Have you even had disability benefits (money)?

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No. I work in the secondary job market (i.e. minimum wage no benefits). If I can't get back into the primary job market (i.e. salary, medical, retirement plan) in the next years, then I will need to consider long-term disability. I'd have to give up looking for a partner, that wants children, and, that isn't something I'm ready to do, yet.

I'm interested if in the USA there is a chance for a person with "just" SCD or NVLD to have financial disability benefits (having moneys despite lack of any occupational job).

I want also to ask if ASD level 1 gives chance for financial benefits or no. I suppose that the can be people with just NVLD or SCD who should have larger chance for disability benefits than someone with mild ASD (for example if NVLD or SCD is combined with AD(H)D or OCD).

Don't know which option to pick, as I'm currently in the process of signing up for disability benefits. I have gotten some money from them already, but it was because they automatically signed me up for welfare as my application is being processed.

Truth be told, collecting disability money has been on my mind. Back in '10, when I was first diagnosed with this poison in my brain, I was adjudicated mentally handicapped, so I'd get an allowance. From what my parents tell me, if I ever chose to collect, it would be paid to me lump sum.

But no, I told them. I wanted to try and provide for myself. That it felt wrong to take someone else's money, even if it was through the tax system. But after what I've gone through trying to do that, with trying to build a military career that fell apart, ITT that ripped me off by padding the bill with classes on fonts and ethics when they promised to teach me web design, the GOD AWFUL experience that was working at walmart, and now my most recent job has ANOTHER power mad boss that wants to destroy me...

My advice? Take the money, guys. Sometimes doing the "noble" thing just means you're sparing others a fate they dearly deserve.