The #MutualAid Housewives of Bluesky County

[Propagandhim]

to be fair being trans is a neurological disability linked with autism.

A guy with down syndrome works at my supermarket.  Melody doesn't have the kind of autism where your mind is completely disrupted.  He can help himself and do things.  Anyway, i'll stfu now, this thread is for lol'ing not explaining the obvious to people that already know.

Sounds like a go-getter who wasn't coddled by online life.  But I think that's the beauty of it. Someone with down syndrome aren't as high functioning as someone like Melody, they actually want to see the world and be friends with their fellow man. Melody is high functioning enough, or just downright lazy, and wants to goon and be drip fed dopamine from anime, video games, and their discord kittens.

Their whole life revolves around being online, so it's not surprising that being stuck in their room in front of a computer screen doesn't seem like a death sentence.

I totally disagree, it is a death sentence and he feels it.  He is obviously not enjoying life.  Really, in America earning <$1,000 a month for someone who is physically able-bodied, and has a full day of free time, and is not severely mentally impaired, is a choice.  Because you cannot receive disability benefits if you are employed, you have to decide on whether you want a job, which you almost certainly will make more than $1000/month doing, or applying for disability (as a non-disabled person) and receving that tiny handout from the gov't.... or, of course, doing nothing at all. Melody's primary and highest goal right now-- their highest ambition, is to get this pittance from the gov't and jerk off on twitter and discord.  That's the high bar here for him.  But he has everything he needs for that to be considered the lowest bar to clear.  That's a choice.  And the consequences of making that choice are pretty barefaced here - no sane, reasonable person can live this kind of life without mentally breaking.  And because everything is a choice and every decision carries weight, the consequences of coddling Melody and enabling him and being very soft and pampering of his really bad decisions, like his "friends" online do is too destructive for their welfare.  They can't afford for things to get worse.

Okay i'm done writing like an old codger thumb-noser here.  This is supposed to be a fun thread.