I'm not really interested in what my dad has to offer tbh. He just generally is not a nice person and a lot of my issues I suffer with today are because of him so I dont think his "support" will be welcome (he really isnt the supportive type in general…

I am, or was, a working musician.  Suffered autism burn out a couple of years ago and that's why I am here now.  Interesting thread - my music is stormy stuff.  And I completely relate to that love of noisy music while hating noise - there's something…

Yes, I find that sensory overload and speech problems often go hand in hand. When I'm very burned out or overwhelmed, my ability to find words can desert me completely, and I can find it just as difficult to understand what other people are saying. At…

That's great to hear and you are most certainly not all the bad things he called you, in fact, you are the opposite and he knows it too, we just have a funny way of expressing it! You are a very compassionate person and I thank god for people like you…

️Look for 2tick jobs.

ask for the disabilities coordinator at the job centre ( don't know their official title)

find info re" Access to Work "on the government website. It will tell you more about adjustments or support that help you stay in work…

Hi Technophobe23. Good question, and a good answer from Longman.

I get the same as you. If I'm doing something, and something goes wrong, I am instantly frutrated, I can get destructively angry, and my language knows no bounds. I also have full-on meltdowns…

Seamus Heaney weather out there tonight: 

Winter-evening cold.
Our backs might never warm up but our faces
Burned from the hearth-blaze and the hot whiskeys. . .
As green sticks hissed and spat into the ashes
And whatever rampaged out there couldn’t reach…

Yeah, would be good to connect with people and share things.  I was born in 1980 but never suspected i was autistic.  Im very good at slipping under the radar and not drawing attention to myself.....I suspect alot of people are like that until you just…

I currently work part time at Tesco and have been for over 5 years. It’s close to home and I start at 3pm which gives me enough time from when I wake to feel stable before heading in. Despite all this, I struggle with working because of the customer fronting…

Thank you for your reply as well as your welcome. 

It bothers me that I could not protect the two students who left. Teaching has changed a lot since I first started in 1982. I was an elementary teacher for 17 years and after burning out, I went to culinary…