Phantom pain. Missing a limb is WILD, because your eyes see that your leg is missing, but at the same time, your brain can’t tell it’s gone, so it FEELS like it’s still there. When it itches, you can’t itch. When it hurts because it THINKS it’s still there, You just have to power through it mentally, and convince your own mind to knock it off. It’s WEIRD
Chronic pain absolutely ruins a persons quality of life. I had a destroyed left ankle for years. It was excruciating to walk, or do anything that involved my leg, and no surgeon would help me, they said I was too young to replace it or amputate. I got a septic infection from my ankle on Christmas ‘22, and on Jan, 13, 2023, I had my left leg, below the knee, amputated. I have a prosthetic now, and I’m pain free!
ADHD. People think it’s no big deal and that I don’t need any meds but even though meds aren’t cure all or anything, it can help a lot. I wish people knew that ADHD is something that affects people in so many ways and isn’t just lack of focus. Like I can be impulsive, struggle with regulating my emotions, procrastinate because I feel like tasks can feel unmanageable physically/emotionally (even things like showering), I burn out fast - really easily, and more. I wish people didn’t think it was so simple because it’s really really not.
Big difference between poor and poverty. Poor is always having clothes (from a thrift store or hand-me-downs) and food (sometimes from donations, often moldy). Poverty is “have been homeless, will likely be homeless soon, no food, can’t pay bills”.
I can imagine that parents who lose children must be thinking about them year after year, and imagining what they'd be like and what they'd be doing if they were still around. Like the kid who died at 9 years old in the story, Lord knows that 9 years later the parents can't help but think about how they'd be graduating high school and maybe going off to college if they'd survived to that point. Not to mention any time the bereaved parents see children out in public, or even on TV, they're smacked in the face with the reminder of what they've lost. Driving past a busy playground must be the worst for them. And this is coming from someone who never had a child, never mind lose one.
Poverty and its relation to substance abuse and depression or self deletion. Why it's so hard to pull yourself up from the abyss when you cannot eat 3 meals a day, attending to your medical needs is a luxury, needing to lower yourself to other people because people treat you differently when you're poor. The shame of hiding your poor condition from your friends especially when young, cause you get looks of either pity or contempt. An aunt noticed I wear the same boys top and bottom as a kid when I am female. All I got was hand me downs from my elder brothers. As a kid, my dream was to have the same school uniform as others because in my country all schools had uniforms even public ones but mine was different because it was DIY. Of course I got bullied for it. At that age, conforming is the most important. Oh, I consider myself lucky I had a leaking roof over my head as a kid but it was a haunted house. It was all we could afford as it was cheap. I didn't get my own bed until I was 18 y/o, own room until 30 y/o. Having to choose between "Do I pay my phone bill or eat lunch or buy medicine? I can only afford one." You don't know what feeling like sh!t means until you had it real bad in life. When you're physically, financially, and emotionally stretched, it's easy to think of just ending things or clinging on to substances for a moment of relief.
Total Loss house fire where you survive and no one else does only bc you weren’t home when the fire broke out. Survivor’s guilt, grief, homelessness, funerals, heartless home insurance agents, aggressive family members, etc. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
How terrifying unemployment is when you have no one to back you up. No one to crash with, no money for food coming in. Problems become far worse as you have no money to pay, so things stack up. I once went 3 days without eating. It wasn't because I wasn't willing to work or find a job. Its that no one was hiring or willing to hire me vs everyone else. This was back when the 08 crash hit. I lost my apartment, my car, my savings quickly got depleted. Had to deal with small claims court because I technically broke contract of the lease because I had no money to even pay rent after being laid off. It fucking sucked. Trying to get a few hours to nap on a bench without being harassed or people trying to steal your stuff. I am absolutely terrified of unemployment now. Which sucks because it means the company can basically treat me how they want and I wont say no because of what I remember.
Having your child kidnapped . Thinking about getting a call from the police or hospital to identify the body. (From my own experience is knowing the person and their family not caring about it, till it was revealed that they were apart of it as well ,until I got the call from social services. )(kiddo is feeling a lot better and we now regularly talk and if anything comes up we figured it out and look at therapy. Just now is very clinging and physical which I support.)
The value of a bathtub in a natural disaster. It made water being out for several days after a hurricane more hygienic. Same as deep freeze when city water lines burst from the cold. Edit: When I watch a house flipping show, and see them removing the tub for a walk in shower, I immediately knew that the flippers had never been through a hurricane.
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Phantom pain. Missing a limb is WILD, because your eyes see that your leg is missing, but at the same time, your brain can’t tell it’s gone, so it FEELS like it’s still there. When it itches, you can’t itch. When it hurts because it THINKS it’s still there,
You just have to power through it mentally, and convince your own mind to knock it off. It’s WEIRD
serious physical/sexual assault
Mental health, food allergies and chronic pain 😢😢
Chronic pain absolutely ruins a persons quality of life. I had a destroyed left ankle for years. It was excruciating to walk, or do anything that involved my leg, and no surgeon would help me, they said I was too young to replace it or amputate. I got a septic infection from my ankle on Christmas ‘22, and on Jan, 13, 2023, I had my left leg, below the knee, amputated. I have a prosthetic now, and I’m pain free!
ADHD. People think it’s no big deal and that I don’t need any meds but even though meds aren’t cure all or anything, it can help a lot. I wish people knew that ADHD is something that affects people in so many ways and isn’t just lack of focus. Like I can be impulsive, struggle with regulating my emotions, procrastinate because I feel like tasks can feel unmanageable physically/emotionally (even things like showering), I burn out fast - really easily, and more. I wish people didn’t think it was so simple because it’s really really not.
Preach. If it isn't stimulating, my brain wants nothing to do with it. If it isn't a quick fix, I also dont want to deal with it. It fucking sucks.
Poverty.
Being diagnosed with an atto immune illness at 20 when I was broke and living with my mom. At leased Medicare paid the cost and eventually got SSDI.
"the leopards wont eat my face "
Big difference between poor and poverty. Poor is always having clothes (from a thrift store or hand-me-downs) and food (sometimes from donations, often moldy). Poverty is “have been homeless, will likely be homeless soon, no food, can’t pay bills”.
Poverty, religious trauma
being close to suicide, i mean really close
Dealing with chronic pain. The doctor's either think you are drug seeking, or "opiates are the only option." No body actually listens.
I can imagine that parents who lose children must be thinking about them year after year, and imagining what they'd be like and what they'd be doing if they were still around. Like the kid who died at 9 years old in the story, Lord knows that 9 years later the parents can't help but think about how they'd be graduating high school and maybe going off to college if they'd survived to that point.
Not to mention any time the bereaved parents see children out in public, or even on TV, they're smacked in the face with the reminder of what they've lost. Driving past a busy playground must be the worst for them.
And this is coming from someone who never had a child, never mind lose one.
Poverty and its relation to substance abuse and depression or self deletion. Why it's so hard to pull yourself up from the abyss when you cannot eat 3 meals a day, attending to your medical needs is a luxury, needing to lower yourself to other people because people treat you differently when you're poor. The shame of hiding your poor condition from your friends especially when young, cause you get looks of either pity or contempt. An aunt noticed I wear the same boys top and bottom as a kid when I am female. All I got was hand me downs from my elder brothers. As a kid, my dream was to have the same school uniform as others because in my country all schools had uniforms even public ones but mine was different because it was DIY. Of course I got bullied for it. At that age, conforming is the most important. Oh, I consider myself lucky I had a leaking roof over my head as a kid but it was a haunted house. It was all we could afford as it was cheap. I didn't get my own bed until I was 18 y/o, own room until 30 y/o. Having to choose between "Do I pay my phone bill or eat lunch or buy medicine? I can only afford one." You don't know what feeling like sh!t means until you had it real bad in life. When you're physically, financially, and emotionally stretched, it's easy to think of just ending things or clinging on to substances for a moment of relief.
Cancer in your early adulthood
Total Loss house fire where you survive and no one else does only bc you weren’t home when the fire broke out.
Survivor’s guilt, grief, homelessness, funerals, heartless home insurance agents, aggressive family members, etc. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
That ain't that bad. There are worse things
@@HebrewHunter101Have a little empathy and compassion, jeez!! You sound like an _asshole!!!_ Fuck you.
No kids born after 9/11 will understand what it was like to live through 9/11 America.
How terrifying unemployment is when you have no one to back you up. No one to crash with, no money for food coming in. Problems become far worse as you have no money to pay, so things stack up. I once went 3 days without eating. It wasn't because I wasn't willing to work or find a job. Its that no one was hiring or willing to hire me vs everyone else. This was back when the 08 crash hit. I lost my apartment, my car, my savings quickly got depleted. Had to deal with small claims court because I technically broke contract of the lease because I had no money to even pay rent after being laid off. It fucking sucked. Trying to get a few hours to nap on a bench without being harassed or people trying to steal your stuff. I am absolutely terrified of unemployment now. Which sucks because it means the company can basically treat me how they want and I wont say no because of what I remember.
1:09 i can vouch for the dog thing. I grew up with mine and still think about him every day 7 years later
Having your child kidnapped . Thinking about getting a call from the police or hospital to identify the body. (From my own experience is knowing the person and their family not caring about it, till it was revealed that they were apart of it as well ,until I got the call from social services. )(kiddo is feeling a lot better and we now regularly talk and if anything comes up we figured it out and look at therapy. Just now is very clinging and physical which I support.)
The value of a bathtub in a natural disaster.
It made water being out for several days after a hurricane more hygienic.
Same as deep freeze when city water lines burst from the cold.
Edit: When I watch a house flipping show, and see them removing the tub for a walk in shower, I immediately knew that the flippers had never been through a hurricane.
This comment section IS a real downer.
Welcome to life, it sucks for everyone.
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