Tag: employment
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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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If you do this you lack empathy
How do you like the title? It sounds to me as if it’s taken from Daily Mail, shouting ‘click on me, click on me!’. Anyway… 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…
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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 