Weird enough for me, everyone around me knew/heavily suspected that I was autistic, would tease/mock my traits and proceed to flip out when I react. Only found out after I reached out with the suspicion that I might be autistic.
At least now I’m surrounded with more (seemingly) understanding people, even though I haven’t told them.
:3
That sounds like a sweetheart deal that’ll comeback to bite the STM in the coming years. Definitely Quebec is a somewhat refreshing edge case that proves that transit can be built fast, though it feels like it would be difficult to replicate on a level of building/rehabilitating several hundreds of kilometres of rail running between multiple city centres.
Even if a transit infrastructure project is announced and then funded right after an election, it would take up most of a term for the pre-project work to be completed before shovels even hit the ground. There’s utilities that would need to be mapped and relocated, land to expropriate to start, which I believe has to happen before contracts are signed.
Then there’s always going to be a vocal opposition group throwing obstacles in a major project, whether it’s because there’s no train station serving villages and hamlets, or the sight of a train will ruin people’s views of sprawling parking lots, or groups of people whose land is being expropriated at fair market value not wanting to give up property and going through legal challenges which take time to sort.
Even writing this out, it seems like a transit project does take a great deal of political will to push through, especially before shovels hit the ground.
With our current political representation setup, a big swing in majority governments means that an opposing party in power can just rip up contracts and pay out the penalty fees (or legislate away recourse for a project cancellation) which takes much less effort and provides an immediate win for their side.
Just give it some time. Like most other projects aimed at giving tiny homes to the homeless, there needs to be a continuous source of operational funding in order maintain these homes which everyone forgets about. Then once these homes stop being mobile, cops will move in to confiscate them on yet another encampment clearing. Maybe they’ll even be nice enough to wait for the first winter thaw.
Or the task can’t be done because you need to complete another task before and after.
It’s great to take out the trash, but I have to find another trash bag to replace and then maybe the bin could use a cleaning too.
If you think administrative waste is an issue with a single payer healthcare system, then imagine how much additional waste is created by having hospitals and clinics deal with multiple private insurers with their various plan coverages, exceptions, and deductibles.
There’s also the differing pre-approval requirements for the same procedure to be covered by different insurers, as well as appeal processes for denials.
Then there’s financing and collections for the people that have been treated without insurance. The hospitals and clinics still have to get reimbursed for their costs still, regardless of who’s paying.
While the public system may have its inefficiencies, a private system is rather inefficient and moderately expensive at the best of times.
Maybe there’s some kind of a wheel, like a metal wheel that could just glide across narrow metal surfaces that could follow a set path….
Your experience resonates with me, and I hope you do manage to find your inner peace, however that may be in your journey through life.
Also, thank goodness that it’s becoming somewhat more accessible to get assessed in adulthood. Even if we’ve already missed the train on our formative developmental years, I’m still hopeful that I can at least learn what I need to get my life back together as soon as I can afford to see someone about it.