[When I started writing this post just after the offending day I didn’t expect to have *quite* so much to say! I’m going to publish in two parts because I think it splits quite nicely between home and work life in post sizes which are a bit more in-keeping with my style – I don’t… Read More Musings on functioning labels (AKA a day in the life) – Part 1
In case you missed it, this week I posted (what I thought were) some fairly innocuous tweets about my struggles at work. These seemed to attract (in my opinion) a fairly unreasonable amount of attention from haters. A long battle ensued. Here are my reflections following the event… It had been a long day, punctuated… Read More Cave Trolls
Today is an ironic day for me to be writing about success. Today I managed a grand total of 90 mins of work before sprinting out from an ongoing meeting on the verge of a meltdown. My shame kept me from returning to then office all day. Tomorrow I will be spending at home to… Read More Ode to Success
Something I have realised over the past few days is that I don’t deal well with office holiday time. In the past few weeks most of my bosses and colleagues have been in and out at various times taking holidays with their families. Not having children of our own my husband and I are not constrained… Read More Challenging Holidays
Gosh, I’m feeling overwhelmed by the number of such great blogs from autistic women! There are people sharing such eloquent insights into what it is like to be autistic and this is fantastic, but sometimes I hardly know where to begin and what I can add. I guess I’ll just keep sharing what I am… Read More Working Smart
I work in an office which is shared between a few small businesses and whilst the people in my company know about my recent diagnosis of ASD the other people in the office do not. So when I overheard a couple of employees in another company talking about ‘that socially awkward person’ they had met… Read More Acceptance at Work
Having just been diagnosed I am learning how much is too much in terms of sensory stimulation and social interaction. In my 28 years of undiagnosed existence I haven’t experienced being acceptance for my autistic traits. When I was a child I was labelled ‘shy’, ‘quiet’ and ‘boring’ for my individual pursuits and tendency to… Read More Sorry, I’m sick
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