[ SECRET POST #2619 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2619 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes]


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[Pushing Daisies]


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[Dallas Buyers Club]


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[Bravely Default]


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[Fake & Kuroko no Basuke]


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[Warehouse 13]


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[Willem Dafoe]


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[Dexter]


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[Rooster Teeth]


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[Lost Girl]


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Comments

[unicornherds]

Haha, I have thought that a time or two and I'm not even a hoarder. They just have such a well organized and gigantic storage facility, it would be so handy!

Do people really hate hoarders? That's sad.

[(Anonymous)]

I think they're just alluding to the fact that actual hoarding freaks people out. I don't think anyone hates hoarders, they're just disturbed by people who live like the hoarders shown on TV.

[diet_poison]

I also doubt most "hoarders" are as bad as the hoarders on TV.

[(Anonymous)]

For sure.

Also, I got accused of being a hoarder once. It was really annoying. My housemate, who owned a not inconsiderable amount of stuff herself, gave me an article about hoarders to "help me". I had crap I'd collected off kerbsides in my room and the shed out back cos I had no money, and I'd use it for furniture or to do arty stuff with, and this apparently meant I had a problem. Gaah.

[diet_poison]

haha, that sucks. I really don't think it counts if you're actually *using* the stuff.

[(Anonymous)]

Most likely.

The ones on TV often have things decaying amid the sea of unsorted stuff that covers the floor in every room - rotting food, unwashed dishes, fast food wrappers, animal droppings, even dead animals. That's not just a matter of having a lot of stuff. They also usually are on the verge of losing custody of their children or pets, or being evicted, or having their partners walk out on them. There's usually a larger psychological problem at work and the consequences have become far more significant than merely being disapproved of.

[(Anonymous)]

OP

It seems so, with shows like "buried alive" and whatnot. Anyway I saw a few parts of it, and it just bothers me greatly. I do not like reality in general, but this just seems a particularly invasive way of putting pople on show.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree, OP. There's an implicit understanding between the viewers and the producers that the hoarders on the show are freaks to be gawked at.

[(Anonymous)]

DA
But that's true of any reality show. And I don't think that necessarily equates with hate.

[(Anonymous)]

DA Oh the hoarder shows are a special breed of reality show though. It's a freak show. Fix the freak causing everyone so much hurt but we can't fix the freak. Most reality shows are NOT like that.

[(Anonymous)]

The few times I've seen hoarding shows I've mostly just felt really bad for them, because nobody deserves to live like that, and they clearly have psychological issues underlying their issues. As someone who has struggled with depression, I can relate with psychological issues fucking with your life, and I just want them to get the help and support they need.

[(Anonymous)]

Not necessarily hate, but I certainly wouldn't want to live in the same building. Those piles of crap attract rodents and other vermin, and they are a massive fire hazard.

[(Anonymous)]

Most people have piles of flammable crap, and human habitation attracts vermin.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, but there's a difference between a candle and a bonfire and as a rule clean apartments don't attract that much vermin (I'm talking about first world living conditions here). All it needs is one apartment that gets infested with cockroaches or bedbugs and the whole building will need to be fumigated, so don't offer them perfect playgrounds.

[(Anonymous)]

Also, at the stage when the piles have merged into one another and taken over the hoarder's home, to the point where you have to navigate the place by narrow lanes between waist high heaps of dreck, it's impossible to clean.

[(Anonymous)]

It's possible if you have somewhat of a system. For me that's boxes that are stackable. You can move them around if you wish to clean, though it's a bit more effort than an empty room obviously.

[(Anonymous)]

Trust me, it gets to be a problem when there's no place to move the boxes to when you want to move them around, because there are already boxes everywhere you might move them to.

[(Anonymous)]

the fact that you're justifying is a bad sign, anon

seek help

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who had to clean the whole apartment after my deceased hoarder grandfather (dead mice everywhere) with my own two hands, and as someone who at one point will face cleaning another apartment after my hoarding parents - yes, I can safely say I dislike hoarders. I know it's not entirely their fault, but I hate how inconsiderate and irrational they can be. Their mess is affecting other people and they don't care.

[(Anonymous)]

See I divide the action from the person. I hate smoking but I don't hate smokers. I had OCD but I don't hate my friend with OCD. I hate eating disorders but I don't hate my friend with bulimia. Admittedly I've never dealt with true hoarders, and I can imagine the frustrating and emotional turmoil, but I'd like to think that I still wouldn't hate the person.