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Originally posted by Elspode
Without Social Security Disability, SSI, Medicare, Medicaid and other programs, I would have to support my son for the rest of his life, and he would be fucked after I died unless someone else volunteered to take care of him for the rest of *his* life.
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And without all of that, I would be SOL in the worse way.
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He could never hold a job meaningful enough for him to make it in the real world.
Is that intimate enough? 
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I'm starting to believe that may be my fate as well (regarding holding a job). No one wants to hire someone with a laundry list of medical appts. each month. 
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