Do most aspies receive SSI??!

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No, I don't think so.

You cant have the money in your name but I think you mite could have some in a company 401K if the access is restricted

I don't think that most people with Asperger's have SSI. In fact, from what I've read on most of the posts on this site & others like it, most people seem to be able to function fairly, if bot very, well. No one will be approved for SSI if they are able to function well in life. SSI is mainly for those who are unable to work as a result of whatever disability they have. Most people with Asperger's Syndrome (at least from what I've read on this site & some others) would be exempt because they are able to work & function. For some people though, like me, who are unable to work, they may be awarded SSI. But it's a very hard thing to get approved for for most people, regardless of the severity of their disability.

I've even read numerous articles online about how parents are unable to get disability for their autistic children, even severely autistic ones. SSI is not easy for most people to get & just having a diagnosis of Asperger's or any other ASD, or even schizophrenia, or having two missing limbs, will not get a person approved. They usually don't give anyone SSI unless they are absolutely certain that the person can not work & can not function without it. The same goes for SSDI.

It's actually the opposite:

Most individuals with AS can't work. Well, that's what all of the outcome studies say. This would come under objective measurements, rather than subjective experiences via online forums. This doesn't mean that they're on disability though.

The highest I've found was a 30% employment rate, which was amongst the highest functioning individuals (some book I was reading on Google Books about outcome and AS/HFA, and it listed most of the studies done).

I've applied for SSI... no response yet. I do getting education funding through Vocational Rehab which currently pays all my community college tuition.

Are you serious? This scares me. I'm not diagnosed, but I show some of the traits, and it's no coincidence I relate so well with people here. I've also been terminated before due to conflict with coworkers. The jobs I hold best and longest are menial labor, even though I'm quite intelligent. There's no shame being on disability, but I don't want that to be my future.

I certainly don't; nor do I want it.

I wouldn't say it if I wasn't.

To make you feel probably worst, the 30% was mainly so-called menial jobs or working for the family business.

"Successful" and "Asperger's Disorder" is pretty much an oxymoron. There's always an exception, and why do you think they make a big deal about the usual names you hear of?

Doesn't matter how smart you are, as IQ isn't a predictor of outcome after a certain point (75 or so, but even below that is quite ambiguous amongst those with speech); the "heart of autism" is the poor adaptive social functioning compared to one's peers that's disconnected from intelligence.

I know, but aren't most of the people here employed? It seems there's a lot of people in technology and math-based professions.

I've worked all my life, but have always had "conflicts with co-workers'' issues. It's really causing me allot of anxiety and depression, because no matter how hard I try to get along with people for some reason or another I just can't. My doctor says he can put me out on disability for 12 weeks for the depressiion and anxiety. After that they will find some way to get rid of me because of all the trouble I cause where-ever they put me.

I think I want to try to get on SSI as I wil be allot poorer but much happier.

There's no SSI in relation to having Asperger's Syndrome in my country. In fact AS is mostly unrecognized, and getting the diagnosis is very hard and usually limited to people who can afford to pay for it themselves. Otherwise people are generally diagnosed with schizophrenia or with "Personality Disorder" (another word for Psychopathy and Sociopathy).
Once an aspie has received the diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome, getting any kind of SSI is still next to impossible, unless one has problems that can be legally linked to other things such as physical disabilities or mental illnesses.

I have been talking with a lot of people with various disabilities at my school, and talking to the people at the disability services office (some of whom are disabled themselves), and the consensus seems to be that the low employment rates among disabled people, including autistic people, don't have very much to do with intrinsic inability to work. They have a lot more to do with cultural problems, with prejudices held by employers, parents, schools, and the disabled individuals themselves. The low employment rate for disabled people probably has many of the same causes as lower employment rates for racial minorities. As time passes, disabled people are starting to learn that they can work; employers are learning that the disabled are as likely to be good employees as anyone else; and the employment numbers are slowly rising. With those numbers, yeah, it makes sense to be apprehensive; but drop the idea that there's something wrong with YOU that means you can't work. Most likely, the problem is with the system itself, and the system can be changed.

There are some autistic people who really can't work, naturally; but they are far fewer than the 70%, or however many, who aren't working. And even for them, things should get better, because we're starting to realize that treating disabled people like second class citizens is not, in fact, okay.

So basically it's not the system itself, but those within the system who hold the prejudices then.

It's like a saying I've come up with recently: don't hate the game, hate the players.

Both. Most of those people wouldn't be prejudiced if they had the chance to think about it; but they take for granted that disabled people don't work, and if nobody ever challenges it, they persist in that belief.

I don't see why Asperger's would qualify you for that sort of thing? Most of us are perfectly fine on our own.
I certainly don't receive anything of the sort

Being unable to live on your own and take care of yourself qualifies you pretty much immediately; that's true of a significant section of people with AS, especially the younger ones. After that, there are the social skills required to deal with customers, co-workers, and bosses, which some of us don't have. Then there are the people who have disorders in addition to AS that prevent work, such as severe anxiety disorders and depression. Others have problems with meltdowns, executive dysfunction, problems with unexpected events, problems with sensory overload, and problems with pacing (i.e., they do things much slower than others). Most such people could work if they had specialized environments; but many employers don't know how easy it is to set these up, many Aspies don't know that these things exist and that they can ask for them, and many schools don't teach the skills needed for self-advocacy and job-seeking that are needed for a disabled person to look for work successfully.