Medical and Housing Stability Fund

Help Roger stabilize after lifelong medical harm.

I am a blind, autistic, ADHD disabled adult turning 42 on June 21, 2026. I am raising funds for medical care, housing stability, transportation, documentation, and basic survival needs after decades of childhood-onset medical harm and chronic housing insecurity.

Immediate deadline: June 15, 2026

I must leave my current place by June 15. My first need is safe housing. If housing is not secured in time, I also need a portable battery, pure sine-wave inverter, and solar panel system so I can keep my primary computer, phone, communications, and disability-support tools running.

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Roger Ryder on public transit

Why I am asking now

I have spent most of my adult life trying to survive medical, housing, and financial instability that began when I was a child.

When I was 10, in 1994, I experienced a medical crisis after choking and aspiration led to severe throat injury and prolonged treatment. I was given sodium propofol for 10 days, off label, during a period of childhood development. After that period, my sleep, dreaming, body, and health changed in ways I have spent decades trying to understand and stabilize.

I later developed serious eye complications, including pupil dysfunction and angular glaucoma. I am also autistic and ADHD, and I am a third-generation DES son, which adds further complexity to my medical history.

Resourceful is not the same as resourced

By age 12, in November 1995, I was reading NIH/PubMed research to understand growth, sleep, hormones, and development because I had no effective advocate. I knew some of the basic supports I needed, but I could not access them as a child.

I was unusually informed and resourceful from childhood, but intelligence did not replace the support, medical follow-up, housing stability, nutrition, and advocacy I needed while my body was still developing.

Around age 17 or 18, I was effectively expected to fend for myself. I have been chronically homeless or housing-insecure for much of my adult life, except for a more stable period around 2016 to 2020 or 2021, when I eventually sold my land just to keep going.

Any help gives me time, safety, and room to keep fighting for a future.