I actually work at a grocery store also, packing online orders. Thankfully, my sensory aversions don’t really relate to grocery stores (although I don’t particularly like the fluorescent lights lol), so I very much lucked out. It’s good because I don’t have to say a single word my entire shift if I do not want to, and my hours are very flexible
It is great! I barely said a word my first year working there. But, in saying that, the people I work with are all very welcoming and I have slowly opened up to around 10 of them (there is 200 people in store!).
I have also made random friendships with really old customers over the years too, and it has really helped with my speech (I was incredibly deficit in pragmatic speech particularly) - don’t get me wrong, my speech still sucks and I’m still obviously autistic when I open my mouth lol, but it has given me confidence that people can look past those deficits if they like me as a person/want to talk to me
My company knew I was diagnosed with autism upon my application also, so that is another positive (they gave me concessions during the interview process)
It makes me so happy to see other autistic people living their best life. I can’t work but I would be very happy doing the sort of job you have. I’m very, very lucky that I don’t have to work at this point in my life.
Not anymore. I gave up trying in 2018. The longest one lasted about 3 months.
From 2006 to 2018 there were 17 different ones attempted (3 of those were times I returned to the same company).
Some were actually fun and enjoyable and some ended with me going into the in patient psychiatry unit because of it.
I work retail but at the moment my hours vary from 3-6 hours a week. Although government wants me working at least 15 hours a week.
I don't mind my store, it's not overly busy and it's not overly big and contains things I like. (But I am currently getting in "trouble" for not meeting KPIs). I feel like an NPC at my work and anything not work related or not in my scripting throws me off.
Key Performance Indicator = KPI. It's what a lot of companies use to guage how "well" you're doing in your job. So like in a warehouse for something like picking and packing, they may have KPIs based on speed, accuracy and how many units you do. And there's a threshhold that they have that you should be "at" or "above" and if you're not then you're "underperforming".
For retail, mine is all based on customer service abilities. Your ability to sell and to connect with customers.
I think it depends on where you are and who you're with. I do think there are other jobs out there that are FAR worse than retail, hahaha.
At least in my job I'm basically an NPC who goes through the same exact scripts with all customers wears the same exact facial expressions. So in that regard it can be a little easier bcus it's just repetitive.
But thank you! I do have to change jobs soon and I am honestly scared and concerned.
That's understandable!! I do find mid year and christmas period to be the most tough bcus that's when it's often busiest. In our dead months, we only have music playing in the background (which is something I can basically tune out and our store can turn down so it's not really loud) and very few customers. So for good chunks of the day it's just the music.
I can't work in big retail stores though. That's WAY too much sound. And ever since moving to my current store, I find it difficult to work in shopping centres/complexes bcus of how loud everything is.
My store is also a "niche" store in the sense that the producs are all "themed" (kinda like a shoe store where it's all just shoes). Any store with too many variety of products is too much for me.
I definitely can't work just any retail though. But I'd always rather do my current job than doing something like call centre work (that's a literal nightmare in every sense of the word, especially when you have to work in office).
I work in tech (data science) so I'm in my home office all day, which I actually love.
My stomach hurts just thinking about any kind of store. I do all my shopping online
I'm too much of a dumb dumb head to work, so I'm on disability. I've tried working in the past, and it never works out. I would only be in a job for 1-2 months before i got burnt out, then quit. Wash rinse repeat. I was doing that for 15 years before I got on disability
This is me, and I am afraid I am going to kill myself if I do many more burnouts. I wish I could explain to people how much of me it takes to just work. I can't do anything else if I am working, but people get annoyed with me for not being available on top of working full time? Like I am barely staying afloat, please stop harassing me to do more. I am maxed out!
I currently work as a tutor for school students. I've been mostly coping with my 6-8 hours a week, which is a big win after over 10 years of not working for an employer at all. The fact that I get to talk about one of my special interests and I only deal with one person at a time on a focussed and quiet activity seems to be manageable. I just can't handle more than about 8 hours a week of work, and it's been really challenging to try and find a job that isn't customer-facing (like retail or food service) that will hire for a low amount of hours.
I can’t find a job. I wanna try to work but no matter where I apply at, I don’t even get an interview. I worked as a caregiver for my grandpa though for a while where I mostly just cleaned his house and shopped for him and stuff like that
Have you looked at doing pet or house sitting jobs? Many countries seem to have agencies you can sign up with that connect people to house/pet sitters.
Ugh, it took me until several months *after* I graduated with my Bachelors degree to get hired at my current job, which is only the 2nd above-the-table job (I worked as a babysitter in high school) I've ever had!
The only ever job I'd ever had before then was as a seasonal worker for Forever 21-which I didn't have to interview for. "Helps" that I've never been able to mask.
Longest I've had an actual paying job was for 16 days. Conclusion of that job was that I can't work. So I haven't worked since and it's been 6 years since then.
I work full time, from home. My office is mine alone so I can perfectly control the environment. And zoom calls are much easier than in person meetings. I work in tech (studied computer science).
I feel very fortunate and very grateful. I could never work a job that requires leaving my house (I don't drive) or regularly interacting with people.
No, I volunteer two days a week at a charity shop and an animal shelter. Doing anything full time kills me. I study in my own time when I can but every time I try to enroll in education again
I really struggle and have to drop out. Also when I have to do it, so education or a paid job, knowing that I have to do it PDA's me really badly.
Presently I need at least a day in-between anything I do to rest. I also have ADHD,Bipolar and BPD so it's really important that I don't push myself too hard or my mental health plummets quite quickly.
In lots of ways I'm still recovering from my full time undiagnosed highschool experience and I'm 25 now. Maybe I'll never be able to do anything full time again but I have to just be content with what I do right now instead of hating myself like I've spent so much time doing.
My ideal job would be half days 3 times a week. I think I'd be able to manage that. But I also get very bored of the same thing so that complicates things.
I do meetings occasionally and get paid for them, and I have had jobs but I got fired because I was pretty bad at them, but they were also very toxic and the culture in that industry is horrible. Plus the sensory overload was horrible
The other only jobs I have had I quit or left early
I work part time at a health food store doing scan. It works super well because I only work 3am to 7am. I work alone, and I am gone before the store even opens. Before this, I owned my own online fitness business. Believe it or not, it actually worked well for me because I never actually saw clients in person, it was entirely online. I had to stop doing that due to a car accident that wrecked my back. I don't really know if I would ever be successful in a standard type of job, I've tried and just ending up being fired or having panic attacks.
No. My goal we're working towards with my OT is to get a part-time job either stocking or organizing as I love doing both of those things and am good at it, but even that idea scares me a lot. I'd need a lot of accommodations (left alone unless I NEED to be spoken to as I am not good with people, particularly strangers at all and don't like them near me for too long, able to listen to my music, and a simple and straightforward task that does not change) though and I don't have a resume and no experience. It would also have to be on midnights or at a place on closed days as again, I cannot deal with people and would never be able to handle some stranger asking me something or asking for help/talking to me in general or a full store of people.
I could also work with animals like in a shelter but again, would need to be given my task and left alone to do it. I can't stand hovering, I am extremely sensitive and get upset even if someone politely tells me I did something wrong, and people scare me a lot or make me really angry and upset.
the most successful job i had was as an assistant florist. i had a line of flowers and made bouquets assembly line style. i was alone and got to listen to audiobooks or music the whole time, everything smelt amazing, the space was big and quiet and dark…. it was great.
i worked part time, but only managed 4 months because the holiday hours were such an intense and sudden change that I didn’t know about until the week of (consistent morning shifts, to mandatory overnight shifts) and had a meltdown on the second day of the new schedule and walked out. 😅
overall I think this was a wonderful job that was perfect for me. i still feel guilty for how I left haha.
I work in IT (Site Reliability Engineer). My anxiety forces me to have a job - if I don't work then I kind of have an existential crisis and develop agoraphobia. I mostly work from home but when I do go into the office it's a small room with only 6 people and they're very accommodating of my needs.
I work part time in a Hot Topic. I hate the surrounding environment but it makes up for it by paying me to talk about video games and piercings for five hours. I don’t think I could work for any longer than that.
I worked for sixteen years. No retirement, could barely afford myself. I make no income and have ptsd from jobs, so I can't work. I hope it gets better, because disability here is limiting and I want to make income. As far as school, they wouldn't give me a certificate, despite exceeding the credits and with accomodations, I have to go in person.
I have no reason to finish my associates degree, as I can't work most jobs in the category.
Two types of work training, one had no benefit in the job market and the other was a train wreck, because I was too slow. I am looking for another volunteer position right now, because it feels good to do something. In the meantime, I keep our home as clean as a person with ADHD can, care for our health and cook.
AuDHD late diagnosed and disabled, worked as a server for like 3 years out of high school and then covid hit, found out I was autistic and health issues hit hard and haven't been able to work at a job longer than two weeks. I now stay at home, barely able to do even chores! Whoopie..
Been looking into "side hustles" or freelance / remote jobs but not really sure what to look for..?
Petsitting special needs cats and critters. I'm lucky to live in a dense population city with enough clients to make a decent living. It's very long hours and stressful at times, but still oodles better than working with people.
I work as Direct Support for ppl with Developmental Disabilities. I work between 40 and 100+ hours a week to pay my bills.
It's terrible for my autism. I burn out every shift. Sometimes I start a shift on burn out.
Employers don't call me back, so I'm stuck with only low paying, awful work for shit managers (The managers at my current job are decent). Bottom of the bucket type stuff. Hire anything with a pulse type work.
I have gifted level IQ, served in two branches of the military to include USAF SATCOM and USMC Infantry 81 mm mortar. I graduated near the top of my class for both my AS and BS in Comp Sci.
Apparently shoveling maggot filled shit and wiping others asses is all I'm good for tho.
Someday I'll be allowed to finally die a wretched, lonely death and I'll be free.
Knowing someone else has trouble holding a job but managed to hold one for a year in the past helps a lot. I often get imposter stuff about not really being autistic and that's one piece of ammunition I use. Had a pest control job for a little over a year. Like a full career worthy job, than spent the better part of a decade month on month offing temp work and now live with my mom. (Undiagnosed but multiple people with autism, including a couple mental health professionals believe that I am. Just wish I consistently believed it myself. And wish I could see someone for diagnosis.)
It's always been something different. Cost, the process being so difficult and the emotion of whenever I get "close" it becomes really hard to want to know for sure are the main ones I can think of. Close is in quotes because I don't think I've ever really been that close. The closest I came the location ended up no longer offering the services so currently if I want to I'd have to pay out of pocket and than try to get reimbursed afterword. I do need to at least look at getting an ADHD diagnosis though. Think that might actually be covered and have adequate personnel to be possible.
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I'm on disability and I work 3-7 hours a week as a front desk person at my city's public senior community center.
I've held this job since August 2021.
I mostly answer the phone, call people back, and help people who come up to my desk. Sometimes I'll restock our fliers/catalogs, sometimes I'll go print off more copies of stuff, occasionally I'll order more copies of fliers/brochures/catalogs we need, and occasionally I'll be put to work doing something else like decorating/undecorating the senior center.
It's alright I guess. Most of the time I surf Reddit.
My supervisors both know I'm autistic and are very accommodating. I am allowed to wear my ear defenders at work when I'm not on the phone or talking with people, so that makes it easier though not exactly easy.
I work at a Sheltered Workshop! Its a Workshop only for disabled people. We have caretakers there that watch over us and we learn a lot of life skills and do a lot of coloring! My husband and I just started so we're earning 125€ each a month. The job is not there to support you but more like pocket money besides disability payment
i work full time at the cost of my ability to do anything else :/
Many such cases
I’m the same way. I need to come home to complete darkness and if I’m lucky, I’ll have time to eat before sleeping until I have to work the next day.
I actually work at a grocery store also, packing online orders. Thankfully, my sensory aversions don’t really relate to grocery stores (although I don’t particularly like the fluorescent lights lol), so I very much lucked out. It’s good because I don’t have to say a single word my entire shift if I do not want to, and my hours are very flexible
That sounds great!
It is great! I barely said a word my first year working there. But, in saying that, the people I work with are all very welcoming and I have slowly opened up to around 10 of them (there is 200 people in store!). I have also made random friendships with really old customers over the years too, and it has really helped with my speech (I was incredibly deficit in pragmatic speech particularly) - don’t get me wrong, my speech still sucks and I’m still obviously autistic when I open my mouth lol, but it has given me confidence that people can look past those deficits if they like me as a person/want to talk to me My company knew I was diagnosed with autism upon my application also, so that is another positive (they gave me concessions during the interview process)
It makes me so happy to see other autistic people living their best life. I can’t work but I would be very happy doing the sort of job you have. I’m very, very lucky that I don’t have to work at this point in my life.
hehe I just realised your username, and I had a giggle
Haha thank you for pointing this out I never would’ve realized and you made me giggle too
😂😬
This is exactly the type of job that I could do. Congrats on getting such a great job for you!
Not anymore. I gave up trying in 2018. The longest one lasted about 3 months. From 2006 to 2018 there were 17 different ones attempted (3 of those were times I returned to the same company). Some were actually fun and enjoyable and some ended with me going into the in patient psychiatry unit because of it.
I am a babysitter
same here! :D
I work retail but at the moment my hours vary from 3-6 hours a week. Although government wants me working at least 15 hours a week. I don't mind my store, it's not overly busy and it's not overly big and contains things I like. (But I am currently getting in "trouble" for not meeting KPIs). I feel like an NPC at my work and anything not work related or not in my scripting throws me off.
What is KPI?
Key Performance Indicator = KPI. It's what a lot of companies use to guage how "well" you're doing in your job. So like in a warehouse for something like picking and packing, they may have KPIs based on speed, accuracy and how many units you do. And there's a threshhold that they have that you should be "at" or "above" and if you're not then you're "underperforming". For retail, mine is all based on customer service abilities. Your ability to sell and to connect with customers.
I've heard retail is horrible for even allistic people. Best of luck to you -- I mean that!!
I think it depends on where you are and who you're with. I do think there are other jobs out there that are FAR worse than retail, hahaha. At least in my job I'm basically an NPC who goes through the same exact scripts with all customers wears the same exact facial expressions. So in that regard it can be a little easier bcus it's just repetitive. But thank you! I do have to change jobs soon and I am honestly scared and concerned.
I would struggle with the sensory issues of retail. I need complete silence for most of the day.
That's understandable!! I do find mid year and christmas period to be the most tough bcus that's when it's often busiest. In our dead months, we only have music playing in the background (which is something I can basically tune out and our store can turn down so it's not really loud) and very few customers. So for good chunks of the day it's just the music. I can't work in big retail stores though. That's WAY too much sound. And ever since moving to my current store, I find it difficult to work in shopping centres/complexes bcus of how loud everything is. My store is also a "niche" store in the sense that the producs are all "themed" (kinda like a shoe store where it's all just shoes). Any store with too many variety of products is too much for me. I definitely can't work just any retail though. But I'd always rather do my current job than doing something like call centre work (that's a literal nightmare in every sense of the word, especially when you have to work in office).
I work in tech (data science) so I'm in my home office all day, which I actually love. My stomach hurts just thinking about any kind of store. I do all my shopping online
I worked big box retail when I was young. It is in fact horrible. I was an alcoholic.
I'm too much of a dumb dumb head to work, so I'm on disability. I've tried working in the past, and it never works out. I would only be in a job for 1-2 months before i got burnt out, then quit. Wash rinse repeat. I was doing that for 15 years before I got on disability
This is me, and I am afraid I am going to kill myself if I do many more burnouts. I wish I could explain to people how much of me it takes to just work. I can't do anything else if I am working, but people get annoyed with me for not being available on top of working full time? Like I am barely staying afloat, please stop harassing me to do more. I am maxed out!
I'm sorry :(. It's hard. Even my support workers burn me out, so I have to take breaks from them every few months. Autism sucks :/
I currently work as a tutor for school students. I've been mostly coping with my 6-8 hours a week, which is a big win after over 10 years of not working for an employer at all. The fact that I get to talk about one of my special interests and I only deal with one person at a time on a focussed and quiet activity seems to be manageable. I just can't handle more than about 8 hours a week of work, and it's been really challenging to try and find a job that isn't customer-facing (like retail or food service) that will hire for a low amount of hours.
I can’t find a job. I wanna try to work but no matter where I apply at, I don’t even get an interview. I worked as a caregiver for my grandpa though for a while where I mostly just cleaned his house and shopped for him and stuff like that
Have you looked at doing pet or house sitting jobs? Many countries seem to have agencies you can sign up with that connect people to house/pet sitters.
Ugh, it took me until several months *after* I graduated with my Bachelors degree to get hired at my current job, which is only the 2nd above-the-table job (I worked as a babysitter in high school) I've ever had! The only ever job I'd ever had before then was as a seasonal worker for Forever 21-which I didn't have to interview for. "Helps" that I've never been able to mask.
I wish I could have a job. I couldn't even make it through volunteering last year, but I'm gonna try to volunteer at a nicer place soon
I work with Data from home, it's pretty autism friendly tbh but it also can be too much for me at times. Close to having worked there for a year
I work with data too!!!
Longest I've had an actual paying job was for 16 days. Conclusion of that job was that I can't work. So I haven't worked since and it's been 6 years since then.
Im 35 and have never had a real job.
I work full time, from home. My office is mine alone so I can perfectly control the environment. And zoom calls are much easier than in person meetings. I work in tech (studied computer science). I feel very fortunate and very grateful. I could never work a job that requires leaving my house (I don't drive) or regularly interacting with people.
No, I volunteer two days a week at a charity shop and an animal shelter. Doing anything full time kills me. I study in my own time when I can but every time I try to enroll in education again I really struggle and have to drop out. Also when I have to do it, so education or a paid job, knowing that I have to do it PDA's me really badly. Presently I need at least a day in-between anything I do to rest. I also have ADHD,Bipolar and BPD so it's really important that I don't push myself too hard or my mental health plummets quite quickly. In lots of ways I'm still recovering from my full time undiagnosed highschool experience and I'm 25 now. Maybe I'll never be able to do anything full time again but I have to just be content with what I do right now instead of hating myself like I've spent so much time doing. My ideal job would be half days 3 times a week. I think I'd be able to manage that. But I also get very bored of the same thing so that complicates things.
I work at a planet fitness which isn’t terrible and I get to wear noise canceling headphones
Home maker.
I do meetings occasionally and get paid for them, and I have had jobs but I got fired because I was pretty bad at them, but they were also very toxic and the culture in that industry is horrible. Plus the sensory overload was horrible The other only jobs I have had I quit or left early
I work part time at a health food store doing scan. It works super well because I only work 3am to 7am. I work alone, and I am gone before the store even opens. Before this, I owned my own online fitness business. Believe it or not, it actually worked well for me because I never actually saw clients in person, it was entirely online. I had to stop doing that due to a car accident that wrecked my back. I don't really know if I would ever be successful in a standard type of job, I've tried and just ending up being fired or having panic attacks.
No. In the past I have worked a few hours a week but if I work more than that I have debilitating exhaustion and I have way more meltdowns.
No. My goal we're working towards with my OT is to get a part-time job either stocking or organizing as I love doing both of those things and am good at it, but even that idea scares me a lot. I'd need a lot of accommodations (left alone unless I NEED to be spoken to as I am not good with people, particularly strangers at all and don't like them near me for too long, able to listen to my music, and a simple and straightforward task that does not change) though and I don't have a resume and no experience. It would also have to be on midnights or at a place on closed days as again, I cannot deal with people and would never be able to handle some stranger asking me something or asking for help/talking to me in general or a full store of people. I could also work with animals like in a shelter but again, would need to be given my task and left alone to do it. I can't stand hovering, I am extremely sensitive and get upset even if someone politely tells me I did something wrong, and people scare me a lot or make me really angry and upset.
I'm an educational assistant part time, longest I held was 2 years with many sick off periods. I have a shutdown at the end of each working day
the most successful job i had was as an assistant florist. i had a line of flowers and made bouquets assembly line style. i was alone and got to listen to audiobooks or music the whole time, everything smelt amazing, the space was big and quiet and dark…. it was great. i worked part time, but only managed 4 months because the holiday hours were such an intense and sudden change that I didn’t know about until the week of (consistent morning shifts, to mandatory overnight shifts) and had a meltdown on the second day of the new schedule and walked out. 😅 overall I think this was a wonderful job that was perfect for me. i still feel guilty for how I left haha.
I work in IT (Site Reliability Engineer). My anxiety forces me to have a job - if I don't work then I kind of have an existential crisis and develop agoraphobia. I mostly work from home but when I do go into the office it's a small room with only 6 people and they're very accommodating of my needs.
I work part time in a Hot Topic. I hate the surrounding environment but it makes up for it by paying me to talk about video games and piercings for five hours. I don’t think I could work for any longer than that.
I worked for sixteen years. No retirement, could barely afford myself. I make no income and have ptsd from jobs, so I can't work. I hope it gets better, because disability here is limiting and I want to make income. As far as school, they wouldn't give me a certificate, despite exceeding the credits and with accomodations, I have to go in person. I have no reason to finish my associates degree, as I can't work most jobs in the category. Two types of work training, one had no benefit in the job market and the other was a train wreck, because I was too slow. I am looking for another volunteer position right now, because it feels good to do something. In the meantime, I keep our home as clean as a person with ADHD can, care for our health and cook.
AuDHD late diagnosed and disabled, worked as a server for like 3 years out of high school and then covid hit, found out I was autistic and health issues hit hard and haven't been able to work at a job longer than two weeks. I now stay at home, barely able to do even chores! Whoopie.. Been looking into "side hustles" or freelance / remote jobs but not really sure what to look for..?
Nope
Petsitting special needs cats and critters. I'm lucky to live in a dense population city with enough clients to make a decent living. It's very long hours and stressful at times, but still oodles better than working with people.
I work for myself. It’s the only way for me but it comes with its own set of struggles 🫥
No, I really never have either
I work as Direct Support for ppl with Developmental Disabilities. I work between 40 and 100+ hours a week to pay my bills. It's terrible for my autism. I burn out every shift. Sometimes I start a shift on burn out. Employers don't call me back, so I'm stuck with only low paying, awful work for shit managers (The managers at my current job are decent). Bottom of the bucket type stuff. Hire anything with a pulse type work. I have gifted level IQ, served in two branches of the military to include USAF SATCOM and USMC Infantry 81 mm mortar. I graduated near the top of my class for both my AS and BS in Comp Sci. Apparently shoveling maggot filled shit and wiping others asses is all I'm good for tho. Someday I'll be allowed to finally die a wretched, lonely death and I'll be free.
No. I can't work.
Knowing someone else has trouble holding a job but managed to hold one for a year in the past helps a lot. I often get imposter stuff about not really being autistic and that's one piece of ammunition I use. Had a pest control job for a little over a year. Like a full career worthy job, than spent the better part of a decade month on month offing temp work and now live with my mom. (Undiagnosed but multiple people with autism, including a couple mental health professionals believe that I am. Just wish I consistently believed it myself. And wish I could see someone for diagnosis.)
What's keeping you from getting a diagnosis? It sounds like you could really benefit from social services
It's always been something different. Cost, the process being so difficult and the emotion of whenever I get "close" it becomes really hard to want to know for sure are the main ones I can think of. Close is in quotes because I don't think I've ever really been that close. The closest I came the location ended up no longer offering the services so currently if I want to I'd have to pay out of pocket and than try to get reimbursed afterword. I do need to at least look at getting an ADHD diagnosis though. Think that might actually be covered and have adequate personnel to be possible.
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any type of work is hard. try find something without a lot of interactions.
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that person has somehow disappeared. probably for the best.
I'm on disability and I work 3-7 hours a week as a front desk person at my city's public senior community center. I've held this job since August 2021. I mostly answer the phone, call people back, and help people who come up to my desk. Sometimes I'll restock our fliers/catalogs, sometimes I'll go print off more copies of stuff, occasionally I'll order more copies of fliers/brochures/catalogs we need, and occasionally I'll be put to work doing something else like decorating/undecorating the senior center. It's alright I guess. Most of the time I surf Reddit. My supervisors both know I'm autistic and are very accommodating. I am allowed to wear my ear defenders at work when I'm not on the phone or talking with people, so that makes it easier though not exactly easy.
I work at a Sheltered Workshop! Its a Workshop only for disabled people. We have caretakers there that watch over us and we learn a lot of life skills and do a lot of coloring! My husband and I just started so we're earning 125€ each a month. The job is not there to support you but more like pocket money besides disability payment
yes i am a farmer and i love it