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myceliorum:

deducecanoe:

reservoircat:

mountainwhales:

no one fucking tells you this so here it is:

when signing out forms to apply for disability / filling out a form for diagnosis

you’re supposed to fill it out as you on your worst days

like, I filled out forms that said I could do most things usually

like, my doctor added in the conditions like “yeah, they can feed themselves when not stressed” “they can do this when not stressed

but how I should have filled it out was more like

“some days I can’t feed myself” “some days I can’t leave the house”

My doctor didn’t even know this, but I talked to someone who had worked with people with both developmental and intellectual disabilities for a number of years, and she told me to write down how it is for your bad days

this should be a thing they tell you, but it isn’t

part of the reason I didn’t get my autism diagnosis as soon as I should have is because I filled out forms wrong!

This also goes for filling out forms for disabled parking rights. I’ve been rejected multiple times for a pass cause I didn’t find this out till recently.

Wow

Also you’re generally supposed to fill it out as you are without help.

That throws me too.  Because the more help I get, the more capable I get.  It’s easy to forget what happens when the help falls away even partially let alone completely.

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glamourweaver:

I want a groundhog day episode of a show on which during each subsequent loop when the character-who-remembers is explaining the situation, they get these responses from a media savvy character…

“You mean like the movie Groundhog Day?”

“You mean like the Star Trek: the Next Generation episode Cause and Effect?”

“You mean like the X-files episode Monday?”

“You mean like Stargate SG-1 episode Window of Opportunity?”

“You mean like the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode Life Serial?”

“You mean like the Xena: the Warrior Princess episode Been There, Done That?”

“You mean like the Fringe episode White Tulip?”

“You mean like the 12 Monkeys episode Lullaby?”

(this one is followed by a quick exchange of “They made a tv show based on 12 Monekys?” “Yeah, it was pretty good.”)

“You mean like the Supernatural episode Mystery Spot?”

“You mean like the Charmed episode Deja Vu All Over Again?”

“You mean like the Dark Matter episode All the Time in the World?”

“You mean like the Star Trek: Discovery episode Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad?”

“You mean like the Legends of Tomorrow episode Here I Go Again?”

“You mean like the Blindspot episode Everlasting?”

with the response “That one doesn’t really count, it was a dream after the first explo-”

“Ok, yes fine, so then, you mean like the Japanese light novel All You Need to Kill and the subsequent Tom Cruise movie Edge of Tomorrow?”

“You mean like the short lived 2006 tv series Day Break?”

“THERE IS NO WAY THAT WAS YOUR FIRST THOUGHT! ADMIT YOU REMEMBER THE LOOPS!”

“Never!”

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