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<div>DENIED benefits and entered APPEALS process. Possibly another year of this.
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<div>Almost two years unemployed and over a year of disability benefits application process.
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<div>This is one of the most difficult things I have had to do. The shame and humiliation are physically painful to me, but I have to do it. <strong>I need help really badly right now and I hope you can be there for me.</strong>
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<div>I am Rio. I was born with a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition that negatively affects my ability to do life. I didn’t even know I had it until a few years ago when a doctor told me during an evaluation for ADHD, which, by the way, I also have. In the past year, it has become very debilitating and makes it impossible for me to do simple tasks, chores, and even socialize very well. I can’t work anymore and that’s why earlier this year I applied for disability with Social Security.
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<div>In February 2025, I applied for disability and on January 2026, I have a medical evaluation. I have not been able to work since April 2024 and I have now exhausted all of my savings and investments. My executive dysfunction is in full swing and I am stuck like a beached whale.
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<div><strong>Please help me if you can.</strong>
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<div><strong>Update:</strong>
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<div>Thanks to all who donated and/or shared I was able to catch up on November and most of December. It all went to paying bills and groceries. I didn’t spend any money on anything else.
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<div>please share with others so that I can catch up December and go on with January.
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<div>Thanks again!
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