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Hey lovelies :FediverseSymbol:

We'd like to ask you all for your thoughts, suggestions, and ideas to help us resolve an ongoing issue.

The issue


At a high-level, we are a neurodivergent (AuDHD) spoonie with a mixture of health issues that are preventing us from being able to get or do a "typical" job and earn an income.

By "typical" job, we mean one where the company and role just aren't well-suited to many folks who are disabled (including being neurodivergent), have support needs, and/or have other health issues.

Most "typical" jobs broadly:

  • Have fixed hours (start/finish times and total working hours required).
  • Require a minimum fixed amount of time in a physical office.
  • Require a lot of interaction with other people (including colleagues).

... and so on, so you can probably understand how difficult it is for us to find any suitable paid employment that we can do 😅

This is made harder by the fact that:

  • We only know how to search for "typical" jobs.
  • There is zero support within the UK for finding suitable employment outside of "typical" jobs.
  • The welfare system within the UK is fundamentally (and intentionally) broken


The request


We have zero idea where to even start, so we are genuinely asking for your input and recommendations here.

We have decent reading comprehension, writing ability, and neurospicy pattern recognition, but we also have an inconsistent level of executive function and energy (physical and mental), so we can't do a job where we have to clock in and out at set times, even on a part-time basis.

Even whilst writing this post, we're already out of spoons and on to knives today, meaning that we're pushing through to ask for help.

Any suggestions will be appreciated, and we'll add additional details to the post based on any questions or thoughts from others 🥺🫶

Thank you in advance for your thoughts, as well as your empathy, understanding, and kindness :MentalHealthFlagHeart:

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in reply to André Polykanine

glitchsoc - Link to source

SleepyCatten

@menelion Very much so many times, but we sadly never found a way into it and -- as much as it hurts us to admit it -- we don't have the underlying talent or knack for it.

We locked ourselves out of any STEM jobs by decisions we made in 2000 when picking A-levels, where we were gently "encouraged" not to take Mathematics at A-level by our secondary school and sixth form, where we'd only achieved an A grade (modern day grade 7) at GCSE level.

We have previously done administration jobs (not system ones), but the jobs always ultimately burnt us out due to corporate culture, management, work hours, etc.

We're thankful though for your thoughts, just to clarify 🫶🩷

@André Polykanine
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