“Please follow my extensive list of needs in exchange for art trinkets and time with my cat.” - my local Facebook beggar.
I wish I was making this up. But as soon as I saw that last line I knew I had to share it with you fine folks. As you can see there aren’t any comments yet…I can’t imagine why!
Offerings: digital design*
*not portrayed in any way on this flyer
GrApHiC DeSIgN iS mY PaSSion
Maybe their professional software is up a "latter."
Why is there so much climbing??
The need for all that climbing combined with the stack of trauma labels in their self description makes me heavily suspect they are a hoarder facing eviction and helping them prepare to move is climbing up to get stuff off the heap of garbage because they want everything treated with kid gloves despite it being garbage / outright beyond salvage despite them never using the items.
Right?! What is this role even? 🤣
This is one of the very few things from this that I understand. They need help for moving, so I assume the hired help will spend a lot of time cleaning out attic, stuff stored up on wardrobes etc etc.
Maybe their disability is being a giant, and they need help brushing their teeth
How am I supoposed to trust this person to do any graphic designs, if they can't even spell basic words?
How am I gonna climb up the corporate latter if I let them do the graphic designs!
And two different incorrect spellings of ladder.
And they wanna do my taxes lol
they will do your taxes, while you get to do their gardening.... for free... total win win there
I thought they were offering to do the gardening but now I’m not sure. how can they garden but not do any of the things they’re looking for help with?
at first i thought the same as you, but then i remembered how i need to go pull weeds out in my rock garden.....
My legs instantly started to hurt MORE at the thought. lol So yeah.... thios person thinks people working in their garden for FREE is a great trade.
yeah as someone who has difficulty pulling, pushing, and crouching, I was like, wait a second… I love gardening but it is work not a reward lol. also this is written so unclearly I wouldn’t consider letting them near my administrative tasks. I’m not trying to get audited cuz this person can’t spell ladder.
I am most terrified about what sort of tattoo this person might design for me...
The question mark after tattoo doesn’t fill me with confidence. Tattoo?
Whatever design it is probably comes with a free side order of hepatitis.
What are you even talking about? There's a weird goat with a hat pasted onto a picture of a sidewalk!
I thought that was the person.
I thought it was a super fancy chicken
I saw a chicken with style as well!
Has anyone worked out which occasion the goat is celebrating?
My money is on Brazilian Carnaval.
Maybe if I could also spend time with the goat
It's their passion, ok?
There's so much here that we don't know.
Is decorating goats the passion?
Or is it photographing goats that someone else decorated?
That’s what got me too, lol. People asking for free help is fine and even normal now due to the enshitification of our society and social supports. But this flyer is garbage, lol. Would have been better as a NextDoor all text/emoji post.
They need help to shower, but can do your gardening? I’m so confused.
“climb a latter”
*later
Look, one of these spellings has to be correct!
I like your optimism, my friend.
Other suggestions to try:
- ratter
- hatter
- lather
- batter
Latte. It's obviously Latte
Thats not even the intriguing part. It says "consistenetly".... like what is that?
A word journey is what it is.
Latter day saint?
I highly doubt latter, lader, later, or ladder day saints are involved here 😂.
The Ladder Day Saints are such social climbers!
Now that I would pay to see!
You should see what your tax form look likes when they're done.
Time with your cat? And all I have to do is climb your “latter/later”? Put me in, Professor!
I really need to know what the ladder is for. They mention cooking, grocery pickup, cleaning, help with showering...none of that should require a ladder, unless I'm doing it wrong 🤔
It involves carrying something weighing 25 lbs. up & down the "latter" so whatever it is doesn't sound like fun. I don't like getting on a ladder in the first place, let alone carrying 25 lbs. of extra weight with me.
Maybe they keep their bags of cat litter at the top of a ladder for reasons unknown.
You get to clean the gutters and put up/take down the Christmas lights. Isn’t that way better than pay??
Ayo there's cat time? 👀
My cats are prettttty great, so that’d have to be Some Cat.
My cat is an utter asshole, but he's here at my home where I also already am sooo
But what if the cat doesn’t wanna spend time with helper donating their time? And let’s assume the weather is bad so there’s no time in the garden either. So no payment for the helper?
I'd kindly invite the cat to view this document
Well it isn't time in the garden, its gardening work this CB will do for you! Which does beg the question, this person is able bodied enough to garden but not to prepare their own food or donate their own clothes?
They likely share the same disability as many of the rest of us—we don’t like to do any of the shit they mentioned 😂
Unfortunately for us, we don’t have the sweet graphic design skills to be able to live like this legend.
Yes 😏
I’d need to see the cat. Alas no pic!
The cat's name has also been censored to protect them.
The cat posted this so it removed its own name to be anonymous
The cat is also a survivor.
So I can confirm that this person’s cat IS pretty cute. I’m a tad biased because I love all black cats…but I wouldn’t say he’s cute enough to warrant free labor.
This person needs to go to assisted living.
That costs money, which I am guessing they do not have.
There are programs for people like that. They aren't the best staffed but they are likely to be better than free stranger help.
I know someone who requires 24 hour care and the gov’t does not provide anywhere near enough for 24 hour care. Disability in the US is horrendous.
I dont know how any Americans cope with the stress of knowing any major health issue they develop, or any unforeseen injury they get could completely ruin everything they have. I would be beside myself with stress every day.
What programs?
If they're eligible for Medicaid they might be able to get some in home help.
“Might be”
well, in my own personal experience - yes there are assisted living facilities that are covered by medicaid. those are for older adults. there are also assisted living facilities for individuals with mental disabilities (disorders? i'm unsure but i'm interested in looking into that) that are covered by medicaid.
however, both are rife with neglect and abuse because they're poorly funded through medicaid. so.
How does one garden while being simultaneously unable to clean or care for oneself?
I suspect that this person has a verb issue. Substitute "will not" for "cannot" and "want" for "need" throughout the post, then you'll have a more accurate picture.
They can’t, they’re selling “maintain my overgrown beds” as “free garden plot!”
I was wondering this too. Used to be severely disabled to that point of needing in home care and gardening is a pretty strenuous activity for me even now and definitely a marker to me of how able-bodied I am that I can do something like that recreationally.
I hate to break it to y’all but gardening is slang for smoking weed 💀💀💀
I am intermittently disabled and in general, my back sucks. I love gardening but depending on the task, can only work for about 30-60 minutes before I seize up and am done for the day (or week, if my body wants to be extra cranky). And that's when the weather is nice - if it's summer here and it's a heat index of 80 at 6 am, nothing is happening.
I caught that too. Gardening is pretty physical, so it seems sus that a person who can’t bathe without assistance can do it. Also they can help with your taxes, but they can’t pay you? That sounds like someone I wouldn’t want doing my taxes.
Yeah, I definitely assume they mean free weed while you clean my house. Where I live that is a common euphemism. Ironic though because weed is never free otherwise, so instead of paying a caregiver they’re choosing pay for pot to “medicate”. I’m sure there’s a laundry list of reasons they’d give you why it works better than whatever scripts their doctor gave them, if they even have an official diagnosis.
it's likely whatever amount of weed they're offering isn't much. probably let you hit their pen or bong or whatever while they're already smoking or share some edibles with you.
Some people now refer to smoking weed ad “gardening” so i assumed that may have been what they meant.
So, watch me smoke weed that you cultivate for me?
I think the possible implication is they give you weed
I don’t think this is what they mean
in this context i definitely think that's what they meant. that's used as shorthand to advertise smoking weed and weed related activities. for example, a lot of places that sell bongs, pipes, etc. will refer to them as "gardening supplies" in order to operate more discreetly or bypass filters and the like.
I hate to break it to y’all but gardening is slang for smoking weed 💀💀💀
"Time with my cat". This ain't it.
After you clean the litter box, of course
might as well take the cat home
Hmmm the free gardening time with the cat really swung it for me.
“Tattoo?”
Read: idk how to give one but I can try if that’s what you really want.
Anyone that takes them up on that offer kinda deserves what they get 🥲
Need local aid
Buzzword buzzword buzzword buzzword needs weekly physical support.
Do every single chore for me pls and thanks.
Compensation? You can pet my cat
Also… survivor of what? Cancer? POW camp? Or….?
There’s aloooot of missing context in that headline.
I wouldn't be surprised if they kept taking "breaks" with said art and got mad if you brought it up
"survivor" of what exactly? This person just sounds exhausting and self-pitying.
i do know this individual irl and they constantly claim fights with their grandma who houses them as “domestic violence from my roommate”
Dude, the fact that some people here think I’m making this up is wild. I don’t think I could come up with nonsense like this if I tried. There’s just so many…words 🤣
Ahhh, that explains the "move preparation". Grandma is kicking their freeloading, self pittying ass out. It seems like they're looking for a mark that they can mooch off of.
If you're surviving you're a survivor... technically.
We are all survivors! IM a champion!
You get a medal, and you get a medal, and then you get a medal...
Aren't we all, then?
You see it on tumblr begging posts all the time - throwing every single oppressed demographic they can possibly fit into as both a signaller of virtue (Look! I'm not one of those filthy privileged people!!) and as an attempt to elicit pity.
I knew this women who was able to grift thousands just by being a queer woman POC with health issues. She'd post her go fund me after every appointment where some new, rare malady that will cost thousands to treat was found. Every post sounded just like the one above and screamed scam.
They’re a survivor, they’re gonna give up, they’re gonna stop, and they’re not gonna work harder.
Pick a struggle!
They'll play "Eye of the Tiger" for you while you work.
Being misgendered once
I guess they just want the applicant to know they won't have to care for a dead person.
I’m guessing it’s someone that spends a lot of time in r/zerocovidcommunity
Damn, I browsed around there a bit and it's like they see how batshit antivaxxers are and said "Hold my beer".
This person sounds like they need genuine in home assistance not the kindness of strangers.
You have to pay for genuine home assistance. If you can’t afford to pay, kindness of strangers is all you have left.
This must be a problem im too Australian to understand because the government funds those services here.
I'm a bit confused by this person's description of themselves (queer, trans, disabled, survivor); why is it necessary that we know all this about them? Are we to consider offering to help based on who they are rather on what kind of help they need?
Every mutual aid post reads like this. To the point that I know this person is white because otherwise it would’ve said “queer trans POC disabled survivor…”
The mutual aid posts on Twitter are fascinating.
You should see the ones on tumblr. And the scammy "Gazan in need of help" beggers who somehow all have Bulgarian IP addresses
And that people will call you a genocide denier for pointing out as scams
I promise they’re self diagnosed with every mental health disorder possible and thinks every doctor/nurse is an idiot when they try to help.
As a gay person.. when I see people describe themselves as the person did in the post, they scream:
HOT MESS COMIN' THRU WATCH OUT
And I stay out of their way. These people who describe themselves like this are usually the biggest hot messes both personally and mentally. So many labels to describe themselves.. too many labels tbh.
Yep. I’m a nurse and hated these patients when I worked with adults. They come to the hospital but the think all recommendations and treatment plans are wrong but blame us for not getting any better. They’re always special little complex butterflies who are the exception to every rule. Always think they’re medical anomalies. I always treated them with respect but never got it back. This is a very specific type but I feel like everyone knows at least one person like this.
They're going for every sympathy card.
Sadly, true and common. I have a friend in SC, was always there for anyone. Got a MS diagnosis in 2017. Was in a wheelchair in months. Could no longer do his physical labor job. His savings was gone in a year. He can’t even paint anymore which used to be his side hustle. And he needs daily, regular help that Medicaid won’t cover and disability is designed to keep you poor, you get $20 on a scratch card someone gave you it’s counted and adjusted for. Not a penny spare, no coverage, high needs, no safety net, no healthcare system. What would you do? Ask and hope someone can help.
My brother's neighbor's mom in like this. She lives in her house but when it's sold the state gets its cut. The amount of disability money she gets to keep is limited. Adult diapers aren't included so her son has to buy them for her as well as other items. Some people, as they age, start to give their kids money (if the kids can be trusted) in case this happens so the state doesn't grab it all (they keep the amounts below the gift tax limit).
Depending on the state/program she may just need a prescription for the diapers and then they would be covered.
Yup. This happened to a friend of mine who became permanently disabled out of the blue. Went from working as a therapist at a hospital to barely being able to go up and down his own steps. Was denied disability by the state three times. Was denied SNAP four times. I bought him groceries and cleaned his house for a year before he was able to get aid from the state. The experience has absolutely hollowed him. It wrecked him.
Gah, what a nightmare. You’re a good friend.
That’s SSI; supplemental income, the welfare disability; it’s for people who haven’t /can’t work enough to have enough quarters to qualify for SSDI. SSDI, earned disability, is different and comes with Medicare. It’s not means tested and there’s no penalties for unearned income (like a scratchers ticket).
And then there’s the fun combo and Medicaid or Medicare issue. He had to have 2 wrong size wheelchairs for over 5 years before they agreed the wheelchair bound patient needed a functioning wheelchair.
Right? The first thing I thought was “this sounds like someone desperate who’s had the system fail them”. And, judging by the comments, Reddit seems to default to “they’re lazy”.
And I mean at least they are trying to offer something in return. Of course it’s not much but it’s at least something.
yeah honestly if this person was local to me i'd ask to see some of their tattoo portfolio and if i like their linework, i'd be happy to help them now and then for a free tattoo every few months
Exactly. I feel like this isn’t really a choosing beggar, more like someone absolutely fucked over by our medical system. They’re just a beggar, someone who is in desperate need.
You may not be familiar but I have friends who do this kind of thing: form “care collectives” to spread the labour of supporting someone who can’t super themselves. It falls under the political ideal of mutual aid. Often there might be eight people or so each helping out once a week. This person might not be going about it the right way and might not realize how it comes across but this is absolutely a thing.
I'm disabled, and have someone twice a week for about an hour, to do the heavy lifting on cat care, basic cleaning, and whatnot.
The difference is that I pay him.
Also, the cats like him.
Cats are a good judge of character.
Not mine, because they also like me. 🙃
Don't have a pet if you can't even take care of yourself
What else can they negotiate with, if no cat?
Exactly! This poor cat probably has its litter full and filthy all the time...
What are people with preexisting pets supposed to do when they Lose their job/get sick and find no one they trust to rehome the pets to? Kill them? Surrender the pet to a shelter where it might get killed?
This is a valid question, same ans when people say, “don’t have kids if you can’t afford them”, when people need help after losing their jobs, getting into an accident, etc.
I mean, clearly, if you lose your job after having children, you're supposed to just get rid of them, just like any other unnecessary expense
That’s kinda where I am with my own situation, tbh. I am a horrible owner because I really can’t afford my cat, but my health declined drastically after he became part of my life. We’re both grumpy senior citizens who only have each other. Nobody is adopting cats, especially old ones, and sure as hell nobody’s gonna adopt me. So we’re just gonna tough it out.
Head over to r/RandomActsOfPetFood
If this person is legitimately disabled, I hope community support for ADLs would already be available to them. Then again, the healthcare system where I live in complete shit.
yeah that's not a thing it doesn't just magically appear when you become disabled
...it certainly doesn't, and even if you can get it, it's not free.
Was this made by my ex roommate
Queer trans disabled survivor.
But is he new in town?
Then I will pepper in the fact that I am gay
I will start with the fact that I am homeless…as that is a given.
I cannot imagine a person needing this level of support is going to provide gardening services???
I think they mean, YOU can garden at their house.
Not that type of gardening
I'm done crouching. Especially for free.
I need to know more about the "free gardening"
I think they mean they’ll share their weed.
I’m sold! lol
In lieu of money.
I’m 99% sure they mean they will let you work in their garden for free
I question the gardening ability of someone who can't prep their own food
As silly as the list sounds, I do really hope they find someone who can help them out. A lot of disabled people rely on their families to do this stuff for free, there's just not that many options.
My little brother got put on a wait list for an aide when he was a toddler and only got an aide this year at 21. He's a high needs autistic guy so he can still take care of a lot of his own hygiene and even helps out around the house, but he'll need to live with someone his whole life. If this person got cut off from their family and there's no good social programs that can help with their specific needs. They're fucked.
I can't blame them for making this.
This has to be trolling. They have all the attributes.
Nah, this is absolutely a normal “mutual aid” post.
I enjoy the payment in “tattoo?” Because tattoo question mark is who I want inking my body for sure.
They're drawing it, not giving it.
I would assume the hesitance is that they are aware that art drawn by someone else for a tattoo is pretty much useless to the artist. It doesn't save your any time or money and can actually result in tattoo looking worse if they try to rely on it too much over their own art style.
Aah ok that actually makes sense.
Oh absolutely this. They forget the "mutual" means they give something back.
There's a fuck load of people in the queer community (as a trans person myself) who have, very sadly, realized you can game this system for a decently long time. Never once do these folks ever give anything back, very rarely even a thank you or any acknowledgement of gratitude.
Wanna smoke weed? Call it "meds" instead! There's literally a Bluesky post directing people to do exactly this so as to get mode money that's gone viral. Otherwise people will think you just wanna get high!
There's always a crisis right at their doorstep. A threat of eviction, a utility shutoff, a medical emergency, and as soon as it's taken care of: boom! Another! Need more money!
Bluesky, for that matter, is a gold mine for these kinds of posts. People begging for "mutual aid" for things like gaming PCs and swivel chairs, cannabis, cute/fancy clothes etc. There's a "journalist" (in reality she just posts high infodumps) who once wrote for Polygon, IGN, etc and even wrote the big Prima Games strategy guides- she gave it all up to do these grifts and smoke pot on our community's dime. She also play by plays her crash outs on others.
This is not what the queer community is about. This is not what we're fighting for. This is grifting. I've been debating posting some of them here but I worry about it being traced back to me somehow. They'd definitely fit the bill though, given that they literally circle what they want on dispo menus/Best Buy etc.
I don’t have Bluesky but the mutual aid posts on Twitter are fascinating. Like I don’t know that I can properly call it a “hate read” even? More like rubbernecking a car crash?
(*almost) Everybody is disabled but not disabled enough to be on disability and/or won’t see a doctor to diagnose their disability because all doctors are wrong. Have no money for food but don’t qualify for EBT. Homeless with kids yet don’t qualify for any homeless housing programs. Need money for weed I mean medication. Etc etc etc. Only thing that can fix any of it is sending cash.
That's pretty much what I've been doing lol, rubbernecking/disaster journalism lol.
They always add as many modifiers to make you feel bad or get points against privilege as possible. Disability (also so they can throw in "ableism" allegations) are always in there without fail.
They may be a troll, but also I know someone in my real life who is very much like this. And when you give anything it is somehow the wrong thing.
I’ve seen a bunch of these on Ig and Threads, and thought it was rage bait at first. But nope, if you go back on their account, you can tell they are serious lol .
How do you afford art supplies and pet supplies if you cant even afford a care-giver to help you wash your ass???
to be fair one is way more expensive than the other. Also it could be digital art. Also, cats are relatively inexpensive and low maintenance. This is coming from a goldfish person (one of the most expensive and care intensive pets actually, not trolling goldfish are carp so it's like having trout or salmon as pets if you actually take care of them to a healthy adult size).
Is this the same fruit loops one from a few months back, who had a partner, and they are both disabled ArTIsts, and need the entire world to subsidize their whole lives.... because, why not. ?
Are you thinking of that Artemis person who's family used to be on TLC or something? Because that's who I'm thinking of.
I looked at her photo online, and I don't think this is the one I was thinking of.
The one I was thinking of, was a career online beggar, and there was Gofundme, with the info redacted, attached to the post, and the couple had previously made a couple of other Gofundme's, where they netted about $2.5k on each one ..
I can't find it now, but it's on Reddit somewhere, maybe not in /Choosing Beggars..
Is it* that the morbidly obese woman with the deaf feeder partner? If it's the one I'm thinking of, she also posts about her vacations.
*I was asking if it is, but accidentally typed it is
… I am now invested in everything about this. tell me more.
I blocked her on social media. There are certain kinds of people I don't want to see on social media so i preemptively block to protect my peace.
She came on my fyp in a post bragging about all her vacations and the outfits she wore on her vacations. She was kind of fascinating in a trainwreck way so I looked at her profile.
What I got from her posts: disabled due to morbid obesity. Uses a mobility scooter. Has a partner who is a feeder. Had some pretty gross posts on their sexual likes, asked for mutual aid. The partner is deaf. They both say they are in the LGBTQ+ community (it's unclear if the partner is trans), and pro-Palestine is her personality.
I’m afraid to ask what is an “air flush”
Most reasonable West Coast mutual aid request.
They always have cats but can't even take care of themselves.
Wow this is really going for it. I’d love to see the comments on This one
Bonus points for making that font/color choice completely inaccessible
I bet the art is shitty too. People need more self-awareness and a sense of shame in general.
Interesting that they have survived not only disabled, but also queer and trans. I didn't realise that queer or trans were particularly life threatening.
Based on context clues, I'd be willing to wager they mean they survived COVID.
I think you might be onto something there.
Not to be a dick, but it is dangerous to be qurer and trans if the wrong kind of people clock it. Being gaybashed is still very much a thing the world over.
However, I heard they are a "suvivor" of DV, but acording to some, said "DV" was just arguments with their family thats housing them
Free gardening killed me dead. Lmao I get to do house work AND yard work?! Yaaaaaay!
“Tattoo?” Does not give me confidence in their skills 😂
Tattoo?
Can climb a latter but not a former?
"Time with my cat." Shoulda led with this lmao
“ I cannot offer you money “
I cannot offer you help.
I mean if that was someone living close by I'd cook some more and take the trash out for cat time.
Cant: Take care of self.
Can: Own animal
What exactly do they mean by “survivor”?
The time with the cat sent me
The type of people this will attract, are not the type of people you would want in your home and around your stuff. She gonna get cleaned out alright.
She’s wants a home health aide plus housekeeper and doesn’t want to pay for it? Yeah that’s not going to happen. She’s trying to hit every buzz word for sympathy but I think it’s just too much,
Why so much latter/ later climbing?
“Tattoo?” Nah, you’re good thanks…