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How insensitive are you? You better have some sort of apology when your suspension is over. We have showed nothing but support for OP.

Imagine attacking someone for needing help

Riff-Raff is the shitpost forum.

I am on welfare (social security supplemental benefits) and dad's applied for disability but it may be months before he's approved. That's the thing: the money I get from welfare (which now isn't even the full amount anymore due to this temp job I'm working, they require me to send in my pay stubs and when I do the amount I get from social security is lowered for the next month based on what I was paid) and this temp job aren't enough to help us stay where we are. And this isn't even some high class house and neighborhood, we're a middle class suburb, my next door neighbor is a woman and her kids who were once homeless before finding out the previous owner of that house (who moved out long ago) was putting the house up for rent for a fairly reasonable price (old next door neighbor was a retired army vet).

Dad got screwed over by his old employer when they let him go after he was injured on the job, and finding a job on my own is a terrifying prospect as working in a place or for people I don't know puts way more pressure on me than I am comfortable and raises my fear of failure 100 fold (and the judge who I went before when applying for social security could definitely see that when I spoke to him). My cousin is the one who got me this temp job and I am extremely grateful to him for it. One of the big contributing factors to this really is my autism, I've always been bad in social situations with people I don't know at all (more so when face to face, I admit the anonymity of the internet helps make some interactions less intimidating, it's probably why there's a famous stereotype that 4chan is full of autistic people), and a situation involving my future in regards to being able to just fucking LIVE makes it even worse (no money = no food, no house, no entertainment, basically would be better off dead, in fact I'd probably be suicidal were it not for things like my family needing me and entertainment that keeps me from feeling like a complete wreck such as video games, a medium where more and more I'm realizing the reason why I've always had a strong attachment to it is because video games give me a level of control I feel I lack in real life).

I mentioned this on the GFM page but I somehow forgot to post this here until now. It's late when I'm typing this and I just had a very long day so I'm gonna get lazy and just copy and paste what I said there:

Hey everyone. The end of October is looming as I make this update and I'm here to say a few things.

First off I am going to end the campaign. Unfortunately we simply could not reach the intended goal in time before my father and I ultimately had to leave the house. My father is going to go live with a family member (one of his siblings) for the time being and I will be living with my mother. The plan now is to wait for dad to get approved for disability, and when he does hopefully the both of us can find places where each of us can live, with dad having disability to help with his monetary needs and me using the income I bring in from the job I'm working (and I'm hoping in a few months I'll go from a temp who only gets called in every now and then to a full time employee who makes significantly more).

Second, while I know it's unfortunate we couldn't reach the goal in time, please know my dad and I are extremely grateful for the help all of ya'll have given us. The money donated will be a huge help to my father in the coming months.

While it is hard to say where the both of us will be down the line, we are both glad to know there is definitely kindness in the world (and yes I know that may sound cheesy but hey it's true).

Again, a big thank you to everyone who helped us out, you are all amazing people!

And on a more KYM specific note: obviously this does not mean I'm suddenly leaving KYM, a change in location doesn't mean a change in what sites I visit. I'll keep posting all my usual stuff after getting things set up at my mom's (which shouldn't take very long, she only lives on the other side of town [in fact most of this week was me taking stuff over there, at least the stuff I can feasibly take with me like my game consoles, games, and soon my PC and TV, and also helping dad get most of his stuff put into a storage unit] and has good wi-fi and such at her place). I'm hoping it won't take long for dad to get approved for disability as he's almost done with the recommended doctor's visits and such, and while I wasn't called into work this past week I'm hoping as we near the holidays work will ramp up enough that I start going in much more frequently. This thread will likely end up closing once no one posts in it for over a month, but I guess as long as this thread remains in the forums it will help remind me that this community really does help those in need.

I have to admit, seeing this thread have a new post from you always makes my heart drop a bit, but I'm happy to know your lives aren't falling apart as you'd feared. Good luck, and keep us updated if you end up sticking it to Rob somehow.

I understand this following post has nothing to do with my original post and the GFM has been shut down (and as a note the money donated has been a big help with paying my dad's final bills related to the house and helping pay for the storage unit dad needed for keeping possessions he couldn't take to my aunt's house), but at this point we might as well re-title this thread "how much can 2020 fuck with some weirdo from a a meme site?" because man some things still aren't going better.

My step father got covid last Friday (he quarantined himself quickly to avoid spreading it to mom and I) and has been dealing with it at home for the past week, but as of today it looks like he's gotten worse and may need to be rushed to the hospital, and mom is worried that if my step dad goes to the hospital it may be the last time she ever sees him.

Look I understand the whole "thoughts and prayers" thing is generally seen as dumb around here since it can come off as hollow in certain circumstances, but I do ask for those of you of a religious persuasion to please pray for my step dad to recover from this. I hate to see my mom as sad as she is right now and man this year just can't leave my family life alone can it?

Step dad is in the hospital now. The hospital in question has staff highly trained in how to care for covid patients since they've had a good long while at this point to know what exactly to do, so mom is thankfully not as worried as she was previously. As a precaution mom and I got tested for covid at a clinic that does quick testing and thankfully we're negative, which is good as I don't think I can afford to miss work now (my step dad has paid sick leave with his employer but I dunno how long it goes for). Also did our best to decontaminate where needed with germ killing wipes (though not in my room as no one but me really goes in here during the day).

At this point I guess it's a matter of waiting until covid just works its way out of my step dad's system and praying he doesn't suffer any long term affects.

Oh god, I'm sorry to hear about this…
I know how it feels, my dad had COVID a few months ago but thankfully despite his age, he was able to recover. Was very happy to see him again when he came to visit (especially since I haven't seen him in 11 years). I pray the same happens with your stepdad.

Apparently others in the family found out about my step dad having covid and now mom and I, despite testing negative, aren't allowed to come to family Thanksgiving this year. I feel like such an uncaring asshole though because after dealing with a lightning strike on my old house and then losing said old house, not going to Thanksgiving feels like a mild inconvenience at best, but man mom is incredibly upset by all of this and very mad at her own family now, and I can't think of anything to help her out. She's saying "everything's ruined" and crying her eyes out, and all I could think to say was "I hate to say this but it's hard for me to feel the same because I just lost my house and had to deal with an asshole of an uncle, I'm just so drained that missing Thanksgiving feels like barely anything at this point."

Got damn I hate this fucking year.

I know how it feels to have a relative with COVID.
My mom tested positive and she stayed in the living room for like a month,only later she re-did the test and turned out to be negative.
It was a hard time with her crying and couldn't take it to be locked in a room,making sure to not "infect" anything in the house.
Taking care of her with several methods helped alot to get through it.

It's a hard time but it can be done.