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Dear Kathy From my experience and from the collected wisdom i have received from this list (and i received my first ssi check on Friday!) get someone who knows you very well, and whom you can trust implicitly to fill out the form with you. You will tend to give yourself the benefit of the doubt, whereas your advisor will be more objective. ONe always tends to want to believe the best of oneself - when the producer of the lehrer hour called me to tell me they waere going to rebroadcast the segment with me , she asked how i was doing . FIne i said. ANd so th ey announced "ms Blue's condition has not changed". My friend Anne, who had helped me with my ssi forms said: no way. WHen I look at you now compared with when they made that video - your posture has deteriorated and you look much worse' NOt pleasant to hear - but the truth. But given a form to fill in, I would have answered - fine. So the main thing is to be honest, but not to pull any punches. ANd check the archives for the paper i wrote and Janet Peterson edited on "16 reasons why i am disabled" - it was published around June 25th.ANd if you have any more questions feel free to contact me off list. hilary blue (50,26,17) Sherilyn Sherry wrote: > > There is a form relating to mental disability that sounds like what you'r talking about. they told me i did not need to fill that out. (i've heard they pretty routinely deny the first request - they denied mine) > -----Original Message----- > From: Cathy Morse <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Friday, October 01, 1999 3:31 PM > Subject: list -- Please help nedd SSA advise > > > Dear LIST MEMBERS, > > I am in the process of applying for disability benefits in the US My > application was submitted. Now I have received from SSA a questionnaire > asking all sorts of questions about how I spend my day. This one looks > like a minefield to me. If any one who has been through this process > and can give me advise and/or anything to avoid, I would greatly > appreciate the information. I plan to fill this form this weekend. > > thank you, > Cathy