Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi everyone. I received a high functioning autism diagnosis just over a year ago (at the age of 36) and have been dealing with understanding it ever since.
I have been having regular sessions with a clinical psychologist at my local mental health hospital as as well as the diagnosis I was also told I was suffering from depression and anxiety.
A large part of our chats revolve around my concerns about getting back into employment. She has mentioned, as have I read online so many times, that employers love people on the spectrum who have crazy attention to detail.
This is when I feel like a fraud. I make stupid mistakes all the time, I lose focus on longer tasks and flip flop between interests. In my previous jobs I was able to do really technically complicated things like software development but made silly errors and was unable to do simple data entry into a spreadsheet. This theme has followed me since primary school.
Today I accidentally came across an article saying that it is common for people on the spectrum to also suffer from ADHD and it then listed the common symptoms of ADHD. I tick an awful lot of them.
What I don't understand is how can someone on the spectrum, who are supposed to have incredible attention to detail, also have something like ADHD where they continually make silly careless mistakes - I don't see how they are compatible.
I'm going to raise this next week at my next session - it very complicated as I am, as far as the diagnostician and the clinical psychologist I've been seeing, autistic. But as I say, I often feel like a fraud and before I start looking for a job openly stating that I'm autistic, only to say "oh, but I don't have some of the really useful attributes", I want to make sure I fully understand it.
Does that make sense? Any thoughts?
Thanks.
http://www.adhdexpo.com/?blog I've just heard about this years Tara McGillicuddy adhd expo. It's free and it's a series of webinars to listen to on lots of topics. It's at the beginning of October and you need to register if you are interested.
Thanks Misfit, you are a mine of information, I for one will look into it. ()
Misfit is pretty friggin' awesome, isn't she! ️
Good night lovely, be stong and don't forget that we care for you very much x
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Seems quite a patriarchal set up Mr Lone. Lol we shall honour ourselves to you by the island firelight ....Anyone read Lord of the Flies!
anyone know about mr Tom?
Good night everyone. Good night LW x
I'll take that as a compliment miss Ellie,ah missy just posted underneath me!gave me quite a fright.seriousely though! Look at us all on here! What kind empathetic people we are.we deserve each other as companions.
Now if only I can find that flipping island,autopia! I promise I would protect all inhabitants.I also believe given time that a hug from a fellow empathetic would be very healing,it just needs the right person to understand.
nite nite ladies xxxx ()()()().
my wife is late finishing tonite? Hope she rings soon.