Anything like that in public makes me angry.
to answer the question, I’m normally quite matter-of-fact about it thinking “that is me without my medication”
I hope for them to reach safety
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Autism is a developmental disability but I don’t act that way
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I feel sad when I see that. It’s awful that they have no one. It could be that they have family who cares but got so sick they left home and started living in the streets
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You are indeed blessed to have such supportive parents. Cherish them as much as possible and don’t take it for granted. It truly is a huge blessing that not everyone has!
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I have sympathy but on the other hand I am careful around homeless, obviously mentally ill people.
IDK. When I lived downtown three years ago the area was rife with homeless people. Most of them were not causing trouble and my board &
care was exactly next to a 7-11 where you would see homeless people every day.
I used to give them money regularly and got to know some of them. One older lady in particular was really sweet and we talked all the time whether I had a buck or two or not. I like to think some of them liked me but wasn’t sure.
I was always friendly and they let me alone though sometimes some homeless guy was either very mentally ill or drunk and flipped out and started destroying property. I had to walk around him and give him a wide berth.
But on the main drag it really started to hit me. I’ve been living with, working with and been friends with fellow schizophrenics over the course of time. We were mentally ill and we knew we were mentally ill. But we acted normally and did normal stuff but it hit me hard that these people were really mentally ill. They lived it. Coming home from work one day a homeless person who you could tell didn’t know what he was doing was in four lanes of traffic trying to stop traffic. It’s like I was seeing homeless mentally ill people for the first time who were not in touch with reality and I could tell were psychotic.
It just really hit me hard now and then. I spent the entire 80’s in hospitals, group homes and mental health housing and saw a psychiatrist and therapist (different ones) since 1982. I saw plenty of mentally ill people in all shapes and sizes and in different degrees of reality. But it was a shock to see how some of them they really lived.
But like I said, I was friendly with a lot of them downtown.
It’s sad, cause it can easily be me. My pDoc worked with me for years making sure I didn’t quit my job and lose my insurance and become homeless and unmedicated.
I think that it could have been me. The only difference is that I’m on medication and they are not.
My heart breaks for them, and I genuinely hope that they can get the help they need
If I can afford it I will give a person like that a few dollars, but you have to be careful when you do that, because they might want you to give them more to get cigarettes, beer, or whatnot. There really isn’t much you can do for a person like that. They say that older people really get preyed on when they live on the street. When I was staying in the downtown YMCA this guy was following this old man back to his room and robbing him at knife point. I don’t think it is a wise thing to do to try to protect the victims when you’re on the street.
I would prob cry if I saw something like that esp. if a group was laughing at him. during the onset of my illness the entire boarding school was laughing at me and I was so ashamed for sounding stupid.
There was a lot of homeless mentally ill people in reno when I lived there, I’ve given some food when I was younger, now I’m afraid of them but it was a constant reminder that if I ever stopped meds or did drugs again that would be me. I don’t understand why people send aid to other countries and go on missions when our own country people are suffering and have nothing, in the us at least.
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