User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/Some feed back/@comment-12515537-20151130024404/@comment-53539-20151130162958

^I spoke to the Job Centre last Thursday. Right now I'm technically classified as a mental health concern due to my depression and my anxiety. The Job Centre currently is being "nice" to people in my position since it came out this year 80 unemployed people die a month from negative results linked to the Job Centre. There is this thing called "P.I.P" that disabled and mentally concerned people can apply for. The 80 people dying a month are related to things like suicide, since once PIP is denied they loose faith.

I'm not that bad, but because I'm now registered as Dyslexic, its given me some position to work with. Sadly, my mother is carrying a gene which makes her kids think differently to many and 3 out of her 4 kids have something about them like Dyslexia with my youngest half-brother being borderline a dozen mental problems. Usually I'm alright, but every so often I panic because I have the idea but I can't quite work it out. They think I'm more likely Asperger, but this is a little bit of a problem to test. The fact when I do something I can become very focused and block out everything around me is the reason they believe there is more under the surface then dyslexia. I'm none the wiser.

It took me 8 years to get that registered... Even though Asperger's is more serious and would give me more weight when tackling things like Jobs and the Job centre... I've fought for 8 years over what I got. My father didn't like the idea there may be something wrong with his kids and was old fashioned. So he thought if you could not read and write your stupid... When there is more to Dyslexia then that. I can read and write... Therefore I was not dyslexic according to his logic... And I was blackmailed into not registering (yeah... no surprise there). Hence the 8 year fight.

So there is a lot of things I need to sort out here. The job centre told me to take 1 step at a time and not to jump into a job or I'll be overwhelmed So... I'm looking at a couple hours a week just to build up my confidence and all of this.

The job centre told me to wait a few years and try again ffor art, in the meanwhile casually keep the skills up while I find something else. So they said a little of whats already said here at this point I can't really so I've not had the best advice forward... :-/