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Caring for an adult with autism

Rob Jackson


I am considering an offer to help care for an adult with autism for a local family.

This will be a paid, part-time position working approx 15 hours a week.

The family has asked that I work on a self-employed basis.

While I have worked on a voluntary basis with children and adults with learning difficulties on a voluntary basis for many years, I am not a 'professional' carer, in that I have no qualifications in the field. The family is aware of this.

The care involved will be largely activity-based (sports and games, art, reading, cooking, shopping, learning ABA, socialising, transport to activities) and there is no specific need for personal care or medication.

I wondered if:

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there might be an off-the-peg carer's contract I could use

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whether insurance might be necessary and, if so, whether I would need to provide that insurance or the employer?

Many thanks Slight smile

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  • Follow anyone and everyone #ActuallyAutistic on Twitter. connect to Aucademy.co.uk You'll be a pro in no time. 

    Autistic "brain wiring" is so different that it should be like learning a foreign language & foreign social protocols. A neuro-typical individual will rarely if never Intuit autistic needs. Always be far more direct and pragmatic than feels comfortable or is socially 'polite'. Always assume the best in the other and seek to understand needs. We are not competitive by nature so we do not understand when someone is using language to Command rather than Connect. Many of us do not need fawning (see psychological definition), we don't virtue signal and we rarely assign meaning meaning or association to things. It is always far more important to ask HOW a thing / exchange is functioning rather than what it means. Meaning is pointless if a thing / exchange is malfunctioning. 

    ABA is based on an Entirely Different set of Motives and Intents - and entirely different set of rules. In some cultures it is an act of aggression to look someone in the eyes. This is massively important: Interruption is an act of cruelty on a brain which is wired to hyper-focus. Constant changes, a lack of fair warning, surprises or anything requiring Improv Skills, for an autistic, equate to being in a prison camp, subjected to waterboarding. This is as abusive as Sleep Deprivation as a torture tactic. NeuroTypical brains enjoy constant change or smash edit entertainment because they're not wired to hyper focus, and also not impacted as deeply and psychologically by their external environment. This doesn't ever change with exposure it just creates more mental health problems.  Various new research has shown Autistic brain-wave oscillations are different and intaking information intensely, with extreme depth, requiring basic human-friendly principles of Respecting space, Diligence with Time and Intentionality with words/actions, Vigilance and follow-through. As for sensory impact, if you've ever read about or talked with someone who's micro-dosed on mushrooms, that is the only way to experience how our senses and emotions are impacted and how rich our internal imaginations can be. 

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  • Follow anyone and everyone #ActuallyAutistic on Twitter. connect to Aucademy.co.uk You'll be a pro in no time. 

    Autistic "brain wiring" is so different that it should be like learning a foreign language & foreign social protocols. A neuro-typical individual will rarely if never Intuit autistic needs. Always be far more direct and pragmatic than feels comfortable or is socially 'polite'. Always assume the best in the other and seek to understand needs. We are not competitive by nature so we do not understand when someone is using language to Command rather than Connect. Many of us do not need fawning (see psychological definition), we don't virtue signal and we rarely assign meaning meaning or association to things. It is always far more important to ask HOW a thing / exchange is functioning rather than what it means. Meaning is pointless if a thing / exchange is malfunctioning. 

    ABA is based on an Entirely Different set of Motives and Intents - and entirely different set of rules. In some cultures it is an act of aggression to look someone in the eyes. This is massively important: Interruption is an act of cruelty on a brain which is wired to hyper-focus. Constant changes, a lack of fair warning, surprises or anything requiring Improv Skills, for an autistic, equate to being in a prison camp, subjected to waterboarding. This is as abusive as Sleep Deprivation as a torture tactic. NeuroTypical brains enjoy constant change or smash edit entertainment because they're not wired to hyper focus, and also not impacted as deeply and psychologically by their external environment. This doesn't ever change with exposure it just creates more mental health problems.  Various new research has shown Autistic brain-wave oscillations are different and intaking information intensely, with extreme depth, requiring basic human-friendly principles of Respecting space, Diligence with Time and Intentionality with words/actions, Vigilance and follow-through. As for sensory impact, if you've ever read about or talked with someone who's micro-dosed on mushrooms, that is the only way to experience how our senses and emotions are impacted and how rich our internal imaginations can be. 

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