Posted by baseball55 on February 5, 2015, at 19:27:56
In reply to Re: schizophrenic is my new role in the community, posted by Christ_empowered on February 4, 2015, at 9:53:06
> My neighbors are harsh towards me. This is a decent neighborhood in a small, southern town. This chunk of town is mostly lower-middle to middle-middle class...then there's my parents' house, lol. Old, pre-civil war house. So, back in the day, these neighbors would call me "poor wh*t* tr*sh" and such, and now I'm living with my people, I have a decent car, so on and so forth, and...so...
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> ...they yell out stuff like, "You're nothing special!" and "Queer!" and "You're just a factory worker!" and "quit trying to be something special!" and "know your place!"
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> So on and so forth. I'm apparently "uppity."
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Your neighbors sound nuts. My approach to people who are nuts is to try and pray for them. The alternative - which you seem to struggle with - is to get caught up in their craziness by fixating on all these gradations of social status that obsess them.If it were me, I'd head far out of town
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