Currently stuck in DBH Hell

holidays didnt stop me frm drawing alot of dbh fanart

For me, much like for many of you, Detroit become human is a newfound obsession. And I, like many others, am in a phase of endless fanfic writing.

But I need help.

Does anyone else have that one toxic/abusive family member and then when you vent to others about said toxic/abusive family member, they’re all like, “oh, you should still love/respect him/her! He/she is your *insert relationship here, cousin, mother, father etc* and he/she loves you!”

My mother used to beat me and my siblings. She has kicked me out the house. Taken my Christmas money that I’d gotten from my aunt to use on alcohol. She’s called me fat since I was 10. Has discouraged my want to be an artist. Has called me a faggot, and a freak. She has thrown a full bottle of beer at me, and then kicked the family dog down the stairs. She would pull me off of the playground by my hair. Drag me to school by my ear. Left me alone basically every day to fend for myself when I was 13. Let me choke myself with a phone cord. Punched me. She has never respected me.

But, no. I guess I’m supposed to respect someone who’s probably the reason I’m scared of the world. Probably the reason I’m suicidal. Probably the reason I have missed out on so many opportunities in life. I should respect and love someone who did these things to me on purpose. I should love and respect someone who doesn’t love or respect me. Just because she pushed me out of her into a world that I didn’t ask to be in in the first place.

$7.25 x 40 hour full time work week: $290

$290 x 4 weeks per month: $1,160

That weekly check comes to, according to you, 290. Most places DO NOT pay for your half hour lunch that is required by law. So your beginning number was wrong. $7.25 x 7.5 hours a day x 5 days a week only gets you $271.88.  Most people in America get paid bi-weekly, so let’s double it to get the budget. $543.75. That’s GROSS, not NET. Out of that comes anywhere between 10% and 15% taxes depending on state so we’ll low ball it at 10%. Automatically down to $489.38 a pay check. Now health insurance. Usually anywhere from 70-100 a pay check for the cheapest plans. Again, we’ll low ball and go $70. So now we have $419.39 a paycheck. x 2  = $839. 

Eight hundred thirty nine dollars. A MONTH.

But again, you seem to think that’s fair. So let’s proceed. You say rent is $500? Okay. This person now has $339 left to buy groceries for the whole month, pay utilities, car payment, car insurance, and gas money to get to work. 

Those are the bare needs. You have to eat. You have to pay for heat, water, garbage removal, gas and or electricity because apartments do not always include things and rarely all of the above. Most cities in America do not have public transportation. Mine doesn’t despite the fact that our population is over 15,000 people, not counting a taxi. If you have a car, you have to pay that. If you have a car, legally you have to have car insurance. You have to pay that. You have to have gas in that car to get to work to make that money.

Now if you can tell me you can get all of that out of $339 you’re lying.

You are so focused on rent that you aren’t thinking about everything else people have to pay for. Rent was an example. This is a breakdown of the budget you gave me and it’s not possible to live off that in 2017 America. 

And BECAUSE this person makes over $800 a month, they probably won’t qualify for financial aid or food stamps. $800 is the line in my state where they won’t help you. No food stamps, financial aid, or government housing if you make more than $800 a month. 

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