This is my bitch right now. It's a bit long.

[Gluey]

more like a WP topic sorry but i had to get this off my chest.

Since I graduated from high school two years ago I have had community support workers.  The program that supports me has been very lazy. they are not used to people
with AS in fact I'm the most high functioning one there. Everyone else has been there for years doing the same simple jobs. There are people with down Syndrome, mental retardation, Cerebral Palsy and one Autistic Rainman-like man that is obsessed with death, cremating seagulls wired on sugar/caffeine and rarely supervised.

Three days a week I hang out at the building. The three days are all the same. Wensday I go bowling, do some art and volunteer at the Elderly care home.
Thursday I pretty much do nothing but paint at my art studio, rent a game from the video store and do my grocery shopping and Friday is just the same.

Since November 2006 I was supposed to Get a steady job this has not happened yet and I am very disappointed.  These people who work with me realize I'm not "One of the "Special' people" they see I'm not retarded (Not used in a derogatory way) but the initiatives THEY don't realize how capable I am.

All my life I have had support since my AS diagnoses I have been taught that I have to do things at a slower pace than normal people my age. I have been taught that since I was eight.  Now....I'm stuck with people who are way below my functioning level. I'm on the same boat as them.

Sure I get to blow my disability money on video games, great food and entertainment but after a while it's just not that fun anymore. You get bored.
The only desire I have is to buy more video games to entertain me more because I get bored with the old ones. I want to buy and enjoy more games with the money I earned. Not money from tax payers who are working harder than me.
I hope someday I will have steady job and not need this government money. The government is controlling me too. They only allow me to make $500 a month from a job or else I won't get the welfare money I need to start off with. So I am pretty much only aloud to have $1000 a month.
I can't live my entire life like this I need to get a job and someday break away from that support.

A lot of you might say "Just go out and get one"
It's not that easy. I don't have the freedom that a 19 year old should have. I need to have a support worker or trusted person with me if I go into town or go off the island. I also live in a remote area where stores close early and theres pretty much nothing.
My parents are so over protective they worry about me getting raped or taken advantage of. There has been 20 something murders in Vancouver currently
I just can't escape. If I escaped off the island my mom would go as far as having a search and rescue team looking for me.

[vodz]

If you get a full-time job, you should earn at least $500 a week, no?

I don't see that the government is "controlling" you.

My experience of Vancouver suggests those shootings are gang related.

[Gluey]

If you get a full-time job, you should earn at least $500 a week, no?

I don't see that the government is "controlling" you.

My experience of Vancouver suggests those shootings are gang related.

Yeah they are gang related but inocent people get injured and killed too. A young man was attacked with a hatchet into his spine at a party for no apparent reason.

[Natalia Evans]

I had the same problem too. I was in my senior year in high school and the disability service was supposed to get me a job but it never happened because they didn't have any money. They hire job coaches to work with people with disabilities on their job so that was probably why. So I had to go and look for a job on my own, a real one so I'm not working at a thrift store for less than an hour and only making under sixty bucks every paycheck but no one would hire me. It was real frustrating. Even though I got SSI, I still was bored at home and I felt lazy because I wasn't working enough. So my mother started to go around at her job ranting about my problem with not getting a job because no one won't hire me because there were some workers there who know people who are managers at places, so one of them was willing to give me a job at their place as someone washing dishes. But they didn't want to have me start yet till I got a job coach but fortunitly someone was willing to try me so she called for an interview and hired me and I had to go back to the other place and tell them I won't be working there because I had been hired somewhere else. That was how I got my last job in Montana and worked there for a year and a half.


Your parents sound very over protective of you. My mother was the same but not that protective like your are and then my Dad told her she had to let me grow up or I'd never learn. It was with her protecting me from other kids in my school and then from the internet from the people I was talking to but she never held me back. I used to think she did but she told me she never did.

[Sophgay]

My mum is over-protective of me because of my topographical disorientation and low awareness of danger. Apparently I am emotionally like someone a few years younger (not mentally, jut emotionally lol). The only place here I could get a job right now would be in a big shopping centre down the road. Dealing with customers etc. And I KNOW I'd be shit at that. Plus I'd probably end up having meltdowns all the time and then a nervous breakdown lol
I'm back at uni in a few months though, so a student for a couple more years
And I'm tryiong hard to make sure I'll be able to get a job after then

[Gluey]

My dad tells my mom that too, Spokane  (I need to grow up) 

I wasn't aloud my own computer with internet in my room until I was 17.
a smarter Beatle-geek girl who wanted the internet do her geek girl things couldn't have that BECAUSE a few ignorant preppy girls went looking for boys online and from the result of it got raped and murdered by perverts and it ended up on the news. So those stupid girls destroyed my right to make Beatles websites, look at the Beatles, play online games and enjoy the wonders of the internet.

I got my own computer at 17. I talked with my parents about it and said "You know Mom, those girls got raped because they were on dating sites looking for trouble,
they didn't get raped from reading about The Beatles on Wikipedia or playing Runescape.

My mom thought I was mature enough and got me an ether cord to get my computer online. So it ended up all good

[Sophgay]

My mum is paranoid about what I do on the internet
I got given a leaflet about safety online for young people, from someone at the National Autistic Society lol

I don't think it was those girls faults that they were raped and murdered though
But yeah, as long as you're sensible (unlike me), you are ok online

[richard]

you'll never find me bitching and complaining about reciving disability. i fucking love it

[The_P]

you'll never find me bitching and complaining about reciving disability. i fucking love it

Excellent attitude. Not everything is life is set into stone.

[Gluey]

you'll never find me bitching and complaining about reciving disability. i fucking love it

It's nice but i feel a bit of guilt that everyone's tax dollars are going towards scrumptious food, PS3 games and rat seed mixes.....

[Peter]

My mum is paranoid about what I do on the internet
I got given a leaflet about safety online for young people, from someone at the National Autistic Society lol

I don't think it was those girls faults that they were raped and murdered though
But yeah, as long as you're sensible (unlike me), you are ok online

Do you arrange to meet strangers in dark alleys in the middle of the night while intoxicated?  My mum used to worry about paedophiles in the bushes when I was younger; she seemed to think paedophiles roamed around the fields and moors looking for kids to rape, rather than getting a job as a teacher or carer like any sane pervert would do.

[Peter]

you'll never find me bitching and complaining about reciving disability. i fucking love it

It's nice but i feel a bit of guilt that everyone's tax dollars are going towards scrumptious food, PS3 games and rat seed mixes.....

Maybe you'd feel less guilty if you thought about all the assholes who've been shit to you and who're now paying for your comfortable lifestyle.

[richard]

you'll never find me bitching and complaining about reciving disability. i fucking love it

It's nice but i feel a bit of guilt that everyone's tax dollars are going towards scrumptious food, PS3 games and rat seed mixes.....

well in the usa ssdi isnt a handout or welfare. you have to work atleast 5 years to even collect, from it. in my case my arseburgers went misdiagnosed my whole life (especially when i was in schools) so i think that is why i collect it now. ive worked atleast 6 years

[richard]

you'll never find me bitching and complaining about reciving disability. i fucking love it

Excellent attitude. Not everything is life is set into stone.

you deleteing your screename apparently is