Autistic Support Worker

An autistic person who is a support worker for autistic people

[Autistic Support Worker @Fi2Support]

@AnnMemmott Waiting times for assessments at trusts near me seem to have recently gone from 2 years to 4-5 years.

[Autistic Support Worker @Fi2Support]

@Rubberbandits Also see 'highly sensitive person'. My feeling is hsp is gendered more female and adult giftedness gendered more male.

[Autistic Support Worker @Fi2Support]

@AutisticCoach_ Neither, more on side with smugglers, bounty hunters, and droids.

[Autistic Support Worker @Fi2Support]

@pinklightning9 @mippy @AndysDrawings @mechanicalkurt Football (soccer) just keeps growing and taking space from other sports. In 2005 Eng beat Aus in the ashes and it got attention. Then no matches were free to air and it is struggling now. They've launched the hundred format to try and get a new audience in England.

[Autistic Support Worker @Fi2Support]

@Rubberbandits Loved the podcast. The stuff on autism was right on the money for me. I thought the 30 minutes silence was going to have some bonus content on after, like how you used to get a hidden song on a CD.

[Autistic Support Worker @Fi2Support]

@purpleabbiie Not showing warmth initially sounds like you did as the conversation went on. It can be difficult starting conversations at the best of times never mind when having to switch your focus onto the new person. Being blunt is something I'd appreciate.

[Autistic Support Worker @Fi2Support]

@mykola Guy Martin, motorbike racer, mechanic, and TV presenter is fairly famous in the UK and autistic.

[Autistic Support Worker @Fi2Support]

@eclecticautie83 Also having a home that you can work from.

[Autistic Support Worker @Fi2Support]

@BlytheRayne Even when I understand my position of power it is not something I feel for myself. It's just a lack of powerlessness. The only times I've felt empowered are when I've been able to help other people.

[Autistic Support Worker @Fi2Support]

@makeupwithalexa I remember taking my first call in a call centre, 20 years ago. I was shaky and nervous and the woman ended up asking to speak to someone who knew what they were doing even though what I was saying was right.

[Autistic Support Worker @Fi2Support]

@mintyhiggins @AutSciPerson We covered disability and there was good representation. But it didn't go into specifics on autism. I had a placement with disabled children and started supporting autistic children as a job. So I did my own reading of stuff like SBC, which didn't help me get my own dx.

[Autistic Support Worker @Fi2Support]

@commaficionado I'd go for Durham

[Autistic Support Worker @Fi2Support]

@AnnMemmott It would depend on what I was being supported with. If it was as a student I would expect another student, as a parent another parent, at work then a colleague, for my autism another autistic person.

[Richard Lamplough @RichPotentialD]

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[Autistic Support Worker @Fi2Support]

@SarahMarieOB @AlexTankard4 My job is getting nd people into work but it is trying to get people into something that is right for them. But yeah there needs to be more other support out there. Then when people are more happy in their lives they might feel ready to go into work, or not.

[Autistic Support Worker @Fi2Support]

@AusomeIreland @Russell_inConwy I'd use 'my autism' when talking about the way I'm specifically autistic and different from NT. I'd use something like 'being autistic' to talk more generally about how I'm treated in a NT world.

[Autistic Support Worker @Fi2Support]

@SNeurotypicals I copy my dad's tactic of saying either just gone quarter past two or nearly twenty past one. Giving the wrong time feels like lying but people think it's weird giving the precise minute.

[Autistic Support Worker @Fi2Support]

@AbiAbnormal As a Sunderland fan I like this post.

[Autistic Support Worker @Fi2Support]

@EbThen @EChickentender Yeah, that's not given in the definition. It's just how I interpret it so it's a useful concept for me.

[Autistic Support Worker @Fi2Support]

@EbThen @EChickentender I took the responding appropriately to be more for showing empathy than having it. And that it needs to be appropriate for the person not social norms, so you would display empathy differently to an NT person than a ND person. Then that is where double empathy comes in.