My life didn’t turn out the way I hoped it would, that’s no secret. It didn’t even turn out the way I thought it would and honestly, I have had a tendency to be quite pessimistic in my younger years, so I didn’t think very highly of myself nor my prospects in life. Luckily, that whole pessimism thing was something …
I graduated with a master’s degree 4 years ago. I was working in December 2016, writing my thesis and I had already been looking for a ‘real job’ for many, many months – almost a year. I had been doing little odd jobs on the side trying to make ends meet; a few weeks here, a month of full-time work …
Since I was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, or more specifically Asperger’s, I have had to attend meetings with different caseworkers, psychiatrists, therapists, doctors, people from the unemployment office, people from different unions and such. In general, there’s been a lot of the same kind of meetings, but with different people, because god forbid any of those people could actually …
