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Useless Human

TheCatWoman

I feel really terrible, I tried to buy a birthday present for a friend, the website refused to accept my card because it said I'd pressed the wrong thing and that it's not a visa debit card which it is, so that was a fail.

Then I went to switch our power company, filled in all the forms, it was returned with stars saying that none of the fields were correct.

I give up, I feel totally useless and defeated and worthless. How does everyone else manage when it seems I can't even fill in a form correctly and get my name, address and date of birth wrong, it's not, but the form won't have it.

Parents

  • You’re not useless, remember the dsm-5 states that autistic people require support. When I was at school, personal computers hadn’t been invented, the same as you, I’ve had to teach myself, it has varied success!

    You mentioned in a previous post that you left school with no qualifications, you went on to get a degree, that’s definitely not being useless, that’s a massive success.

    Online forms require filling out in an exact way, some will require a space in the middle of a postcode, some don’t. The payment area has a different box for Visa debit and credit, it’s very easy to get it wrong. Sometimes I just walk away and try again later.

    I’ve moved my energy supply to Octopus, they do actually answer a phone with no robots and the staff are in the UK, I don’t like phones but they somehow make it easier.

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  • You’re not useless, remember the dsm-5 states that autistic people require support. When I was at school, personal computers hadn’t been invented, the same as you, I’ve had to teach myself, it has varied success!

    You mentioned in a previous post that you left school with no qualifications, you went on to get a degree, that’s definitely not being useless, that’s a massive success.

    Online forms require filling out in an exact way, some will require a space in the middle of a postcode, some don’t. The payment area has a different box for Visa debit and credit, it’s very easy to get it wrong. Sometimes I just walk away and try again later.

    I’ve moved my energy supply to Octopus, they do actually answer a phone with no robots and the staff are in the UK, I don’t like phones but they somehow make it easier.

Children
  • in reply to Roy

    I'm moving away from octopus, they may have people answering phones, and they make all the right noises and nothing changes. Their answer to everything is to send them a photo, I keep telling them I have no way of doing that which seems to make thier brains fizzle out, they can't get their heads around the idea that I don't have herds of people on tap to do things for me and they seem to have no alternatives to photos and other digital solutions. After it taking over a year to sort out a bill of 5k after a new meter was installed and the installer didn't register it, I still get the odd bill for that amount, because somebody hasn't read the file properly. I also think they're now underbilling us and we're building up a debt. They maybe the cheapest and the so called best, but not for me, I don't need this amount of hassle, nor do I need to be told I have to have a smart meter, get emails saying my old meter is getting past it's date and not telling me they want to install a smart meter and then giving me no other option. The materials our house is built from do not conduct wireless signals well and every device has to have a booster, the hub has a booster, the boiler and thermostat have one, we have a booster in the kitchen so as we can get wi-fi in the garage, out tv humax box has to be connected by a cable or we get no signal. I've explained all of this multiple times, they accept that a smart meter would be a problem in a house like ours, but they still don't get it. I'm sure I can't be the only one who's house is built from materials that don't conduct well.