I have pretty bad ADHD. I just prefer not to share it. People tend to try to hold it against you. I mask heavily for work in the corporate management role I somehow still hold. Also weed. Lots of weed… and coffee. All the coffee.
I don’t mean to sound insensitive, as I totally support UBI and universal healthcare and removing corporate profit motives from anything related to individual, collective, or environmental well-being.
But this ADHD persecution complex can sometimes get out of hand. Could Katie really not ask a family member close friend for help with this?
Again, not trying to downplay the bureaucratic nonsense or unfairness here. I’m just saying this paints the task as impossible when maybe it’s not.
As someone with a family who absolutely doesn’t give a single shit about the difficulty of living with ADHD and just tells me to “get over it and stop being so lazy”… yes, they most likely didn’t have anyone willing to lend a hand and help them in the way they needed help because regular people don’t tend to think of the things we struggle with as being challenging enough to warrant needing assistance with.
Having a supportive community is a privilege that so many take for granted.
I’ve been diagnosed with adhd. I’ve had multiple doctors completely ignore it. Just nothing. It’s still untreated. This is mental health is America.
It’s the level of hoops an ADHD person needs to jump through to get any treatment, let alone adequate treatment. Forms, calling for appointments, more forms, tracking stuff, nagging your doctor to full prescriptions, and so on. Every step of which is another wall to climb for an ADHD person.
Everything about the process to get both diagnosed and treated involves tasks that are not compatible with the ADHD brain.
No I mean… you’re right. A lot of people are now claiming ADHD prevents them from being anything but a leech. It’s disrespectful as fuck to people with ADHD who bust their ass overcoming their disability. Its almost always from someone “self-diagnosed” also.
For some (like me) it’s less “overcome” and more “manage to the best of my ability”.
Sometimes I will forget something important. I forget interactions with people the next fucking day. I sit and scroll for hours on my phone and scream internally to get the fuck up and just not be able to.
Certain things help. But you can definitely be more then a leach.
Yep, but you’re trying. No one with actual ADHD is ever going to fully overcome it. I’m referring to the people who magically have crippling ADHD when it comes to being responsible with anything (Chores, a job, etc.) But if its something they want to do they’re magically fine. They can listen to instructions and follow them keenly when their family is taking them paragliding, but they couldn’t wash a dish for 8 seconds.
That’s part of ADHD for a lot of people: hyperfixation/focus on topics that interest them, and struggles otherwise.
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.
Honestly that just sounds like a trap.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
I’ll get the bbq ready
I wish more people understood this.
Fuck yeah
That’s exactly what they thought was going to happen. For-profit health care is a business. Businesses prioritize profits over all else. In the US, it’s just blatant corruption.
Wouldn’t matter if you filled it out you still be denied. You have to pay an attorney to be approved.
My brother (not adhd) was able to do it himself but basically compiled a database to do it.
Have a friend who is essentially bedridden who got denied 3 times before having an attorney file.
I wonder if it’s a bit like the food stamp process where what you get depends in large part on who you get as your program officer so it’s a bit of a crap shoot.
If you can’t afford to pay an attorney it’s very common for lawyers who are representing people applying for disability to work on contingency. If you’re approved for disability you usually get back pay dating to when you first started the process, and the lawyer takes a percentage of that as payment.
This isn’t about health care but disability services and social welfare but sure
Huh? How is it not healthcare? ADHD is a disorder that’s usually well-treated with medication.
I get the person is applying for a disability claim but surely they must already have tried and failed to achieve satisfactory symtpom adjustment to receive welfare?
It’s literally about filing a disability claim
Disability claims are part of healthcare
They’re filed with their state, not a health insurance company.
Does that mean
A) disability claims aren’t healthcare
B) insurance companies aren’t the only healthcare providers in the world
?
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.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.
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”
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.
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.
My partner actually went to the social worker to fill the papers with them.
By design.
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.
