Help Nixie get the support she needs to survive.

Hello friends,

As many of you know, after a 2 year battle I am in my final appeal to get on AISH (Assured income for the severely handicapped). I need AISH because I am severely disabled with fibromyalgia, TMJ (temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction), IBS (inflamed/irritable bowel syndrome), chronic fatigue and migraines, insomnia/hypersomnia, borderline personality disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, post traumatic stress disorder and ADHD. Attaining this goal will allow me to survive, as the combination of my symptoms make it impossible to maintain a full time job in order to support myself. I have been in contact and have had limited working relationships with therapists, counsellors, psychiatrists, general practitioning doctors, physiotherapists, crisis workers, therapy groups, social workers and hospital outreach clinics over the past three years and none of these people/organizations have been able to furnish me with a coherent, cohesive and comprehensive timeline of my diagnoses, nor have any of them been able to provide me with detailed enough answers to my AISH questionnaire to satisfy the AISH office. This is partly because my illness doesn't allow me to fully access the long-term help I need in the form of creating lasting relationships with healthcare practitioners. It is also largely to do with the fact that each mental and physical health care providing organization that I have interacted with has sent me elsewhere to obtain the documentation I need for AISH approval. Each person has passed the responsibility of helping me onto someone else who in turn would not or could not help me. This has resulted in an attempt to cobble together a coherent timeline of my illnesses and struggles from a variety of sources, none of whom know me well personally. This leads me to my friends. All of you know me and the challenges I deal with on a daily basis. Many of you have stepped up at some point or another to help me with sometimes basic and sometimes urgent things, and I would again appreciate your help. What I need from you are testimonials. I need your perspectives on how you perceive and observe me and my life. The difficulties I have struggled to overcome and how hard I have tried to do so. I also need your votes. Please share stories of when you have helped me, or you have seen me struggle. Share moments of when you have worried for me, because I know many of you do and rightfully so. This is a non-conventional way of making my plea but I have always relied heavily on my friends to survive and this is no different, though it is of utmost importance. Please sign this petition to say that you believe I need AISH as a requirement for stable, functional living. If you cannot share a story, just say you believe me. Just a few words from each of my friends will hold so much weight. Please help advocate for me and help me tell my story so I can be a bit more independent. So I can work on building a more stable and comfortable life for myself.
I will be submitting this petition along with several letters, paperwork spanning back to my childhood, tests and various other documents on December 26th.
I love every single one of you dearly, thank you from the bottom of my heart for your continued support.