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This is why I currently have no proper ID.
I have my birth certificate and my public healthcare card, and a not expired but no longer fully accepted proof of age card that previously counted as full ID but no longer does, but without it I dont have enough ID to get the new form of ID the government introduced in place of the old one I have.
It's enough to prove who I am at a liquor store or chemist, day to day, but I can't get a passport until I sort it out.
When did they remove proof of age cards? (Vic or SA?)
Actual Proof of Age Cards are still around, and that's what I need to get (but I don't have anything with my current address on it, other than the lease agreement, so it's going to take a few steps over red tape to get proper ID, and I am not mentally healthy enough to push that process along right now)
I had a keypass, which they stopped in 2022. I only found out about proof of age cards last year, when I tried to get into an RSL and the bouncer asked if I had anything else because they're phasing out keypass.
I know it's stupid and ignorance isn't an excuse, but as a teenager I was told to get a keypass because "that's the ID you get when you don't have a licence" so I got a keypass, and for the next 15 years I didn't run into a single issue with not having the right ID. No one I worked with ever questioned why that's the only ID I had, so I never really stopped to research the specifics. I didn't know that keypass and "proof of age card" were different, I thought keypass was a proof of age card, just different names for it.
Aren't there anyone who can help you with it, then? I don't know about Britain or Ireland (I'm guessing based on your use of chemist), but here in Denmark, there's all kinds of help available for when you can't do that kind of thing.
Granted, if you have ADHD and/or anxiety like me, I fully understand that even finding who to contact about it and then contacting them can itself be extremely difficult 😮💨
Bingo!
In Australia I'm not even sure if there is a service that could help me - other than applying for an actual disability support worker to help, which my ADHD could probably benefit from, but that's a whole other paperwork process and it's frustrating that paperwork is a barrier to getting accommodations and support with completing paperwork!
Yeah, I hear you! I'm only functional enough to take my ADHD meds because the ADHD meds work and even THAT would probably crumble if I didn't have someone remind me to renew the subscription when I'm about to run out!
And yeah, having to do paperwork alone is the bane of my existence! Not only because it's difficult, but also because it makes me feel like much more dumb than I actually am. 20 years of going undiagnosed was plenty of unnecessarily low self worth, thank you very much! 😂