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Old 11-25-2010
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Originally Posted by Mr.Scott View Post
While I do realize this is supposed to be a joke, some of the info is not exactly true.

ADD in not considered a disability, and SSI won't pay anything for it. As a matter of fact, my youngest son is Autistic, and that's not even classified as a disability in NYS, so he gets no SSI. My wife, who has been declared legally blind, also gets nothing from SSI because I have a job and supposedly make too much money. This state is fucked.
I do agree though, life was much simpler when I was a kid.
ADD, ODD, ADHD, Autism, are all potentially serious and difficult life altering conditions. Why in the world would they not recognize it as a disability? I just had a case with a young boy 9yrs, and his ODD is incomprehensible. The child literally cannot help himself from being oppositional to anything you say, its a sad thing. Then of course the parents, who started off in life as normal people, are losing their minds trying to care for this child who occasionally throws fits like he's possessed by Beelzeebub himself.

I don't wanna get into politics but I'd support anything that will help these kids/adults out of my pocket. Until you've experienced it first hand, you have no idea the difficult lives these people lead.
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