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PIP for high functioning autism’s

NAS76530

I just wonder if anyone has had an success applying and being rewarded for PIP for high functioning autism 

I suffer from anxiety which makes it very difficult going to shops and especially going to places I don’t know or involve travelling through busy places 

Dont even get me started the difficulties I have with dentist , hairdresser, GP appointments , etc .

I could be here all night explain how hard life can be with anxiety and autism- but I wonder if it’s enough to be rewarded pip 

But I do work , single mum and studying towards a degree with OU 

tomorrow I have a phone assessment and I starting to wonder if it a mistake going down this route applying for PIP 

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  • Thanks for this question and the replies, I too am stressing out about this, as just started the process, and though I probably have so much past proof of MH stuff etc I am not sure I have super recent stuff, but only as I cant be bothered talking to my doctor about things that are just 'life things' now (why would I tell my doctor I don't go out on my own, I am ok if my partner or parents are with me so what would they do about it, or if I can't really eat on my own or make decisions or forget to take meds, doctors have enough to deal with, this stuff sounds boring!)

  • in reply to Starfox

    bring your parents 100% .... make it look like your parents control every decision of your life and you are dependant on them still, that should get you some points as its generally the thing they looking for and the thing that shows you cannot really stand on your own feet lol

  • in reply to Caelus

    tbh I might have to anyway, as I don't know where the assessment thing might be and so I don't know if I could get there without them taking me lol! plus I don't want to have to ask my partner to take time off his work to come with me (as he will already have to help with the form - I don't have it yet but I am stressed already thinking about it hahah!) My Dad only recently told me that when I got this house with my partner that they were prepared for me to have to move back with them?! (This was before the Autism diagnosis too lol, I had just moved into my new house, was having constant panic attacks for about 3 weeks, had to keep going back to stay with my parents, couldn't eat or sleep as everything felt wrong, yet my parents were like 'yeah we didn't know if you would manage it' -- could have told me before hand, I signed up for a mortgage already?!!)

  • in reply to NAS83237

    I found out on Friday that they are doing a paper based one without me asking anyway, so have requested the report and will just wait for it to come in the post

  • in reply to Caelus

    Yeah I know what you mean. I was in a shared accommodation in a YMCA for a while and even the fact that other residents were several years younger than me; the compressed, hermit-mode anxiety was almost beyond my ability to cope.. almost.. evidently.. 
    Nobody quite considers the impact of obnoxiousness against socially-sensitive, sensory-sensitive people; they don’t consider the strain on a person who internalises stress for fear of being a target and braces for the worst for their revision of traumas in the past. 

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  • in reply to Caelus

    Yeah I know what you mean. I was in a shared accommodation in a YMCA for a while and even the fact that other residents were several years younger than me; the compressed, hermit-mode anxiety was almost beyond my ability to cope.. almost.. evidently.. 
    Nobody quite considers the impact of obnoxiousness against socially-sensitive, sensory-sensitive people; they don’t consider the strain on a person who internalises stress for fear of being a target and braces for the worst for their revision of traumas in the past. 

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