Published on 12, July, 2020
I really must vent, today I received my PIP decision.
I request a telephone assessment due to some of my perhaps shared autistic traits, in the assessment I divulged the most intimate aspects of my life, how my Autism effects my life in the most detrimental way.
I explained about my Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and my overwhelming anxiety and stress that damages my health and life in general.
I must say this assessment left me feeling very vulnerable, something I rarely admit to being, I have spent my adult life coping as best I can mimicking NT life and accepted norms to the best of my abilities.
Being at the age I am now it is detrimental to my health and well-being to continue as I have, which quite honestly dispite my best efforts has left me penniless and dependent.
So I plucked up the courage for the second time and request a personal independence Payment from the DWP.
The letter I received from the DWP today left me shaking with rage not just because I was rejected but for how they rejected me.
In the most intentional way, what I had communicated had been ignored or twisted.
With a grand total of 2 points for the entire assessment, I truly feel dehumanised and dismissed by the whole thing.
The trick is to idea-deflect. NEVER mention good days, always focus on the bad.
Or if you do mention a good day, be honest about the circumstantial/temporary/chaotic nature, of the components of that day.. and how it isn’t reasonable to rely on those kinds of conditions in your daily living..
For example your extractor fan got fixed, not because you called the workman, but because ‘the workman was called around for an annual check-up requested by the landlord and he happened to notice it was broken and he fixed it’ so that was good!’, it took 11 months and 29 days to get it fixed though, but it was a good day..