Unfortunately, the requirements for the program are ridiculously severe. It’s super hard to get allowed, especially when you’re under 50 or only have mental health issues. We really just need UBI so people aren’t required to struggle to work to get by.
Imagine how much better the economy would be if people weren’t forced to prop up absolutely shitty companies they don’t believe in just to pay their bills. Like, we might actually have improving products and experiences instead of a constantly diminishing race to the bottom.
I applied for an ADHD specific health care place. 1.5 year waiting list. Then They sent me a link to a multi page in take form described as asking for my full history that had to be done at one sitting, had to be accurate, and it would determine if they would take me or not. You couldn’t look at any page without filling in the current one.
So I emailed them asking what the questions were because I might have to collect information or think about it in advance. I didn’t get a response. Emailed again, nothing. Called, very difficult to explain my question to them.
Eventually I got an email that nobody had the list of questions so they couldn’t tell me.
Gave up.
“you can get these bionic legs to replace the ones that were amputated but you have to run up the 10,000 step path without assistance first. Also, you’re being timed and if it’s not fast enough, you won’t get them. We won’t tell you what time you have to make.”
“ChatGPT fill in this questionnaire so I’ll get approved. Consider it will be looked at by another LLM like you.”
Similar thing but specifically for executive disfunction.
By design.
I can hyper focus on forms but everything else is dysfunctional.
My experience with some of such papers is that you are supposed to have professional help already that does it for you.
Shows that you need assistance.
I have had some that required a shit ton of paperwork from different sources to be returned within a 30 day window.
Its impossible to pull off, but a social worker who knows these pages makes 1 phone call and now you have 90 days. Makes another phone call if its still not done.
My partner actually went to the social worker to fill the papers with them.
Cool!
We all know all mentally disordered people have strong support networks, the ability to schedule things, manage stress, move around a town or city, etc etc.
Not everybody has a partner, a friend, family to fall back on, lots of people are mentally disordered and in crisis because they got fucked over by those people.
The system is broken, and its on purpose.
I used to work for a nonprofit, we helped these people best we could, but the way the government makes you do things is a laughable joke, its broken.
But hey, that was at least back when any of this shit still had any funding and was still kind of working.
Now?
Now?!
Yeah, my guess would be if you started say an SSDI application today, handed it in finished perfectly… 1 to 2 years before you get your first pass/fail result back.
Yes, it’s just an eugenics project to exterminate us all.
I signed up for an ADHD evaluation and it took me a year to return the forms. I’m pretty sure the interview/test was just a formality at that point.
They gave you disability support for adhd alone?
No, that’s what was necessary to get me on medication (which helped a ton).
As long as you didn’t have to do the torture room with the clicker and image/tones, consider it a win
They have specific people available to help you with these types of forms in cases like this if you don’t family available to help. Social workers, psychiatrists, counselors, other mental health professionals, all of this falls under their jurisdiction. Hell if nothing else just sit down with a good friend to help you.
Bold of you to assume I’ve got that kind of support structure and the ability to explain to other people what I need
I’ve always been lucky, filling out forms has always been something I can hyper focus on, I know it doesn’t make any sense, but I guess I just really like putting pencil to paper and seeing my own handwriting
Try doing it with a broken wrist, to explain to them that your wrist, and many other bones and ligaments are broken, torn, etc.
The autism doesn’t help so much there.
If you submit, they’ll reject it, because you clearly don’t have crippling ADHD that’s preventing you from functioning normally. Your submitted 20-page form is proof.
If you don’t submit, they’ll reject it, because you must submit it to be considered.
What a great example of a catch-22
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Fuck yeah
I wish more people understood this.
I’ll get the bbq ready
Honestly that just sounds like a trap.
A friend had to have his foot amputated due to diabetes and when he filed for disability they asked him to complete a triple jump.
Sounds like some real UK government shit, that
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
“That’s some catch, that Catch-22,” he observed.Has to be the funniest novel I’ve ever read. So many moments that literally made me lol
It’s my favorite. I have a shirt that has the Russian edition cover on the whole front. Makes it even more ironic now.
You should read “The gospel according to Biff, Jesus’s childhood friend”
Anyone who has been through the process of applying for, and succrssfully recieving SSDI, knows that every single step and element of the process is at least one, if not multiple Catch 22s.
Hey uh, here’s a real basic one:
Oh, are you homeless?
No permanent address?
You basically cannot apply for anything, anywhere, any kind of food assistance like SNAP, TANF, actual SSDI, Section 8…
You literally cannot even do step one if you’re already fucked out of a home.
This is why you really luck out if you can get into a shelter that lets you use them as an address, and also the staff isn’t stealing/opening the mail, or just maybe they lose half of it, or say you can’t have it now because your crippling injury meant you got back to the shelter 3 minutes after curfew, try next week, after it needs to already be sent back out again with a response, or you can’t apply again for 6 months.
Simultaneously, there are basically zero emergency housing resources for those who are not yet homeless, but going to become homeless soon.
Oh you’re not homeless yet? You don’t qualify.
Try again after your life has been ruined, no, we don’t try to stop lives from being ruined, we shuffle them around afterward.
