Do you feel that you can adequately advocate for yourself

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The more time I spend on social media the more I realise how basic my skills are, how about you?

If you mean in a normal fashion, I can do ok. If in a legal situation, I try to stay away from that if I can.

I think it was abraham Lincoln that said something, about such people, that I won't repeat because it might be taken as offensive here. 8(

Well, I checked, and the site is ANOTHER person giving it more context, and it is a LITTLE less offense sounding.....

https://www.avvo.com/legal-guides/ugc/a ... r-a-client

No.

No. I try and fail, but I never stop trying.

Not really. I find it difficult to speak up for myself. As a result, people tend to step on me. It's my nervousness and awkwardness that disable me from even just talking, let alone advocating for myself. I believe it's quite common among autistic people to be unable to advocate for themselves well enough.

Maybe. Maybe not.

If I were in a state when I'm articulate and persuasive, I'm certain.
But I'm not most at the time.

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I am clear and coherent in writing. I'm not in speaking. I can't make myself clear and only think of what to say hours/days/ weeks later. I try to give myself a script when I have to talk on the phone or whatever but I lose interest in it and can't follow it.

I am a person of two halves and it shocks others.

I've often done quite well advocating for myself, but it depends on the exact situation. It can certainly be a problem area for me. But I think some of the "service providers" are very skilled at providing nothing, so advocating for oneself can be hard even for the strongest people. I've sometimes wished that somebody else would sort these things out for me so I could get on with something a bit more interesting that all that bureaucratic gobbledegook, but I'd have to pay for a case worker, and I've heard that case workers don't necessarily do their jobs very well. Much of the task boils down to knowing how a particular thing works, what phrases and bits of paper are needed to force the required result out of the provider, so an ordinary person - a non-specialist - has to climb a different learning curve for each thing they want. It would be much easier to self-advocate for just one thing every so often, so that the skill would improve over time.