Published on 12, July, 2020
Is there anyone that can help me? I feel so alone and I feel no one is understanding my difficulties, I’m feeling low and helpless.
I have Aspergers, I also have depression, anxiety and fibromyalgia, two years ago after a long tiring battle the tribunal granted me enhanced rate daily living and standard rate motility, last year I was asked to complete a routine review, I had my face to face assessment in February which was awful the lady was so rude, the questions didn’t even make sense for my conditions, she was confusing me and I felt like she was trying to catch me out.
Two weeks ago I got my response I’ve lost all my mobility and I’ve been reduced to standard daily living, I’m so confused all my symptoms are the same the only thing that has changed is my increased medication, I take the following 187.5 mg vensir 45mg mirtazapine 1200mg gapapentin.
Ive asked for a reconsideration but I have to send more evidence, how can I do that I’ve sent all the evidence I have. I went to my gp Thursday to ask for his help, but the response I got made me feel even more useless , he said my sister has Aspergers and she has it worse than you! and he said just because you have Aspergers you can still lead a normal life, I felt so alone, like a fraud, I have no one to talk too, I have no one that understands me, please any help or support would be appreciated, I’ve tried phoning my local autism charity but they are always busy, I won’t leave a voicemail as I don’t answer my phone! So this is kinda my last resort.
Hi NAS37129
You may like to have a look at our website which includes many topics on benefits that you may find useful:
PIP: http://www.autism.org.uk/pip
Appeals and Reconsiderations: http://www.autism.org.uk/about/benefits-care/appeals.aspx
Making a complaint: http://www.autism.org.uk/about/benefits-care/letters-and-complaints.aspx
You may like to contact our Autism Helpline team who can give general autism information and advice, but please be aware that they are unable to offer specialist advice on benefits.
To contact the Helpline directly you may wish to call them on 0808 800 4104 (Monday to Thursday 10am to 4pm, Friday, 9am to 3pm). Please note the Helpline team are experiencing a high volume of calls so it could take you a few attempts to get through to an adviser.
Hope this helps,
Nicky-Mod