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Disability Anonymous 11/08/14 (Sat) 01:11:14 No.2230

I apologize if this has been asked before, but I was wondering if anyone here is currently on disability or if you're in the process of trying to get it? I was wonder what everyone else's experiences were with this.

I've been fighting with the courts since 2010 and keep getting denied. I have a lawyer now and it's gotten to the point where they're suing the social security administration.

Anonymous 11/10/14 (Mon) 12:08:22 No.2417

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I got on it pretty easily, but it helped that I already had a paper trail of seeing mental health providers.

If you get disability, it's a nice enough ride. You're on a fixed income, sure. But you also get Medicare, a free cell phone, and even food stamps. Try to get it paired with SSI for best results. And don't let faggots get on you about "being on welfare". Social Security is nothing like niggerdy welfare.

Anonymous 11/10/14 (Mon) 15:16:12 No.2426

Never had to try and get autismbux before, but I will if I don't get my shit together.

Anonymous 11/10/14 (Mon) 16:22:49 No.2427

Working on a possible autism diagnosis. Might get autismbux if I play my cards right, but for now, I am in education.

Anonymous 11/10/14 (Mon) 17:05:09 No.2432

My roommate/keeper won't let me go on disability. She looks down on it heavily.

If she knew how nonfunctional I am at work she'd probably let me.

Anonymous 11/11/14 (Tue) 02:56:58 No.2496

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>>2432

SSI/Disability/Autismbux/etc is doled out on the basis that, to some degree, you are unable to work. Your friend probably conflates it with social welfare programs that stereotypically go to people who are unwilling to work. And that's pretty bigoted, tbh.

Nya 11/11/14 (Tue) 07:53:05 No.2575

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>>2417

I'm actually really pathetic where I've only worked at a real job for 3 months. I tried to work there for at least a year but couldn't manage passed those 3 months. It was at a call center doing tech support for an ISP and only now do I realize what a mistake that was.

I actually used to get SSI payments before I turned 18 and could have easily continued had I shown them that I was mentally unable to work. However, I wasn't aware of any of this until well after I turned 18…I didn't even know I was getting checks until I was 18 when my mother told me. She didn't want another disabled child I guess, since my brother is mentally retarded.

The good new (heh) is that I already qualify for a free cell phone and food stamps. I don't have medicaid/medicare though.

Right now my only "income" is a grant from the school. I don't even go full time. 1-2 classes per semester, and sometimes I take a break. I used to go to more classes but that was before my issues got this bad.

Anonymous 11/11/14 (Tue) 08:41:37 No.2585

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>>2575

Having actually worked should help you along in getting disability, considering that you've likely been paying Social Security taxes out of your paycheck (assuming you were getting an actual paycheck [as opposed to under-the-table] and you weren't working for a non-profit).

Most of all, though, you gotta stay on top of the red tape or otherwise get help from a lawyer. It's a dance, trying to get the benefits. But it's worth it.

Nya 11/14/14 (Fri) 00:07:24 No.2962

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>>2585

It was for a call center so I did get paychecks for those 3 months. I also have a lawyer now who is fighting the courts, so I'm hoping all goes well.

It's funny, I actually want to work for a living but I'm not able to, and I'm hoping that once I get on SSI then I can afford the therapy I need to be able to function. But, social security is treating me like I'm just a lazy piece of shit who wants a free ride. I know it's not personal when I think about it rationally; after all they got to screw over the majority disabled to spite the dozen or so moochers.

Anonymous 11/14/14 (Fri) 05:53:47 No.2994

shortly after turning 18 i applied but was turned down because i said it started that year where if i proved it started as a kid i would have gotten it

Anonymous 11/15/14 (Sat) 07:32:49 No.3080

I'm in the exact opposite situation as you, OP.

It's a long, involved, humiliating story, but the short version is, when I was in my teens I got put in this non-profit program because I was school avoidant. I have social anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and agoraphobia, as well as chronic depression -which was recently upgraded to major depressive disorder.

My parents divorced when I was five, my mother was living off of the child support in combination with her job as a teacher's aide. I'm not sure what the exact issue is, but she never finishes school. She's "graduated" a few times, but there's always "one more test" she has to take for certification. Many family members have ragged on her for this, she always says "This is the last one" and then has to go take another one, one more course, one more certification, it's always something new she has to "study" for, but she doesn't actually study generally. She's actually been banned from a certain Denny's recently, which she was using to "study" but rarely purchasing anything. Apparently another customer complained, or something.

Anyway, I'm getting off-track. When I was going to turn 18, she wasn't going to be getting anymore child support for me. So, even though she was still getting the checks for the three years I was living somewhere else and spending all the money on herself, at 18 she went to Social Security and signed me up. For the next several years she completely controlled those checks. I moved back in with her, and I vegetated. I stayed in my bedroom and did nothing well into my 20's. I dated a succession of attractive, but in various ways psychotic girls I met off the internet (how else could you explain them being willing to date me to begin with?) who each convinced me to demand more for myself.

I'm nearly 30 now, I live alone in an apartment. I control all but 200 of the SS check, which I let her keep to pay bills. I've wasted the best years of my life farting around on the internet and fooling around with crazy girls from the internet.

I'd like very much to become financially stable enough to never have to get one of those checks again. Various attempts I've made to better myself have been embarrassing and crushing. I scrape by, I can't ever buy a house unless I'm willing to leave the program for good. See, you can't stop it and then get back in, if I opt out now, I can't get back in when I'm old. You're not allowed to own property while on SSI, the government immediately seizes it.

Which means if I ever want to stop living in an apartment I'd have to consign myself to living in a house owned by the next insane woman I fall for. I'm not saying all women are insane, by a longshot, just that that's what I'm attuned to because of my nutty mom, and that's the kind of girl who puts up with my own myriad issues.