Daily experience of an autistic

What??? Why do they do something like this and what can they (and you) learn from it about people and how they would behave in more realistic scenarios? I mean, given all the H&S regulations in UK this should not be possible to happen. Think I would leave if given such a task, I wouldn't even want to hear other people's opinions because it would scare me.

Glad Tidings and Thank You as I often write, and this may seem a little cold from me, but... *ahem*...

I say, steady on! I appreciate this Thread, yet you need not go into everything you do... although I recall the Title now, and it was "Daily Experience", and so I mostly say again to not Post unless you feel like it and not because of others including myself...

...And finally, again I finish a Post and wonder why I Posted it. I can't offer advice and I don't Chat so well and I get nervous. All of the others Posting here so far, I could not do that... Diversity, I suppose... in a Group situation, I nowadays just say nothing until actually pressured - or provoked - and... well, sorry, I close this Post now... *whimper*...

My diary for next week.

Monday

Appointment with mental health employment advisor.

Appointment with job centre work coach.

Tuesday

All day with learndirect course

Thursday

Job fair at job centre.  Must attend, it's part of my jobsearch agreement.

Friday

'ESS assessment at MIND charity.  It's to do with their funding from the European social fund.

I got no feedback about the tests.

Today's session was cancelled because staff were unavailable.

So it's tomorrow and next Tuesday.

The final assessment is going to be a group exercise where we are going to be spilt into small groups, given a scenario and we are then observed how we go about solving it.

A common test is a sinking ship, with maybe 12 people and a lifeboat that can only hold 6 people.  They give full details of the 12, their ages,  skills, etc.  Decide as a group which 6 to save.

Greetings, and perhaps starting a new sub-Thread yet it is on topic with the Main Topic... and only one day to go...?

Concerning all that was listed in the introduction (maths, grammar, etc.), was this graded in some manner and did you "Ace" it, I should suspect? When given tests like this I simply get a sort of grumble or suspicious look, as if they are startled that I still know how to write correct English (at my age)...

Robert124 said:

Constant interruptions as people walked through our classroom to get to two other classrooms

That's terrible. Can you mitigate by sitting at the front?

Grit your teeth and hang in there, Robert124.

I attended the first day of the care course yesterday.

The register had 21 names. We had 18 attendees in the morning.  I counted 17 in the afternoon.   Someone else  signed themselves in next to my name, I crossed them out and signed in myself.

One of my quirks is counting people!!!

For me the course went bad.  I lacked sleep, couldn't concentrate and I didn't even understand what some of the questions meant or why they were asking them.  

At the start, they went through the standard government approved/forced talk about British values, extremism, radicalisation, discrimination.  And how we are expected to respect diversity in all it's forms of race, colour, religion, sexual orientation etc etc.

Then onto use of the computers.  Login, passwords and warnings about accessing porn and other undesirable sites.

More form filling and signing and dating.  Typical City and Guilds paperwork.

Course itself unremarkable/boring.

A group session asking each one to give examples of good and bad customer care experience.

Thirty common terms used in customer care and what they mean.

Filling out a workbook, where I was too embarrassed to ask what a couple of the questions even meant ?

Constant interruptions as people walked through our classroom to get to two other classrooms.

I hope today will be better.

Ho. My Post there at least succeeded in rehighlighting this Thread, at least - and That was one point of it! Yet the Main Point remains as... Update this Thread in your own time, Good Sir. Good Fortune to you in dealing with very difficult persons. I know what it is like, and it is not at all nice, but it is a SOCIAL thing, and I dare not say much more than that, unless specifically prompted. (Another thing about Aspergers which varies and is not always understood...) Everyone has their own different situation, and then another different situation imposed upon them. 

That is all for this Post.

おやすみなさい, ロベルト一二三さま.

お元気ですか...? If you do not feel like it, then Please ignore this and it is 結構です by me. (Of course I mean ALL of what I say... and, as an Aspergers, I am not always understood.)

I'm back from my mile hike with the ramblers association.

Weather was mist, drizzle and wind. Only took a few photos.

We went past the set of TV's Emmerdale. So I took a few snaps.

Update.

Received yet another message remaining me about Monday's course.

Is it normal to send two reminders about meetings and appointments?

Or is there something unusual about the organisation or their clientele so that they need constant reminders?

Well, opinions are a bit like backsides.

Everyone's got one, but most of them stink...

Update.

Today I signed on at the jobcentre.  Filled out more forms. My advisor who initially referred me to the week long care course at learndirect, knew I'd been accepted.  I received a week long bus ticket to attend course.

Now the funny stuff.  The learndirect people really like to keep in touch.  Last week they sent me two messages reminding me about my appointment.  Today they actually rang me to remind me to attend the course next Monday.

Now the politics.  I have several employment advisors.

1.  Jobcentre work coach.  Call her Mrs A

2.  Private company contracted to the jobcentre.  Call her  Miss E.

3.  Mind employment specialist.  Call him Mr M

4.  City council employment helper.  Call him Mr S

I have to do what Mrs A asks, or I will lose my benefit.

Miss E gets very stroppy and angry when she discovers that I'm taking advice from other people.  She thinks I should always come to her first.  So this learndirect course has really upset her.

Mr S and Miss E have very different opinions.  In fact all these advisors have different advice and opinions.  The contradictory advice is starting to drive me nuts.