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Getting a Job 

Getting a Job when your Autistic

October 21, 2017January 15, 2018 Shaun - Site Admin 0 Comments

Over the next few months I’ll be writing about how to get a job when you are high functioning autistic/asperger’s.

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Getting a Job 

Step 1 – Getting a Job when your Autistic: Improving your Skills and Qualities in everything you do

October 21, 2017 Shaun - Site Admin 0 Comments

Why skills and qualities are needed The most important aspect of getting a paid job, by far, is the combination

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Getting a Job 

Step 2 – Getting a Job when your Autistic: Guide to Finding Work Experience

October 20, 2017October 27, 2017 Shaun - Site Admin 0 Comments

Qualifications and experience are the two things you need the most when you want to get into a paid job. 

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Getting a Job 

Step 3 – Getting a Job when your Autistic: Guide to Getting the Right Qualifications

October 18, 2017November 18, 2017 Shaun - Site Admin 0 Comments

Background Information Qualifications show that you are at a certain level of ability in a specific subject. For example, in

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Getting a Job 

Step 4 – Getting a Job when your Autistic: How to write a Good Curriculum Vitae CV/Resume

October 16, 2017January 4, 2018 Shaun - Site Admin 0 Comments

What is a CV A CV is an abbreviation of Curriculum Vitae which basically means “course of (one’s) life.”  In

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Getting a Job 

Step 5 – Getting a Job when your Autistic: How to Write a Good Application Form

October 15, 2017January 15, 2018 Shaun - Site Admin 0 Comments

What is an Application Form? When applying for a specific job, many places, ask you to fill out an application

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Sensory Issues 

Sensory Issues

October 2, 2017October 7, 2017 Shaun - Site Admin 0 Comments

Having sensory issues is probably our biggest difficulty with autism/asperger’s syndrome. As I got a late diagnosis of high functioning

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Fitting Into the World 

Being Autistic (Asperger’s Syndrome) and Understanding Idioms or Common Phrases

August 30, 2017October 8, 2017 Shaun - Site Admin 1 Comment

In the English language there are many idioms (common phrases) that most people use every day.  Some we hear often,

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Fitting Into the World 

Being Autistic and How to Improve your Social Skills

August 18, 2017October 8, 2017 Shaun - Site Admin 0 Comments

My Story The biggest negative I’ve always had with my autism/Asperger’s is not fitting in with other people. Throughout my

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Emotional Issues 

Autism and How to Cope with Anxiety and Nervousness

April 9, 2017October 3, 2017 Shaun - Site Admin 0 Comments

Feeling anxious on a regular basis is a large part of being autistic (or having Asperger’s). There are many ways

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Everyday life 

High Functioning Autism: Computers and Playing Video Games

March 11, 2017October 2, 2017 Shaun - Site Admin 2 Comments

My History with Computing and Video Games Ever since I saw my first ever computer game I fell in love

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Fitting Into the World 

If There was a Cure for Autism, Would you Take it?

June 28, 2016October 8, 2017 Shaun - Site Admin 0 Comments

A few evenings ago, I watched a Horizon’s program about genetic cures.  It seems that in the future many of the things

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Fitting Into the World 

How I Feel a Year After Getting Autism/Asperger’s Diagnosis as an Adult

May 21, 2016October 8, 2017 Shaun - Site Admin 0 Comments

It has been over a year that I was officially diagnosed with high functioning autism/Asperger’s Syndrome. Over this period, I

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Everyday life 

Autism – Being Tired all the Time and How to Increase Energy

April 24, 2016November 27, 2017 Shaun - Site Admin 5 Comments

By having high functioning autism (or Asperger’s) you will have less energy than most people when you are out in

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Fitting in Work Life 

Telling Work Friends About Autism

January 31, 2016October 8, 2017 Shaun - Site Admin 2 Comments

It’s been a year since I have been diagnosed with high functioning autism. In this time I have told only

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Fitting Into the World 

Autism and Learning how to Talk to Other People

November 28, 2015October 8, 2017 Shaun - Site Admin 0 Comments

Every person with autism is different and unique.  What one person with autism struggles with, another can excel at.  Being

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Fitting in Work Life 

Autism – How Volunteering Helps you to Get a Job

November 7, 2015October 8, 2017 Shaun - Site Admin 0 Comments

In this society the upsetting truth is that if you are high functioning autisic/Aspergers it is incredibly difficult to get

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Emotional Issues 

Autism – Keeping Things Tidy and Organised To Reduce Stress

October 19, 2015October 2, 2017 Shaun - Site Admin 0 Comments

If you ask any of my family who is the most organised and tidiest person they know, they would say

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Emotional Issues 

Autism and Getting Through the Difficult Cold Winter Time

October 13, 2015October 2, 2017 Shaun - Site Admin 0 Comments

It is now the middle of autumn, the weather is getting colder, the days shorter and winter is on the

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Fitting Into the World 

Autism – Is it Okay to be Different?

October 5, 2015October 8, 2017 Shaun - Site Admin 0 Comments

By being high functioning autistic I am very different to most normal (neuro-typical) people. Some of these differences are my

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