Social Security disability/retirement question...

[pipi_k]

2. Staying on till 65

would mean another five years of having to justify to family/friends who know I'm on disability that I'm not just scamming the system (since I'm only 60 right now).

IOW, some of my family think just because they can't see my disability, I'm not really disabled. Like I'm only acting disabled in order to get it, never mind that my actual disability goes back decades.

So my thing is, if I'm getting plain old retirement benefits but I'm STILL suffering from the same disability, it means I wasn't faking it all these years.

Yeah, I know...I shouldn't care what other people think, but it hurts, you know?

Last summer, my relationship with my favorite sister was altered quite a bit when she said something unkind about me to Mr Pipi.