Re: wasting time? (was Re: sew my lips shutandtie my han...

June 11, 2003

At 05:02 AM 6/11/03 -0700, wrote:

>If I *could* have a job, I probably would. But I see the risk of

>destroying my life as a little more important than the risk of being

>laughed at or considered ambitionless or leechlike (I hate that one)

>because I can't work.

When it comes to being called leechlike, I'll tell you what I tell myself

because it fits your situation perfectly:

They are the ones who screwed you up, they can be the ones to pay to clean

up the mess they made.

>It's like they don't understand the concept of

> " disabled " or something except where it suits them to have control over

>my life (in which case they'll treat me as if I'm as extremely disabled

>as possible).

They don't want to have to pay for, much less admit, their mistakes. If

they are forced to admit the atrocious job they did in taking care of your

needs and rights in the past, then they will try to make the current

payment come with a cost despite the fact that you've long since paid the

cost, countless times over and over again.

Sparrow

June 11, 2003

At 05:23 AM 6/11/03 -0700, Klein wrote:

> wrote:

> > If someone's not diagnosed until they're 15, how are they *supposed*

> > to have records of being autistic before the age of 15. Doesn't an

> > autism diagnosis *imply* being autistic before the age of *3*?

>

>Yes, definitely. If it started later than three, it is not autism. If

>it started more than a few years later than that, it is not any autism

>spectrum disorder. Rather than being worried and upset about that,

>please consider that the people working on your case do not know much

>about autism.

Also know that, no matter how hard you fight, they may never admit that you

were disabled as a child. I began pyschiatric treatment at age four, yet

social security refused to list my disability as beginning any sooner than

the time I applied for it (despite having applied for it several times in

the past but been too disabled to follow through on the paperwork.)

Sparrow

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