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Do I have to stay where I am?
Yesterday I went to Pilates class at my gym. While everyone was getting ready (I mean we were getting mats and removing our shoes) the trainer made a conversation about it and then turned to me and asked ‘is that your mat?’ It made me feel really strange – like if she was telling me…
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My recovery story
This is an overdue post, I do apologise. But maybe it will make more sense now, when it looks like I’m actually recovering. So basically, when my psychiatric nurse was leaving, which was around two months ago, she said she’d send a letter to my GP asking them to prescribe my olanzapine. I received the…
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How to become the same person at work?
The lady from the bus stop yesterday also said that I need to give people time to make up their mind about me. It does seem to me that together with ‘do your job and don’t let other people bother you’ (please refer to my previous post) it means I need to become the same…
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How to make up my mind about my new job
I had a staff from another unit come up to me today at the bus stop after shift; she said she saw me in the garden last week when I was taking my break. She was very friendly and said out of nowhere that I should take my time to make up my mind about…
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Sensory heaven
Unexpected changes are difficult for us, autistics, aren’t they? But then, should we insist on always getting what we expected? And what if the change is for the better? Anyway, that first week at work was still stressful, although I presume it was in large part due to my negative experiences from two previous workplaces.…
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A hint about my new job
I am really tired – it was stressful to start a new job while not knowing what to expect, but apart from that I am fine. I did realise though that, when things develop differently to how we expect them, it is better to give a hint about it to prepare people for what is…
Autistic and me 