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Is there a way to make money as someone with autism? (piefed.zip)

submitted 20 hours ago by Grumpy404@piefed.zip to c/autism@lemmy.world

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Hey im a 20 year old living with parents, most of you possibly dident know this but i have autism and dyslexia.

Im not allowed to jet a real job because parents dont want me having one and i dont have any means of getting to a job. For some reason im hyperfocused on wanting to make money online and im not quite sure why that is? Ive tried things like surveys but soon found out there worse than slave labor.

I do have ssi but most of it has to go towards my parents, i also heard getting income effects ssi income.

Idk, what would you advise? yes i know i need a hobby aswell in-which i am trying to explore more hobbys.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 12 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

This is a widely ignorant comment considering OP explictly says they're on SSI...

Please stop trying to help with things you don't know about. I've worked in this field and have seen far too many people lose their benefits for years because they managed to earn less than a grand in a month before not being able to keep up and losing the job and benefits.

Once you get approved for Supplemental Security Income (SSI), if you start working, Social Security will reduce your benefits by subtracting part of your income from your disability check. But if you go over the SSI monthly income limit, the agency will terminate your benefits. In 2026, going over the limit means making more than $994 for an individual and $1,491 for a couple—after some special deductions.

So if you start a part-time job where you make $15 an hour and work 10 hours per week—for a total of $600 in monthly income—you won't stop receiving disability benefits. You will, however, see the amount of your SSI check reduced. If you're thinking about returning to work, it's important to understand how SSI benefit amounts are calculated before you can figure out specifically how many hours you can work and how much money you can make while still receiving SSI.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/how-much-can-you-work-while-receiving-ssi-disability-benefits.html

OP would at best, be working for free and is better off volunteering somewhere that needs volunteers and treats them as such instead of employees.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 6 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

I was just asking a question? In fact almost the exact question you answered? Your comment would just be constructive instead of rude without the first two sentences. Thanks for the info anyways.

Despite their best intentions they can't protect their child forever. They need to have an honest discussion together so op understands why, but I still feel it's reasonable to try and do something to grow themselves. It's not going to get easier as the family gets older and the parents eventually can no longer work themselves.

[+] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -7 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I was just asking a question?

I'm pretty sure you just don't understand how questions work...

But the answer to that one is "no, that is not all you were doing".

And I made another comment to OP, the more important part here is for you to understand if you don't know the answer but still want to comment, its honestly very easy to research to find out first. You could have just googled "working on SSI" and gained the same knowledge. Instead you blindly reinforced OP that they're right like an AI chatbot would.

That blind support without understanding is dangerous, but I don't think I'm going to be able to explain why in a way you can understand. I think you'll just continue to get upset someone said what you were doing is dangerous so you're just going to argue if it was intentional instead of thinking about the real problem: people you may harm if you continue acting like this.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Whether you're right or not is irrelevant if nobody listens to you because of your tone.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago

Which I did to OP...

Like I told the person spreading dangerous misinformation:

And I made another comment to OP, the more important part here is for you to understand if you don’t know the answer but still want to comment, its honestly very easy to research to find out first. You could have just googled “working on SSI” and gained the same knowledge. Instead you blindly reinforced OP that they’re right like an AI chatbot would.

That blind support without understanding is dangerous, but I don’t think I’m going to be able to explain why in a way you can understand. I think you’ll just continue to get upset someone said what you were doing is dangerous so you’re just going to argue if it was intentional instead of thinking about the real problem: people you may harm if you continue acting like this.

I don't expect that to work, but thats as much effort as I'm putting in