I Don't WANT to Work!

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It is your attitude of glorious entitlement I find nauseating. There is no shame to being on disability; your attitude about others, however, is something I find shameful. Please try to separate my opinion on your behavior and my opinion on disability, because they are not the same.
M.

If your disability is the reason why you can't work than why did you write this nonsense. If you were able to obtain two degrees and say you refuse to share the knowledge you obtain, than that's a problem with your beliefs that has nothing to do with anxiety or whatever other problems you claim to be dealing with.

This entire argument is petty, small minded and ultimately absurd. The whole reason for the 'spectrum' umbrella for describing Autism is because different people may function at widely varying levels. What is doable or even relatively easy for one may be impossible for others with essentially identical symptoms. However, the definition of disability is that it significantly impairs one's ability to obtain or maintain gainful employment or to perform typical day-to-day functions. If you can operate your own business, you're not having a significant problem, so disorder or none, that doesn't qualify as a disability.

Anxiety and depression very much can cause debilitating loss of functionality, but in my experience it's the Autistic subtleties that interfere with employability. It's the very fact that coworkers perceive people with AS as 'different', even when they can't quite define what 'different' means. That the need to employ alternate methods is classified as stubborn refusal to conform . That being focused and non-social is thought of as being anti-social.

When jobs in my original long term career path started changing form and then finally drying up by the thousands, I turned to a Career Education program for the Disabled to obtain a license to perform a different job (I already held the same license in another state, but here they insisted I retake the entire training course). In spite of the fact that I completed the program, and the instructors documented that fact, they refused to license me and kicked me out of the program days before I should have graduated because of my Autism - they insisted that I magically overcome social anxiety issues (stop being Autistic) in order to become a more high-pressure salesman (which is in no way related to the job in any case). Let me say that again - I was discriminated against for my handicap in a program that was supposed to assist the disabled in finding work! And the state Board of Continuing Career Education upheld that decision, because as they told me "It's not our place to enforce the Americans With Disabilites (antidiscrimination) Act".

My point being, that I'd be more than happy to be working right now, but the state is barring me from holding a job in my chosen profession (and as I trust all of you are aware, just picking a random job out of the newspaper is not an option - personally, I've never lasted more than a month in any of those). Some of us would like to work, at least part-time, but my Autistic disability keeps me from gainful employment even when I want to work.

While there may be many people abusing the Welfare system, qualifying for Disability in the US is not a simple process. Not only do your own medical or Mental Health professionals have to vouch for you, a panel of government doctors has to decide that you really do have a legitimate problem, and they take their sweet time coming to a determination. In most cases, if you're under 50 and not on serious medication, they figure you're capable of doing something and won't even consider you. If you do get it, it's based on whether you live alone or have family or a spouse with an income that can carry part of the tab, and if you live alone (who could seriously suggest that a person disabled by a SOCIAL disorder be forced to live with a roommate?) it's barely enough to survive on - by the time they take out Medicare, it isn't enough to live on. When you shop once a month, you have to decide: bath soap or laundry soap - you can't afford both and still buy enough Ramen noodles and hot dogs to get through the month. So you can shove words like 'leech' and 'loser' where the sun don't shine - nobody wants to live in this endless luxury.

Geez Louise, do you realize how ridiculous it is for a bunch of people with a neuropsyche disorder to sit around fighting over who's the biggest loser and how "all you other Bozos don't function as well as I do, so you suck" ? It reminds me of Jack Nicholson in Cuckoo's Nest looking down his nose at all the 'looneys' he had to put up with in the Mental Institution, never realizing he was just as screwed up as the rest of them, just in a different way.

How about we switch the focus off me for one second and you answer the question I posed to you twice already? How about we make a case for you? What is it about HAPPILY accepting disability checks that gets your panties in such a wad? Why should I feel shame for doing so? For some reason you feel it is perfectly acceptable for me to go examine my own thoughts and motives but you seem reluctant to do so, why is that? I already know the answer and I think you might as well, but I really want to see you admit it.

I am more than happy to take NT's tax money.

You've had debilitating anxiety disorder???? I am shocked. I did not know that. Will you take a look at my blog sometime and give me a critique if you do not mind? I do want to be able to work at somepoint. I've even been to voc-rehab. Apparently they gave me the wrong appointment day or I misunderstood myself.

"There are no absolutes."

Sure thing! I shall! Doesn't anxiety suck!! !

Ok... I've already answered this, but obviously you didn't catch it, so I'll spell it out for you.

If you were happy to be getting disability because you wouldn't be living out on the street, this would be an entirely different story. However, you're happy because by your own words...

What I get from this is that the only reason you're happy is because you're taking money from other people, so you can sit on your ass all day. That's why you should be ashamed of yourself. You're not happy because you needed it, but because you wanted to take money from "normal" people, and because you don't want to work.

Also, my thoughts and motives for what? Calling you out as a fraud?

There is one problem with this statement here. This statement is an absolute. If there are no absolutes then we can't have this statement be an absolute as well. We have a paradox here. If we say that it is not true that there are no absolutes then it really says that Sometimes, there are some things that are absolutes and sometimes things are non-absolute.

This means we have absolutes within certain subsets and contexts but once we leave them they're not so absolute. Cyborg, I took it a step futher then you did.

I'm not satisfied with just taking the taxpayers money. I want to be able to work.

The fact of the matter is: most of the people who are "working" aren't doing anything more useful than the people collecting disability payments anyway.

I am proud to say it too! When you have sensory issues, anxiety/panic/depression, social difficulties, and all the other problems that occur when NTs are around I am proud to say I don't want to do it!

I am more than happy to take NT's tax money to pay for my disability checks and medicaid. To quote the movie Fight Club, "I call it an a**hole tax".

Thanks uncle Sam!