10 year olds more likely to be on disability benefits than 50 year olds

[AgeingMillennial]

AIBU to think this is absolutely baffling? And at some point we really have to investigate why so many young children are non verbal, have severe emotional regulation problems etc?

Anecdotally I know of three children who's parents have lied/greatly exaggerated their children's supposed ailments/disabilities to get DLA. I'll be shot down for even saying it because obviously it can't possibly happen because the government say it doesn't. But they brag about it quite blatantly. They badgered doctors, lied to doctors and other people to provide the evidence they needed.

Again, people will try and say this doesn't happen but it's much more prevalent than people would like to believe.

How are they getting the evidence to back up their lies ?

And everyone they badgered just went along with it ?

Medicine keeps us alive but doesn’t keep us healthy and able.

I think a lot of the time it does. That's why there are less severely disabled 50 year olds than severely disabled 10 year olds. There are plenty of illnesses people acquire as twenagers/adults that would have led to severe disability in the past but which are treatable now. Plus less adults suffering the long term effects of polio.
There are other cases where it doesn't, but I would rephrase that as Medicine keeps us alive but doesn’t necessarily keep us healthy and able.

Also the birth control hormones in the water is a bit of a red herring. People focus on that but far more is released into the water supply as a result of other factors -cattle farming for instance, industrial run-off, microsplastics themselves.

I find it hard to believe that multiple medical professionals would risk their careers simply because they were badgered by parents.

No, they badgered them until one did what they wanted.

As I said people will jump on me and you can all disbelieve it if you want. Stay naive.

Presumably you reported to DWP? And social services - faking illness in your children and forcing treatment on them that they don't need is abusive and criminal.

The disabilities have changed.

Down’s is now tested for before birth and terminations for medical reasons are fairly normal. There are far, far fewer Down’s children around than there used to be.

now the most prevalent disabilities are those that cannot be tested for before birth. Or those caused at birth.

No there are actually much more

No, there is not.

https://righttolife.org.uk/news/downs-syndrome-births-down-half-uk

Why are you bothered other than for rage bait? Most will need it. I am going to have pay over £100 for a seat harness to stop my autistic son getting out of his seat.

Because it’s a matter of public spending? And the logical implication that over 10% of 10 year olds are so disabled they need benefits is very worrying for the future?

I know 2 people with children who have Down Syndrome. One declined screening, the other screened but had a surprise birth diagnosis.

I think I read somewhere that 90% of people with a diagnosis in pregnancy choose to terminate

Yes but why the change? Why weren’t there many disabilities before that couldn’t be tested before birth in addition to the things we do test for now? There should be a decrease not an increase.

I think our lifestyles are utterly toxic and that will of course knock on to developing embryos. I definitely think the sort of severe autism we see now will be exposed as something caused by environmental factors. I don’t believe it’s entirely genetic

They didn’t say that, they said parents exaggerating their child symptoms

Or as a child. My son was born healthy and became disabled at 8.

The problem is it's extremely hard to prove that a parent is exaggerating/faking things because a huge amount of medical consultations are listening to the patient (or parent in this case) and doctors will believe what the parent is saying for the most part. So things like "major sleep disturbance" can be put on that child's record without anyone but the parent ever witnessing it.

So that is a no then?

No I didn't. Because I have no evidence other than "they told me they lied"

Ignorant comment. My severely autistic non verbal son has zero interest in screens, does not and has not ever sat and watched one for more than a minute in his 11 years of life. I have days where I wish he was just sit and watch something and give me five minutes of peace.
He has a genetically inherited over proliferation of neurons, called autism. Do some research before you write judgemental spiteful comments.

If a child is experiencing major sleep disturbance and attends school then it should be noticeable such as falling to sleep in class, irritable, yawning etc and there is a section in DLA forms for schools.

You can exaggerate all you want but you srill need robust evidence far more than a Doctors letter saying " mum reports"

Quite a lot of medical professionals actually don’t give a fuck what “mum reports.”

We presented at A&E three times with our son, waited over 4hrs with a distressed child on each occasion, only to be sent away having been told he didn’t have new symptoms, he had behaviour problems. One of them actually told me to take him home, ignore the behaviour, and he’d stop.

Turned out he did in fact have a new medical issue, and I wasn’t wrong. Found by a paediatrician at the same hospital nearly 6 months later.

The reason things like Martha’s Law and Oliver McGowan training exist isn’t because doctors listen to neurotic parents demanding unwarranted diagnoses. It’s because they fucking ignore us.

Yep.

The reason my son is disabled is actually because a surgical registrar ignored my concerns which delayed the surgery he desperately needed. This was before Martha's Law but what happened to Martha is very similar to what happened to my son except he luckily survived.