Hi,
I really hate to add a gloomy post to the others but let us face it, the fate that we've been giving with having a neurodiversity that does not go down well with the mainstream is a curse and not a blessing, no matter how much people try to paraphrase it.
I have been recently hit hard in many ways. I have lost my mother who seems to have left just a bit of debt in form of the funeral costs. My dad of 90 is a mental and psychological child of 5 years old, irresponsible and a nerve wreck, who is a danger to himself and others financially while he does not want to concede to accepting reality, I have all the signs of HFA and am literally at war with the NHS who think that it is fun to refer me between GP and local mental health care than to a specialist team. My goodwill nature of pleasing and conforming has eventually stripped me off of all financial goodies that I am left to the bare minimum, which is sorry to be honest an insult to the IQ that I have.
Left all human dignity I have applied for any job that I feel that I am apt to do - including stacking shelves at the supermarket. But apparently I am not even able to jump the online assessment hoops. In all bitterness, is the NT mainstream society quietly creating "computer says no" algorithms to rid of anyone who does not fit their scheme and with a smile fobbing us non-NT's off?
After years of struggling and receiving mental health support, I am at the verge of believing that humans have lost all humanity and that life is reduced to biological traits. Mainstream society has become perverted in their definition of what life is, by denying people that do not meet their own benchmark the basic values of human dignity.
Sorry for ranting, but anyone desperate enough to go Breaking Back has my respects.