I want to cut to the chase and keep this topic pure and coherently simple.
After yo-yo-ing from job to job in the past 5 years (I am 21), working no more than 2 month a job, and desperately and painfully looking for a job for at least 4-6 months in between (getting rejected from interview to interview), getting a little taste of the dge of the iceberg, and what stress and pain awaits for me for the rest of my life, I am ready to throw down the gaunlet an end to the constant, upward struggle in life. I can do 2 things at this point of life...I can keep fighting a constant, never ending uphill battle for the rest of my life, or alternatively, I can use my hearing loss to my advantage, and get money for it, since it severely restricts me to work.
I went to the social security office today and scheduled an appointment for SSDI (Social security Disability income) and will have 1 appointment coming up in 2 weeks.
I will bring my medical records to show them that I am hearing impaired in severity.
A few questions to ask you locals:
Right now at the moment, I am holding a full time job at a minimum wage factory. I know I cant apply for SSDI while holding a full time job, but if I bid to the company for a part time shift, then that would not raise any flags to SSDI when I apply when I have the part time job and make no more than 900 dollars a month will it? Will SS suspiciously ask me why am I working when I file for SSDI...they may take it wrongly and think that I am trying to take advantage of them and can really work.
Some of you at this point will probably say..."Hey kiddo, you are working a full time job now, you don't need SSDI, dont be lazy!"
And I say...
Wrong...working in this factory (that forces me to use the little hearing I have in order to get the job done), has pushed my mental and physical limits beyond the limits to the point that I will suffer panic attacks and major nervous breakdowns, when I would lock myself in the bathroom and smash my head against the wall in anger and yell at myself for being so low in life.
I truly feel that I cannot work at any job, as I did in the past, without getting extremly stressed out because the work demands that I need to hear in order to objectively complete the tasks (bells for carts to load stuff, shouts to switch working poisitions, etc).
I am ready to throw down the gaunlet and attempt to go back to college if I can get a flow of SSDI checks coming in. Would my plan for going back to college increase my chances with getting SSDI?
Now...I need to know what are my chances of getting approval for SSDI.
Is it hard for deaf people to get this, even with medical records showing that they are disabled?
What if I get a hearing dog, because my "hearing aids" dont do much in helping me, and I need the dog to help me? If I get a hearing Dog, then surely I cant work, especially in a warehouse, with a dog by my side!
So that would. technically and legally, therefore make me unable to work wouldnt it?
I just need advices from the people who have done this and got SSDI because of their disability. It's time that I take ADVANTAGE of my deafness for once, instead of trying to fight it all of the time.
Thanks all in advance.
After yo-yo-ing from job to job in the past 5 years (I am 21), working no more than 2 month a job, and desperately and painfully looking for a job for at least 4-6 months in between (getting rejected from interview to interview), getting a little taste of the dge of the iceberg, and what stress and pain awaits for me for the rest of my life, I am ready to throw down the gaunlet an end to the constant, upward struggle in life. I can do 2 things at this point of life...I can keep fighting a constant, never ending uphill battle for the rest of my life, or alternatively, I can use my hearing loss to my advantage, and get money for it, since it severely restricts me to work.
I went to the social security office today and scheduled an appointment for SSDI (Social security Disability income) and will have 1 appointment coming up in 2 weeks.
I will bring my medical records to show them that I am hearing impaired in severity.
A few questions to ask you locals:
Right now at the moment, I am holding a full time job at a minimum wage factory. I know I cant apply for SSDI while holding a full time job, but if I bid to the company for a part time shift, then that would not raise any flags to SSDI when I apply when I have the part time job and make no more than 900 dollars a month will it? Will SS suspiciously ask me why am I working when I file for SSDI...they may take it wrongly and think that I am trying to take advantage of them and can really work.
Some of you at this point will probably say..."Hey kiddo, you are working a full time job now, you don't need SSDI, dont be lazy!"
And I say...
Wrong...working in this factory (that forces me to use the little hearing I have in order to get the job done), has pushed my mental and physical limits beyond the limits to the point that I will suffer panic attacks and major nervous breakdowns, when I would lock myself in the bathroom and smash my head against the wall in anger and yell at myself for being so low in life.
I truly feel that I cannot work at any job, as I did in the past, without getting extremly stressed out because the work demands that I need to hear in order to objectively complete the tasks (bells for carts to load stuff, shouts to switch working poisitions, etc).
I am ready to throw down the gaunlet and attempt to go back to college if I can get a flow of SSDI checks coming in. Would my plan for going back to college increase my chances with getting SSDI?
Now...I need to know what are my chances of getting approval for SSDI.
Is it hard for deaf people to get this, even with medical records showing that they are disabled?
What if I get a hearing dog, because my "hearing aids" dont do much in helping me, and I need the dog to help me? If I get a hearing Dog, then surely I cant work, especially in a warehouse, with a dog by my side!
So that would. technically and legally, therefore make me unable to work wouldnt it?
I just need advices from the people who have done this and got SSDI because of their disability. It's time that I take ADVANTAGE of my deafness for once, instead of trying to fight it all of the time.
Thanks all in advance.
