Can someone explain what to expect?
Hi, I'm autistic, and I would appreciate if someone could walk me through what to expect going to centerlink for the first time. Autism and anxiety are having a What If Everything is Covered In Bees!? fear of the unknown party in my brain
A friend of my mum's said she'd help and take me, but she's been sick and I feel like I'm a burden to keep waiting for her to be well enough to help me
Can someone walk me through what to expect?
Like, super basic, this then that then this. Will I have to speak to multiple people? One person at an open desk? or just forms first time and speak to a person later etc. Is it going to be worse if I cry because I will get overwhelmed and I don't know if I'll manage to not cry.
Context: I'm autistic, with significant mental health problems, and having a hard time taking myself to centerlink even though I desperately need financial and practical help. I'm long term unemployed and was just eating through savings, asking for help was always treated as failure and shameful etc, so I haven't ever been to centerlink (which is objectively super duper dumb, but oh well, my time machine is broken so I guess this is now).