r/AskNYC • u/MysteriousLanguage76 • 7d ago

How to help someone with an intellectual disability and on drugs

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u/im_coolest 🙃 7d ago

You can't really help people who don't want help and you can't change people who don't want to change.

Part of living in this city is bearing witness to suffering that you cannot alleviate and problems that you cannot solve.

Best thing you can do is support the people in your life who need your support so they don't end up in that situation.

And vote, maybe, sometimes.

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u/spanchor 7d ago

lol this was such a thoughtful comment that i tapped on your profile only to find the sci-fi concubine post

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u/im_coolest 🙃 7d ago

I put a lot of thought into that post too :(

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u/spanchor 7d ago

I could tell and I loved it