(no subject)

[sabremeister]

I got a honking huge brown envelope today (which is just the sort of thing one wants on the morning before you go on holiday). It contained the full text of the quack's report that prompted the suspension of my ESA. It's a copy of all the material that is being used at the appeal tribunal, for which we still don't have a hearing date, and another copy has one to the person acting for me in this matter. What the by-the-numbers checklist report basically says, is that since I was not gibbering and climbing the walls or catatonic during the 20 minutes the so-called examination took, I am perfectly societally functional, and can go to work anywhere, anywhen. Just because they haven't seen me stressing out when I miss a train connection, or the reaction caused due to having to fill in one of their vast byzantine and repetitive forms. Now, the important thing to remember is that when I got the original letter saying my ESA was stopped, they said they didn't take into account any information from psychiatrists and mental health specialists. They saw the by-the-numbers report and decided that they didn't need to look at information from someone who knew what they were talking about. And they seem to be saying that the basis of my appeal is not that they didn't base their decision on all relevant information available to them, but that I have been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. Well, duh! I have been diagnosed with Asperger's, therefore I am applying for ESA. Not, "I am applying for ESA, and have somehow failed a bureaucratic test so therefore am giving you another bit of information."

Comments

[rgemini.livejournal.com]

Nil illegitimum carborundum mate. Nil illegitimum carborundum.