I have a mentally ill mother who has caused great turmoil in my life. In times of great depression instead of a therapist's help, the cops were called on me because my Mom repeatedly said I was suicidal. It seemed like just a ploy to get rid of me. I have never been suicidal in my life. Cop cars, handcuffs. Going to hospital where all employees look like crack heads. Forced drugged on antipsychotics which were so sedating I couldn't talk or think. Then having to go to court to present myself in front of a judge while being drugged out of my mind by force. Going to court with shackles on my feet. All because I was telling my Mom how her treatment of me fucked me up emotionally and mentally to the point it shattered me. Like she claims she is wonderful and my apparent verbal abuse to her ego was enough to send me to the hospital. I was told I had to sign a six month to year long commitment in order to get out of hospital so I was basically stuck in Wisconsin. It was pure hell. During this time I was basically on probation. They acted like if I was caught drinking a beer that I would go to jail. My Mom has been verbally and emotionally abusive my entire life and I tried to tell my therapist who told me not to ever expect my Mom to say she is sorry. My social worker told me to stop disrespecting my Mother when I tried to tell her how abusive my mother is. Wisconsin is nothing but cop land that criminalizes mental illness. The system is underfunded and broken. I now live in California, where I got the help and therapy I needed. But I feel a horrible sense of banishment from Wisconsin. I literally feel like I had to leave in order to save my life. Having a mental health breakdown in Wisconsin meant I no longer had a voice. It was abusive. Repressive. I want to let other people know that there are brighter pastures outside Wisconsin. In Wisconsin lies are easily believed but in California, everyone lies so they have to see you in front of their own eyes to believe it and you have a voice. In California if you are good you can have a good life. In Wisconsin there are a lot of bad people who claim to be good and nobody ever questions them. There is less of a humanitarian cause. People are more racist and discriminatory. California is the land or opportunity and love for me. But I do miss Wisconsin but feel alienated from it. Like I was literally banished from the state but I did so myself to save my life. Not to mention the minimum wage in Wisconsin is oppressive.
... keep reading on reddit ➡For the past couple of years, and with the current pandemic as the reason, permanently moving across the Atlantic Ocean has always been a dream of mine. The main reason for deciding to move is to seek a better quality of life as much as possible. But as someone who is diagnosed with autism, my experience with relocating might be different from what a neurotypical person might experience. Knowing Europe is a continent, it would be nice to hear from autistic Europeans and autistic U.S. citizens who are planning to move, in the process of moving, or are already living somewhere in the continent.
There are people in countries that are LITERALLY under dictatorship, like North Korea and China.
As an American, I’m a lot more privileged by default, but capitalism can be BOTH what allows you to escape poverty but ALSO what keeps you there.
I guess my fears just kind of took charge, and my parents just decided it was easier to let me stay at home rent free than to even drive me into town to try and get a job (back when we lived far out, for two years after I graduated high school).
I don’t know, it’s, 7 years later, and I haven’t made 7 years of actual progress, and now I’m less than a year away from having to get my own health insurance to pay for all the crap my brain and body is so dependent on, I’d rather die than deal with SSRI withdrawal and it’s possibly permanent dysfunctions to the body/brain/central nervous system.
Nobody really seems to care what I do, and I can barely motivate myself, not sure if it’s from being overly medicated or not.
I live in what my grandparents still call “the greatest country in the world”, and while I think that’s BS, it’s certainly among the better ones to live, we’re not under death or labor camp threat for speaking out against the government, but we’re at the mercy of mostly “at-will” jobs that too often get away with not providing benefits or even a basic living wage even at 40 hours a week.
I feel like I’m still complaining, which isn’t really helpful, it’s not as if some Reddit post will spark real widespread political and social change.
Fair or unfair, it’s a system I have to either learn to function in, or beat (Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, just a few who said “screw working for your BS” and created their own empire, actually getting all of their earnings as opposed to just a piss poor piece of the profit pie).
I’d highly prefer to BEAT the system and be truly free, but it’d be very useful to at least be able to work the “traditional” way (for someone else) that pays well, just because it can be so hard to come up with a successful business idea.
Maybe I just need to be out of retail/grocery/customer service, but I just haven’t gotten the education/skills to get into any REAL career.
Now how am I going to go back to school AND work a fulltime job so I can keep health insurance, and likely need to pay full rent and bills too?
People in communist/dictatorship regimes would kill to be in my place, and they’d probably be 1000x more likely to quickly either start a successful business or
... keep reading on reddit ➡I'm really really hoping the mods see this as a good faith question. As someone who finds politics extremely complicated and confusing, but always strives for more knowledge, I'd like here some thoughts on things that would simply help people be happier and better off.
I get that the problems this country faces are complicated, but if Dems and the GOP could actually come together and work side by side, I'd be curious of the first things that the government could implement that would benefit all sides of the political spectrum and start healing this nation.
I feel like this is reasonable question to ask this sub because it's a tough problem to tackle and I bet there will be a lot of opinions on something so broad. I hope this question can lead to some thought provoking ideas.
