I don't agree with you. He is mentioning things horrible things that happened (which I am terribly sorry he went through) and fears those things will happen again simply because there are homeless people living nearby. It's no different than racial profiling. It's like saying I was robbed by a black person so I must fear being robbed any time a black person is near.

Penn, hold your head up high and don't let any looks bother you. I know it is easier said than done, but be proud that you are a good man with strong morals and kindness to others and animals.

I am right there with you. I am the nerdy one in glasses. But you know a lot of nerds rule the world, right? Lol think of Bill Gates.

I think you should find hope in the fact that troublemakers can find love and friends because if they can than a good person like you can as well.

Mmm.. but he's fearing these things happening from the child molester and his friends. It's not racial profiling if the black guy is a convicted violent offender and has friends who will back him up. He could be black, white, purple, or green.

This guy may not do anything to physically hurt Penn, but it's not beyond reason to be weary of it.

thank you, VERY MUCH, tehdreamer.

I live in a hick town, around trouble making white trash who don't have any problem putting down blacks, latinos, and gays.

people on this site bad mouthing me when enough of the people I'm complaining about are RACIST.

penntucky...banjovania....not meant as a good description of the redneck crackers I live around.

the dopes, yeah maybe addicts, who lived next door----they stole stuff from cars in a garage a few houses up this street, and then sold the stolen stuff to a used store a few houses down this street....such stupidity is scary, with such people maybe one day stealing my stuff, and probably throwing it away cause foreign language dvds and classical music cds aren't big sellers in 2nd hand shops.

right now, I have one hundred dollars in the bank; not as though rich vs poor I'm complaining about. And, even though I'm hetrosexual, I also know what it's like to be called a f%g.

even redneck, racist, violent, hillbillies can become homeless----these are the people I have trouble with.

the homeless, addicts, drunks, thieves, molesters, I have trouble with, have no sense of shame, or sympathy for anybody.

was 15 years ago somebody told me of one of the homeless bunch who 4ever hang out at a rr trestle killed a cat and hung it from the trestle, as a joke.

the end; only one or two people seem to understand the people I'm stuck around in my rural ghetto.

It's ok. It's only because they don't know you. When I first read a post of yours a while back, I thought you were ragging on homeless people in general. But after reading your posts and blogs over time, I realize you're talking about specific people, not a generalization of everyone who is homeless or a addict.

People very easily misinterpret colloquial language from others. Especially on forums where tone is unknown.

UPDATE:

cops were knocking at my door----for some woman who stole stuff.

I heard the knock, at this point worried knock was for upstairs bunch for me to avoid---I just came in from post office, for other tenant to tell me the cops looking IN THIS BUILDING for a woman who stole something.

if I ever have to sue this bunch, for one of them breaking into my apt----I can find LOTS of police reports to this homeless group home, with absolutely none of them coming from me, but from ambulance here, cops taking somebody away in cuffs, etc. etc.

canaan and tehdreamer,

thanks again---I can be as liberal as next person, and I know...I...have a bad reputation in my own town, from the wrong people I've stupidly tried to be friends with.

I'm not writing about generalities, but my own neighbors.

(hopefully, the end for me; again, it's not as though I have local people to complain about this stuff about...small town rural stuff that avg person don't know about)

While it is true that not ALL the homeless are criminals, it would be unrealistic to say that NONE are! I was victimized myself, so I know where you're coming from. As for drug addicts and alcoholics, most of whom draw DISABILITY checks, I agree that getting into those "disabilities" was a CHOICE at the beginning. They eventually end up disabled and useless, BUT their disability was self-inflicted.

You don't know what disability a person has to receive a disability check. Many addicts suffer from mental illness.

So sick of judgmental people. This place sucks.

again, my ENTIRE COUNTY is notorious for entire familys being on disability, and even two generations on disability.

there are lawyers in my county who do mostly disability claims.

how much more of my own worthless life am I supposed to have to reveal here for people to get it that I've known these people, or people like these, since....1970s!

and, I've lived in this town my entire life!

anybody wanna hear the details about the local young mom who shot her baby in the head, got five years for it, with her elderly boyfriend complaining she got too much jail time? I knew her parents in 1980s, before they went over the edge with drugs.

I just want to say that I do not intend to have a political debate with anyone. I just wanted to make sure we aren't judging everyone based on their situation.

Keep in mind this is a site that is filled with people battling mental health issues, recovery from addiction, poverty, yes some have even been homeless. There are also many on disability to due mental and/or physical issues. Many here also have family and/or friends that have dealt with these issues. So when you begin to judge others over these issues it feels like we're all being judged.


This is a support group after all. Members of DS that are recovering/battling addiction and mental illness do not need to see addicts/alcoholics being belittled because it makes them feel like they are being belittled.

I also apologize for my little outburst. It is not constructive to healthy discourse, but when you judge people on disability you are judging many people on this site. That is not what a support group is supposed to be about. But I also do not want to judge and get angry with others because that is also not what a support group is about.

While the paths to addiction have many common threads, it is none the less a very complex issue. Many good people have fallen under the spells of drugs. Some due to arrogance (I'm stronger than drugs), some to peer pressure, others manipulated by pushers for their own benefit.

It would make an interesting debate as to what various social-economic groups of people have what traits and to what degree.

But not, I suspect, here.

May I propose that we reword comments to forms like "people who abuse animals" rather than add on adjectives such as 'drug addicts' or 'homeless'?

I tend to be a bit like Pollyanna in that I hope that everybody is capable of turning themselves around.

I agree with you penntucky. And reading this has caused me a lot of stress. I'm so sick of fucked up people. It was obvious that you were not generalize all homeless people, but venting about the ones outside your apartment who are violent criminals that drink and abuse drugs.

Anyone I have ever known to have drink and abuse drugs has abused someone while under the influence at some point.

It is obvious that if a person is an alcoholic or a drug addict they they have mental health issues. That is what they turned to to feel better. That does not excuse their behaivor, and they do not deserve welfatre checks.

My father is a homeless piece of shit now who just got arrested again. He abused me my whole child hood and was an alcoholic and a drug addict. I have no pity for criminals. No matter how depressed they claim to be. I am depressed I'm not out beating and raping children.

Perpetrators don't deserve disability checks to fund their addictions.

Disabled people need disability checks to help them live their lives.