Hey /lit/ so I want to quit my job and write full-time, but I don't want to be NEET and I have no other way of staying alive.
My question is, are there any illnesses (other than autism) I can purposefully succumb to that will allow me to not work and that will also not kill me.
I've been looking into lupus (Flannery O'Connor), lyme disease and tuberculosis (Kafka) and the latter seems like a pretty good one but it isn't really that popular in this century.
Any tips? Advice?
asperger or autism? maybe severe depression or other shit that cannot be easily diagnosed
Trust me, you don't want lyme disease
>>8400779
I'm pretty sure I am autistic (probably not aspergic since I have extremely self-aware and empathetic) and it's very likely I'm depressed, if not severely, already. I'm looking for physical ailments really, mental ones are a bit difficult to pull off.
>>8400810
Just say you have suicidal thoughts and can't work 'cos of tiredness.
Cut off your legs.
>>8400810
you don't even know what autism or aspergers is dude
there are three autistic spectrum qualities:
>extreme obsessive behavior, happens cyclically
>extreme sociopathic behavior (but not in a good way at all)
>language difficulty
having only one quality is merely a personality disorder, having two is aspergers, having three is autism. I have aspergers since I have the first two. You usually also get other symptoms like very bad handwriting and a predisposition for depression
>>8400760
Mental Insanity, no? Worked in Vineland
>>8400760
Just be NEET.
Isn't TB supposed to be extinct?
>>8401174
Faking a mental illness for welfare money is a lot more involved than it sounds.
>>8401550
well you gotta jump through that sugar window
>>8400900
>having two is aspergers
No, aspergers is not language development issues. Autism is characterised typically by problems in language development, people with Aspergers share a lot of the other issues other autism sufferers have but develop language more or less normally (there is a tendency for precociousness if anything).
If you miss something other than language development, it's usually called something like "idiosyncratic autism". If you had autism, idiosyncratic or otherwise, I wouldn't be replying to your comment right now.