HAIIIIIIIII IM SO SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING THIS IN SO LONG
SO
when i first posted this gofundme at the start of the year, i was staying my first night at a homeless shelther in downtown memphis that was
not very good, safe, or reliable
so i went to stay with my boyfriend and his mother at their apartment (despite the fact that their lease only allows two people)
after a lot of hard work, i got on food stamps, and thus i tried my best to pay for as much of the house's groceries as possible as a way to make up for being physically incapable of paying rent
i had ZERO luck getting a job due to trauma-related seizures, and due to this i am and have been unable to get a driver's license (look up how long you have to be seizure-free in tennesee to not be a danger on the road TvT)
i was able to keep a job before i went homeless because of my bike, but i got hit by a truck and my bike got totaled
i lost food stamps because i could not get past the horrible walking conditions needed to apply to local (terrible) jobs, thus obviously i had no way to properly land a job
all of my income has been based around incredibly generous but horribly sparse donations to this gofundme, but that began to dry up
luckily (kinda), i moved back in with my mother around April and was told i could stay for a year to get back on my feet before my mother sold the house
turns out, she got an offer within a month and, without any consideration of how badly it would FUCK me, she sold the house out from under me and moved away to Arkansas mid-June.
she gave me around $1500 and told me to travel.
I did not do that for obvious reasons.
instead, having nowhere else to go, i went back to my boyfriend's and have been staying with him and his mother for about a month and a half, under the same "pay for groceries to lighten the load and make up for my inability to pay rent"
however, it came to light that his mother didn't want me in the apartment by the beginning of August, and I needed to find somewhere else to be
i slept outside, behind apartment buildings with blankets and a backpack full of generalist supplies (im relatively clean, have a set of clothes on me at all times, and have things like my laptop and a book to read.)
i mention all of this to clarify that as of earlier today, i was officially caught and notified by my boyfriend's apartment complex's security that i had been seen "skulking around" and that they're gonna have to ask me to leave
i clarified my situation as best as i can, but they said that if i kept doing it that the police would eventually be called, and so to avoid that theyre going to be """making calls""" to find a place for me to be (there are Absolutely No reliable shelters or organizations in memphis for walk-ins aside from ones that operate off of months-long waitlists that i'm already in contact with.)
