Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi all,
I was diagnosed with autism 3 years ago as a 30 year old man and at that time I had a decent quality of life, a good job, a great social life and wonderful home life. However even with this life I ended up with quite severe depression which after a while resulted me in receiving the diagnosis of having autism. It’s obvious now that throughout my life I was continuously masking just to get through each day and to survive so to speak.
Now that I’m more aware about myself and allow myself to be truly me, I find it extremely difficult to be happy sometimes which may be the case for some of you also. I particularly find it difficult in gaining employment once again which is more suitable to my needs and also being social making friends who accept me for how I am and for who I am.
With this in mind I’m genuinely curious to see what is the biggest issue you find or struggle with as an autistic individual?
Thank you for taking to the time look at this and hoping your having a good day!
Digital crap, computers, phones, self service checkouts, they have all the malice of inanimate objects but taken to a higher level.
Self service checkouts are over complicated in my opinion... At my store you can one item and it errors out and then I have to wait for an assistant to come and clear the error. Since my disability I try to do online shopping, it's easier.
They seem to be designed by people with no sense of logic, probably the same people who design traffic junctions. The absolute worst self service machines are the Post Office ones, they ask ambiguous or gnomic questions that I have no idea how to answer.