Published on 12, July, 2020
My parents treat me like poo. A piece of poo they trod on. The social services and NHS are worse.
No one cares. Give me all your false platitudes, heard it all before.
Being in an office never really bothered me before. I could keep myself to myself or interacrt with colleagues without too much stress.The big thing for me now as a WFH'er is not having to get up early, get ready, endure the nightmare traffic (1.5 hours each way), being at home and able to start my evening as soon as I shutdown the laptop. Plus the considerable saving in fuel.
If you are open with your employer about your ASD you can have a conversation around reasonable adjustments. For me the main adjustment was to reduce my hours from 37.5 to 30 per week. The 1.5 hours diffrence per day makes a massive difference for me (I also struggle with severe fatigue).In fact, my employer would probably be ok if I wanted to reduce by another hour per day, but 6 hours is working well for me at the moment.The downside is that my salary has been adjusted inline with my reduced hours.