Autistic Support Worker

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

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

I was reading about adult giftedness and it sounds like a friendly way to tell wealthy Americans that they are Autistic

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

Do my #ActuallyAutistic #StarWars comrades lean more towards the Empire or the Rebel Alliance? Why? #AskingAutistics

@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.

@mippy @AndysDrawings @mechanicalkurt Yes, but is cricket much less popular than it used to be? That's the part I'm curious about.

Do people under 30 understand that baseball used to be like, mythologically important to American identity? How even to explain it? There are several hit movies that succeeded almost entirely on the idea of "baseball is magic", and not like, sports magic, like actual sorcery

@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.

New podcast. My podcasts fifth anniversary episode where I have a ramble open.spotify.com/episode/6IVyDH…

@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.

how do ppl manage being autistic and working in healthcare? like we had communication skills this afternoon and pretty much all the things i did wrong were because i’m autistic 😭

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

Who are some #actuallyAutistic celebrities that are officially out? I know very few. Questlove, Anthony Hopkins, Darryl Hannah, David Byrne, who else we got? Note I’m not asking who you *think* is autistic, diagnosing living people doesn’t go well. I wanna line up interviews.

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

I'm kinda tired about people bitching about working from home, or smugly informing us how awesome it is to work from home. Try having a job that *can't* be done from home. You guys have some privilege.

@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.

@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.

I feel so bad for people working in customer service. Today I called Amazon to get help on an order. The woman who picked up sounded shaky and nervous. At the end of the call she thanked me for being kind to her. That was so sad, we need to be nicer to people as a society.

@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.

I learnt nothing about neurodivergency in my social work studies Not one thing. Only really scratched disability because we had a disabled lecturer I loved my studies but inherently what we were taught didn’t come via a disability lens

@commaficionado I'd go for Durham

@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.

@ruminabibi @Kirsty_H220 @curiouscroquet @neuroteachers @sarahlegood @Fi2Support @deanbeadleuk @martinimarie @mskittysoftpaws Our neurodiverse young people offer so much to their future employers. Please watch, be inspired and RT. youtu.be/D6aEgJMsaa0

@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.

When thinking about neurodiversity can we look past framing neurodivergent people through the lens of employment and employability? The spotlighted focus on employment focuses on a pathway that not everyone can put themselves through, productivity does not equal worth.

@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.

@Russell_inConwy I think the same way. How is talking about "my autism" any different to saying "with autism"- it is making autism separate from the person

when we use phrases like "my autism" are we not going backwards and using person first language here? I have genuine concerns that this phrasing will only serve to disempower us after so much work has gone into promoting IFL

@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.

@AbiAbnormal As a Sunderland fan I like this post.

@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.

@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.