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Originally Posted by neverending
I filled out my own disability paperwork and had it 3 months after application.
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I truly am happy for you. Your experience is uncommon.
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Originally Posted by neverending
Why would a psychiatrist have a problem with your IQ and specifically need to have it tested? ....
I never cared one way or another about mine. It just made some things easier in getting through life, in funtiioning in some ways that would have been so much harder to get by with while dealing with the ravages mental illness can bring.
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And there's the rub. As you've said, "It just made some things easier in getting through life..." Social Security Disability judges have figured this out as well. People with high intelligence tend to be able to figure out a way of getting through life even if they are denied. So they deny them more often.
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Originally Posted by eskielover
Just to let you know, high IQ is not related to having or not having a disability that makes one incapable of functioning on the job....
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I do know that eskie, but thanks for pointing it out.
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Originally Posted by eskielover
...especially since your disability sounds like it's physical, the IQ has absolutely nothing to do with the disability & your lawyers should know that & be supporting you in that light.
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While I have severe physical disabilities, social security has denied me repeatedly over the last (almost) three years. While my lawyer expects that I'll receive disability at the hearing level for my physical issues, we are introducing mental health concerns as an insurance policy against a system that is not always fair. So, my lawyers are on my side, but they are, in my opinion, rightly concerned about anything that can be used against me receiving disability - and a high IQ has been used many times by the social security administration to refuse someone.
It works like this: At the hearing, there is a vocational specialist there that lists jobs that you could do if you were not disabled. Then they begin crossing off the jobs that you can't do because of your disabilities. If someone is rather slow intellectually, they might begin with a list of fifty jobs that person can do (if they weren't disabled). If someone is gifted intellectually, there might be a hundred jobs listed. It's a lot easier to prove that I can't empty garbage than it is to prove that I can't contribute at a think tank somewhere - where it will only be my brain that gets worked.
Truth is, I can't. I am able to contribute here only because I can rest whenever I need to - and sometimes, when my brain is affected, I can't think clearly enough to follow the directions on a cup of soup meal. But that's exceedingly hard to prove.