I have a meeting with social services on Friday to address the 'issues' arising from a very unsucessful meeting last week. My application for home help was rejected and other, cheaper, services pushed onto me. I felt that the social worker made this decision based on being completely ignorant of autism and somewhat discriminatory in her attitude.
My occupational therapist and advocate from the specialist autism team at the hospital spoke to her afterwards and agree with me, that she she just doesn't get it. They are both coming to this meeting on Friday to try and get her to understand and if not, to file a complaint and take it further. They told me to write down all the things she said that upset me so that I don't get flustered and forget on the day.
I've written down most of them but there's one thing she said that made me feel like shit but I don't know if it's genuinely out of order to say it, or whether by this point anything she said would have upset me. She told me that one of the reasons I couldn't get the help I needed from them was that my husband and daughter (18) have a responsibility to help and support me and then added 'because this is how we do things in Sweden'. I felt like she was making out that we don't care for each other properly because we're foreigners.
Should I add this to my list of issues?
Disclaimer: I haven't included a lot of what was said and other info because then my post would be a mile long.
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Was this comment from a social worker out of order?
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TheUnMember · 28/05/2012 11:51
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