Planning ahead can really save you sometimes. I always used to rely on planning ahead. I still do. Every moment of my life is playing out either according to my plan or against it. I plan conversations, I plan interactions with other, I even prepare for interactions with strangers on the street. My facial expression is carefully constructed, as is …
You might wonder why I’m writing a post about verbalising my thoughts, but it is really a bigger problem than many might think. I didn’t realise I had this particular problem until I heard someone else on the spectrum mention it, and suddenly everything just made more sense. I knew that I sometimes spoke “too fast” for others to understand …
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 …
