yet broken still you breathe

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My least favorite new politically correct term is “unhoused.” Like you can just tell it was created to make liberals feel less icky when talking about homeless people.

I was homeless. I was homeless as a child and as an adult. That shit sucks believe it or not.

The uncertainty. The ever-present grimy feeling from lack of access to running water. Having nothing to your name. The shame you feel is asking your fellow man for the bare minimum. Just so much shame, man.

“Unhoused” is so clinical. A technical term. Sure, its not incorrect, but it doesn’t properly convey the emotional and psychological impact homelessness has on you.

You say “house”, I think of a structure.

You say “home”, I think of stability.

!!!UPDATE!!!

I have been given new and important information on the distinction between “homeless” and “unhoused”!

The term “unhoused” is useful for those in social work when they have to make the distinction between someone who is say, couchsurfing but still has a roof over their head, and someone who’s sleeping in a tent beneath an underpass. Both are homeless, but one is unhoused.

AND NOW WE KNOW!

(via eater-of-hopes-and-dreams)