Where I live it is really hard to get disability for mental illness. The rule is that you cannot, if it is not seen as lifelong. That doesn't mean they look at you to predict you will have a lifelong problem, they look at the diagnosis itself. So if you have disabling depression and anxiety, you do not qualify. That is because in theory you can be cured. Those are my main issues but I would never have been approved without also having Asperger's.

STILL people think there is a lot of fraud. I have yet to come across one single person who has faked mental illness and gotten away with it. But I guess the politicians here like that rumor to live on because they "actively hunt down scammers". That makes people even harsher against us being on disability, now it is suddenly OK to tell us whatever and treat us bad.

I don't take pride in ability to work. I would work if I could. I think a humble approach is better. Whether we can fully support ourselves, none of us is really making the world a better place as we use up resources. We're all leaching on earth itself. I'd like to fix that, if it was possible.