Although I presented myself in the usual fashion, no eye contact, earphones in, twitchy fingers, I still managed to score 0 in all categories.
Reading the report along with the decision, which came today in the post, was like reading a fairytale.
Ok, I can walk, I drive, I work, albeit part time, but anything to do with socializing, managing activities I'm unfamiliar with, new situations, unplanned events etc and I'm in pieces.
I'm not looking to freeload, I'm not looking to harm anyone, indeed all I want is a life to live that doesn't involve unnecessary complications with people.
The money most certainly wasn't the main point, although, I can't lie, it would help towards the cost of family living, all be it, the basics and most certainly not the luxuries, but it would have funded my private diagnosis.
The report was, if nothing else, an exaggeration, heavily tipped away from my favour. I had no intentions of misleading them, I'm very principled when it comes to honesty but reading it made me sound 'ordinary' 'average' 'neurotipical' to which I'm certainly not!
I read on this forum about how to challenge their decision making and with that I sent a letter this very afternoon!
I'd like to thank whoever it was that posted the link and details. Maybe I'm unrealistically stubborn, tell me something I don't know, but I don't back down from something I feel is unjust. More fool me as I tend to pick the losing side and might well run out of energy to fight before the first month of the year is even up, (that's January 2019, just to add context)
From reading past posts I don't think I'm alone on this. Has anyone else had any similar issues with PIP/Benefits? If so, did you get a positive resolution to it?
