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tjr1243
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14 Jul 2012, 10:54 pm

If you are an adult now, did you get disability when you were under 18?



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14 Jul 2012, 11:01 pm

nope.



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15 Jul 2012, 12:41 am

cathylynn wrote:
nope.


Nope for me too.

"Asperger's syndrome" didn't even exist when I turned 18. In fact, autism didn't even exist as an official diagnosis until I was in my 20s. I wasn't diagnosed until after I turned 50.



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15 Jul 2012, 12:48 am

No. I was about 30 when that happened.



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15 Jul 2012, 1:36 am

Nope. I guess my parents didn't need it because they could support me with their own money and mom did the work herself.


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15 Jul 2012, 5:11 am

I wasn't on disability but I got social security until I was 18. I got survivor's benefits because my father died.



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15 Jul 2012, 5:26 am

No. My brother did; but I didn't. I applied when I was 17. Got rejected and got backpayment on my 18th...