Single mail in early 50s, was born almost blind and diagnosed with Autism during pre-school years, though this improved over my life, after 38 years have come out about my sexual assaults at high school. While in year 7 during 1983, pack of a few dozen kids sexually assaulted me. From this point, I started showering immediately after school, and though I felt physically clean, I washed, and washed, and washed, as I felt mentally dirty. This overtime grew into a OCD of cleaning which I'm still dealing with today. There was a brief period in the twenty naughties when it went way down, and I had a relatively normal lower stress life.
With my autism and visual impairment, I'm trying to get the things that heavily suppressed the OCD in the 00s, but though family was initially sympathetic about me coming out about the high school sexual assaults, I'm detecting a phase change. Wile staying with mother during last few days, I'm detecting a sense of psychological pushback from both family (well, they have to help many, and they don't have the funds). Uncle makes callous comment about me working in coal mine when washing hands. And as far as NDIS, Officers hanging up mid call when making enquiries regarding my application.
After about a year of mucking around, I'd finally been granted access to the scheme in late March. Planning meeting with LAC, was helpful and friendly, but staff at 1800 number were obnoxious. I didn't notice at first, but my mother overheard the conversation, and noticed before she hung up that she was playing the "go slow" attitude, as the deadlines for approval became longer and longer during the call (this was personal). Toward the end, I may have said something like, "I'm not sure how those who make the decisions, having no idea what it's like to be sexually assaulted are responsible) I didn't explicitly say it, but I was getting frustrated with the "we're playing god" with you life attitude.
I'm needing someone to advocate for me to the NDIS about my PTSD and Autism. PWD's got a lady in the local area, but (respectfully) she's not familiar with my issues and can't assist me much. I just don't have the mental and emotional energy to push this fight anymore.
