ASPartOfMe wrote:
dragonsanddemons wrote:
I really hate all this insistence that autism is a difference instead of a disability, disorder, etc. Maybe for some people it is, but then there are people like me who are absolutely disabled by it and don't get benefits in return. I feel belittled and patronized when people insist on calling autism "a difference, not a disorder."
Why have you not been able to obtain benefits? Wrong Planet user blazingstar might be able to help you in that regard, she does that professionally.
I do get SSI at least, I meant I don't get anything positive directly from the autism. I don't have any useful special interests, I can't hyperfocus on anything other than the special interests I do have, I used to have the stereotypical Aspie memory but lost it to depression and ECT, stuff like that.
29 Jan 2020, 4:27 am
