Are any robots here unsheltered? Homelessness did it for me, onfoot no car homlessness, car only homelessness is just as real homelessness as no car homelessness. I was not fortunate enough to even have a drivers lisence when I became homeless so I couldn't even use neetbux to get a shitty $1000 car then ate dry ramen.I got a taste of the real world. That means outside of community college, outside of university, outside of a job gotten by going to school with school references. I got kicked out by my mom due to my mental illness, and had to be sober outside for 4 years (except for when I found weed roaches on the ground or got free drugs from people when homeless randomly)The real world is harsh. I was homeless for 4 years, and on foot homeless, not in a car with a heater and protection from the rain as long as I begged for gas money. I had it rough, backpack only, neetbux no phone most of the time.I had two bikers tell me to take my hat off or they'd hit me with a tire iron. I was told to get in the shower in prison and beaten when I refused to the point I was getting kicked in the head when I was down (Didnt even try to fight back, just went down on purpose to not get a in jail battery charge). I had two homosexual men in public ask me if i wanted my dick sucked, I told them no or said fuck off faggot. The cops searched me any chance they talked to me, and warrant checked me any chance they talked to me almost even with no probably cause. I got kicked out of the library for resting my head on the desk when tired. I was attacked by pitbulls 3 times, I'm extremely fortunate to have been able to escape bites.I spent 4 years camping in the forest in a certain spot in a sleeping bag until I got caught by citation workers. They told me I was breaking the law and I GTFO of there before cops showed up.It's apparently illegal to sleep in public, or camp even if homeless and mentally ill. As in, 6 months misdemeanor illegal not a $10 ticket.
>>83268838I'm sorry to hear but>except for when I found weed roaches on the groundWhat?
>>83268872Well, I live in a place with weed dispensaries. Near the weed shops, people throw unfinished weed roaches with a few hits in them on the ground. You can light them or pull the weed out and put them in a pipe. I did both.As in, people throw weed on the side of walking trails. It's how you can get high when poor and homeless here, aside from getting free money or drugs from randoms.
>>83268887Ah so burnt out cigs but weed joints?Anyway, sorry you had to go through that. For what it's worth I've at least read through your post.
>>83268949Yeah, like the burnt out ass of a cigarette, but weed joints. Glad you at least read it. My morning is complete. Hoping to find some other unsheltered robots incase good conversation arises.
I lived in my fiat panda for a few months in between flats once. It was not comfy at all but I was working and kept a gym membership up for water/showers.Actually sleeping under the stars must be fucking terrifying.
>>83268972>Actually sleeping under the stars must be fucking terrifying.Yeah sleeping outside sucks.It was great until the moment I wake up to a dog charging me at night because someone let it off the leash to attack the homeless. Then I realized it's not so safe outside and being homeless sucks. Also when I got a talking to by cops or code workers saying it's illegal to sleep in public came later. After not being homeless I looked up the penalty of public camping. Up to 6 months in county jail, misdeameanor. Holy fuck.What is a flat panda?
>>83268838I was homeless too, in a northern mining town. I stayed in a homeless shelter at night and ate lunch at a Church 6 days a week, on Sundays I ate at the Salvation Army.My childhood friend was homeless in the same town as me at the same time so I wasn't completely isolated. I usually spent the day walking around with my backpack or watching anime and reading mangafox in the library.Eventually the shelter realized I wasn't a drug addict so they got me in a housing program where I was put in a trailer with a bunch of other homeless guys. I hid in my room with piss bottles and only left to cook at night or snuck out when no one was around to get a calzone from the pizza place nearby (I got about $400 a month in neetbux and had to justify myself constantly at the government office)
>>83269108How bad are the shelters? I always felt even sitting outside in the rain with an umbrella and a sleeping bag in the woods to avoid the cops is better than a shelter with other men.So I avoided sheltered and camped every day for 4+ years. I got lucky very few visits from code workers or cops.It gets into the 30s at worst here. No snow.Now I realized you said northern mining town. You may die outside if there's snow.
Have you though about squatting? A lot of homes out there.
>>83269305Considered it but never going to break and enter. Fuck committing felonies. That shit is at least 1 year in prison, not jail. And you can get shot.
>>83269126nta, I was homeless for a while in Yurop and while the shelters feel objectively worse (I got a puke-scented room and removed like 3mm worth of grime and the curtains in an attempt to make it more tolerable), they are sometimes the best path towards social housing. Also, if you are good with minimizing contact / friction with other ppl they become safer than being on the street in terms of people once you're past the first 6 weeks or so.I got through the level-1 shelter in 6 months, 1 month in common rooms and then my own room, and then another year in own-room (it was inadequately ventilated but bigger and a lot quieter) temporary shelter, from which I got social housing on a trial basis (social worker visit each week but otherwise a normal appartment) for about 18 months, and now I have the appartment with an indefinite contract and regular rental protections.I was also homeless during a weather emergency (several weeks of snow storms), and I went to the emergency shelter after being phoned about it by my "independent client supporter" (3rd party social worker) when my tent was already half snowed-under.(I had two car window protection pads as my sleeping mat in the tent bc the ground was already frozen for a week so it was impossible to sleep on it directly, they blocked like 90% of the cold which did the job.)
>>83269368Years of living with homeless men being around potential needles and shit sounds awful, but to get housing people will have to. What is a level 1 shelter like? Dorms of bunkbeds? Reminds me of jail if so.
>>83268838Where do you live? I'm comfy NEET now but spent a few mount months in a car. It was winter and I drove north. Almost got stuck in the woods in a huge snow storm. I decided to travel south after that.You should do everything in your power to move south.
>>83269305Yeah, not as easy as youd think. The hills have eyes
>>83269397Only the first half year, and I spent most of my time in my room (sleeping) and outside the shelter. I tried to use the living room PS5 to play DS3 but the resemblance to homeless shelter life was too uncanny.Dorm of bunkbeds, yeah. When I was there it was pretty quiet (except 1 Spanyard literal wanker) cuz max 5 ppl in a 20 bed room.The other shared spaces were shared with ppl who had their own room so that was annoying lol. Also the food, I mean it was sorta clean but I'm vegan so I bought my own food. Even got an electric kettle and made my own coffee, there was only coffee about 5 hours in the day otherwise.A Romani guy asked for help getting a Harry Potter DVD boxset and later helped by throwing the wanker out of the building so that the female and basedboy staff didn't have to, good guy.
>>83269405America, in an area homelessness outside is possible with out freezing to death.Can you die in your car homeless if it snows?
>>83269829You can easily die in your car in snow. There's a lot of cases of people getting stuck in their own car. I remember one in particular years ago. The whole family died because they couldn't access the water in their trunk
>>83269974That is rough, nothing but shelters then.
>>83268838>I spent 4 years camping in the forest in a certain spot in a sleeping bag until I got caught by citation workersthat's pretty good.. only having to find a new spot every few years can be alright. i imagine that spot might have already been like this but, did you look around for overgrown/inhospitable sections of woods? google maps the town for some? spots that have challenging access keep people out and make it a safer place to camp. did you have a tent? tarp shelter? kind of both?you can camp at marked, public camp sites too if you find one without fees, but the catch there is you have to move every few days and that will become a hassle.maybe try to find a county that isn't so harsh about public camping, so maybe even if you get caught you still have some time to move all your things?other than panhandling, what do you do for cash?
>>83270858>other than panhandling, what do you do for cash?Neetbux for bipolar.Ill not be homeless in 2 months because I agreed to take mental illness meds. Family wants me "stable" before coming back because I yelled loudly and scared them as mentally ill.
>>83270967So they made you mentally ill but they're mad at you for being mentally ill? Aborting abusive parents should be legal
>>83271009Yeah the situation is retarded. Any time I yell in public in anger or in anger at home it's instant 911 calls, 5-10 cops show up and jail me or arrest me. They'll jail me for high in public when I'm bipolar and manic. And charge me with high in public, refusing sobriety tests I ask for (to get off because i wasn't high) hoping they can get me to plead guilty to something with no investigation.This situation made me mad because my mom sheltered me, and when I yell and scare her mentally ill I got kicked to the streets for 4 years homeless. I never hit my family members.I got mad at this situation in public and yelled at people and got arrested more than once. As in jail not psych ward.Didn't know yelling is a crime but they'll turn it into >Public intoxicationAnd refuse to breath or piss test me so I have to go court or get a warrant.I don't like cops
28 this week. Spent about half of this decade car homeless. Mainly 2020-2023. Living with bf/fwb anon but only until I can find work. I've had over 25 jobs so far. Most ended with threats on me or breakdowns under pressure. Resume looks horrible no matter how I fudge it. Hundreds of applications so far, no bites, just a phone interview for Kroger in over a month. Every opening closes in a week or two. Desperate to either surf the neetbux wave until I have a good cert like compTIA or just...get a year to be a NEET.>>83269829YES. I slept in single digit westher in my Camry and I nearly died, with four layers of blankets and a few gallons of gas. Hypothermia is a real threat.
>>83271068At least you're not being a hooker homeless. Are you stripping or OFing or camgirling?
>>83271141Uhhhhhhhhhhhh haha yeah thank god for thatI slept with a few guys on Grommr early on for motel nights and food when the gyms were closed to covid, usually no sex happened. I dunno. As for OF I look like shit and I'd fail even as a fetish model. Maybe if I wax and it turns out fine I can start.
>>83271169I wasn't encouraging being a hooker or OF girl. I think it's best not to be a hooker stripper or OF girl.What made you homeless? And do you know the reason your family is making you be homeless as a woman who's young? You could turn into a hooker or stripper easily.
>>83271241I never said I was a girl. I'm just a bifag.I don't know. I did everything I was supposed to, couldn't pay rent, couldn't satisfy either side of the family, couldn't advance even a small modicum of a career.
>>83271282Oh, I assumed girl because you said boyfriend.Well, I hope you don't freeze to death, get a home, and get your life together, faggot. Genuinely, despite calling you a faggot..
>>83271410It's fine faggot. Least you didn't default to brownoid or troon.
>>83271847What made you homeless?
>>83272488I already said>I don't know. I did everything I was supposed to, couldn't pay rent, couldn't satisfy either side of the family, couldn't advance even a small modicum of a career.
>>83268838>jail battery chargeWhat is this?
Also bipolar faggot. Not homeless yet, but it's probably inevitable.>Can't manage money while manic or care for self while depressed>Psychotic constantly and not med compliant (many reasons) >Living off of scholarship money but it's going to run out once my four years are upI've been trying to fix myself since I first started showing symptoms at 13, but it's not going to happen. Do I just blow my head off at this point?
>>83273568I'm not as far gone as you ppl but chatgpt has been a good therapist. But I've also been to real therapy so I had a starting point
>>83273577>chatgptDid it give you advice on knot tying or tell you it wanted to fuck you?
>>83273577ChatGPT would probably call the cops on me if I told it anything. Even my human therapist who's pretty understanding has sent me to inpatient a few times. Thankfully, she realizes I'm not a real threat and just need to get out of whatever episode I'm in, so I've never had the cops called (at least in that scenario)
>>83268838>The cops searched me any chance they talked to me, and warrant checked me any chance they talked to me almost even with no probably cause. I got kicked out of the library for resting my head on the desk when tired.To be fair, these are pretty reasonable things. Obviously not all homeless are bad... but statistically a lot of homeless are mentally ill, criminals, drug addicts, or some combo of the three, and contribute a lot to making people unsafe as well as making places where they congregate unpleasant for non homeless to be. >It's apparently illegal to sleep in public, or camp even if homeless and mentally illAgain, a pretty reasonable policy. As unfortunate as it is, homeless encampments become infestations of drug use, public safety issues, violence, crime, etc. plus it's trespassing anyway in 99% of cases. We as a society just can't have that going on Do remember that homeless shelters exist, and various programs exist to help the homeless get jobs, find temporary housing, and such. It just requires stuff like being clean from drugs and willing to follow the rules that help establish order and safety, plus it can involve waiting in line because that stuff is understandably going to go to more vulnerable populations like women, children, the elderly, minorities, and so on. But still, there's ways to get the help, if one works for it hard enough. Just gotta make effort, because nothing is handed to you in life for nothing.
>>83273699ChatGPT literally won't do that. It has outright egged on the suicide of a child, several teens and an old man.
i wonder how many of these stories are true
>It's apparently illegal to sleep in publicNormies still justify paying taxes. Inhumane.
>>83273703Cool. I figured it was data harvesting state shit, but I guess that's the schizo in me.
>>83273699If you're bipolar then i would imagine you experience things strongly. >>83273734No, you're not unjustly paranoid or wrong. Literally everything on the surface web is a data mining harvesting machine. It sounds like a "crazy" conspiracy but it really isn't. Even 4chan itself is a fucking honeypot. Does therapy actually work? I don't know how it is in your state, your city, but I don't want some faggot normie therapist to tell me to "just be happy :)". Real problems require real solutions. I don't want to shoot up a school, mall, movie theater, no. I need something real.
>>83273939It helps some. It's about changing your mindset, at least CBT is, and part of that is just working on being happy. It doesn't work so well for my problems because bipolar is chemical and not a mindset, so I do DBT as well. We work through actual problems I am having and find solutions to them, and that helps me to feel better.
