what qualifies you as being disabled?

DX2

Breast_Cancer_Survivor wrote: »

I'm hoping to be able to prove her wrong.

I'm feeling really stressed & low at the moment so i'd probably believe anything anyone said.

You worked before you were diagnosed, if my memory serves me correctly. So why now after a diagnosis will you not be able to work?

Savvy_Sue

_shel wrote: »

Some conditions, such as a tendency to set fires and hay fever, are specifically excluded.

Seriously, being an arsonist is specifically included from the DDA? Where IS the confused smiley when you need it ...

Breast_Cancer_Survivor wrote: »

I was gutted, I honestly thought that I would be able to overcome my difficulties but my GP doesn't think I will as her brother has Asperger's so she has alot of experience.

IMO, your GP is talking through her posterior.

Unless she has experience of LOTS of people with Asperger's who find roughly the same things difficult as you do, she knows next to nothing about Asperger's.

Her brother's capabilities have about as much relevance to you as your experience of surviving breast cancer does to him ... again IMO!

And plenty of people couldn't work full-time (I couldn't go back to it, and that's for reasons completely unconnected with disability or Asperger's), or in a factory / warehouse environment (ditto).

Who knows what the future holds for you? Your GP sure don't ...

Savvy_Sue

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

I tried to hail an ambulance once, thought it was a Dunblane bus.

That's where having big red London buses was an advantage ...

Indie_Kid

Breast_Cancer_Survivor wrote: »

You are constantly told what you can't won't be able to do & in the end you believe them.

I' surprised they ay things like to you - unless there's a reason why legally you couldn't do something. I've been told that I'm not allowed to drive due to not being able to read the number plate. I have never been told anything else I can't do. I've just been told "if you ride a bike, watch out for the buses!"

my GP doesn't think I will as her brother has Asperger's so she has alot of experience.

Disabilities are differnt for everyone. A friend of mine has Aspergers and works full-time.

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cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Exactly. I'm no expert on this but I'm sure the act was intended to ensure that anyone who needed help in the workplace to carry out normal employment got?? That might be the need for a swivel chair. It might be the understanding that occaisionaly the person would be late or miss work, or even that certain lifting tasks were beyond the person concerned. Doesn't cost a fortune, the individual is ussually willing to make time up etc.

Here's the example. From the company I worked for for 38 years.

A person could be sacked for taking 6 days sick in 2 years.

It went something like this;

At the 3rd individual (self cert or doctor note) absence the individual was councilled/cautioned.

The next time it would be a verbal warning.

The next time it was a final verbal warning

One more and it was written notice of termination

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

How can anyone with a serious health problem fight such barbaric company rules without the aid of the disabled tag.

PS.

I've told this tale to many people when I was at work at various seminars and courses, they found it hard to belive, but I can scan the company handbook for anyone that doesn't think I'm being serious.

This is so true and where I do 'use' the law to my advantage. We have the same policy, 3 sick days within a specified period leads to enquiry which can lead to dismissal.

Crikey I cant choose not to have a seizure becuse I was off 3 days ago after having some and it would start the process of dismissal if I did!

krisskross

Breast_Cancer_Survivor wrote: »

My GP told me today that maybe in 5 years time I might be able to get a little part time job doing something that i'm interested in but that i'll never be able to work full time or in a factory/warehouse environment.

Didn't think GPs did fortune telling. So what did she suggest you needed to do in the intervening 5 years that would then equip you to work?

Breast_Cancer_Survivor

DX2 wrote: »

You worked before you were diagnosed, if my memory serves me correctly. So why now after a diagnosis will you not be able to work?

I didn't know I had asperger's until I was diagnosed at 33 after suffering from depression/anxiety for 8 years.

My OT says that I managed the role of being a worker before I had kids & I managed the role of partner & mother ok too.

Trying to juggle being a mother/partner/worker was too much for me as I spread myself too thinly which is what initially triggered my depression/anxiety leading to my first breakdown in 1998.

I had another breakdown in 2005 which resulted in me having to give up my job, another one in 2007 when I first tried to overdose & another one last year when I tried to cut my wrists.

Everyone copes differently but the fact is that alot of people with aspergers can't work full time & my history proves that working full time damages my mental health.

Breast_Cancer_Survivor

sh1305 wrote: »

I' surprised they ay things like to you - unless there's a reason why legally you couldn't do something. I've been told that I'm not allowed to drive due to not being able to read the number plate. I have never been told anything else I can't do. I've just been told "if you ride a bike, watch out for the buses!"



Disabilities are differnt for everyone. A friend of mine has Aspergers and works full-time.

She has been my GP for 20 years now so knows me quite well & has seen how my mental health has deteriorated when i've been in full time employment.

pipkin71

Breast_Cancer_Survivor wrote: »

She has been my GP for 20 years now so knows me quite well & has seen how my mental health has deteriorated when i've been in full time employment.

I am really surprised she has suggested you can't think of returning to work for another five years, BCS.

For starters, you haven't tried all available medication for depression and so you could recover in three months time if you had the appropriate prescription.

Why 5 years? Why not 10 years? How can she be so specific?

The fact her brother has Aspergers, is neither here nor there. Having Aspergers doesn't prevent someone from working full time and many do just that.

Giving you a time scale of five years really won't do you any good, either, and can have an extremely negative effect on your mental health, particularly as you seem to have taken her word and feel you can't return to work for five years.

pipkin71

Breast_Cancer_Survivor wrote: »

She has been my GP for 20 years now so knows me quite well & has seen how my mental health has deteriorated when i've been in full time employment.

Were you working in 2007 and 2009?