Yeah, I definitely phrased that poorly. I meant what you said, that they’re both developmental disorders

I blame my parents.

Yup. It's a developmental disorder instead of a mental illness (like autism). Our frontal lobe or prefrontal cortex didn't develop properly.

I think ADHD is a horrible name for it. Executive Functioning Disorder is a much more accurate name.

I'm not sure what they mean by "payrolls". Is it talking about the number of people on the payroll?

My source is me. I already did the research myself, but you're more than welcome to type a few words into Google if you don't believe me.

It doesn't matter what the general population is. We're discussing the homeless population.

Your questions are a strawman.

I mean, I've been diagnosed for like 25 years now and I still have to do this.

Their base is still buying their bullshit, though, and they're brainwashed so that won't change soon.

No, the ones I posted show the demographics of the chronically homeless. People who aren't homeless have nothing to do with the discussion.

Mental health issues caused them to be homeless. People with severe Bipolar, borderline, or schizoeffective disorders can't function in society without being heavily medicated, and a choice was made to not take that medication (I don't blame them. Anitsychotics have super shitty side effects).

Sure, homelessness might make it worse, but their illness is what led to the homelessness.

Neither of those statistics are relevant to the discussion.

When are you going to hook up to SageMaker or Bedrock? You're already using lambda calls, so it's a logical next step.

Yup, they want it to shut down so they can somehow blame it on the democrats.

Their entire goal is to repeat history. They want non-white people back in the fields and women back in the kitchen. They want to go back to a time where only rich white men have rights.

80% of the chronically homeless have life long mental health issues, and 60% of the chronically homeless have drug addictions.

A large part of the problem is that many don't want help. Taking antipsychotics sucks in a huge way, as well as quitting most hard drugs. (these demographics account for ~80% of the chronically homeless)

Universal Healthcare won't change much since you currently can't force someone to take their meds or quit drugs.

Chronic homelessness is a problem that won't be solved by throwing more housing or money at it. It's a super nuanced problem that requires changes at a societal level to address (which won't happen)

A lot of people seem to think the majority of homeless are those who are just down on their luck, but that's just not true.

Exactly. It's not hard to keep the exterior of those buildings looking nice. You just have to pay someone to maintain it.

The entire post is about low income housing as a solution to people sleeping in tents. Building more apartments won't stop people from living in tents.

Pointing out that it's a complex issue that isn't solved by more houses is pretty much the opposite of a strawman

That's definitely fair. I just know that whenever someone says, "I hate X type of beer," they typically mean they haven't had one that suits their palate yet.

You're more than welcome to look up statistics. ~60% of the chronicly homeless have life long mental health issues, and ~80% have substance abuse issues.

Pretty much every city/state has resources to help the homeless, but the homeless have to be willing to accept the help. Most shelters are drug free, so addicts don't want to stay there and they won't accept people whose mental illness makes them violent.

You can't force a person to take their medicine or stop doing drugs unless you want to start building more prisons.

Again, I was never saying that all homelessness is a choice, but a lot of people choose not to accept the help that's available.

Source: My wife has her masters in the field and used to work with these populations as an addiction counselor, in Texas, so I know that resources exist at a state level even in a state that clearly hates it's citizens.