LostGirI wrote:
before your diagnosis were you able to work full time? It's thinking about work stressing me out. It's all well and good my bf telling me he doesn't know why I'm stressed out.
Once I was diagnosed, and crossed the government's imaginary qualification line at the age of 50, I've not been required to continue subjecting myself to that nightmare. Though it would supplement my income to take some sort of job now, I can't abide the idea of becoming trapped by the diagnosis itself, in a situation where I'm unhappy, but the employer won't fire me because it would look bad to terminate a disabled worker. Then the stress would never end. Besides, there are so few jobs that fit my autistic obsessions and I couldn't stay focused on anything else.
Autism is as much a debilitating handicap as being paraplegic or having schizophrenia. It may be quiet and invisible on the outside, but it's a raging storm of anxiety, stress, panic and self-loathing inside our heads.
Are you in the UK? Are you saying you are able to manage on benefits now? Thanks for your comments
18 Jun 2017, 6:05 pm
