Unemployment

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 …

Somewhere in Between

My last post was about how I always exist in a grey area between “OK” and “Very Bad”. I don’t feel my body in the same way others do, nor do I really understand my own feelings when I feel them. I need time to analyse myself before I can fully understand both my physical condition and my emotions and …

3 Reasons I Bring Someone With Me to Meetings

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 …