Tag: employment
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Autism and making decisions
I recently became aware of an autistic female support worker who have been working in care for over 15 years, so longer than me, and was only recently diagnosed. She started looking for another job and disclosed her diagnosis to the employer. The employer then came up with reasonable adjustment for her, without asking her…
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Why do people gossip at work?
I had this idea a few weeks ago to start posting about concepts that I read in psychology books and I don’t think this is going to work. I borrowed ‘Read people’ by Rita Carter from the library and it took me two days to read it. Obviously I was also doing other things, like…
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Feeling mentally refreshed
That’s a new feeling for me, isn’t it? Some of you may remember how I used to complain about being mentally tired all the time. What caused it? A book I’m reading in Polish. ‘Honey, I killed the cats’ by Dorota Masłowska (you can download English language version from Kindle store). The novel is classed…
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I want to speak with mummy
It’s been almost two weeks since I last posted. Not like me at all, although I do feel sometimes that I started repeating myself lately. I did state a while ago that I don’t grieve any more and here you are: now I so badly want to call my mum it’s almost painful. Otherwise I…
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My unusual beliefs
I am perfectly aware that believing I’m on speech and language therapy delivered by the community is unusual, but what supports this theory is that I have almost no misunderstandings with people, or, to be precise, no misunderstandings that upset me, which was common a few years ago. Or is it possible, do you think,…
Autistic and me 