Disability is indeed a burden, yet I hope for a world where we don’t have to carry our individual burdens all alone. Let the mega continue to a be a place where all of us can at least listen and make the burden somewhat lighter.

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  • Beetle [hy/hym]@hexbear.net
    6·
    2 months ago

    I’m glad someone came through after all.

    In my country it’s somewhat common to not have a credit or US style debit card. We have our own payment system that doesn’t work well on international sites. This is why many people use paypal as it enables us to pay internationally as well.

    But that doesn’t discount the fact that this person is being the opposite of helpful by making false promises and not delivering. It must be very exhausting to deal with that on a regular basis :/

    • DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      It is, very. I suggested everything from cards to paypal to crypto to apple pay to google pay, he said he doesn’t have any of them and probably can’t get to the bank to do a transfer. Why contact me at all then? And why leave a message in the thread saying he’s going to help me, and then send private messages saying he doesn’t have any payment methods and can’t help after all? makes me think he was trying to sabotage my thread for some reason.