Disabilitie Working Allowance

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Disability Working Allowance is not really a subsidy to the person doing the work. Rather, it is a subsidy for the Employer, who can get away with paying wages below any decency threshold.

It is a fact of life that many people with AS are either unemployed or underemployed, meaning that although they may have above average IQ and certain skills, they are still trapped in menial, ground-level work without any realistic means of escaping that predicament.

Under such circumstances, I find it very hard to be judgemental of someone who is prepared to get what they can out of a system that is overwhelmingly set up to militate against them.

When you consider that most of those in the better-paying jobs got there through dishonesty, I wonder who should we really be making judgements about?

I guess that is what happened sometime if you have Aspergers Syndrome you get miss interpreted.

I don’t think that Asperger Syndrome is a disability at all. Aspies have their strengths and weaknesses so it is just as possible to say Asperger Syndrome is a Greater Ability.

I am a proud person and applying to this benefit does not quite appeal to me or I would have applied a long time ago. I am 33 now, and am not ignorant of what I am entitled to. When I do fill in the form, I will not give in any BS even if I get turned down. I will let them know what Asperger Syndrome is and how it affects me. Not because honesty is the best policy but because that is what I have got to do.

As for the money, then technically I am earning more then enough to get by, despite running a little bit of debt. I can pay for my rent every month, pay for my car, and give my mother some money on monthly basis.

Cost of living is high, but so are opportunities for a bit of resourcefulness when it comes to spending money. I live alone in a bad-sit; the place isn’t bad at all to live. If I was happy to be single all my life, I would honesty have no good reason to leave the place, even for council apartments(much cheaper then privately renting) But reason for leave are to find a place that will impress a woman and where we can bring up a family. I know that many NT men don’t think this consciously but what sticks in their mind is, I must progress and do better but it all equals the same thing. The only difference is that I know why I am progressing, so I don’t have to spend my life alone, or even start a family of my one.

As I said in previous post woman are attracted to man with money, this is down to the fact that a man with money is more capable for bringing up their offspring , this is the case even if they have no intention of have children, it an instinct thing at work.

I believe people with Aspergers are more ambitious then your average NT but I was reading in a body language book that people with good communications skills generally more successful in life and earn more money.

With my energy and ambition to succeed, I should have become some how better off then I am. There are many NTs who are much more better off then me, they see work as only a means to get paid, and don’t come up with the ideas or even pick up a book. But they just seem to be better workers because of their natural ability to concentrate and communicate.

My depression could be the ultimate disability, eating away at me slowly. If the NT world could feel like I do most of the time, this world would be in turmoil, I know how weak NTs can be. I little depression and they fall apart and tern to drink and drugs and bum out. Just look at the celebrities on TV. I know that my depression is much worse then theirs because when I drink, the alcohol exacerbates my loneliness making it 3 times as bad. When some typical depressed NT drink, it only exacerbates their enjoyment of their own self pity making then feel good, until the alcohol wares off of course or they are not so depressed in first place so alcohol exacerbates their general happy mood. But I always manage to get to work every day on time, without any family issues, or sickness. My depression will not rob my of my determination to succeed.

Hey Aspie_Chav.

When you phrase it like that, I do agree with your request for support. I apologize for our miscommunication.

I'd say of course put Asperger Syndrome (you are diagnosed, right?), and just be honest about the problems that it causes you. You could also put that your Asperger Syndrome causes depression and difficulties communicating with other people..

Best regards and hopefully it all works out for you.

Thats ok, I am used to it by now. Mis understanding happens all the time.

Not quite Disability Working Allowance is subsidy to the person, my workplace would not even have to know, unless they are doing some checks.

What you said about underemployment thats true of me, I could have been a well payed System Developer. I have completed Sun Java Programmers and Developers Certification, and halfway through the System Architects Certification. I love the science of system developing, object oriented methodology EJB, I know it all. Actually I was heavily against OOP programming because it is unnecesserly complicated and beuocratic. I started writing artical why, it was but some of the developers at Javarange website dismissed what had to say. I even said the Java programing language is rubbish and complicated like C++. I came out with my own programming methodology, but unfortunately I just end up reinventing the weel, Functional Programming, not to be confused with Procedual Programming.

I was working in a mobile phone shop, I tell you I would know all their is about mobile phones. It was the other day I wanted to hook up my PDA to a bluetooth mobile via GPRS, hell if any of the Rude-Boy staff could help me on this one, I thought that at least one of them could help me. One of them said, Could only do it on contract and it would be very expansive. I managed to work out how to do it myself and it worked out cheaper using onspeed.com service. Sorry am getting carried away there.

Summeris:e I am underimployed and with nobody to love. At least if I had learning difficulties the someway as some of the my other council staff I get in contact with at work I would not have no real ambition,would not live every day interlectually starved (my job is not bad but uppertunities to program limited to VBA Excel) and I would not have this ongoing loneliness. Saying that, there is one person in the group called Steve who is more intellegent then the rest, potentualy better speller and reader then myself, who really want to find someone special, but he does not have this terrable void that I do.