I am stuck.

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I am so good at learning things in my medical textbooks. People often come to me to all medical questions, as well as pharmacology questions.

However my autism and history of being sectioned by the due to mental illness means I can't study a medical degree after my pharmacology degree.

I am stuck. I don't know where my life is going.

I am not so good at molecular biology but once this year is over (should I be allowed to continue my degree), I'll be done with molecular biology.

I have major mental blockages on certain topics which would make a neuroscience degree very hard.

I don't know what I am capable of tbh. I need a support worker just to attend uni.

Is there a job where you could be a consultant of some kind -- basically do what you already do, and answer specific questions about your area of expertise?

Without a medical degree, I cannot consult medical information.

As for pharmacology, I find molecular pharmacology hard, which makes up a large amount of the degree.

OP I am a warehouse order picker I would consider you a long way from stuck because your finding a degree hard going.

It's not just the degree. It's my whole life. People say I have potential but I have never had paid work before due to problems.

Anything in the list on this page look promising? http://www.prospects.ac.uk/options_pharmacology.htm

Your 24 before the age of 23 I could not hold down a job.

I think in some ways it was good I did not know I was on the spectrum because I kept on trying after being fired quite a few times.

Your feeling stuck now but trust my experience I have been there too.

If research can be clinical and not so heavily bogged down by the molecular aspect then that sounds good.

Sharkattack - sorry to hear that. Being fired must be awful to go through.

The fact that I am well regarded by management in my job these days I just call those experiences from the past learning experiences that I share here to show people things can and do get better.

However your right at the time these things are devastating.

dad [an 'obvious' aspie for those who know the condition ,informaly diagnosed by specialists of mine] had a similar job for many,many years;a forklift driver in warehouses,he was so dependable,never missing a day off work- that he was still being asked up until late this year to come back to his last job after retiring several years ago-they gave him a massive leaving party,he is sixty seven,the company closed down that warehouse this month but he didnt want to go back, nice to know older people can be apreciated let alone people on the spectrum.


steelmaiden,
dont let the problem with the medical degree put off from ever going anywhere in life.
sister [an aspie as well,though not severe] was held back by different problems,she studied very hard to become a psychologist,did all the qualifications and experience as a support worker in severe mental health and volunteer phobia counciling, by the time she finished her pysch degree she realised she woudnt be able to afford the masters degree to make her a qualified pyschologist,she was also upset for a while but she did alternative qualifications for counciling and hypnotherapy which enabled her to be a councilor/therapist and she became a therapist for drug addicts,helping people with legal and illegal addictions to overcome them,gain qualifications and a good mental health.

while a change of direction maybe not what want,it might be what will have to do to if want to get a job.
just because are in need of a support staff to access a university doesnt mean wont be able to work when ready, it just means that university creates some barriers which is what the support staff is there for to override them.

keep fighting and ignoring the self doubts.

You might want to consider a change of direction away from the traditional path in the medical field, e.g. pharmacology college degree followed by medical school.

Instead, maybe consider doing something that doesn't require medical school or lab research, but would make use your abilities and be interesting to you.

For eggsample, people with low EF are not suited to working in lab or hospital environments and can be dangerous there, but they might be verry merry berry good at mathematical + computational research in medical areas of interest, and that would involve no lab work to collect data, no medical school, and not much social interaction either.

What is EF?

[color=#000aa] Thank you for the input.

I am going to ask my support worker if the NAS have anyone that does career advice.

I wouldn't mind a change of direction, I just want to make a life for myself. That's all. [/color]