Getting a Job when your Autistic
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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Step 1 – Getting a Job when your Autistic: Improving your Skills and Qualities in everything you do
Why skills and qualities are needed The most important aspect of getting a paid job, by far, is the combination
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Step 2 – Getting a Job when your Autistic: Guide to Finding Work Experience
Qualifications and experience are the two things you need the most when you want to get into a paid job.
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Step 3 – Getting a Job when your Autistic: Guide to Getting the Right Qualifications
Background Information Qualifications show that you are at a certain level of ability in a specific subject. For example, in
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Step 4 – Getting a Job when your Autistic: How to write a Good Curriculum Vitae CV/Resume
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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Step 5 – Getting a Job when your Autistic: How to Write a Good Application Form
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
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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Being Autistic (Asperger’s Syndrome) and Understanding Idioms or Common Phrases
In the English language there are many idioms (common phrases) that most people use every day. Some we hear often,
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Being Autistic and How to Improve your Social Skills
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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Autism and How to Cope with Anxiety and Nervousness
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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High Functioning Autism: Computers and Playing Video Games
My History with Computing and Video Games Ever since I saw my first ever computer game I fell in love
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If There was a Cure for Autism, Would you Take it?
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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How I Feel a Year After Getting Autism/Asperger’s Diagnosis as an Adult
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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Autism – Being Tired all the Time and How to Increase Energy
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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Telling Work Friends About Autism
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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Autism and Learning how to Talk to Other People
Every person with autism is different and unique. What one person with autism struggles with, another can excel at. Being
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Autism – How Volunteering Helps you to Get a Job
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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Autism – Keeping Things Tidy and Organised To Reduce Stress
If you ask any of my family who is the most organised and tidiest person they know, they would say
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Autism and Getting Through the Difficult Cold Winter Time
It is now the middle of autumn, the weather is getting colder, the days shorter and winter is on the
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Autism – Is it Okay to be Different?
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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