So I'm a bum but things are getting better.

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Hey all, I'm fairly new to the site. I've been aware of it for quite sometime but never really visited it until last month. Like the thread title says I'm a bum. I'll be turning 30 this month and I'm still living at home. Not because I wanted to mind you but because of mental and emotional health issues that I had left untreated for far too long. They actually didn't have much to do with my Asperger's Syndrome so much as leaving my more than mild ADHD untreated for more than a decade and not seeking help for reoccurring depression that got worse each time I fell into it . Things started getting bad for me around the age of 24 when I was going to a local community college. Up until than outside of a bout with cancer when I was 20 things were going fairly okay. Around 24 my short term memory and other things started going to s**t. I spent the next 5 years trying to pull myself back to together again. Well I couldn't do it. So around November of last year I started going to see a psychiatrist again. Last time I saw one regularly was back when I was 17. I stopped treatment because the meds they had me on were making me miserable. I thought my ability to act normal was all I would need and for a time it worked but that didn't last.

But after nearly a year of meds and treatment I find myself in a much better place emotionally and mentally. I have recently gotten hired at a local Arby's. I've had plenty of other jobs but when you can't focus well for long periods of time it's kind of hard to keep them. Last job I had before this was two years ago. Since than I spent a lot of the time doing odd jobs. A lot of them for shady people who would try to screw me out of the agreed amount for the work I did for them. Anyway for the first time in a long time I feel like the road ahead is actually worth traveling and I hope to be out of here before the year is out. Also when I can I hope to return to school and start working my way towards either a degree in Psychology or in Neuroscience. I tell'ya I never knew the Brain was so fascinating.

Hi there! And there's no shame in still living at home at 30, especially if your difficulties have made it hard to have other options. Heck, I know of neurotypical people in their 40s who still live with a parent. It's often an economical necessity.

You're not a bum, best wishes with your future plans, and welcome to WP.

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Especially in this economy....

Hey StagtheStalker welcome.

the brain truly is something else!! it works in mysterious ways, maybe someday we will be able to upload the contents of our brains to digital storage...?

anyway welcome to the club.

Welcome to Wrong Planet!