Documentation

Incidents

The specific cases inside the loop. Each one is a single thing that happened, documented in its own page.

• [research] Discrimination in Austria, measured Not my account. Controlled studies: identical CVs, 25 to 30 percent fewer interviews. Identical rental calls, half the viewings.
• [origin] This didn't start in Vienna. It started in childhood. I was already living this mismatch before Austria. Here, the consequences became impossible to absorb.
• [study] I had to stop studying. I was exhausted. Five years of a technical degree. I understood the material. The system didn't adjust.
• [work] I've applied to over 542 jobs in eight years. Interviews go well, then silence. No email, no explanation.
• [residency] My residency was refused for having no income. "If you can study, why can't you work?" In the same Bescheid that acknowledged my limitations.
• [assessment] I tried to get my disability recognized. I was refused three times, including at court level. A 25-minute neurologist exam overruled a hospital that has treated me for ten years.
• [organizations] I couldn't find a single organization that could help. Every office I reached read the file, agreed something was wrong, and said: not us, try somewhere else.
• [organizations] I spent two months contacting bodies for fairness, inclusion, and human rights. Most did not answer.
• [organizations] "We are just an index." The autism centre: we don't offer therapy, here is a list of phone numbers.
• [therapy] Two months later, the answer is still a list. July 2026. I said things were getting harder. A hospital handed me a list of doctors; the recommended one is not specialized in autism.
• [therapy] Autism in Vienna: every appointment is a lottery that can cost years September 2026. The clinic that has treated me for four years sends me back to the practices that sent me to it. Continuity is only sold privately.
• [social] I struggle to talk to people, and there is no way back. Earlier a misunderstanding could be repaired by talking. Now blocking takes one second, and no door stays open.
• [diagnosis] Ten years in treatment before autism had a name. The assessment recorded that I was overwhelmed and that my concentration was normal, in the same paragraph.
• [social] I'm struggling to build a social life here. In Vienna the first impression decides everything, and eleven years of context don't fit into two exchanges.
• [social] Two messages, then silence. Same app, same photos, same words. In Vienna the third message never comes. One setting away, the conversations run for days.
• [health] How unexpected damage happens when you're neurodivergent. The medications keeping me functional are also breaking down my body. €5,000 dental in two months.
• [daily life] Even getting one medication is work. Four hours to fill a five-year-old prescription. Multiply by every small thing.
• [system] The Help Exists on Paper. In Reality, You're on Your Own. Organizations, therapy, support systems, they all exist. Until you actually need them.
• [assessment] 80 Hours of Care Approved. Disability Pass Denied. Same Person. Two official assessments of the same person, using the same records, ten weeks apart. Opposite conclusions.