A Perspective of Jordan Manuel Rivera.

There is nothing but sorrow and pity when you think about his life. It is a horrid tale of a mental disability, family strife, and complete social isolation.

The saddest part about it must be that… we here are the closest thing he has to ‘friends.’ This place is all he knows where he can connect with other people, albeit in a hostile and negative place for him. Despite what he says, Jordan must feel so very lonely and isolated. He feels safe here, despite all the negatives; he can come here and be with other people (for what he feels) is ‘socialization’. He knows that he will not get banned. He cannot go anywhere else, because places that are new or different scare him - even online. Other places will simply ignore him or ban him for his negative abusive behaviour – and he knows this; so this must be why he keeps coming here. We are his ‘safety net’.

Here is where Jordan does not have to face the practical realities of his life. If he was ‘cured’ / ‘helped’ etc, he would have to change the way he thinks, acts, and deals with realities. It seems that, for Jordan, such a course simply terrifies him into inaction. Hence why he refuses to a] acknowledge his mental health conditions and b] refuse to actively participate in any professional psychological counselling, designed specifically to help him live a more effective, positive happy life. In other words: He is happy to stay as he is, so he does not have to face the realities of life: housing, employment, personal responsibilities etc.

He cannot be happy living the way he does. That is so sad.

We here all know Jordan will react negatively and with open aggressive hostility to this post, and the hundreds of posts of similar ilk from many and various people over the years. That is all he knows how to react to things he does not either understand, want to understand, or does not want to believe is true to him. That he reacts like this shows that he must have experienced or witnessed some extremely serious negative physical and verbal abuse in his lifetime. Somehow, in his mind, he considers his negative hostility to be a perfectly normal way to respond to others. That is sad for him, and one of the main reasons why he is so isolated and unable to make any real ‘friends’: he simply drives them away with this hostility; even toward those people who are positively trying to help him.

Jordan: Pity the Fool, the creator of your situation: Yourself.

Shalom.