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I've had it. My childhood was full of bull****. Parents, teachers, and peers constantly treat me like I'm an idiot. I'm lazy, crazy, and mentally retarded.
College has been brutal for me. I failed so many classes to the point of losing financial benefits. I've been through cycles of jobs and can never keep one for longer than 3 months, because I get yelled at constantly by bosses and coworkers for screwing everything up.
I'm sick of people who expect me to be the same as everyone else. I'm tired of never living to anyone's expectations. I'm 25, been unemployed 6 months and have been trying to find a job only to come with nothing. It's tiring. It's overwhelming and I can't take it anymore. My parents spent all day and night working and expect me to get a job on a silver platter. Every time I have been job searching, I'm losing money on transportation costs with no result. It's starting to become a waste of time and money. Now I'm going to be thrown out of the house very soon and I'm prepared to pull the plug and end it. I don't even have the money to leave the house anymore and it's been very difficult for me.
Don't tell me to talk to my family. The most I'll get is a "get over it" and "grow up". They don't understand what I'm going through and I don't know either.
Gaming right now is the only source of my sanity. I can be in a fantasy world where people acknowledge your existence. Where no one yells at you constantly for being a failure.
ADHD and Autism is the most painful thing to have. I'd rather have AIDS and terminal cancer than live 60 years of my life knowing that I can't get or keep a job, ever get married, and live a normal life like everyone else.
I applied for disability but I doubt I'll qualify after the 20th time I applied.
I'm done. I can't take it anymore. I don't know what to do and I'm going nuts.
Don't tell me to call some Suicide hotline as that hasn't helped me and it's not going to find me work.
I've had it. My childhood was full of bull****. Parents, teachers, and peers constantly treat me like I'm an idiot. I'm lazy, crazy, and mentally retarded.
College has been brutal for me. I failed so many classes to the point of losing financial benefits. I've been through cycles of jobs and can never keep one for longer than 3 months, because I get yelled at constantly by bosses and coworkers for screwing everything up.
I'm sick of people who expect me to be the same as everyone else. I'm tired of never living to anyone's expectations. I'm 25, been unemployed 6 months and have been trying to find a job only to come with nothing. It's tiring. It's overwhelming and I can't take it anymore. My parents spent all day and night working and expect me to get a job on a silver platter. Every time I have been job searching, I'm losing money on transportation costs with no result. It's starting to become a waste of time and money. Now I'm going to be thrown out of the house very soon and I'm prepared to pull the plug and end it. I don't even have the money to leave the house anymore and it's been very difficult for me.
Don't tell me to talk to my family. The most I'll get is a "get over it" and "grow up". They don't understand what I'm going through and I don't know either.
Gaming right now is the only source of my sanity. I can be in a fantasy world where people acknowledge your existence. Where no one yells at you constantly for being a failure.
ADHD and Autism is the most painful thing to have. I'd rather have AIDS and terminal cancer than live 60 years of my life knowing that I can't get or keep a job, ever get married, and live a normal life like everyone else.
I applied for disability but I doubt I'll qualify after the 20th time I applied.
I'm done. I can't take it anymore. I don't know what to do and I'm going nuts.
Don't tell me to call some Suicide hotline as that hasn't helped me and it's not going to find me work.
My god, you sound like my 34 year old granddaughter. Hopefully you are still in your early twenties. Or you will still be blaming the world for your problems as a middle aged loser. She could have written a good part of this letter. Funny how neither one of you see the "common denominator", and that is YOU. the fact that you only want to game, and want to live off disability says it all. I don't believe even a small fraction of people with some of these new age "disabilities" are any more than prescription drug addicts, making their lives useless. Get off your butt, get off your drugs, become physically fit, then and only then will you become mentally fit. The world does not owe you a living. When you get your next job, be better than anyone else that has ever done that job, and you will keep it. Be useless, and you will get fired. Life is really simple until you yourself makes it difficult. There are simple formulas for success......there are dozens of books on the subject, try reading a few! And expect more from yourself. Hold yourself to a higher way of being. WHY OH WHY, are you not working for a gaming companY? Or developing games, or learning to program games. Come on, get on with it, you are 100 percent responsible for all of your own problems, now go fix them.
What kind of jobs are you seeking? And at what types of work have you tried and failed?
For a fair number of years, after a failed stressful job, I worked in the warehouse of a food processor; luckily for me, the stuff was fairly light-weight. But at any rate, the job was so low-demand that I was able to keep my mind free from all the headaches that come from constant interaction with an insensitive, demanding public. Later, as I came to understand the source of my frustrations, I was able to mitigate and overcome them to some degree. I eventually supplemented that job with my own business sideline.
Not World of Warcraft, perhaps, but it was better than a constant stream of spoiled suburban brats and their helicopter parents.
I don't think that the possibly mildly-hypnotic effect of the constant singing of the conveyors hurt, either.
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To be honest, a lot of people love gaming too, especially for the new adults' generation. It doesn't mean that they can't work... why don't you try to consider work as a game as well? You could consider working for a job as being part of a mission for your RPG, only it's called life, and it's your own role, but still!
Actually I personally enjoy my job because I see a lot of similitude with what I do and the games I've been through.
If you're good in gaming, it's probably because you spent a lot of hours on it. Talent does play a little role but just like real life, effort and training, repetitions and hard work are what pays, even in games. For work, it would be identical. No one helps you in the professional environment, but you still have to move forward and achieve this with your own ideas. It's done through training and hard work as well.
Let's say you have to write some specifications. Imagine a stage that you have to clear to move on to the next level. You could just quickly clear it up and beat the boss, which would be a quick and dirty type of job. Or, you could decide to carefully explore every single part of the stage before moving on, just like being very thorough in details when writing the specs. If there is a specific skill you need to master in the game to beat the boss cause he has no other weakness, well, same thing, it might be a language or a degree you need in order to solve a situation or make it work. In a game, you would spend days and nights to achieve it. When it does not work, you would try to analyse the situation, wonder what's wrong with your actions, and try different approaches to clear the level. By doing this, you keep asking the following: "Why?" and "How?".
Why not in life as well?
Actually those 2 questions are the most important questions. If you always wonder why something is done this way, and how this is working, you will understand what's going on around you. It will open your vision. There is a reason why when teaching children, teachers always try to sneak in those 2 questions in their thought process so that they become curious and therefore, knowledgeable.
I do not agree with people saying you're 100% responsible of everything happening in your life, those people have never faced or witnessed real human tragedies. There's indeed not much you can do sometimes. But often, you do have the possibility to improve your chances.
I am going to hope you will find the light at the end of the tunnel. Keep asking for advices around you. If you do not want to talk to your parents, you can write it here as well. In any cases, don't isolate yourself. Good luck.
He must play some game that requires communication with other humans since, after all, single player games are non-sentinent beings that cannot do anything to acknowledge your existence. Hence, these interactions with other gamers, of the species Homo sapiens, but somehow dimished as humans because the communication is over wires, is somehow deemed not really communicating with people.
My god, you sound like my 34 year old granddaughter. Hopefully you are still in your early twenties. Or you will still be blaming the world for your problems as a middle aged loser. She could have written a good part of this letter. Funny how neither one of you see the "common denominator", and that is YOU. the fact that you only want to game, and want to live off disability says it all. I don't believe even a small fraction of people with some of these new age "disabilities" are any more than prescription drug addicts, making their lives useless. Get off your butt, get off your drugs, become physically fit, then and only then will you become mentally fit. The world does not owe you a living. When you get your next job, be better than anyone else that has ever done that job, and you will keep it. Be useless, and you will get fired. Life is really simple until you yourself makes it difficult. There are simple formulas for success......there are dozens of books on the subject, try reading a few! And expect more from yourself. Hold yourself to a higher way of being. WHY OH WHY, are you not working for a gaming companY? Or developing games, or learning to program games. Come on, get on with it, you are 100 percent responsible for all of your own problems, now go fix them.
Ignore this type of post, for starters.
Most people with ADD/ADHD or autism are very bright. Judging from the way that you write, you are intelligent as well. Just this one skill alone is enough to help you. Please don't give up- keep fighting.
Mod cut.
Last edited by PJSaturn; 09-03-2015 at 12:54 PM..
Reason: Off-topic.
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