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Resilience course

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Has anyone her done a course to teach them "Resilience" please?

I have been invited to join an online course to teach me "resilience". It is supposed to be for autistic poeple but the organisers don't seem to have any understanding of autism and the course seems not to be designed for autistic poeple. This worries me. I would value any advice please?

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  • It honestly drives me mad that people think autistic people aren't resilient. Personally think we're some of the most resilient people around. If NTs had any idea what we deal with on a daily basis to get through life.

    A resilience course worries me. I've done training about resilience before and it was all about having to deal with the situation and it not being "fixed" in order to build resilience. I don't think this fits for autistic people at all. We need adaptations etc to cope. We need situations to be "fixed" or it can actually be traumatic. 

    If the course has indeed been designed for autistic people I would want a clear layout of what the course involves and I would want those running the course to tell me how exactly it has been adapted for autistic people.

  • in reply to Expecto_Patronum

    I think resilience is one of the most overused words currently in the English language, it also seems to be a word suffering from mission creep. I wonder how long this course the organisers went on was and what it taught them about resilence? If they can't get their heads around autistic needs being different before you've even started the course, then I doubt if they will suddenly acquire it half way through.

    Who invited you and why did they invite you? If it's something benefits related, then you'll probably have to go and endure it or get sanctioned. If you have to go, then I suggest you write a list of questions you have about the course and add too it during breaks and just keep asking. They'll probably mark you down as being disruptive, awkward and unwilling to engage, which will be true-ish, but if there's no come back financially, then I'd go and be awkward.

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  • in reply to Expecto_Patronum

    I think resilience is one of the most overused words currently in the English language, it also seems to be a word suffering from mission creep. I wonder how long this course the organisers went on was and what it taught them about resilence? If they can't get their heads around autistic needs being different before you've even started the course, then I doubt if they will suddenly acquire it half way through.

    Who invited you and why did they invite you? If it's something benefits related, then you'll probably have to go and endure it or get sanctioned. If you have to go, then I suggest you write a list of questions you have about the course and add too it during breaks and just keep asking. They'll probably mark you down as being disruptive, awkward and unwilling to engage, which will be true-ish, but if there's no come back financially, then I'd go and be awkward.

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