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Is there a way to make money as someone with autism? (piefed.zip)
submitted 17 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 0 points 11 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