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I have Asperger's Syndrome.  I was diagnosed late, as I guess a lot of middle aged people are.  I grew up in an area of high unemployment in the north of england.  I can't tell whether I am stigmatised by a neurological condition or by being from the north, often they seem to have very similar effects.  I was stuck in a college after school and ended up spending the next fifteen years in education, ending up with a phd that was never worth a penny.  I ended up struggling to pay for education and then never got any.  I suffered so deeply during my university education, at that time, there was almost nobody from the north and so I was completely stigmatised.  I suffered a lot of humiliation, living with it on a daily basis, all the while knowing my future was bleak, I could tell from the non-education that i had no future.  It's all processes of elimination anyway.  Anyway, I ended up in hospital twice I got in such a state but eventually finished the phD and got it just to end up back in the home town I hoped to escape in the same condition.  I've remain trapped ever since really and been on benefits for decades.  Last time I went to see anyone at the benefits was 2003 I think.  Last time I was transitioned to ESA from IB without interview.  This time, I think I ticked too many "maybe" questions instead of "No's", I was so stupid.  But now I am in the position where I have to go through the medical.  I can't see I'll survive this and I'll be finished.  I am middle aged now and I've never worked.  I have appalling problems with anxiety, agoraphobia, PTSD (due to the humiliation of university where I spent ten years), I am haunted by the social world, I just try to avoid people as far as I can.  I can't function at all and I am effectively a social cripple.  I can't even face the prospect of going out.  I do manage to go out once-a-day but it's an ordeal and I feel sick almost all the time.  The sense of terror characteristic of autism haunts every moment.  So, anyway, I have read about this interview and I can't see any way I can get through it.  I have published one or two things, other appalling experiences where I've sent stuff off to people who have no contact with me.  So, the benefits people have only to put my name in google to see I can communicate, even though, in reality, I am totally socially dysfunctional.  Much of my work has been done over the phone, but that probably means I could do a job in a call centre.  Anyway, I can barely manage to go out of the door and I don't like or trust people.  I just want to keep away from people as best I can since it's best that way.

  Anyway, is there any way to get legal advice over answers to these questions?

I have Asperger's Syndrome.  I was diagnosed late, as I guess a lot of middle aged people are.  I grew up in an area of high unemployment in the north of england.  I can't tell whether I am stigmatised by a neurological condition or by being from the north, often they seem to have very similar effects.  I was stuck in a college after school and ended up spending the next fifteen years in education, ending up with a phd that was never worth a penny.  I ended up struggling to pay for education and then never got any.  I suffered so deeply during my university education, at that time, there was almost nobody from the north and so I was completely stigmatised.  I suffered a lot of humiliation, living with it on a daily basis, all the while knowing my future was bleak, I could tell from the non-education that i had no future.  It's all processes of elimination anyway.  Anyway, I ended up in hospital twice I got in such a state but eventually finished the phD and got it just to end up back in the home town I hoped to escape in the same condition.  I've remain trapped ever since really and been on benefits for decades.  Last time I went to see anyone at the benefits was 2003 I think.  Last time I was transitioned to ESA from IB without interview.  This time, I think I ticked too many "maybe" questions instead of "No's", I was so stupid.  But now I am in the position where I have to go through the medical.  I can't see I'll survive this and I'll be finished.  I am middle aged now and I've never worked.  I have appalling problems with anxiety, agoraphobia, PTSD (due to the humiliation of university where I spent ten years), I am haunted by the social world, I just try to avoid people as far as I can.  I can't function at all and I am effectively a social cripple.  I can't even face the prospect of going out.  I do manage to go out once-a-day but it's an ordeal and I feel sick almost all the time.  The sense of terror characteristic of autism haunts every moment.  So, anyway, I have read about this interview and I can't see any way I can get through it.  I have published one or two things, other appalling experiences where I've sent stuff off to people who have no contact with me.  So, the benefits people have only to put my name in google to see I can communicate, even though, in reality, I am totally socially dysfunctional.  Much of my work has been done over the phone, but that probably means I could do a job in a call centre.  Anyway, I can barely manage to go out of the door and I don't like or trust people.  I just want to keep away from people as best I can since it's best that way.

  Anyway, is there any way to get legal advice over answers to these questions?