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Hi there, 

Just like between 16% and 22% of autistic adults I'm long term unemployed. I'm on universal credit and have to go into the job centre once every two weeks to prove I'm looking for work etc. I live rent free with my mum but she is past retirement age and still working full time because she simply cannot afford to retire or even reduce her hours with me still living at home.

I can't understand what the other people who fall into this category live on? There's obviously a vast number of perfectly capable autistic adults who are also out of work long term. Are they all on universal credit too? We all know that's not enough to live on. Is there anyone else in a similar situation? 

I can't spend the rest of my life going into the job centre every couple of weeks to report that once again I've had no luck getting a job. It's costing the tax payer, it's driving my mum into the ground, and I'm severely depressed because of it. 

I've heard of people getting a late diagnosis (in their twenties) and all of a sudden they were housed and had benefits thrown at them. I just can't understand why there are some people who are given housing etc and others who are given nothing at all. Of course I understand there are people on the more severe end of the spectrum who require assisted living. 

I have absolutely no one to ask about these things as since my diagnosis, like most others, there's been radio silence. Absolutely nothing at all from anyone. I thought a diagnosis would mean access to more support but it's left me even more lost and confused than before!

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  • i got lucky recently and managed to net myself a picker packer job without need for interview as its agency based and i think the agency got my cv mixed up with someone elses lol so pretty much free job, its repetative and busy and grindy so it suits me fine and time flies. but before this yeah i spent years on job seekers and universal credit, honestly its better off not bothering with that system, they treat you like a criminal and talk down to you and threaten you that being unemployed becomes more stressful than full time busy work, but yeah that is the jobcenters job, to make life miserable for you that it forces you off the dole lol they get paid to put you off it and get paid for all those they manage to kick off.

  • in reply to Caelus

    I've noticed a definite change in you, C. You're much less confrontational now and much less antagonistic. Your true personality is shining through, compassionate, practical and down to earth.

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  • in reply to Caelus

    I totally understand. Political parties are dangerous and their followers can be very cruel. The whole aim of politics is to keep the population in a state of fear by menacing us with an endless series of imaginary enemies so we'll vote them into power to keep us safe.  

  • in reply to ☕Tassimo ☕

    its when politics come up that things get heated lol
    because politics is ofcourse things that negatively effect peoples lives. 
    person A things of a good moral idea but that good moral idea despite being well thinking is bad for person B and ruins that guys life, and person A cant understand that and thus politics causes rifts between people wanting to make changes and people who those changes harm, and neither side can never understand but just knows what the other guy wants is bad for them and needs confrontation to prevent any such ideas.