Employment

Another thing is employment agencies.

They seem to have one image of the perfect candidate,

and it doesnt fit autistic people.

Agencies want long continuous work history, good with people, comes across confident at interviews, good at twisting the facts so they look good.

I have never seen a job ad that wants someone thats focused, doesnt suffer fools, doesnt waste time chatting, and is true and direct in expressing their opinions of others.

quote "Help, if any, seems to only result from after a crisis."

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Hence the psychos, alcoholics, druggies and nutters get all the treatment in social care. Britain is a land of management crisis, due to lack of long-term health strategies fuelled by elitist top down and bottom up ghetto polices, with the middle class aka doctors managing the rest in non-care systems. Psycho's to the top, psycho's at the bottom, both meet and have a war to kill of normal people in bulk.

Sorry, to go on here, sore spot,,,,,, there should be a psychopathic blood test to weed out the dark bile from society as they are running the world, because the rational spectrum(which autism is part off), is unable to deal with them because they are animals with teeth.

How about this,, would all military soldiers now take there guns out and shoot themselves. Wars stopped over night.  

A platoon officer, receives a text message, the platoon is too kill themselves or face a court marshall. Was this a message from this enemies or the general offices. ~ Germany/ Japan 1945.

I hate conflict, war and the military, it is the stupidity of an animal, sorry not animal.. but a demon, an animal is nicer.

One thing that would help me, employment wise, is flexible working.

I have a degree in Software Engineering, and have worked in the past as a Software Engineer, and you'd have thought that was an industry in which flexible working was the norm - after all there is very little need, most of the time, to go in to an office, and to be there from 9 to 5.30, every weekday.

And even when one was 'in the office' - why does one have to sit at a particular desk, in a particular part of the building, whether one finds that a comfortable and productive place to work or not?

Why can't such companies have hot-desks, and different areas to suit different peoples ways of working (e.g. 'quite areas', and areas with comfy seating, or cafe areas, or outdoors areas)?

Why can't such companies encourage tele-commuting, and flexible work hours?

All these things should be possible, particularly in the hi-tech industries, but more often than not companies are stuck in the 9-to-5 everyone-in-their-own-little-cubicle (even if those cubicles are open plan, they're still cubicles) model of office work.

Supported employment/education so that people are able to both realise and fulfill their potential.

Help employers have a better understanding of Autism.

I am not sure how this could be done.

I think that people look at High-functioning/AS and assume that you are coping and able. From personal experience that is not always the case. You manage and cope but thats about it. Low confidence and a real fear of social interaction make it very hard to navigate the world of employment.

Help, if any, seems to only result from after a crisis.

So what do you think should be changed to make it easier for people with AS to secure meaningful work?

One of the main problems is the ethics of society.

Business is sales dominated, sales people are seen as chatty, persuasive and money motivated, and driven by a desire to be rich and "sucessful".

Many autistic people just want to be honest and helpful, concentrate on one thing and be good at that.

Business doesnt want experts, it wants people who can sell themselves as experts.

Often the manipulative people end up in charge, this means a lot of the decisions about environment, ethics etc are made by the wrong people.

So a lot of autistic people find the business culture alien and unpleasant, maybe intolerable.