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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.
Be warned:
- Anon is often crazy.
- Anon is often depressed.
- Anon frequently shares thoughts that are immature, offensive, or incomprehensible.
If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.
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Some people have disabilities, they might not be visible. Truth is even they have needs and to say "sink or swim" reeks of cynicism and plain hatred for humans and closing one's eyes to the human condition. You say that he should just go to work. As if people exist in a vacuum and can apply for jobs and get them. It's clear that he has issues, guy has not been able to work. You can't seriously believe that the system will want to employ him.
you push someone with mental disabilities (untreated adhd/ocd/anxiety/whatever) into low-wage labor and they just end up as contestants on /publicfreakout/ or tiktok, when they invariably get into a fight with the manager or customer or whatever.
then all the privileged yuppies on the internet can critique their behavior and the situation to determine who's right and wrong.
that's our culture. we're already in some dystopian hellhole but most of it is so subtle and outside the lines of 'normal thinking' that people don't notice it.
A lot of it is because people take reality for granted and to arrive at the whys is difficult because there exists a whole industry that legitimises the present state of things. Think of Fox news, or the Washington Post, or the Guardian – who would rather want more competent people in charge of an inherently antirationalist system than to fully overcome it. As more and more people are immiserated they will gain the knowledge of the absurd contradictions that have been considered normal and desire to supersede their masters. So in this culture there is a fragment of overcoming the metastability of infinite growth and so on.
Some industries will hire anyone with a pulse and they are often hungry for people (not right now, anon will be fucked, since the economy is fucked). Certainly there's some disabilities that'd lock you out of those options, but not too many.
Yeah, but that is the reality. You can have your hypothetical grabby industries all you want, if they don't exist and don't provide what you claim they provide, which is a life, than you are talking about a fantasy. Plus the point about disabilities is not one where variety matters, how many disabilities there are, what matters is that people have those disabilities and the fact that very often people do have those disabilities.
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
I see nothing in the greentext image mentioning a disability. To me it reads as a lazy moocher that thought they could live as a parasite off their parents goodwill for their entire life and is getting a long overdue wakeup call.
I'm afraid you don't understand what it means to be disabled. Disability is when people stop being able to function in daily life. As far as anon is concerned, this probably happened right when he got his HS diploma. Anon is exhibiting severe social dysfunction which is likely aggravated by C-PTSD, Autism, or a schizoform disorder.
Imagine telling a disabled person they don't know what it means to be disabled. Now, to be fair, there's no reason that you could have known that about me. However, that's kind of the point: you're making all sorts of unwarranted assumptions and then treating them as facts.
I mean you don't. If anon were to go to the psychologist, the psychologist would tell him that he has significant mental issues. A disability if you will. That is a fact.
Why you preach this pulling yourself up the bootstraps mentality is beyond me. Completely antithetical to what the vast majority of disabled people need to hear.