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15 Jun 2012, 1:54 pm

People has accused me of faking both my autism and schizoaffective disorder. Many, many times. Online and real life. My autism is mild now and doesn't appear to be the "normal" way autism presents itself anyways so in a way I understand the autism. The doctors now a days didn't see me when I was young and that was a totally different picture. I seem too normal to have autism. I am able to have a back and forth conversation (mainly about the special interests, its hard to make small talk) and that throws them off. When I was young there was no doubt that I was autistic, and moderately so. Now I am more like Asperger's Syndrome but without the intelligence. I had both extremes. When i was young I had nearly every symptom of autism and now even though my current psychologist says I meet all the criteria including the one in the DSM 5, I believe I am so mild that most people would never think I am autistic unless they see me under stress. When I am stressed it brings out all the symptoms. I regress back when I was young. I rock all over again and don't make eye contact. Sometimes now I make too much eye contact, just staring into their eyes, then look away, then stare again all over the place. The schizoaffective disorder is suspicious to doctors mainly because I use medical terms to describe my symptoms and that is a big red flag. I am aware of that. On another board I go to though I guess most of them would be accused of the same thing because they use the technical terms.... even more than me! Also I am too open about my symptoms. I don't know why I do that. Now a days sometimes I keep it secret though but somehow it eventually comes out anyways. Suspicious again! Same with going to the hospital every single year! They would think I am going in there for attention but they don't understand that I physically hurt myself. And I fight going into the hospital and sometimes so much that I am threatened with having the police taking me instead of my parents. If I just wanted to go there for attention I would probably go in there several times a year if not more and also take up the nurses time the entire day, and wanting more and more pills of different kinds because I would want pills if I was faking. The only pill I DO want is anti anxiety pills because of my severe anxiety. Other than that I fight the doctors on giving me anti psychotics or any other kind of pill outside of anti anxiety. No one has ever accused me of faking my anxiety disorder though. NEVER. It is because they all say the same thing, "One of the worst cases of anxiety I have ever seen." Even the doctor that was giving me a mental status exam for the SSI payments said the same thing. And he does this for a living! The very first thing people notice about me is the anxiety rather than the autism or schizoaffective disorder. When I went to the insane asylum for the very first time I have the report that says, "FireBird appears EXTREMELY anxious." I have had anxiety to the extreme for most of my life so I don't know any other way.



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15 Jun 2012, 1:58 pm

Who cares? Tell them to f*ck off.



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16 Jun 2012, 11:07 am

I have been accused of faking it a few times. Once was because I'd only just said something. That was the day after I got diagnosed. Apparently, I should have said something sooner. :? I was also told it couldn't have been that much of an issue because I'd only just been diagnosed. If I was coping, why would I get (or try to) a diagnosis?



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16 Jun 2012, 6:16 pm

I haven't been accused of faking it, but I've heard
"It can't be that serious"

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"Asperger's is just a personality type, really, isn't it?"

Unfortunately they were from people who I like and respect enough that I don't want to tell them to f**k off. I corrected their misunderstanding as well as I could.


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18 Jun 2012, 11:18 pm

I just got accused of "playing games" and acting a certain way to show that I have Asperger's. Why? I came home acting normally, but have since gone into a shutdown (goings-on at work are bothering me). And somehow because I wasn't in a shutdown two hours earlier means I'm acting this way to prove a point? Are you kidding me?? :wall:

I'm sometimes told I'm being melodramatic when I get upset, or that I'm putting on an act. I have yet to be diagnosed with AS (appointment with a psychologist soon!), but there's no acting here; this is the way I am.



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18 Jun 2012, 11:26 pm

I just received the most elaborate faking accusation I have ever seen.

Not sure what I am going to do with this.



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19 Jun 2012, 12:31 am

Verdandi wrote:
I just received the most elaborate faking accusation I have ever seen.

Not sure what I am going to do with this.


Explain about this please.



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19 Jun 2012, 12:42 am

Scie wrote:
Verdandi wrote:
I just received the most elaborate faking accusation I have ever seen.

Not sure what I am going to do with this.


Explain about this please.


I got the response from the judge for my SSI appeal. Said judge has a very low approval rate for SSI and SSDI appeal cases, and in my case he decided that I had convinced myself I was disabled by reading the internet.

So I have to appeal again. Not really sure what will happen there. I think I should look into getting a new attorney because my previous attorney was an ass to me because I was having a lot of trouble communicating with him and he kept not listening to me when I tried to explain myself before the hearing. Never mind rescheduling my meeting with him until the last minute and not requesting any of my medical records until an even later last minute, such that two sets of records arrived after the hearing.



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19 Jun 2012, 12:57 am

Also, he said I was not socially impaired because I am able to participate in online forums.



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19 Jun 2012, 1:04 am

Verdandi wrote:
Scie wrote:
Verdandi wrote:
I just received the most elaborate faking accusation I have ever seen.

Not sure what I am going to do with this.


Explain about this please.


I got the response from the judge for my SSI appeal. Said judge has a very low approval rate for SSI and SSDI appeal cases, and in my case he decided that I had convinced myself I was disabled by reading the internet.

So I have to appeal again. Not really sure what will happen there. I think I should look into getting a new attorney because my previous attorney was an ass to me because I was having a lot of trouble communicating with him and he kept not listening to me when I tried to explain myself before the hearing. Never mind rescheduling my meeting with him until the last minute and not requesting any of my medical records until an even later last minute, such that two sets of records arrived after the hearing.


I would definitely talk to another lawyer. Try to convey what a dick the 1st lawyer was without sounding like you hate lawyers.

The whole process is a joke. I'm just sitting back waiting for my 2nd denial so I can wait some more to see a judge. SSA completely ignored the evaluation and DX report of THEIR psychologist when they turned me down the 1st time. I don't expect much better from them the 2nd time. All you can do is keep fighting these committees of thugs who earn $50,000-150,000/yr for telling people with disabilities they're not f****d up enough to justify $8,000/yr to cover the most basic needs. Just the thought of the taxes I paid, over 15 years of work, being used to pay these cock suckers makes me want to vomit.



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19 Jun 2012, 1:05 am

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Also, he said I was not socially impaired because I am able to participate in online forums.


Apparently you've come across someone in a position of power who's an absolute moron, I sincerely hope you get this in your appeal. You should change your attorney imo.

Also, would you mind explaining a bit more about your situation to me? I am interested to hear, although I am from the UK so I don't know American ins and outs.



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19 Jun 2012, 1:06 am

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Also, he said I was not socially impaired because I am able to participate in online forums.


I would recommend he get testing for brain damage.



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19 Jun 2012, 1:36 am

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I would definitely talk to another lawyer. Try to convey what a dick the 1st lawyer was without sounding like you hate lawyers.

The whole process is a joke. I'm just sitting back waiting for my 2nd denial so I can wait some more to see a judge. SSA completely ignored the evaluation and DX report of THEIR psychologist when they turned me down the 1st time. I don't expect much better from them the 2nd time. All you can do is keep fighting these committees of thugs who earn $50,000-150,000/yr for telling people with disabilities they're not f**** up enough to justify $8,000/yr to cover the most basic needs. Just the thought of the taxes I paid, over 15 years of work, being used to pay these cock suckers makes me want to vomit.


I still haven't seen an SSA psych for anything. It was a possibility but since the judge decided I was simply lying about everything, it was apparently taken off the table.

I can appeal to the next level, and I will because if I don't I will lose the benefits I have, which will not be a good thing for my mental health. I am not sure how long that will stretch it out. But I would rather fight this BS.

Scie wrote:
Apparently you've come across someone in a position of power who's an absolute moron, I sincerely hope you get this in your appeal. You should change your attorney imo.

Also, would you mind explaining a bit more about your situation to me? I am interested to hear, although I am from the UK so I don't know American ins and outs.


I can't explain it better right now. I can try later or tomorrow, but right now I'm too scattered and trying not to focus on the whole thing.

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I would recommend he get testing for brain damage.


Or something. He also decided that I couldn't have ADHD because I was able to do a digit span test and remember three out of four words for five minutes. Those tests are not even considered viable for testing ADHD.



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19 Jun 2012, 1:43 am

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Or something. He also decided that I couldn't have ADHD because I was able to do a digit span test and remember three out of four words for five minutes. Those tests are not even considered viable for testing ADHD.


The problem is you don't have a licensed clinician there to back you up. I can't believe they wouldn't require you to see their psychologist. I know this sounds a little too Machiavellian but for a sec I thought maybe they didn't require you to see a shrink because they knew what judge you'd get if they forced it to court. If you could get your doctor to come to court the judge couldn't pull this kind of s**t in front of an expert witness.



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19 Jun 2012, 1:52 am

Verdandi wrote:
Scie wrote:
Verdandi wrote:
I just received the most elaborate faking accusation I have ever seen.

Not sure what I am going to do with this.


Explain about this please.


I got the response from the judge for my SSI appeal. Said judge has a very low approval rate for SSI and SSDI appeal cases, and in my case he decided that I had convinced myself I was disabled by reading the internet.

So I have to appeal again. Not really sure what will happen there. I think I should look into getting a new attorney because my previous attorney was an ass to me because I was having a lot of trouble communicating with him and he kept not listening to me when I tried to explain myself before the hearing. Never mind rescheduling my meeting with him until the last minute and not requesting any of my medical records until an even later last minute, such that two sets of records arrived after the hearing.



The system is so messed up and what is worse is how people who are more disabled than me get denied but yet they approved me when mom signed me up for it and I was using the internet then and posting on it when she decided to sign me up.


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19 Jun 2012, 1:54 am

Who_Am_I wrote:
"Asperger's is just a personality type, really, isn't it?"



Actually that is how I see it and my mom says about my symptoms and my anxiety it is just who I am (as if it's a personality). :shrugs:


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