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 …
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 …
