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Originally Posted by divine1966
Since you have DID and ASD these type of questions aren’t suitable but are there any other type of evaluations you need to undergo in order to get SSI? It can’t be the only type of test?
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I don't know honestly. I mean, I have so many physical disabilities at this point it is unreal...but I was still denied at the hearing level and appeal and had to start all over again. As a result, I'm more than a little stressed this point - it's been five years. So whenever I am repeating tests that I took last time when I didn't get it, I'm panicking.
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Originally Posted by divine1966
I am at loss here. I’ve met people (primarily adolescents but also adults) with every possible disability and I have never met a person who answers to “what brought you here?” with “a car” unless they were trying to make a joke. Some would say something similar in
wrong situations when joke is uncalled for but I have never met a person who’d answer like this seriously. I am at loss.
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~nods~ I get it. When I don't think about it (or overthink) the more likely something like that is to come out. Too, the more stressed I am, the more literal I get. So yeah, talking to my therapist, who I trust more than anyone in the world...this doesn't happen nearly as much. When it does, she laughs - not 'at me' but just a joyful type of laugh, letting me know to revisit what she asked me and find a different meaning. But she loves me and I trust in that, you know?
Talking to a psychologist who is working weekends for Social Security because they are trying to pay off student loans (or whatever) and knowing that Social Security prioritizes subcontracting out doctors and psychologists according to how often they find a patient not disabled... I mean, these doctors have a financial incentive to find me not disabled and my survival depends upon them finding me disabled, yeah... stressful to the point of a panic attack. So I become almost a machine or computer - without artificial intelligence.