getting SSI

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I'm an aspie and i've found it extremely hard to work. Do any of you get SSI? And if so, how easy was it to get on it?

it sucks ass. don't go on it unless you have no other choice. it takes forever. you do NOT have to exaggerate to get on it like some people will tell you. i don't think you even need a lawyer, as i didn't. they WILL deny you the first time no matter what so always reapply.

if you can work, work. it's better than SSI. all SSI does is give you a job the involves filling out tons of paper work for slave wages.

I forced myself to work around as*holes for the past 23 years now. I was full of anxiety the entire time I was on the job. Every job I ever worked my co-workers took great delight in making my life a living hell trying to make me quit because they felt I was too "weird". Ever since my diagnosis of Aspergers I have been considering going on social security disability. My last job the stress was so bad it effected my high blood pressure causing me to have congestive heart failure and even damaged my kidneys. My suggestion if you are in your teens and twenties get on social security or SSi Disability. Use that time to get an online degree or get some form of schooling so you do not have to waste your time with some little piddly factory or retail jobs where you are stuck with the scum of the earth and incompitant managers who got where they are by just being there longer than you. Try to use the system to better yourself.

Was denied first time, am reapplying. Ridiculous they deny everyone the first time. Come on now. Why would someone be applying for this if they didn't need it. I value my pride so much I'm doing everything I can to make money to NOT be on it. Not that it's shameful to be on it. I just... well I am ashamed cause my family makes me feel so about it. And yeah.

I've not applied, but have been told that there's no way that I don't qualify and have been strongly encouraged to apply.

I'm trying to get a job for a few more months before I break down and start the application and apparently reapplication process.

Applied for SSDI (not SSI, as I've worked enough for the former), but was rejected. One of the reasons they used for denying me was my education, which makes no sense because that education has yet to help me get a job.

I'm actually applying for SSI this week at the urging of my parents. It's not that I can't work or anything; its just as a little extra supplemental insurance in case I ever end up going unemployed for longer than a few months. I'm sort of close to legally blind, as well as having and official diagnosis of AS.

If a person hasn't earned too many quarters working, they may be eligible for SSDI under their parents accounts, instead of SSI. Such SSDI is generally a few hundred dollars a month greater than SSI, and SSDI includes forms of Medicare for disabilities at any age.

Getting SSDI with no, or few, work quarters is possible by having sufficient documentation of early impairments once employment becomes difficult to nearly impossible in adulthood. Too many work quarters will exclude coverage under a parent's account. And, Social Security demands application under SSDI before, or along with, application for SSI. Without making a good case for SSDI, more quarters have to be earned before re-application, and the possibility of drawing on a parent's account is lost, once the application is denied and not successfully appealed to higher levels, after age 22. Even if SSI is awarded, a denied but still pending SSDI claim can still be appealed to higher levels.

http://www.ssa.gov/dibplan/dacpage.shtml
(similar claims possible with many nebulous exceptions in every direction)

The legal argument is that a disabling impairment started before the age 22, not that the application for such SSDI has to be made before the age 22 (be ready to appeal to the federal courts when the SSA renders an unwanted determination).

I was finally forced to apply for SSI while I was claiming that I was otherwise qualified for employment with "reasonable accommodation" as an FDIC Bank Examiner in 1987 under their outstanding scholar program. I completed university magna cum laude with the paradox that anything boring and mundane always gave me a migraine, and I needed intellectually challenging employment. It was 12 years before the Supreme Court finally established that "ADA disabled but employable with reasonable accommodation" and "Social Security disabled" were not necessarily mutually exclusive concepts, as the 9th Circuit Court was then holding, but with me, I was held "too disabled" for Rehab services, but not proven "enough disabled" for discrimination protection under the Rehab Act. I was also told that I was "too smart to be a cop", even though I was stupid enough to sue various offices of the federal police for employment discrimination, thinking before then that "Catch-22" was a work of fiction. While the FDIC argued during administrative remedies that my disabilities, that qualified me for the SSI "favorable" decision from the SSA for benefits, disqualified me from being otherwise qualified for the FDIC job, the FDIC then argued in federal court that I couldn't provide a scintilla of evidence that I suffered from any handicapping impairment (by hindsight, maybe they didn't discriminate(?), they just wanted agents who would enjoy watching innumerable trillion dollar financial bubbles inflate everywhere without concern).

Tadzio

I was denied the first time I applied. I need to apply again. I can't work. I have a lot of trouble getting out of bed most days. I have fibromyalgia and aspergers.