper plate- not just the partial I thought I was going to need. I don’t have to tell you how embarassing and humiliating that is- being seen in public like that…I’m sure you’ve got a very good clue, Ma’am. I know the struggle of low paying dead end jobs all too well…just as I know the reluctance to give a single, white, LD female any assistance at all. (Truth be known, I’d rather slit my own throat than beg to a government that won’t do a darned thing to help not just myself, but other LD’ers, and others that suffer due to our corrupt, greedy system. Just as going to them is the same as slitting one’s own very throat!)
To be honest, as far as I got , in terms of looking into VR was going to the inital appointment. But due to an old governement loan I had when I went to Cosmetology school, and didn’t finish- partially due to my LD, but also, due to my stepmother’s sticking her big fat, uneducated, control freak butt ugly, bull dog lookin’ ass into my business….I’ve got a $6,000 loan to pay off- and no way of doing so! (Well, I’ve paid off $300 of it….and went with out basic necessities just to do that!) Part of what they told me to do was find out who my creditor was for it- but it never was on any of my credit reports I’d sent to- paid for by money which I borrowed from my father…( Approximately $25.)-so, I couldn’t go back because I didn’t have what they wanted me to have to go any further.
Also, I’d like to add, that despite your dyslexia and LD- WOW! Very articulate lady you are! You go Girl! As for what you said to those two ‘gentlemen’- were things you needed to get out and in the open- and off your chest- and were also things that needed to be said about the poverty, struggle and living hell that we, with LD have to live with Day in and Day out in our society! Very well said!
As you can see dylsexia isn’t my LD- rather, I was always very good with reading and book learning- my struggle was learning how to write- and it be neat enough for other’s to read. As well as hands on…I’m not sure what my accurate IQ is- but I’ve taken a couple of IQ tests on line, one score came back 105, the other was 122….so…not too sure which one to go with…but I suppose you could say that I’m hardly the dullest crayon in the box, but definitely not the sharpest….I do alright…LOL and think it’s darned funny when I’m accused of being a brain, or a brainiac! LOL…I just look at them and roll my eyes and go on about my business..Thinking that if I REALLY was a freakin’ brain, I wouldn’t be trapped in the LD generated hell I live in!
I, too, have done the abusive boyfriend thing…been there and done that! Definitely don’t want to go that route again! LOL I figure about as close as I’ll get to being a mother is taking care of my dog, Molly, and cat, Abbey…LOL I couldn’t refuse those two cute little faces!(And they know it, too! Especially Molly!)
Ah well…I think I better shut up before I get my big mouth in trouble!
Nita
Danke Colonel Klink….How Otto-ly immature of you.