what kind of work do people do?

I’m a Mental Health Nurse, I work mainly in dementia care. I did my under grad in Psychology though I’m interested in most things brain related. I’d love to get back into studying Psychology to be honest but Nursing pays a wage and the children are far too young for me to even consider trying to study at postgraduate level for the foreseeable future.

Cool! You must have lots of academic knowledge about ASD then :) 

It's possible to do a part-time postgraduate, perhaps? To work while taking a couple of days off per week to do postgraduate stuff? 

And it's also a possibility to look forward to when your kids are grown up.

It was meant to be a joke, you can see how bad I am at it. It's also the job a character had from my all time favorite tv show. It's the image I remember most and his conversation with the doctor who comes to treat him to tell him he's suffering from stress. It's a great scene. 

Northern Exposure is a Dr in Alaska, Due South is a Mountie in Chicago - both are great.

Looking back, I think Benton Fraser (the Mountie) shows definite ASD traits

I had the total hots for 'Maggie' (Janine Turner) from that show...

Thanks for introducing me to this show. It sounds interesting.

Oh, no idea, but no mounty in NX

Strange question was that the one with the mounty or was that due south?

Hello qwerty, It's a TV series from the 90's called 'Northern Exposure', season 5 episode 14, 'Bolt from the Blue'. It's about a Jewish Doctor who ends up practising for 4 years in Alaska to repay his student loans after qualifying. Although filmed in Roslyn, Washington and not Alaska.Roslyn's is the name of the cafe too in the series named after the founders of the town of Cicely in the series. 

The characters are terrific and it's timeless. I've not had a TV for well over 20 years, was never a 'TV' person, but I loved that and have the boxset.

When I have been away from home and been around a TV I always have a look at the channel guide to see if its the same things still running and it always is, I'll then watch it for five minutes on any channel to see if it still makes me feel the same, and it does, I find it utterly depressing and other things I can't really describe but it's all bad feelings for humanity.

Sorry, it's my fault too for the misunderstanding. I made the assumption too quickly it was doctor who, and I also read too fast and picked up "doctor who" from the sentence "...with the doctor who comes...". Thank you for taking the time and patience to explain that it's a different doctor. I agree, it is really funny that two ASD/AS people are trying to communicate with and understand each other, haha. 

Just curious, what is the TV show you are talking about?

This is so funny qwerty, two ASD or AS trying to understand, thank you for pointing out inadvertently that I could have been clearer in my communication, this is something I always complain about with non ASD people, so, the doctor isn't the 'doctor who' character from the dr who series. The doctor is a medical practitioner who goes to see the park ranger. It's a different tv series. I understand that Dr Who is apparently popular with a few people on here so it would be easy to make that link, personally, can't stand the series but did like it when it was Tom Baker decades ago.

It can go both ways - it might mean that I'm not good at understanding jokes, haha. I think it's mainly because I'm not familiar with Doctor Who, I've only seen one episode my entire life, so I didn't know about this reference. I can imagine it would be funny if I knew the TV image! Thanks for explaining

It can go both ways - it might mean that I'm not good at understanding jokes, haha. I think it's mainly because I'm not familiar with Doctor Who, I've only seen one episode my entire life, so I didn't know about this reference. I can imagine it would be funny if I knew the TV image! Thanks for explaining

Northern Exposure is a Dr in Alaska, Due South is a Mountie in Chicago - both are great.

Looking back, I think Benton Fraser (the Mountie) shows definite ASD traits

I had the total hots for 'Maggie' (Janine Turner) from that show...

Thanks for introducing me to this show. It sounds interesting.

Oh, no idea, but no mounty in NX

Strange question was that the one with the mounty or was that due south?

Hello qwerty, It's a TV series from the 90's called 'Northern Exposure', season 5 episode 14, 'Bolt from the Blue'. It's about a Jewish Doctor who ends up practising for 4 years in Alaska to repay his student loans after qualifying. Although filmed in Roslyn, Washington and not Alaska.Roslyn's is the name of the cafe too in the series named after the founders of the town of Cicely in the series. 

The characters are terrific and it's timeless. I've not had a TV for well over 20 years, was never a 'TV' person, but I loved that and have the boxset.

When I have been away from home and been around a TV I always have a look at the channel guide to see if its the same things still running and it always is, I'll then watch it for five minutes on any channel to see if it still makes me feel the same, and it does, I find it utterly depressing and other things I can't really describe but it's all bad feelings for humanity.

Sorry, it's my fault too for the misunderstanding. I made the assumption too quickly it was doctor who, and I also read too fast and picked up "doctor who" from the sentence "...with the doctor who comes...". Thank you for taking the time and patience to explain that it's a different doctor. I agree, it is really funny that two ASD/AS people are trying to communicate with and understand each other, haha. 

Just curious, what is the TV show you are talking about?

This is so funny qwerty, two ASD or AS trying to understand, thank you for pointing out inadvertently that I could have been clearer in my communication, this is something I always complain about with non ASD people, so, the doctor isn't the 'doctor who' character from the dr who series. The doctor is a medical practitioner who goes to see the park ranger. It's a different tv series. I understand that Dr Who is apparently popular with a few people on here so it would be easy to make that link, personally, can't stand the series but did like it when it was Tom Baker decades ago.