Published on 12, July, 2020
I have Asperger's Syndrome. My goal is to immigrate to the United Kingdom. I am not using the local immigration law to enter the country. I am using my rights under the Conventions on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Based upon that, I am an immigration anomaly.
I am going to be honest here. I am suffering from too much information. As an informed American, I need to create action upon what I know.
I could say that I am obsessing about my country, Donald Trump, and the Robert Mueller probe. The purpose of the obsession is the watching and waiting for the accountability that everyone is expecting to happen at some point. One of my tipping points is the lack of inconsistency of accountability. President Clinton was impeached because of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, but nothing has happened to Trump when it comes to Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougall. In addition, the Trump administration is guilty of human rights offenses. Trump has made Clinton look so incredibly small in comparison and there is no political will to impeach him for accountability for his actions and abuses. I have to live with the facts I read about. Moreover, I am someone who creates action. The action has turned into this:
LEAVING THE UNITED STATES
I have reached my tipping point.
Moreover, I can't take the United States seriously anymore. From a failure to enact strict gun control laws to the monopolized control of its industries, I have to leave.
I have health insurance. It doesn't matter. I am one hospital visit away from going into debt. My health insurer can simply turn down my claim.
The cost of living is too high. I would have to work three full time jobs in order to make ends meet.
Eventually, I want to have my own family. My kids will not be safe at their schools because of loose gun control laws.
I have a repetitive motion injury from my current employer. My employer will not accommodate my injury so I can keep working, so I am on disability leave. Disability insurance payments last until they run out. It lasted me only a year.
The same employer, Walgreens, does not know how to work with people with disabilities. When I was going through an undue hardship, the managers I immediately responded to would not move me to a different work environment so I could return to normalcy. Before this employer, the one before, Target, had no disability awareness or training to handle my disability. I faced disciplined instead of accommodation. I tried getting an accommodation with Walgreens, but they did not provide. Ever since requesting that accommodation, I have decided to look elsewhere and been planning to come to the UK since.
It has been three years since I starting focusing on coming to the UK. I value living a normal life and return from work without having to obsess about what happened to me at work. I am a musician. I practice my instruments when I do not obsess. When I obsess, I play video games to detach my thoughts so I don't have to think. My employment created my escapism.
I want to try finding employment here in the UK, but my disability is a solutions-based focus to solve the problems that I find. I find a problem and I fix it. If my employer is not interested in taking my solutions and leaving things as is, the workplace enables my disability. If I am to be employed, I recognize that I must be in a position to solve problems. Otherwise, I will go home obsessing about problems I discover.
My ultimate goal is to be self employed. I got my bachelor's degree in music. I know how to play drums, bass guitar, piano, harmonica, and hand percussion. I recognize that I can be a high demand session musician in London. In addition, my musical talent as a drummer/bass guitarist is exceptional. I am a difference maker; the missing piece that takes the music to another level. London is the perfect place for me.
Outside music, I have NeurOptimal. The most important thing to know about me is I am self-sufficient. I do not need help for my disability. I provide my own help. I do not even plan on using the universal healthcare because I use alternative medicines. I have not seen an actual doctor in over 10 years. I am an extremely healthy individual.
I can make extra income with the NeurOptimal. I am registered with the company who created it and certified as a basic trainer to provide the service the NeurOptimal provides. The NeurOptimal can help anyone that is going through mental health issues or if you are looking for help for your own disability. I can provide this service. I am my best example that the NeurOptimal works.
I am putting a lot of value on being self employed. When I find a problem, I get to solve my own problems. The most important reason why I want to be in the UK and London is I am investing in my musical talent. As a session musician, I don't fit into the whole immigration picture. When you take into consideration how immigration works, bands must be registered and licensed to issue certificates of sponsorships in order for me to enter the country. There are other opportunities that I can look for, but these businesses are not able to provide certificates of sponsorships. Even if I were to find an organization to get a talent visa, the immigration law does not allow the individual to be self employed. I am built and set up to be self employed. It's another example proving why I am an immigration anomaly.
I can say at this point in time that I have paid and working with an immigration lawyer right now. We are building a humans rights case to enable me to stay here. Simply being in a different country than my own has helped me so much to stop obsessing about my own country and focus more on myself and my self employment projects. I wish it was easier to be granted permission to stay here. Immigration laws aren't inclusive to the disabled though. I am aware how nonprofit organizations get people with disabilities jobs. People with disabilities work entry level jobs. In accordance to the fact, how immigration is being practiced here is not abiding by the Conventions on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
I have found a problem and I am in the process of fixing it. Thankfully, the entire world is talking about immigration right now. This is the perfect time to get countries to create a program or inclusive immigration laws to take the disabled into account. Whatever careers the disabled choose to have, it would be recommendable that we have the ability to go where the jobs are. My goal is to help the UK in this matter. In order to open the doors of immigration to the disabled, I am going to have to communicate and work with the United Nations.
While I am here, I am fully intending to help in the disabled communities. I have the public speaking skills and literacy to communicate for those can't. I recognize that I have something to give to the conversation about disability and how it is viewed. I am helping my local community with their individuals who live with their autism or Asperger's syndrome. I have found the best place for myself to contribute and feel valued at the same time. In my immigration case, I would love to generate the value why we want someone like me here in the UK.
Why?
We have the providers of this forum doing a lot of work for autism and there are organisations in the communities doing work for Autism locally and campaigning. Get on board with them, don't confuse the issue by starting up new things.
We are going through BREXIT, leaving Europe, immigration, disability rights and human rights are to be decided.
You seem uninformed about the country you want to come and save.
It's well meaning but niave and blue-sky with no real track record of achievements to bring and put in place here. Do your research on London, the cost of living and the crime there, drugs, gangs, knives, guns, terrorist attacks, how would your anxieties be there?!
What if you don't like it here?
I don’t think you have done any research on NeurOptimal.
I have befriended a couple families here. One of them has a son with Asperger’s and ODD. The mother asked me to meet and talk to their son. By the way, the son did not consent to the NeurOptimal.
After meeting and talking with him several times, I asked his father if I had made any impact or difference on his son. He told me he has seen a big difference in his son. Quote: “I wish he had met you ten years ago.” I would have to get a testimonial from them.
I have an emotional intelligence that I never had while growing up and as an adult until I started the NeurOptimal for myself (which I have been doing for 3 years now). I have confidence in myself to be a life and wellbeing coach.
I recognize that the U.K. is a mess right now. My country is no different. No country is perfect. There is violence and crime everywhere. Nowhere is safe because of terrorism.
There is a looming financial crisis on the horizon. I have two choices:
A: Take all of my money out of my accounts, find somewhere I can live off the land, dig a hole and put my money in a chest so my money is safe from the coming economic collapse. Wait it out for ten years.
B: Live. Build the career and life I want to live. Contribute. Educate and fight to try and stop the coming economic collapse. Enjoy my life to the fullest.
I choose B. I am going to die someday. I don’t know when. I’d rather live than let die.
I have done my research on London. I am living in a town that is the perfect balance of “everyone knows everyone” and within the vicinity of the town center.
I have absolutely zero anxieties.
I am loving London. I am loving the people. I am loving all the different accents and cultures. I have not had to experience the extremism except for one delayed train due to an altercation that occurred somewhere else.
Why? First, I want to experience the music industry here. Second, I know I have not faced the challenges and the button pushing that can happen in a relationship. There are resources here that I, or my future spouse, do not get back in the States compared to the U.K.
My own mother realized I found something when she started learning more about Mencap. I was living with my parents. Eventually, I have to leave the nest and live on my own. I recognize that I am different. If I ever need support, I know Mencap, NAS, and any other nonprofit will be there for me.
Slow down.
He did not consent, so NeurOptimal was not done.
Dfactor said: I would have to get a testimonial from them.
A testimonial? for what? unethical practicing on a non-consenting boy?!
Dfactor said: By the way, the son did not consent to the NeurOptimal.
This is very disturbing ethics.
Dfactor said:I don’t think you have done any research on NeurOptimal.
I was told about it a lot of years ago.
Last year it was shown as part of a documentary and was inconclusive. I did some more research on it after the programme and it was inconclusive. I wasn't impressed and that is why I didn't mention NeurOptimal, I was politely ignoring the (in my own opinion) insignificant waste of money.
Rather your head/brain and money on Neuroptimal practice than mine.
Dfactor said:By the way, the son did not consent to the NeurOptimal.
Ethics?
I do not like that you conduct your practice on non consenting clients.
I asked for my account to be deleted recently so I won't be here for long.
I stand corrected, I should have said obsessions not anxieties.
Oh you are here already? your posting was confusing as to whether you were wanting to come here or were here already.
Did I mention anything about NeurOptimal? No I didn't. Because I am generalising about the situation and not focussing on anything.
A chance meeting with a family is not a local council change or a government policy achievement, that is what I was talking about.
Why not campaign for those services in the US and get the UN involved in that and make America great for the disabled?!
Dfactor said:I recognize that the U.K. is a mess right now.
....aaaannnnd you are here to save us! well praise be and amen to that!
So how do you think the U.K. can accommodate more disabled when the local councils can barely provide facilities and resources for the many disabled they have? Not to mention all the workplace adaptations and corporate acceptances?!
How? what? when? results? something more concrete than the pie in the sky you are offering?
There are people fleeing ethnic cleansing, war torn countries, girls being trafficked as sex workers, modern slavery, people in extreme danger and you have a sense of entitlement just because you don't like your present government that you could ride out for a few years until the next one is elected and you don't get things there that you would get here....mmmm. So why not put your desire to campaign for the disabled to use in the US to help yourself and your fellow Americans instead of just helping yourself by way of bailing out on your fellow Americans? I don't get it, when you believe you can do so much for disabled that you won't do it for your own country.