Hello everyone.
I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy new year, now that the year 2014 has started. However, as an autistic person, I would expect to be faced with new and potentially difficult challenges. I am currently in paid employment, but for how much longer I don't know. My local bus and train services, as in timetables, ticket prices etc, could change at any time. If the weather conditions from the past few weeks is anything to go by, it could get wetter, windier or more stormy at any time, even when I least expect it. If I am facing any kind of uncertainty myself, I'm sure there's a few other autistic people in a similar situation.
Speaking of the weather, the past few weeks has seen some very heavy rain and storm force winds. I have heard that a care home in Hampshire, which I believe cares for elderly residents, has gone several days without heating. The residents have had to spend Christmas Day of 2013 in bed, just to keep warm. Can you imagine how terrible the situation would be if that care home cared for autistic people? It would really be an absolute nightmare, with no heating, no electricity, and no public transport service either, with all that debris on the roads, railway tracks etc. I feel so sorry for anyone whose Christmas and New Year plans were so severely disrupted by the weather. One storm is bad enough, but three or four within weeks of each other is terrible.
