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Over two years after I got ‘job 2′, I can add that I have been working full-time since September, 2021 at Job 2. I have struggled with my mental health greatly, but I am finally back on antidepressants, and I feel good. I work in a good place, I am currently dieting, but I feel good doing it. I am working to get myself physically and mentally fit.

I feel lucky that despite all the badness in the world, I am still here. Things aren’t perfect but I am grateful to finally think - ‘I am happy to be here’. I just wish that same feeling for everyone else.

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Job 2

It took 7 years of effort to get into one permanent job. Was a surprise to interview and get an offer for another job this week. I’ll be working two jobs but increase of income means I can clear debt.

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My bed.

Covers over me, curled up.

My safe space.

No one else allowed.

Where I decompress.

After work. After store.

Where I cry.

In bed I become ready to face the world again.

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My trick as an adult during events is to down a glass of alcohol, it lowers my stress response, and makes it easier for me to tolerate the noise and social demands.

It does make it easier to pretend. But it would be even nicer if people didn’t put pressure on me to attend things like wakes (after going to ceremony and burial). I felt so ill after because of the nonstop sensory bombardment. I work, I did a degree, I go out to these things despite being very uncomfortable, but it is never enough. And they use it against me - “You went to X thing, why not this?”.

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The most common feeling I have is of loneliness.

I go about life knowing nobody around me gets the struggles I face. They see me do things, and think because I can do them, I don’t struggle. I hold down a job. I have a degree. I have a few friendships. But at the same time, I’m only deemed ‘capable’ when it suits their narrative.

What is happiness? I don’t know if I know what joy is. Can I reach out and grasp it? Living in an unkind world, I wonder at the future I can have. I see my fellow autistics who are technically ‘successful’, yet unlike the outside world, I see their struggles. I see their doubts. I see their fears. I am simultaneously capable and helpless. How can this be?

-TDA

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