• Persen@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    7 months ago

    Wait, you can get benefits? From my experience, you only get treated, like you had down syndrome and denied state provided licenses.

    • cynar@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      7 months ago

      At least over here there are some benefits.

      • Additional help at school
      • Counselling/Therapy (currently completely overwhelmed, unfortunately).
      • Legal requirement for “reasonable accommodation” at work.
      • Knowing what the FUCK is wrong with your brain.
      • Persen@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        7 months ago

        Well, I haven’t had as much luck as you.

        School:

        In primary school, I was the retarded kid for some teachers and in high school, when they can’t question my intelligence, as I am universally known as smart, they accuse me of schizophrenia and disrespect. I was forced to have weekly appointments at a school psychologist for breaking some minor school rules.

        General life:

        I had to complete a psychological test for my driver’s license, where I was treated, like I was stupid (and I still didn’t get my results after around a month).

        • maniclucky@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          7 months ago

          I feel compelled to ask, but don’t demand an answer: what rules did you break?

          I presume you’re outside the US? When I got my license in the US (about 15 years ago now), you needed a pulse and a basic understanding of signage for the written part. One of the few things the US gets right is the ADA, which is why we have things like ‘reasonable accommodations’.

          • Persen@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            7 months ago

            Well, after thinking about it, it wasn’t so minor. I stabbed someone’s hand with a pencil after he was annoying me (I asked him to stop nicely many times). He didn’t have any proof, they just believed him as I was the autistic one. In Slovenia and probably most of EU, you have to have a medical examination for a state provided licenses and usually also work. If they don’t permit me my driver’s license, I’ll just move outside of this shithole country (quoting Borat) and live a normal life somewhere else.