Hi, I just discovered this site. I'm hoping to make some friends. I'm stuck at home and lonely. So I'll tell you a bit about myself. I'm cis female, ace. I've been having cancer treatment for quite a while and recently had a stroke. I'm going through a disability benefit appeal. All my friends drifted away when I got sick as I was no longer fun. The last time i saw my friends was at my 25th birthday party. I'm turning 41 this year. I've had no social life or offline companionship since then. I worked several jobs including fitness instructor and carer for the elderly, then went to university in my 20s to study philosophy. I had to drop out due to the side effects of my cancer meds.
My life now revolves around endless benefit assessments, last one I was awarded zero points and had my money stopped. I'm currently fighting it but now have no money at all and a maxxed out overdraft. Food bank access is awful so I'm starving constantly. I've been learning to walk again since the stroke. Previously I was sporty but now it's painful to even walk. So I wanted to take up art as a hobby, start learning to draw from scratch but I can't even afford paper and pencils.
So, life is awful. I need a distraction and someone to talk to. I used to talk to the people on a suicide pact forum (I've already made on attempt and often feel desperate enough to try again) but I just got banned from there for trying to sell my meds on there. Don't judge me please - I was only trying to do that out of financial desperation! So now I have literally no-one to talk to online or in real life.
Obviously I'm a leftist. I'm sick of this world where some people are billionaires while millions starve.
I am also a shut-in who would like some like-minded friends. do you like movies? this community does a watch together of a couple movies with a live chat every evening. I find it's really good for human contact https://hexbear.net/post/3503953
How does this work? Does everyone get the film off amazon or something and then discuss it later?
I can link directly later if you need it but look for the Hexbear movie comm. They have a daily stickied post of 2 movies or some shows each night that they watch. It's a wide variety of stuff too.
They have a video share type site called hextube that you just join from the link in the sticky. They host the movie and you can watch and chat.
I hope things get better for you. Also Hexbear has mutual aid comm that you can get and ask for help with no strings attached.
Thanks I've just sent a request to join.
I would also 2nd Hexbears mutual aid comm, most folks contribute around their paydays so it helps to post again if your first doesn’t get traction right away.
no, you just go to the link in the post, the chat is up top and the video plays at the bottom.