Hi, I am very glad to have found this refuge,
Can anyone offer any pointers? My husband maybe high functioning autistic and masks it well. He was promoted at work to team leader today and an hour into the shadowing of another team leader he has had a meltdown and resigned hastily. He successfully completed 2 days training last week. This is the second job he has done this on. The first time he lasted half an hour before any training. But it was the computer screens with the new layout and boxes with many conversations happening fast on both occassions that triggered it. Sensory overload?
From what I can gather, it's the change, the many different screens with new info on that does it. He won't give himself a proper chance to learn, goes into a black and white mindset - fight or flight - and just needs the situation to go away - It's a 'I can't' coupled with wanting to get back to the comfort of what he does know and so resigns.
We are not surviving so well on minimum wage so it really is impacting us.
I have no idea what to do. If I was working, it wouldn't have such a negative impact. I don't even dare to feel my feelings on this.
