Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello,
I have autism and can't tolerate having friends/socialising. I'm housebound and only go out very rarely, such as to get vaccinated. This has resulted in me having nobody to confirm my identity. I don't even have a social worker. I've never been to church as an adult, due to sensory overload and anxiety.
I have not been employed since my 20s, due to other severe disabilities. I don't know my current neighbours. I knew a neighbour who lives near my mother, but I haven't seen her for over a decade. I would not be able to ask her. My mother still knows her, but refuses to ask her or help me. I did know fellow home education parents, but none of them worked. Passport rules disqualified them from vouching for me.
I was born in UK and have lived here for 41 years. But I've never had a passport. I'm unable to open the bank account of my choice (with best interest rate) because I have no photo ID. And I feel trapped here. I've never been on holiday. I've never been able to take my 15 year old on any foreign day trip, to France etc.
Does anyone have any ideas please?
Thanks
Claire
Do you have any siblings who would have a friend or parent in law (so not directly related to you) who would sign the form and give their passport details. Can you find the courage to ask your neighbour or approach your GP receptionist to ask if they could sign it. Is their any agency worker or health visitor who could do this for you.
i had to ask a work colleague to sign my son’s passport as I moved area and didn’t know anybody. But if all else failed I was going to get the mother of my brothers wife to do it for me. Don’t over think this, there is no way of checking how many years someone has known you.
Neither of my brothers has been married or had a partner.
I had a 'floating support worker' for a few years, a decade ago. To help with relocating. And he helped me to get diagnosed with autism. I didn't know what it was prior. But I've had no other support worker. Several years ago I briefly had an advocate to help with a ESA benefit assessment home visit. But I never saw her again.
Before my daughter was even born children's social workers wouldn't stop harassing me and my daughter. It got so bad they were causing PTSD. They didn't stop the frequent visits and libel, until she was nearly 11 years old. But for the past 5 years they have been completely absent. Which is ironic. Not only did they exit when my daughter was of an age that she could demand they stop lying. They also left when we could've used the workers (who claimed to know us personally; even though we had never met most of them) to obtain a passport.