Why do so many destitute people eat junk food,fail to budget properly, note no ambition? Linda Tirado knew exactly why… because she was one of them. Here, or in an extract from her book,Hand to Mouth, she tells her narrative in her own wordsQ&A with Linda TiradoIn the autumn of 2013 I was in my first term of school in a decade. I had two jobs; my husband, and Tom,was working full-time; and we were raising our two small girls. It was the first time in years that we felt like possibly things were looking like they’d be OK for a while.
After a gruelling shift at work, I was unwinding online when I saw a question from someone on a forum I frequented: Why do destitute people do things that seem so self-destructive? I thought I could at least define what I’d seen and how I’d reacted to the pressures of being destitute. I wrote my answer to the question, and hit post,and didn’t think more about it for at least a few days. This is what it said:Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com