can i claim disability with aspergers?

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Well, speaking for myself, I have been on disability for 2 yrs and I'm 24. Almost 25.

I have severe sensory issues and go just about crazy in just about any environment. I also have severe chemical sensitivities. I can't go anywhere, have someone do my shopping for me, and just generally have a lot of trouble with the world. It's not fun. I'd like to work. But it's not an option.

Just because someone can post a message on an Internet message board, which takes, what, five minutes? certainly and obviously doesn't mean they're capable of doing the same thing for 6-8 hrs in a hostile outside environment, or even at their own home. They key is not can you perform for 5 minutes under controlled circumstances but can you keep it up...

I was lucky. I got social security in 6months on my first try. I don't know what I did that made me so lucky, but I am extremely thankful as my life would be beyond awful without it.

If you don't know if you're disabled or not, though, you're probably not.

I knew.

I had tried a few jobs before and it just didn't work/

Kate

Oh no, I don't mean that AT ALL. The shocking truth is that the lifestyle we live is kept at artificially labour intensive levels. Huge amounts of jobs could be cut without changing our lifestyles at all, a lot of people go to work every day to do nothing except find ways of feeling useful, or "part of something". They could all stay home without changing a thing.




Why? Plenty of people live out their lives without working at all simply due to economic forces...wouldn't it make more sense for those who cannot work to do so?



Only in the sense that Multiple Sclerosis and Spina Bifida aren't disabilities "in the proper sense of the term". The disability is not in the condition itself, but in the degree to which the condition impairs your ability to function.

M

NQ is having a tough day today... He's getting laid off.

When I am under a lot of stress I have a hard time censoring myself or containing my opinions. I think it is an AS thing, at least partially, judging by how impulsive my verbal behavior can become when stressed.

Oh, all right! I am being more than my average bitchy self.
Apologies all around.
I have a job interview tomorrow morning- so I'm sitting here being bitchy and slamming Jack-n-Cokes to numb the dread.

Maybe I'll got work on the Christmas tree for a while.

He would be having a WAY tougher day, at high velocity, if his nuts were anywhere near my knee right now!

They laid off most of our meat industry today...a surprisingly large proportion of which had far more common sense than celebrate by gratuitously patronising me.

M

PS. I was just being literal when I said he way way too old for me though.

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Now that IS a better idea...save me giving way to the temptation to "ill wish" you...and you might like to try leaving the Jack out of those cokes after midnight?

As far as I know an interviewee turning up with an ice pack on his head, groaning, doesn't always impress??

M

Well, it's only 9:35 PM here and I've only had 3.
Or was it 4...?
And when the chips are down (and they can't get much lower in these economic times, can they?) I will rally and give the best interview I can.


Just one more drinkie-poo.



*hic*

Good luck!

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Take it handy there...and tomorrow...

GO GET 'EM, just to spite me.

M

Thank you, ladies.

In an odd (and obvious to others) way.. you of all people deserve some form of disability support. Given the horror show your work career appears to have been .. the fact you get the jitters so bad you have to get tanked... its all part of the "DIS" in the ability.

I always blamed late diagnosis for a piss-poor work career. A touch of support in the right place and I would probably be minting it right now.

Apparently the disabled are guaranteed interview in the UK, or so I'm told, assumably to compensate for the fact we suck balls at a lot of other stuff.

I get something i assume is akin to disability, which is called the Invalids Benefit. It's really hard to get on to but you can stay on it pretty much forever. I use it while I am studying as it is impossible for me to study full time and have a part time job, which I would need to pay my rent.

I dont really like taking money from the government, but I say to myself that when I am earning enough to cover my life I will go off the benefit, and I will repay the benefit in the taxes I pay back due to me being able to get a better job than the burger flipping i would otherwise have to settle for.

Wow- I've never heard it put so succinctly, so......... accurately. I can't decide if I should laugh, cry or both.
I'll haveta share, "horror show..." with my doc- she'll get a kick out of it.
Thanks for the giggle!

How much do you get for disability?

Cant decide if you're taking the piss or not, but also very meh about whether you are or not, because its irrelevant to the statement. You seem far too intelligent to have to clean up other peoples piss, or end up in jobs that sound like they nearly gave you some form of nervous breakdown. There's your DIS at work right there.

Getting stuck doing the drudge menial work like shoving trolleys round the car-park is hardly the meaningful career most of us deserve or are capable of, its unlikely to be what our parents wanted for us, and I doubt even LFA's dreamt of it when they were little... but its the sort of work any mong can do, so in my experience that's where the disabled get shoved.

It varies in each state and I think it also depends what you are on it for. In Oregon, you get $623 from SSI. I assume it's for AS because I knew another aspie in my area and he got that same amount too, that's how much I'd get too if I didn't work.


In Montana, it was 500 something.

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