ASD and welfare

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Is being diagnosed with ASD enough to receive complete disability in European Union?

The UK has seriously tightened-up it's criteria, and it's harder to get ESA and PIP respectively; the continent tend to have a better deal, as it were, with it all, and a much less-restrictive thing with it all.

I am not in the UK, but I believe it is my profound inability to function in many ways that qualifies me as disabled, rather than just having a diagnosis of autism.

Not automatically. There's some additional assessment of how disabled you are.

Yes, not only is it harder to apply for and receive benefits, it is also getting more difficult for autistic people to get a job because unless you have a generic personality, you are unwanted.

This is why we absolutely need to get serious about building our own community/subculture, which would include groups for people who work or aim to work in particular professions / occupations / jobs. Hopefully this would, in turn, spur the creation of more autistic-friendly workplaces.

Of course not; that would be weird since most of us seem to be able to work at least somewhat.

In the UK It's not so much about how badly your disability affects you, be it ASD or anything else, than how well you , or someone for you, can present your case.

In the US, if one is diagnosed Level 1 alone, it's not enough for benefits.

For Level 2 alone, it might be enough---but you (or your therapist/social worker) would have to really present a convincing case.

For Level 3 alone. Certainly.

The goalposts as to what constitutes a substantial disability have been cynically moved in recent years, by people who have no interest in the welfare of disabled people .