15 minutes to prove autism

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I'm curious at which stage in the application process do you have to do the CE part? My case is so bizarre as it is, I was just diagnosed this year so it looks like (I'm only guessing) that I suddenly decided because I have diagnosis that I'm disabled.... but it's not like that at all. I got diagnosed so that I could get counseling that actually worked... I was tired of doing talk therapy and I did poorly with the group component of Dialectical behavior therapy and dropped out of it.

My whole life is littered with failed attempts at living independently.... I guess if you can live dependently you cannot qualify for benefits. I haven't even finished applying, actually, I'm so damn worried about the process that I can't make myself hit 'Submit' on the online application....

This can't be just another lump on the pile of epic fail... I don't think I can recover again... my long memory makes it a curse... to remember everything for the past 20 years... I recently made a list of jobs...

black point inn
aramark
dunkin donuts (x3)
subway
cumberland farms
big apple (x2)
shaw's
ruski's
dry dock restaurant
dimillo's
family dollar
toys r us
landscaping co.
bickford's
cvs
petco
bookstore
library
help desk
landscaping
office work
arby's
call center
telemarketing
answering service/transcription
data entry
document scanner
shipping/receiving
Lindt chocolate factory
Hannaford

This is since 1998.

For those of you that have gotten on benefits, were you denied at first then appealed with a lawyer or did you have a lawyer from the start and get awarded benefits the first try?

SSA is a joke. I hate them. I'm applying for seizures, but it's sad that they have their doctors they pay to say you're not disabled, yet the doctors who know you can better testify...and those doctors are ruled out.

These days most docs are not willing to lie to lose their license. And why does SSA request medical records if they are not going to consider them?

Neither; I did the paperwork myself. I guess I got lucky. I called the social security people a lot to make sure I was doing it right, and whenever I lost yet another job, and they were actually pretty helpful. Usually the people working on the lowest levels are pretty helpful, because they're the ones who talk to desperate disabled people who've been trying to work for ages and are finally facing the fact that they need SSI to survive... I was accepted on the first try.

Let's see, I'm in my mid 20s, still live with my parents, have crippling social anxiety and its hard for me to even go to the store. I have trouble looking (most) people in the eyes, have never lived on my own, HAVE to have a planned out schedule and I even have a special "game" I play to decide what I will do for the next hour. I basically update it every couple of weeks and assign numbers to tasks,cartoons, books, etc and then roll a number generator. I also have random thoughts invade my head and have bouts of extreme fear and anxiety if I'm with a crowd of people, I get the impulse or desire to do things I know I can't do. I like to jog but due and exercise but due to my social anxiety I can only go out at late, late hours to do so.

I also have always had issues with motor skills and coordination. I also get flustered very easily and have a difficult time vocalizing what I'm trying to say so I just don't say much of anything in public. Nearly all of my special interests are age inappropriate too I guess. Also move my hands when I talk and have several "tics". I'm sensitive to (most) sounds and even cover my ears when I flush the toilet.

Also I have never had a (real) job before and have attempted several things, to no avail. It takes me a long time to do stuff like put on a pair of gloves (tried taking an EMT course once). Certain textures bother me a lot as well. I'm obsessed with jets, certain movies, comic books, cartoons, certain insects and certain animals.

And I'm also having my SSI screening on the 30th of September. It was actually my parent's idea to try to get it, not my own. I'm diagnosed with ASD, OCD, social anxiety disorder and depression.

This makes me hopeful. My situation is very similar to yours from what I know of it.

To Belial: what is a SSI screening? Is that the CE thing I mentioned or something else? I want to be prepared. It sounds like your difficulties are quite intense, hopefully they'll approve you.