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Employment (Buckland Review)

Tanya

It is a relief to finally get diagnosed but I am yet to see the benefits, especially in the employment market.  I find it challenging to find and retain work.  I've been bullied and exploited by management.  I been cast out (disposed of) for having the nerve to raise a grievance.  It has impacted my mental health.  I suffered from depression and anxiety but my experience in the workplace has made my condition worse.  Management and HR seem to always stick together to the point of gaslighting the vulnerable (cover up/protecting the organisation's reputation).  I am relieved and saddened to hear so many autistic people being treated this way.  I've heard that less than 10% of autistic people are in work.  I've recently written to my local MP for his response.  I'd like to chat to others who have had similar life experiences.  

 

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  • Thank you for raising these points Tanya and explaining your problems at the moment.

    I share the problems that you describe, so I want to raise a flag and wave it for you so we are all more aware of your points and presence here.

    Sometimes, I feel like I get zero points for raising or waving a flag in life these days, even if it is to help raise awareness of the important points that you raise here.  To be honest, I even fear being put in prison if I do raise a flag for you in an act of solidarity and support for you Tanya and to raise the awareness of all of us people here, to what you say.

    My flag waving is how I feel I need to express my autistic self.  Call it "flapping" if you like.  I don't think I can help it.  Is that OK - to be autistic here?  Perhaps some people are allowed to be autistic, and some people are not allowed to be autistic.  I find it hard to understand the rules here now.  That makes me ramble a bit.  I hope that is ok too.  Is it OK to ask if it is OK more that once here, now?

    I think that 'flapping' is an autistic trait that some of us find it hard to avoid, even though a lot of NT people find that hard to understand or to make REASONABLE ALLOWANCES for it........but I do hope that NAS is the type of place where it is OK.

    Perhaps "flapping" is not the correct term for what I am doing here........but I am certain it is an autistic thing that I am doing here.

    Are autistic people allowed to wave flags here?

    Tanya - I would LOVE to chat with you about the matters that you raise above, because I am in PRECISELY the same situation that you describe.  I do wonder whether the things that you speak of here in your OP are actually a trap because I feel trapped too, by the same things that you describe above.......and that is why I would LOVE to chat with you about this stuff.

    Can you tell me more about the Buckland Review that you mention?  I don't know anything about it, so I would like to learn more about it from you Tanya.  I hope it is OK for me to ask you to help me in that way.

    I hope that I won't get in trouble for asking for your help to understand.  I hope that I won't get in trouble for "flapping" or waving a flag in this way.  I hope that all people, whether autistic or not, can understand everything that you say here Tanya and that me being my authentic autistic self is also OK too.

    It is very hard being like us Tanya.  We don't seem to have our own places to "be" perhaps?  What do you think Tanya?

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  • Thank you for raising these points Tanya and explaining your problems at the moment.

    I share the problems that you describe, so I want to raise a flag and wave it for you so we are all more aware of your points and presence here.

    Sometimes, I feel like I get zero points for raising or waving a flag in life these days, even if it is to help raise awareness of the important points that you raise here.  To be honest, I even fear being put in prison if I do raise a flag for you in an act of solidarity and support for you Tanya and to raise the awareness of all of us people here, to what you say.

    My flag waving is how I feel I need to express my autistic self.  Call it "flapping" if you like.  I don't think I can help it.  Is that OK - to be autistic here?  Perhaps some people are allowed to be autistic, and some people are not allowed to be autistic.  I find it hard to understand the rules here now.  That makes me ramble a bit.  I hope that is ok too.  Is it OK to ask if it is OK more that once here, now?

    I think that 'flapping' is an autistic trait that some of us find it hard to avoid, even though a lot of NT people find that hard to understand or to make REASONABLE ALLOWANCES for it........but I do hope that NAS is the type of place where it is OK.

    Perhaps "flapping" is not the correct term for what I am doing here........but I am certain it is an autistic thing that I am doing here.

    Are autistic people allowed to wave flags here?

    Tanya - I would LOVE to chat with you about the matters that you raise above, because I am in PRECISELY the same situation that you describe.  I do wonder whether the things that you speak of here in your OP are actually a trap because I feel trapped too, by the same things that you describe above.......and that is why I would LOVE to chat with you about this stuff.

    Can you tell me more about the Buckland Review that you mention?  I don't know anything about it, so I would like to learn more about it from you Tanya.  I hope it is OK for me to ask you to help me in that way.

    I hope that I won't get in trouble for asking for your help to understand.  I hope that I won't get in trouble for "flapping" or waving a flag in this way.  I hope that all people, whether autistic or not, can understand everything that you say here Tanya and that me being my authentic autistic self is also OK too.

    It is very hard being like us Tanya.  We don't seem to have our own places to "be" perhaps?  What do you think Tanya?

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