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Money, Closets, and Hurricanes. Oh my!

Started by Fighter, August 27, 2011, 06:22:53 AM

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Fighter

So I've been feeling a lot of stress lately. One of these reasons is money. My family is pretty much no-income now, food stamps and all that. I've been trying to find a job all summer, looking especially hard when everyone was going to to school (I'm holding off until Spring), and still haven't been hired. Mostly I want to be independent from my family, but since I have absolutely nothing I can even do until I get a job and get some cash, I've been sitting around bored out of my mind, waiting for a call and filling out applications. I can't even get a therapist or anything without money, or a car to go to one! It doesn't help that I live in the country and can't get anywhere without driving, which requires a license. I don't even have my permit yet :(.

And then I'm getting all this anxiety about wanting to come out and finally start feminizing my appearance (or at least be able to properly crossdress at home). I'm scared to come out to my dad before I get driving lessons from him or anything, but I really just want people to know so I can stop repressing emotions and can start actually doing something about my problems than just be sad about them, but that also requires money.

And now I have to worry about this stupid hurricane. It's coming right up my alley, although we aren't getting the full force of it. We don't have to worry about the hurricane itself, more like we have to worry about trees falling on our power lines or into the streets and losing electricity. Everything in my house runs on electricity! Not to mention that we just had to stock up on water and food and everything, which took hours of looking because everyone is in panic mode, and we had to wait on line for almost an hour.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! Okay, writing that out made me feel a bit better. Maybe I should exercise more to build up some endorphins or something...
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Hikari

I totally understand. First we get with an earthquake here, then a hurricane. After the quake people started buying water and canned goods and whatnot, so everyday that I have worked I have been stocking the shelves like mad, and by yesterday, there was no water left, not even in backstock. The Panic mode around here is severe.

Transportation, can be a very big hurdle for someone without a job, I wish I could give some advice on how to get transportation, but it  is pretty hard, especially with just a learners. I was lucky enough to have a car given to me by one of my friends uncles while I had a learners so by the time I had a license I had a car. Of course such things come with insurance and gas and everything else, so I got a job working the late night shift at a local Denny's. It wasn't great, but at least I had a bit of freedom.

If you are 18 or over, and a legal adult I suggest looking for a TG friendly local clinic who can direct you to a therapist if that is what you are looking for. Despite working, I am very poor and also on foodstamps at the moment, but I am trying to not let that  stop me if I can avoid it. Outside of that, many therapists work on a sliding scale of income, but they still require some payment unless you have a program you are on that compensates them.

I wish I could give you some advice with parents, but I haven't lived with mine since I was 14, so I really don't know much about coming out to them. I do wish you the best of luck with things, hopefully neither of us will be without power for too long during the storm, my netbook doesn't have that much battery life :P
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