• allo@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I actually get SSI and a large part of my diagnosis is ADHD. I had a caseworker bring me in to the office and do that part in person. I was never able to coherently do doctor visits, but I am very not bound by human norms. So I faxed the SSA office repeatedly and eventually had typed over 100 pages detailing every little detail of how a frontal lobe injury at age 2 affected me and exactly how I differ from humans. I typed on days where it was just me typing what my day contained and for long enough they got to see my energy go from very wow in one way to very wow in another. The judge eventually approved my case before the hearing. Remember they don’t know you. You are just someone like any other unless you somehow let them see who you are. Tons and tons and tons of people with no incomestopping disability at all simply give an attorney a chunk of what they will get and have the attorney make it happen. If you, like me, are not capable of wading through the infinite beauracracy, I believe you have to do something beyond the norm to let them see you can’t. Yes the system is set up wrong. Mentally normal people can wade through the muck easy. People the system is meant for cannot.

    Really though the government of the place we call home should be something we are proud of

    seems it’s up to us to make it this way since it starts so bad

    • NaoPb@eviltoast.org
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      9 months ago

      Not OP, but in a same situation. Thanks. I’ll remember this. And by that I mean I’m screenshotting it because I find it valuable.