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    I am not eligible to take part in this as I haven't worked in an office environment for over ten years, but I'll make a comment.

    I am male (on the autistic spectrum) and was moved from a room where I was the sole occupant of, into a predominantly female office of about twelve people about eleven years ago.  I found it hard going as the conversation often was about female topics, which as a male I couldn't join in with or felt inhibited from joining in with. I felt out of place and eventually I concluded that I was feeling a form of (unintended) ostracism.  Due to spending cuts, my post was cut the following year.

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    On 5/31/2020 at 1:55 PM, Lufty said:

    We get very few new posts these days but we do get lots of people visiting the forum for help and advice so I have decided to keep it running for now mainly as an information resource due to the limited new threads being posted.

    I was wondering if there was a reason for the lack of new posts and what could be done to attract new posters.

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    18 hours ago, Aeolienne said:

    My greatest achievement was to land two job offers last month: one for an internal promotion I'd been interviewed for back in mid-March (the last time I ever shook hands with anyone) and one with a different employer, an energy consultancy.

    Well done and also for your other achievement.  I am going back to work next week, I am really looking forward to that.  I use public transport so to get to and from work so that is a worry (small risk of Covid, but chance of not getting on the bus if it is too full).

    I am lucky to still have a job.  Life will be very hard for a lot of people who have lost their jobs or who's businesses have been damaged.  It is soul destroying looking for work when there is mass unemployment, applying for jobs and keep getting rejected, not to mention money worries that go with unemployment.

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    David Seagrove 1941 - 2019, a man who had Aspergers syndrome.

    Short auto biography:

    https://www.raggeduniversity.co.uk/2013/08/28/aristotle-perhaps-david-seagrave/

    David Seagrave portfolio:
    https://dseagraveportfolio.wordpress.com/

    More articles from Ragged University:
    https://www.raggeduniversity.co.uk/tag/david-seagrave/

     

    Videos:

    David Seagrave for Remade:

     

    A Measure of All Things David Seagrave:

     

    David Seagrave's model trains (part 1):
    https://aspergersnet.wixsite.com/elas/elas-video

     

    David Seagrave's model trains (part 2):

     

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    On 20/10/2019 at 2:29 PM, Confused Traveller said:

    It was quiet last time I was here, but not this quiet. I don't get on with Wrong Planet or the NAS forum, so was hoping this place might be a bit supportive. It's taken nearly 5 years to get my diagnosis, and I'm a bit exhausted by it, so need some support!

    I don't know whether contacting the more frequent posters on this site would be of use to you.

    I notice that you come from Wales, I did a search and came up with this link to ASDinfoWales

    https://www.asdinfowales.co.uk/home/

    There may be support groups etc in your part of Wales, as there is in my part of Scotland.

    https://whereyoustand.org/groups-and-organisations/item/autism-spectrum-connections

    https://apcymru.org.uk/

    I also found information about Autism Cymru

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_Cymru

     

     

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    Programme on BBC3 about young woman with Autism getting a makeover:

    "Misfits Salon Series 1:1 Daisy.

     Daisy is a teaching assistant and lives in Essex with her mum and their two dogs. Since school she’s never felt like she fitted in – she’s always felt isolated. Daisy is 24 years old and last year was diagnosed with Autism. Now she has a name to explain everything, Daisy feels like she’s ready to start a new chapter. She’s come to Misfits Salon to release the authentic Daisy to the world.  ... ".

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p07p7k4l/misfits-salon-series-1-1-daisy

     

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    On 12/10/2019 at 5:15 PM, Confused Traveller said:

    I came back to look at the forum after a long break, and for the last few days it was broken. Now it's working again I see there haven't been any posts since August. Has it been broken for that long, or has everyone just gone away?

    I tend to look at the forum from time to time and if there is nothing new, click on to some other site.  It would be good if there were more posts, I sometimes post a link to articles relating to Autism that I see online, which is probably the best I could do as I am not a good communicator.

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    On 22/11/2018 at 11:28 PM, trekster said:

    I had staff shout in my face and got some money back. I had the same person abuse me mentally and got £30 refund. It is worth complaining whether invisible or visible. I had a written apology each time. 

    Congratulations to you for standing your ground.  Hopefully your actions will lead to better treatment of other people on the spectrum.

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    On 30/10/2018 at 8:23 AM, schwanderss said:

    Which table (in the article) are you part of?

    I suppose that I would be in the Table 3, with the possibility of going down to Table 4 if I had to.  What I was looking for was a computer programme or web page linked to a database with many more types of jobs.  Also, to be more useful, it could take other factors in to account, such as hypersensitivities to things such as noise, light level, smell, touch etc which an autistic person might have.  For example, I visited a workplace where I could potentially have had the skills to work, but I found it was a very noisy (overbearingly so) workplace.  Someone could have good cooking skills, but might not cope with a hot, noisy, crowded kitchen in a restaurant etc. 

    A job might look good on television, leading people to think about doing it, but there might be facets of the job that might be a problem for autistic people such as dealing with difficult or unreasonable customers which might require high level interpersonal skills.

     

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