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shortandcute · Jan 31, 2013, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by BrokenNBeautiful

I am on SSI and SSA because I have a mental disability.

I have an axis one and an axis two disorder.

It's "inivisible" though; I am not in a wheelchair.

Also, when I was 11, they detected some lesions on my brain, and I also have a vision problem.

But I hate it when ppl think I am lazy or don't want to work.

I got on SSI when I was 5. I was put in County Mental Health then because I was really emotionally disturbed and was upsetting the other children and the teachers could not deal with it.

For the rest of my life, so far, I have been on disability. My father, I think, collected railroad retirement or something, and now i have 2 checks.

I do not mean to abuse the system! I really think I need this money. With an axis one disorder to go with my axis two disorder, plus my physical disability, plus that ad on tv that talks about "Social Security being for mental AND physical..." Why do so many ppl assume that people abuse the system?!

I am sharing this because this attitude that I get in general adds to my mental health problems. I do not abuse anything. And I don't need MORE guilt about collecting benefits!

Carol

Oh, I know that is so frustrating! I had a friend tell me once, when I told her that I was trying to get disability, "Why don't you just get a job at a daycare? That's an easy job," But it's NOT an easy job. One of the last jobs I had was at a daycare and it turned out that I had a serious hernia, and the job made it worse--plus I threw my already-screwed-up back out even more because it was my job to carry around the little ones, to pick them up and put them on the changing table etc, because none of the other women could handle it.
Even a couple of my friends who were disabled themselves got after me about applying! and their disabilities werent "visible: either!!!! Like one of them told me that all I needed to do was sell my house, learn how to drive, move to a bigger city, and that would solve all my problems. Like how is that going to make me not disabled? The other one told me that what the problem was that I just didn't want to learn how to drive!