Tag: employment

• Effective altruism (in Swindon)

  I’m not sure if I understand the concept correctly but it seems to be about praising people and organisations that do good. I normally complain here about various options of support that seem to be available in the UK, but when one (especially an autistic one) reaches out, it turns out there’s nothing substantial there…

  Magda Z.

  September 23, 2022

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  autism characteristics, communication, coping, creativity, employment, Entertainment, meaning of life, mental health, naivity, neurotypicals, opportunities, product review

• Allegations vs facts

  If you have a proof allegations becomes facts. Home Group tweeted me yesterday and I cannot believe that I wanted to genuinely forgive them! I thought that they see my perspective and want to make it work somehow but they Were hoping to bribe my diagnostician to get her to convince me to sign that…

  Magda Z.

  September 6, 2022

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  autism advocates, autism characteristics, autistic identity, British public, challenging behaviour, communication, creativity, detecting bullshit, diagnosis, emotions, employment, Entertainment, fraud, infinite games, infodumping, intuition, meaning of life, meltdown, mental health, mum, my diagnostician, naive, naivity, narcissist, neurotypicals, news, ny diagnostician, opportunities, patterns, physical health, Poland, pretended play, product review, psychosis, radio, social imagination, social media, war, workplace bullying

• Does it matter how you got the job if everything works just fine?

  I post here a while ago how I got that second job in The Company (not using their real name here means I’m in tension reduction stage of my challenging behaviour spree; in case you could not work that out. By all means it’s not my intention to hide anything from the public eye). Basically,…

  Magda Z.

  September 5, 2022

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  autism characteristics, communication, employment, opportunities, social imagination

• An email to The Judgmental One

  I just emailed the employer that dismissed me. Please see attached: Hello, I worked for you for a couple of years and was dismissed over a year ago. Don’t worry, I am doing OK now, have a job, also in care, that doesn’t puts me in unnecessary stress and where hazards have been virtually eliminated…

  Magda Z.

  September 5, 2022

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  British public, employment, neurotypicals, social care

• Autism and self respect

  I feel a bit overwhelmed today. I think it’s all due to the pressure of my new job. Even though I like it a lot, it’s still working with people and people do change. I do wonder if I found it any easier if they were the same every single minute and if all colleagues…

  Magda Z.

  August 31, 2022

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  communication, detecting bullshit, employment, social care, social imagination

• Further reflection on work and personal relationships

  Yesterday evening, after I was made to think about how I will feel if a resident displays challenging behaviour, I at some point told myself ‘this is just a job, you need to keep emotionally detached’ – I tried that thinking for a couple of minutes but finally realised that all I’m doing is trying…

  Magda Z.

  August 30, 2022

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  autism characteristics, communication, dating, emotions, employment, naive, neurotypicals, social imagination, The Boyfriend

• I hope I’ll always feel like this about my work

  I just came back from work. It was a lovely shift and again everyone was happy. I really feel like I’m making a difference there. However, when I left, a lady sitting at the bench outside waiting for her night shift to start, said hello to me, asked which unit I worked and if everything…

  Magda Z.

  August 29, 2022

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  being social, communication, employment, social care

• Double hope

  1. I don’t enjoy playing Redecor as much as I used to. I thought I’d stay addicted to this game forever, but here we are at the end of the month and I’m only on level 8th. And look what I did here. I could do better, I’m sure you’re aware of that. But at…

  Magda Z.

  August 29, 2022

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  communication, detecting bullshit, digital detox, employment, Redecor, social care, social media

• 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…

  Magda Z.

  August 25, 2022

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  communication, employment, mental health, money, Sleep School

• 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…

  Magda Z.

  August 24, 2022

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  autism characteristics, communication, employment