BobinPgh wrote:
I was only recently diagnosed with an ASD last year. Right now I am 55. All my life I have had difficulties with choosing careers and coping with jobs. Before I was diagnosed with anxiety/depression but really have had problems with deciding what I like to do because it seems I cannot cope with people on the job and now I know why. I also have a hard time with interviews and it feels like going through hell to do them and earlier in my life I was scared to death to even ask for a job (not bad now).
I work as a medical transcriptionist and they always threaten to fire me for quality issues. But I have worked in places where they don't fire people, they make you so miserable they want you to quit. This is common in the transcription industry so they don't pay unemployment. There is also a lot of pressure and harrassment and since it is female dominated, a woman can turn me in for sexual harrassment even if I am 20 feet away from them and who will management believe? (by the way, I'm gay and not interested in them anyways).
Now that I am older, I don't want to spend the rest of my life looking for work should I be let go. I am working with a lawyer to get SSDI as kind of an "early retirement". Anybody else here done anything like that? I must have spent a lot of my life looking for work with interviews, resumes, only to not get the job and it is depressing and now I just have bad memories of doing that when I could have done something else. Which brings up, why should people with ASD work at all, but that's another thread.
I am in Vocational Rehabilitation at age 56. I am also going to apply for SSDI over the summer. Over the summer if I go for advice from disability specialists/lawyers my nuerotypical siblings can help me understand hidden meanings.
You can work part time and still get SSDI
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DSM 5: Autism Spectrum Disorder, DSM IV: Aspergers Moderate Severity.
06 Jun 2014, 2:52 am
