Meltdown are impossible to escape, even though I often wish I could. They can come out of nowhere, just suddenly hitting you like a bucket of cold water in your face. My body starts shaking, starting with my hands usually. Not so much that people notice, and if they do, they generally just think I’m nervous. The shaking is really …
Disability leave was never my first choice. I failed to get a job after finishing my masters, so I’d been unemployed over a year. My local job-centre clearly had no idea what to do with me, so they forced me to do an internship. I would have loved an internship, just not one that required me sitting at an information …
We all have a tendency to generalise whenever we can, this happens with ASD as well. The diagnosis covers a far greater spectrum than most expect, and yet again do we generalise – all of us. It’s a shame, because we are all different. Just like there is many different types of neurotypicals in the world, there are many different …
