HI Aonghas,

I have been self employed in several different forms over a decade or 2, but I'm not right now. I will admit that it was the challenge of getting new customers or clients that I found hardest. One of my major professions was even online marketing…

I was that interested in the name I googled it. But thankfully decided making a fuss about something that shouldn't automatically be assumed , would be decidedly uncool.

I have a former acquaintance who once got a hitch-hiking lift off Paul & Linda…

These things seem to run in families. 

A late diagnosis has pros and cons - it will explain your behaviours to yourself and may be of use in a work environment if, at a later date, life becomes too complicated and you start to burn out - it can be the…

It's difficult because if I say I think he's behaving like a child, or not taking responsibility, or trying to have his cake and eat it too, he will say I dont understand about ASD and sends me links about 'masking' and burn out. And I feel I'm left unable…

I got my diagnosis at 56, having worked all of my life since leaving school at 16 (apart from 3 years at uni in my late 20s, and some time off following redundancies or for ill-health). 

I've often had struggles in the workplace, mind - mainly relating…

Thanks Lostmyway. I’m still getting there, but I absolutely refuse to do anything that isn’t taking me in the direction I want to go, even when I don’t know where that is. I know what I don’t want, what hasn’t worked before, so I don’t do those things…

Hi Coogy!

Sorry you have had a horrid ( I could use some other descriptive word but I daren't!) day - it just is so unfair that guys like us are the ones who suffer and I think between us are probably educating the ignorants at DWP (oops, did I say that…

I'm okay today. However, yesterday, I was going into that 'Headline Stress' mentioned previously in this thread. Then, I went to a local Chapel to light candles for prayer intentions, then freaked out about potentially burning myself.

This…