I've had it with everything

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I've had it with, being treated like a second or third class citizen. I've had it with the lack of support from Australian Autism agencies. I've had it with women who are only trying to decieve me or get money out of me. I'm fed up with looking after my kids with a disability sadly, but I can't cope, even though I love them. I'm pissed off with doctors saying take this pill and you will be magically made all better. I'm sick and tired of government agencies pushing me from pillar to post, because they don't know how to handle me, I'm just a statistic. I'm tired of having to look for work when noone wants to employ me and its about time after 3 attempts I was given a disability pension, before my body and mind is completely rooted. I'm fed up with line ups in shops and government offices and fighting my way through terrorist trafic on the roads each day and I'm fed up with noone understanding me. God let me rest in peace.

AussieAspie,

Listen to me, everything is unfair in the world at times (more fair though) but it doesn't mean you should give up easily. Take from me, I never give up to earn my ensign bar in NJROTC and even more I never give up on myself during my college semesters because pushing myself to do my very best is a challenge for me. I like to have challenges every now and then because it tests my abilities to success in life and often we fail but we must keep trying because believing our abilities to success is the greatest motivation to have in life.

Ok I went to colledge in Australia when I left school, its completely different to your colledge. I was going to be a qualified electician, but was forced to quit colledge after I was bullied by the entire rest of my class, despite requests to the lecturers and head colledge honcho, nothing was done. Now I can't afford to go back to colledge, it costs like half of a mortgage, or the price of a new Porshe. I have made huge achievments in te past but recieve no credit for them, so whats the point.

Don't give up. I am a mother of a 12 year old girl with Asperger's Syndrome and I see how hard she struggles and how mean people are to her. I understand having to wait to get an answer and then it is usually not the answer we need.

Concentrate on the positive things you have in your life and celebrate them!

I received my credit for my achievements through thank yous and congratulations basically and I don't complain about it because its the thought that counts more than like money or some prize. I had a trophy named after me because I was the great Academic Team Commander in my high school's NJROTC Program. The point is credit is not something that is a material but a motivation to do great achievements in life. College in the U.S. maybe different from where you live but it is the same thing no matter what and giving up is not an option for me because I'm proving to those who did not believe in my abilities to succeed in life.

Yeah, it is difficult, especially when you have disabled children along with being aspie yourself. I have six kids, and now it looks like at least half of them are on the spectrum. I don't mind their being aspie or PDD, but the lack of support from the schools can be maddening. However, if I don't help them, no one else will either....and I suspect that the same is true for your own children.

Can you work as an electrician through apprenticing to an electrician and learning from him/her until you know enough to pass the test?

Also, I don't know if they have them where you are, but here we can get service coordinaters who help deal with the government bureaucracy to get help and arrange appointments and services and IEP meeting and all that crap. I have grown weary of fighting the high school in regard to my teenager, and am going to homeschool him now. It seems very wrong to me that these government agencies and employees receive very nice jobs, salaries, and benefits when they do the absolute minimum to keep their job- not always, but many of them are like that.

I do understand your frustration. How many kids do you have, and what kinds of disabilities do they have?

Well, contrary to popular belief, the brain doesn’t "root" the way you claim it does. All scientific evidence suggests that the brain is actually evolving/growing until a human is about 25-30 years of age. And even at 45-50, most evidence suggests that the brain still performs at its maximum level.

When we look at the age range of 60-95, the brain may start to lose in capacity. But it’s not possible to say how much it actually loses, or exactly at what age the brain starts to decrease in capacity.

Furthermore, it is possible that Alzheimer’s is not really a disease; it could just be a part of the normal aging process for humans.
It’s also “extremely plausible” to believe that the brain can regenerate itself, if it has been subjected to any kind of damage, such as blunt force or prescription medicines.

Thanks for your comments that are actually usefull. If you work as an apprentice youu can gain the full electrical qualification, with exta night schooling as well, thats true. It is hard to get in as an apprentice at my age though almost 40. As for agencies that help to deal with beaurocracy there are none available. I have only 2 kids, girl 6 and boy 7, my boy is Autistic, they both go to different schools and I drive a 100Km round trip to take them to school each day. I feel for you having 6 kids, and perhaps half on the spectrum, that would be tough.



I think I'll stop using Aussie slang in my blogs, I think you missunderstand what I mean by (Rooted), I mean mentally depressed to a very serious point, not that my brain will actually degrade.

R2 was better than 3P0. Man, I wanna go watch Empire right now.

You have alot of problems, and alot of them........is your own fault.
Support? what? stop BSing, seriously, know how much "support" i have gotten here in denmark bout my autism? The support they give to animels, treated as if i cant walk on my own 2 feet. The world isn't fair, and you should learn that, but if you however want everything to be served to you on a silver plate, then just say so.

Women, oh, how nice, women huh? give them the fault for your misery? Why dont you just cut them out of your life if they are so troublesome as you say they are?

You have an "disablity", well you should have thought about that when you got yourself them kids, thats the possebility(sp?) there is when you have something like that.

Docters are s**t very often, always talking and blabbering about things, and often they dont know s**t, be it medical or something else. Docters coming from all corners of the world only to say in several different languages they cant help you



Woa woa, wait now, so after you look for a job, 3 times, and dont get employed, you all of a sudden deserve to get some sort of pension? Is that how it goes in australia? If so, then i'm damn moving over there asap. I doubt you would be giving a disability pension, unless, it's something really really big, and interferes with working.

and now you're also complaining about shops? No really, what do you think this is? think everything will be handed to you on a silver plate? WRONG mate, you've gotta work for it, and dont even begin to ask for fairness, cause thats not how the world works sadly enough

Great another joker, please don't add useless coments to an otherwise serious conversation

Well excuse me Tias who has a whole 19 years of life experience, you continually missquote me, and assume too much. Did I say I had applied for 3 jobs, NO. I said I applied for disabillity pension 3 times. I've actually aplied for over 300 jobs im my lifetime, and worked quite a few too and I have more medical conditions than just AS, eg 2 ruptured lumbar discs, both my shoulders need reconstructions as well, can't afford it. Yea right as if they would give you a pension for nothing, if you moved here, you would probably far worse off. Your statements are quite nasty and illfounded, unless you can base your replies on proper information stay out of it MATE. I wouldn't write these things if I wern't able to back them up

I think it's worth a try to see if anyone will take you on as an apprentice. Worst they can do is say no. Drywall finishing? I like detail work like that, other people don't. It doesn't pay as well an electricians. Don't give up because of your age. I'm almost 40 too, and just now going to college.

100km is a LONG way to have to drive to take kids to school! Don't they have schoolbuses?

I agree wih you, it is worth a try for a mature age apprentiship, I'm currently working with an employment provider that might be able to help. On the busses issue my Sons school has one, but they don't come out my way, my daughter doesn't have one at her school, and it means we get up at 6:30 am to get ready and get to school on time

I simply answered from what you had written, did you write about all those disabilities in the first post? No, there for you can't expect me to know anything, try bieng more detailed like you were now, instead of saying things that are vague

Tias, I'm sure we all make mistakes as aspies, my first one on this topic was to start a new topic when it was meant to be placed with all the other whinge and moan ones, but since it started a conversation I thought I might as well keep it going and thats why I didn't go into great detail. I'd be only to happy to elaborate further for you on a few things if you like? Just ask away