Tag: employment

• Should I apologise to my neighbours?

  1. Those kind of things always confused me: is it better to apologise for something you did unintentionally or maybe it’s better to pretend I forgot? As you may know the floor in my flat is really poor quality, I have installed soundproofing boards in my main bedroom but I recently mostly sleep in my…

  Magda Z.

  October 20, 2022

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  employment, mental health, sensory issues, social imagination, social media

• Olanzapine meltdown

  So I decided, at the end, that aripiprazole was not a drug I can stay on. It seemed to make me really good at the beginning but this is long gone now. When I have a good night sleep I am moreless ok, but if I don’t, I just end up walking around my flat…

  Magda Z.

  October 15, 2022

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  employment, mental health, social imagination

• Uni – what have I done again?!

  So, of course I didn’t click on a link in the Canvas app, because it wasn’t highlighted in blue, and I didn’t realise that’s where I get assignment brief from. I then emailed student advisors team to tell them I don’t know what to do. They must have thought I’m daft. However, the post is…

  Magda Z.

  October 13, 2022

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  autism characteristics, communication, education, employment, infinite games, social care

• I was a racist once

  I need to discuss this uncomfortable concept here. I was thinking that, although we all, in British society, try to raise the awareness of racism we rarely talk in details about what it actually is and what it isn’t. The British don’t want to touch this subject because they are worried they will be attacked…

  Magda Z.

  October 13, 2022

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  British public, education, employment, opportunities, racism, social imagination

• Fortune telling

  There is this meditation in Sleep School app called exactly that: fortune telling. It’s about thinking pattern where we try to predict what is going to happen and I must admit, I do that a lot. Even with little things. For example, while doing my grocery shopping in Lidl yesterday I was trying to ‘predict’…

  Magda Z.

  October 8, 2022

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  coping, employment, mental health, Sleep School, social care, social imagination

• Why I lost my job

  Well, I need to do say that finally, don’t I? I lost my job because I was using mobile at work and I already had two warnings. It was obviously a bit more complicated than that and the whole problem started in 2018 on a staff Christmas party where all the three care homes staff…

  Magda Z.

  September 26, 2022

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  being social, detecting bullshit, employment, mental health, psychosis, social care

• Procedures – Safety Engineering vs Social Care

  As you may know, my fiance, John, who’s also autistic, works as a safety engineer. An inspector, if you prefer. That means he checks if people in his field follow safety procedures. The last two days we had this conversation about how procedures are approached in his field and in social care. I edited it…

  Magda Z.

  September 25, 2022

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  autism characteristics, British public, employment, racism, social care, systems, The Boyfriend

• Can’t wait for my large canvases (should I just quit????)

  As you may know I had rebound mania since just after leaving hospital on Thursday. While waiting to be discharged I decided to go to uni, chose a subject within like 2 minutes and the university within the next 30 seconds. And then, while already at home, I decided to provide confidence building training for…

  Magda Z.

  September 25, 2022

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  autism characteristics, autistic identity, creativity, employment

• How I developed my third episode

  Ok, that hasn’t been discussed yet. Somehow all three episodes are connected to issues with employment. The only difference is that in case of Home Group, and then the other employer – learning disability care provider – the employers were clearly to blame. With Fessey House the problem was, they seemed too good to be…

  Magda Z.

  September 24, 2022

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  employment, mental health, psychosis

• I’m up at 2am. Training for ethnic minorities working in care.

  I had a visit by two people from ‘Intensive Team’ at 6.30pm yesterday. I was told initially they’re going to come today. They said they came to watch me to take my meds. It was a bit strange. I think it was just an excuse to see if I’m psychotic. It would be fun if…

  Magda Z.

  September 24, 2022

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  employment, mental health, social care