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Basic Work Rules for Autistic Adults
1) Do not be late for job interviews and work. If you cannot be trusted to come on time, then you cannot be trusted to finish your work on time or do your job well. 2) Ensure that you have no body odour. This is the biggest turn-off for others no matter employers, colleagues or...
Professionalism as an unspoken requirement for employment
I am often asked how I could find competitive work and remain employed despite being autistic. I believe it is because I do not use autism as an excuse for performing more poorly than others at work. I have always striven to do my best, to keep improving myself, and to find niches to put...
Are formal certificates helpful for autistics?
Certification can provide the entry point of a management job for aspiring non-autistic people to climb the corporate ladder, the beginning of a career of a small business owner, or the means for a worker to get a pay raise by changing to a job requiring higher qualifications. Many caregivers and autistic advocates thus see...
Employment Success with Freelance Jobs
To parents who want their adult autistic children to get a full-time job: it is a misconception that job security is best found in full-time jobs. Employers especially dislike hiring people with special needs as full-time staff as these might be hard to fire should they not meet performance expectations or create unexpected problems at...
Basic Financial Literacy Concepts
Cash Flow = Income - Expenses (Seeing Money as a River) Money flows into our life via our income and flows out of our life via our expenses. Cash Flow is the amount of extra money we can put to use any way we like after subtracting our expenses from our income; it is an...
Working with Money
The way we manage money is influenced by how we value money. Generally, there are three main attitudes: Savers value money for its security and peace of mind. They save compulsively for emergencies or their plans. Spenders believe that money is meant to be spent for them to enjoy themselves. They like to indulge themselves...
Insurance Discrimination
I am healthy and I have not required hospitalisation since childhood. I studied in mainstream school and obtained a diploma without special support/help. I have served 52 months of National Service without incident. I have worked full-time for 2 years in a government agency (and after this experience worked for a decade in the private...
Ableist Mocktail: Autistics are unfit to work with NeuroTypicals?
If I am autistic, does that automatically mean that I cannot support NeuroTypicals to develop themselves because I do not understand them? If so, then why is it taken for granted that NeuroTypicals can support autistics to develop themselves? A disgusting combination of Ableism and Mockery is being served to autistics. I became aware of...