Re: Blind humans and living situations?
Re: Blind humans and living situations? Hi.The little bit of research I just did says that if i'm on ESA, I can't get UC.OH well URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/607375/#p607375 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Blind humans and living situations? Hi.@haily_merry, yeah; I pay for all of that.It helps me and the grandparents so it's not a huge deal, would I like to pay less? Sure, but at the same time, I use the internet and they use the tv and sometimes the phoneline so it's useful.Yeah; I know about not living in London, the accessibility hear is great, talking busses trains, a fredom pass so you don't have to pay, uber, things like that, but moving out of london would be a good idea.I can't at the moment, there's this virus thing going around, ya no? But in the future, I'm really thinking about it. I'm nervus about the dentist so having my nan take me is nice but living alone would be nicer.As for Universal Credit, I'll look into it, thanks. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/607373/#p607373 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Blind humans and living situations? Germany here again, living together with my sighted partner. Currently writing my master thesis in computer science and working as a programmer for seven years now in parallel to achieving bachelor and master degree. During those years I was on my own for some time, moved 1-2 times and now i'm finally in a flat together with my girlfriend. Working pays the bills I guess, in addition to the financial support from the country. Cooking is a matter of lazyness most of the time, just as any other household stuff usually is, but household tasks need to be done, cooking doesn't usually need thanks to my girlfriend doing it. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/607346/#p607346 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Blind humans and living situations?
2021-01-16
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AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : giorgi elbaqidze via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Blind humans and living situations? well currently I'm studying in secondary school, Living with grandma and mother. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/607294/#p607294 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Blind humans and living situations? I have to wait for my grandparents to die in order to be put in a place by the council.I'm not sure why, but this sent me into a fit absolutely hysterical giggles for some reason. Don't mind me, strange, strange day.@brad, so do you pay for all of that yourself? Or do you just pay for some of that to help out your grandparents.Also, seriously, seriously consider moving somewhere that isn't London. From the research I've done, rent where my parents live, Banbury, for a flat at least, is around £500 to £700, depending on where exactly you buy, I've noticed that the more industrial areas, town centres, highstreets etc tend to cost less. And it's far from the cheapest, either.You'll also find that accessibility is much, much better elsewhere. While I've not lived in London for extended periods of time before, I've stayed there often enough.And also, the council in London sucks. I mean, so do most councils, but London especially so. I'll have to look into council housing myself, from what I've read rent is typically a lot cheaper.Do you also get universal credit? That is usually about £400 for people like us, and I'm pretty sure you can apply for it if you haven't already. ESA is only really designed to supplement that in areas where utility bills, or rent, are particularly bad. I know you went to RNC, so I don't imagine living independently will be too much of a challenge for you provided you can get those initial hurdles sorted. I can't imagine living with my family until I'm over 18, even. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/607247/#p607247 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Blind humans and living situations? Fun things to make from peanut butter and rice don't exist to my knowledge, but 1 cup peanut butter, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and 1 cup sugar is the world's easiest peanut butter cookie dough. Bake at 350 for 12 minutes, if I recall correctly. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/607157/#p607157 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Blind humans and living situations? I live alone. Own the property (before this sounds impressive, it's the sort of property where, if I sold it, I might be able to afford two Braille displays.). Were it better insulated and I didn't have college debt, and if I actually put in the effort to eat as cheaply as possible, I might-might could manage on SSI. I don't know how people who have to pay rent can manage on SSI, unless they're in the most energy-efficient walled box ever, and subsist entirely on Peanut Butter and Rice. (Note to self: look up fun things to make from Peanut Butter and Rice.)Anyway, working now, make not-quite twice SSI. Owe money to the SSA because I was misled about reporting the property to the SSA while I was in college and still listed living with my parents, so between that, student debt, and utilities, that's about half my paycheck gone immediately. The other half was allowed to build up until I could get someone to work on the house, and that was most of my savings gone. So the past two years ... I think that's what they call "the rat race"?Also, spent time here before employment, when was just getting SSI. I really don't think doubling what I was getting would have helped. Like, I can't think of anything where I went "awe, man, the quality of my life would be so much better if I had managed to save like a grand for this one thing." Maybe if I'd tried shopping for used Braille displays instead of only ever looking at wholesale prices? Maybe I'd've had enough money to hire a sound designer for , but I don't think I could have saved enough to fund a whole decent project even by now, that way. At best, I could have made those repairs sooner (OK, that one would have made a substantial difference).(I do want a raise, though. Half our workforce quit last year, and the half that remains has been having to do all the work for several months. Like, the whole department needs a raise, or a huge bonus, or something like that, which the State will never sign off on. And it's state-funded, so there's rules and bureaucracy and stuff, so I can't just walk up to my boss's boss's boss and tell them this parenthetical, increasingly huffily, and expect results.) URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/607154/#p607154 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Blind humans and living situations?
Re: Blind humans and living situations? Wouldn't that kinda count as with a roommate URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/607152/#p607152 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Blind humans and living situations? I live with my grandparents, but I used to stay in a residential part of my old school which was horrible due to the appalling care I received. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/607140/#p607140 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Blind humans and living situations? I guess alone also would mean living with spouse or familly lol.I too live alone, have been years without any sighted help. Since childhood when I was bored I would help out with meal preparation and household chores like cleaning etc Actually my mom would ask me to do them because my sister refused to do any household chores at all.As I grew older, this was very useful preparation for living alone. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/607121/#p607121 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Blind humans and living situations? I suppose that's by myself, but still. The biggest question is the large level of discrimination brought about by the topic title. I mean, blind, "Humans"? What about the blind cats, dogs, mongeese, bats, wombats kangarooes, oscelots, or what about blind trolls? Do they not matter? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/607114/#p607114 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Blind humans and living situations? am mad! Mine's not in that list! I'm married! This is discrimination of the highest order! :d URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/607110/#p607110 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Blind humans and living situations?
Re: Blind humans and living situations? Hi.I live in the UK with my grandparents, london housing is very expencive, over £1000 per month for a flat, and as far as I know; they won't take PIP or ESA.Oh and the government assistance I can get with that is only willing to pay £130 a month, I think, and when i rreach 30 it goes up to a huge £150 or something like that. It's terrible.I have to wait for my grandparents to die in order to be put in a place by the council.I've not looked around the entire city but from what I've been told, Ealing, the place where I live; won't take PIP or ESA so it's very hard to get a place.I pay my bills with PIP and ESA, I pay for the housephone, tv and internet plus rent, but rent isn't bad at £100 a month; it's meant to be £150 but the £50 was taken off to help pay for the billls. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/607103/#p607103 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Blind humans and living situations? Hi,Interesting stuff so far. All of this reminds me of just how different the US is from so many other countries, I know at least a few people from the UK who are able to rent just fine without jobs, not that they aren't working on getting them, because universal credit AKA government benefits + PIP, personal independence payment, kind of the UK equivalent of SSI, are enough to pay for at least, say, a 1 bedroom flat, + all associated living costs in a lot of places. I'd be interested to hear from more people at this end of the pond though. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/607096/#p607096 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Blind humans and living situations? God, there is a lot to say about this topic.I currently live in Germany in a student accommodation. I have previously completed a bachelors degree in English language and culture , and I didn't finish the masters degree in English language and teaching. These two were in Albania but I am now here in Germany in a preparatory phase of studies, and more precisely I'm taking a German course, currently at level C1. I came here in March 2019 through an Erasmus scholarship and since I liked the place, and since it was light years better than my home country Albania in almost every respect, I decided to stay longer, seek help from the host university to start a degree-seiking programme, and found then a student job to finance my studies and daily life. Well, when I came here, I was really dependent on other people. I needed assistance in many circumstances. More concretely I was pretty bad at house-hold chores; I didn't know how to wash dishes or cook even something small for myself. At cleaning I did well but that wasn't enough. I also had little mmobility skills. In my home country they don't offer any O and M training, let alone independent living skills programmes. Erasmus programmes for people with sensory or physical impairments offer an additional funding which can go up to twice as the amount of the scholarship one receives every month if required. And so I had assistance every month for two semesters. They were all students who did a mini job to support their studies and they became truly good friends of mine. I ask them to teach me how to do different tasks, and that's how I learnt the basics of cooking and cleaning. In Germany, every citizen is obliged to subscribe to a health insurance programme. Of course I did the same, and that's how I got mobility training, since these issues are to be taken care of by the health insurance company. Today I live alone, albeit I have some assistance for when I need to go shopping or go to any appointments where i'm not confident to go alone. Otherwise I have to take care of everything on my own, and I'm truly happy about it, provided that two years ago I couldn't leave my house on my own. I'm eternaly thankful to everyone who has helped me these two years. It is that help and regard that I can't ever express how much I appreciate and might be able to never repay. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/607075/#p607075 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Blind humans and living situations?
Re: Blind humans and living situations? God, there is a lot to say about this topic.I currently live in Germany in a student accommodation. I have previously completed a bachelors degree in English language and culture , and I didn't finish the masters degree in English language and teaching. These two were in Albania but I am now here in Germany in a preparatory phase of studies, and more precisely I'm taking a German course, currently at level C1. I came here through an Erasmus scholarship and since I liked the place, and since it was light years better than my home country Albania in almost every respect, I decided to stay longer, seek help from the host university to start a degree-seiking programme, and found then a student job to finance my studies and daily life. Well, when I came here, I was really dependent on other people. I needed assistance in many circumstances. More concretely I was pretty bad at house-hold chores; I didn't know how to wash dishes or cook even something small for myself. At cleaning I did well but that wasn't enough. I also had little mmobility skills. In my home country they don't offer any O and M training, let alone independent living skills programmes. Erasmus programmes for people with sensory or physical impairments offer an additional funding which can go up to twice as the amount of the scholarship one receives every month if required. And so I had assistance every month for two semesters. They were all students who did a mini job to support their studies and they became truly good friends of mine. I ask them to teach me how to do different tasks, and that's how I learnt the basics of cooking and cleaning. In Germany, every citizen is obliged to subscribe to a health insurance programme. Of course I did the same, and that's how I got mobility training, since these issues are to be taken care of by the health insurance company. Today I live alone, albeit I have some assistance for when I need to go shopping or go to any appointments where i'm not confident to go alone. Otherwise I have to take care of everything on my own, and I'm truly happy about it, provided that two years ago I couldn't leave my house on my own. I'm eternaly thankful to everyone who has helped me in these two years. It is that help and regard that I can't ever express how much I appreciate and might be able to never repay. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/607075/#p607075 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Blind humans and living situations?
Re: Blind humans and living situations? God, there is a lot to say about this topic.I currently live in Germany in a student accommodation. I am here in a preparatory phase of studies, and more precisely I'm taking a German course, currently at level C1. I came here through an Erasmus scholarship and since I liked the place, and since it was light years better than my home country Albania in almost every respect, I decided to stay longer, seek help from the host university to start a degree-seiking programme, and found then a student job to finance my studies and daily life. Well, when I came here, I was really dependent on other people. I needed assistance in many circumstances. More concretely I was pretty bad at house-hold chores; I didn't know how to wash dishes or cook even something small for myself. At cleaning I did well but that wasn't enough. I also had little mmobility skills. In my home country they don't offer any O and M training, let alone independent living skills programmes. Erasmus programmes for people with sensory or physical impairments offer an additional funding which can go up to twice as the amount of the scholarship one receives every month if required. And so I had assistance every month for two semesters. They were all students who did a mini job to support their studies and they became truly good friends of mine. I ask them to teach me how to do different tasks, and that's how I learnt the basics of cooking and cleaning. In Germany, every citizen is obliged to subscribe to a health insurance programme. Of course I did the same, and that's how I got mobility training, since these issues are to be taken care of by the health insurance company. Today I live alone, albeit I have some assistance for when I need to go shopping or go to any appointments where i'm not confident to go alone. Otherwise I have to take care of everything on my own, and I'm truly happy about it, provided that two years ago I couldn't leave my house on my own. I'm eternaly thankful to everyone who has helped me in these two years. It is that help and regard that I can't ever express how much I appreciate and might be able to never repay. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/607075/#p607075 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Blind humans and living situations? I'm totally blind. I live with my fiancée. I have a pretty good job earning six-figure salary in the US and have no difficulties paying bills. Admittedly, I'm not good at cooking. But I am taking time to learn. For now, my partner cooks most of the meals. But I'd like to say we compliment each other so she doesn't usually mind. And maybe once or twice a week, we get food delivered. A couple years ago, I was living by myself but in college and working. That was brutal! But glad to say it paid off! URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/607062/#p607062 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Blind humans and living situations?
2021-01-15
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AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : sightlessHorseman via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Blind humans and living situations? I am actually moving into my first own managed flat in about a week, so from there on out I am on my own.Paying the bils shouldn't be that hard, I just set up recurring payments for the things like rent and I should be good to go.At least for the next 6 months, depending on how well work goes I do receive a net income of about 1600 Euros or about 1900 dollars, with an aditional 650 Euros or about 780 dollars blind assistance money monthly.The only real trouble I see is when it comes to cooking, but I guess I'll manage somehow xd, probably alot of microwaved or canned food for the beginning.Greetings Moritz. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/607059/#p607059 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Blind humans and living situations? Hi.I should be getting SSI in a couple months as long as everything goes well, but I still live at home since I'm still in school. Eventually though, I do hope to be on my own URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/607054/#p607054 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Blind humans and living situations? I'm a programmer, I live completely alone by choice, I'm totally blind. Since pandemic time I've gone months at a time without sighted help. Bring on your questions. I likely have answers, even if those answers are "make enough to live somewhere convenient". URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/607048/#p607048 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
