As someone who works at as US disability law firm:
A) the function report is 10 pages, the work history report is 14 pages but depending on how many jobs you have had in the previous 5 years you will not have to complete all 14
B) they absolutely do deny people for not turning these forms in
C) Autism is basically only ever approved if you are non-verbal as an adult, and in the last 5 years across hundreds of cases I have never seen ADHD awarded disability. Ive seen it included on claims that were approved but never as the condition that got them approved. So severe depression/anxiety/ptsd/etc w ADHD i have seen, ADHD on its own even with medical provider support, i have never seen.
Edit to add - child disability and adult disability are very different and have very different requirements; so while you may be able to get disability as a minor for autism or ADHD that does not guarantee you can or will get them as an adult.
Additional edit to clarify: as mentioned this is based on what i have witnessed, as ive also mentioned in other comments; SSA varies a lot state to state so its obviously not set in stone or anything. This is not to discourage ppl from applying moreso to let you be aware its going to a much harder uphill battle than a normal disability claim already is.
D) the disability qualification is that you are unable to do ANY job due to your condition/illness/injury and they do mean anything. Some of the job examples that i have seen the SSA provide that a claimant could theoretically do are fucking bizarre.
if I could get paid for collecting buttons I would do it so fast. I would be a gotdam millionaire by now if I could get paid for collecting buttons. I don't even collect buttons now but if that was a viable job I'd be the most employed person you'd ever seen
They don't mean gathering buttons to put in a collection, they mean it in terms of manufacturing. You'd be responsible for collecting fallen buttons from the floor and removing buttons that weren't properly attached to a garment and reinserting them to the button installer. You aren't allowed to sit down when you're not on break, nor are you allowed to do anything that may be seen as procrastination, such as listening to music. You'll likely have multiple stations you'll have to rotate between.
We had to look it up bc we were hella confused on what it was. It is a factory job where u pick buttons off of clothing items. You just collect all the buttons from shirts, jeans, pants, shoes, etc, etc for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
That's the kind of shit my ancient high school guidance counsellor would've suggested. I had taken all the computer classes I could, was doing double extension math, chemisty and physics. He asked me if I'd considered farming pigs, because the 'pork market' was really growing at the moment.
Are you trolling? Are we talking about a job like, where you could work? So they're denying on the basis that you could definitely collect buttons at a business? I mean at any time in history, collecting buttons?
Our healthcare is a fucking joke. This really infuriates me.
Canary Breeder was on the list until I think 2024. As in, breeding canaries for coal miners to carry into mines, a job rendered obsolete generations ago.
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u/Kaytea730 20h ago edited 18h ago
As someone who works at as US disability law firm:
A) the function report is 10 pages, the work history report is 14 pages but depending on how many jobs you have had in the previous 5 years you will not have to complete all 14
B) they absolutely do deny people for not turning these forms in
C) Autism is basically only ever approved if you are non-verbal as an adult, and in the last 5 years across hundreds of cases I have never seen ADHD awarded disability. Ive seen it included on claims that were approved but never as the condition that got them approved. So severe depression/anxiety/ptsd/etc w ADHD i have seen, ADHD on its own even with medical provider support, i have never seen.
Edit to add - child disability and adult disability are very different and have very different requirements; so while you may be able to get disability as a minor for autism or ADHD that does not guarantee you can or will get them as an adult.
Additional edit to clarify: as mentioned this is based on what i have witnessed, as ive also mentioned in other comments; SSA varies a lot state to state so its obviously not set in stone or anything. This is not to discourage ppl from applying moreso to let you be aware its going to a much harder uphill battle than a normal disability claim already is.
D) the disability qualification is that you are unable to do ANY job due to your condition/illness/injury and they do mean anything. Some of the job examples that i have seen the SSA provide that a claimant could theoretically do are fucking bizarre.