#porch privacy

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Craftsman Porch - Porch Inspiration for a mid-sized craftsman screened-in back porch remodel with decking

[caughtonsamsung]

Porch - Craftsman Porch Mid-sized screened-in back porch design with decking in the arts and crafts style

[petersquills]

Backyard - Porch Ideas for remodeling a medium-sized craftsman screened-in back porch with decking

[vergess]

tell us more about your crazy hut job?

I'm a "Mental Health Rehabilitation Technician," which is an extremely funny and verbose way to say I'm the overnight counselor for a halfway house.

A halfway house is a type of live-in program for people who just got out of long term hospitalization, prison, etc and need help re-adjusting to normal living. In most cases, halfway houses only rehab people for 6 months. But, in my case, it's for people who completed rehab for addiction, but because of their disabilities, still need support learning complex processes like navigating pharmacy orders and medicaid before they feel comfortable living on their own. So, they stay as long as it takes them to become comfortable managing their own insurance, utilities, meds, etc.

The position is analogous to being an overnight counselor at a summer camp, but year round and for adults with detailed but ultimately straightforward medical needs (eg: I am not qualified to do inject anything but epipens and insulin; any other injection is "a nursing home problem.")

The daytime crew does most of the actual hard work, in terms of teaching people how to interact with society and get their meds on time and so on. My job is to go through the checklist of things the state wants sterilized every day, and sterilize it all. Floors, counters, walls, trash cans, phones, etc etc. Since the facility is in an 8 bedroom house, not a medical building of any kind, there's a LOT of sterilizing of just about everything all the time. Once the sterilizing is done, I organize the paperwork from that day that the daycrew did.

And when clients need help they come to me overnight.

I help with anything from panic attacks to counting out medications to budgeting, though for the most part I'm just acting as The Keeper Of The Cigarettes.

Everyone is allowed to keep their cigarettes in their rooms, but most of them prefer to lock them in the office lockbox, since they're so expensive. If they want a smoke overnight, they come to me and I unlock the box and they take what they want. If they keep cigarettes in their room they're free to go smoke whenever as long as they do it at least 20 feet from the building.

Everyone currently living there has been there for at least a year, and the facility itself has existed for decades, so it is well known in town and by the residents. In town, no one would ever dare call "The Group Home" anything as derogatory as "the crazy hut," to be clear. I don't live in some kind of monstrous backwoods dystopia, haha.

But the residents can call their home what they like. I'm not gonna be the kind of asshole who tells people they can't have a bit of fun renaming their living situation. Especially when... you know... just because people call it "the group home" doesn't mean they actually respect our residents. If calling their house the crazy hut brings them joy and lets them feel bulwarked against the social exclusion they face, then crazy hut it is.

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[enniewritesathing]

well, they haven't done it on the front porch yet.

but the closet and one of the chairs in the bathroom seems to be the go-to so far

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Idea for a large, arts and crafts-style back porch with decking and an addition to the roof

[melythemac]

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[sarpedom]

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[matriarchalmuffin]

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[vezely]

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[hairbymetalmoose]

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[homunculus-argument]

Sometimes as an adult you think back to when you were a kid and think "holy shit that was close". Like the biggest major thing that persuaded me from having a baby at 15/16 was that the only realistically available sperm donor had brown eyes. Nothing wrong with brown eyes or reddish-brown hair, but I knew they were dominant genes and relatively rare where I live, so I wouldn't have plausible deniability of "it's not yours, fuck off" if he ever found out I have a kid with his colouring and wanted a paternity test.

Besides him, specifically, being a terrible choice, I just didn't want another parent involved at all in general, because in my whole life experience at that point, nobody ever helps you do things the way you want to do things, they're just there to try to make you do things the way they want you to do it. So the only way to have things be your own way is to have nobody else involved, and secrecy is the only way to privacy.

So my plan was pretty much exactly the same as that of an outdoor dog digging a nest under the porch to have a litter so that nobody touches them and nobody knows they're there. Managing them alone and biting anyone who tries to approach. But ultimately I came to the conclusion that if I didn't want a kid badly enough to be willing to go through with all that, I probably didn't one badly enough altogether, so I shouldn't have a kid at all.

Holy shit that kid would be fucked up by now.

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Backyard - Porch

Large arts and crafts back porch photo with decking and a roof extension

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Porch Backyard in Houston

Mid-sized country concrete screened-in back porch idea with a roof extension

[invernothemes]

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