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Flo
8 months ago

Hello. I'm Florence, I have autism and am currently training to be a nurse with the NHS as I'm very passionate about medicine and healthcare and because I'm autistic I've seen how bad it can be for us having to go to hospital so if I am successful and become fully trained I'll be in a good position to help any autistic patients in the future.

I've got anxiety as well and this has brought some challenges with my training but more so it affects my daily life at home but I am trying my best to gain more control over my anxiety as it's exhausting and unpleasant.

My family are supportive and I'm grateful to all of them for helping me when I have problems. Not everyone understands autism but I'm lucky that my family do.

I'm lonely in life though. I'm working on my social skills but it's a long haul. I can interact with people, though from what I've read it's mostly me masking. I'm still trying to find my inner social and when I do I'm hoping I'll make some friends.

I have a guide book on breaking the ice with people so here's a casual question from it.

What's your favourite thing about you?

My favourite thing about me is that I'm autistic.

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  • 8 months ago

    Hello and welcome!

    Flo said:
    I've seen how bad it can be for us having to go to hospital so if I am successful and become fully trained I'll be in a good position to help any autistic patients in the future.

    Thats a really neat way you want to help people Slight smile 

    I also have anxiety so I feel you there. Its nice to hear that your family is supportive

    Flo said:
    What's your favourite thing about you?

    Hm thats a hard question Laughing I might also say my favorite thing is being autistic. Although it can be exhausting and frustrating at times, I do actually really enjoy the way I view the world.
    If I chose something else though, it would probably be my eyes. Eyes fascinate me. I dont like making eye contact very much but like when I have pictures then I like to zoom in on the eyes and examine them. My eyes are a strange color and almost look translucent so I like them. They also turn bright green when im very angry which is interesting.

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  • 8 months ago

    Hello and welcome!

    Flo said:
    I've seen how bad it can be for us having to go to hospital so if I am successful and become fully trained I'll be in a good position to help any autistic patients in the future.

    Thats a really neat way you want to help people Slight smile 

    I also have anxiety so I feel you there. Its nice to hear that your family is supportive

    Flo said:
    What's your favourite thing about you?

    Hm thats a hard question Laughing I might also say my favorite thing is being autistic. Although it can be exhausting and frustrating at times, I do actually really enjoy the way I view the world.
    If I chose something else though, it would probably be my eyes. Eyes fascinate me. I dont like making eye contact very much but like when I have pictures then I like to zoom in on the eyes and examine them. My eyes are a strange color and almost look translucent so I like them. They also turn bright green when im very angry which is interesting.

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