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After telling the person who I usually see at the job centre that I failed a job interview she gave me a form. Here is what it says on the opening part of the sheet "work choice is a voluntary employment programme that provides support too DISABLED people facing complex barriers too getting and keeping a job". I do have emotional immaturity, problems controlling panic, anxiety and anger not too mention learning difficulties. I have aspergers by the way.




Should i not take it at too much face what the form says? Being disabled would be bad for me because it means I will never be independant


The same lady who handed me this form also said "there are hardly any girls that have aspergers"

If you have Asperger's, you're disabled.
I don't know where you're getting this idea that disability means you can never be independent, though. I know plenty of disabled people who can live by themselves. It makes it harder to do, but it doesn't mean it has to be impossible.

Do u think negative attitudes from other people make it more of a disability?

Being disabled doesn't automatically mean you will never be independent. Lots of disabled people (with ASDs and with other disabilities) live independently. I'm diagnosed with HFA and ADHD, but I've lived independently (I don't live independently right now because I can't afford to) and will live independently again.

Yes. I think negative attitudes about people with disabilities make any kind of disability more disabling.

Being disabled doesn't mean you can't live independently.

Its pretty rare that people who has really severe aspergers. will both have a job, and live by themselves.

There is just so many things that needs to be done. and to both keep a job and live by youself, as in not live in a s**t whole, where there is cockroaches and stuff is very rare.

Some people do manage it. But most people in here, i get the sense they really dont have that many disadvanges from Autism / aspergers.

Personally i seem to have hit pretty much all the down sides with very little up sides.

BUt ill tell you this, ill take living by my self anyday above keeping a job. Not much life value in having a job and having to have mom and dad help you with everything. Give much more life value and satifaction to have your own place imo.

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No, it doesn't. Most disabled people are independent.

What about people with locked in syndrome? Can they be independent?

No they can't. Thanks for teaching me about a new medical disorder. I had never heard of it until you mentioned it and I googled it.

Depending on a person's disability and the severity of it they might not be independent at all or could be fully independent with a little extra effort and support or somewhere in between.

Do you have locked-in syndrome? No.

I've been believing that I am independent. But now someone's post in this thread has made me wonder if I really am. I'm hated at work by many people and it feels like half my job is to deal with the stress from that. I certainly am not functioning at my full capacity at work because of that. Am I really being independent if I can't even do my best at work? Also at home I can hardly look after myself in a sense. I don't cook, I haven't vacuumed the rooms for a few years, rubbish is piling up everywhere, the bathroom is moldy, the kitchen floor is a mix of spills and dust, spider webs everywhere. The only good thing is that if anyone breaks in, they will be disgusted and wouldn't bother to steal anything because it's so messy. Any way, I don't think I'm actually being independent though it seems I have a job and live by myself. I am not actually functioning either at work or at home. I'm only surviving. I feel I will never be able to be truly independent.

I think that it depends on the severity of the disability.
When my father was young he had severe symptoms of AS, and he had to drop out of school when he was 13 due to his inability to cope with school.
After that he started working just after he had dropped out of school, so he had been kinda forced to learn social and life skills. Also my father is terribly stubborn, and I think this has helped him through life.
Now his AS symptoms are much less severe, and rather mild.

But a person like my brother will never be able to live independently.
He has severe autism, can't speak, can't dress himself, can't go out of the house if someone doesn't accompany him.
This is the example of severe disability that doesn't allow you to be independent.

I don't know about myself.
I hope I'll be able to find a job in the future, but I'm not sure I will be able to find one.
I often need other people to accompany me to places I don't know well because I get lost very easily, also I often get distracted when I must take a bus, and can get on the wrong bus and get lost.
But, exept these quirks, I consider myself not so dependent.
Ahw well.

That's a completely different condition.