The Wrong Kind of Help

I have already said this several times over the last couple of years, but many of us on the spectrum need support in some way to be able to live relatively independently. To some it may appear like we can live independently without any “real problems” and this is in some way, I guess, true. In some way, however, it’s …

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 …

Saying No

I don’t know if I mentioned this, but lately I’ve been going to a centre that specialises in helping people with different kinds of disabilities. I’ve been seeing a neuropsychologist at the centre and luckily he knows a lot about Autism Spectrum Disorder. It’s not always been useful going there since they tend to tell me a lot of things …