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Benefits: how do you get them?

Laddo

I have been working on and off since I was 17 and in the past couple of years I have come to realise I simply cannot do it without proper support. The trouble is, due to the way my mother has treated me and my Aspergers and how she refused to help me understand my condition better, I have gone through much of my life pretending to myself and others that I don't have an ASD. I know I need help, but I find it so difficult to talk about my Aspergers as I have been raised in such a way that has made me ashamed of who I am.

Anyway, I think I could really do with some benefits. I know as someone with an ASD I am entitled to certain benefits, but was wondering just how you can actually get them. I would just ask at my local Jobcentre, but the majority of the staff there do not seem as if they would be sensitive or understanding of my condition. They are, after all, trained to get people off benefits through any means necessary as opposed to actively helping get people into work.

Does anyone have any tips on how to get the support I need from DWP? Also any tips on better recognition of my condition from GPs would be great

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  • See I had never even heard of PIP until now! I've trawled the DWP's website time and time again and the information there is so scattered it's hard to make heads or tails of it. So from the sound of things, it doesn't look too good for the time being. 

    I know from experience that the wording on the forms for ESA is terrible and very inefficient. This has mostly been what the thing that has put me off trying to get ESA. I also fear I will have a struggle getting a doctor's note - many doctors don't understand that being one being "high-functioning" does not mean that one needs zero help. Anyone got any tips for doctor's notes?

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  • See I had never even heard of PIP until now! I've trawled the DWP's website time and time again and the information there is so scattered it's hard to make heads or tails of it. So from the sound of things, it doesn't look too good for the time being. 

    I know from experience that the wording on the forms for ESA is terrible and very inefficient. This has mostly been what the thing that has put me off trying to get ESA. I also fear I will have a struggle getting a doctor's note - many doctors don't understand that being one being "high-functioning" does not mean that one needs zero help. Anyone got any tips for doctor's notes?

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